Re: The class lines pass through Bosnia

["Bryan A. Alexander" <bnalexan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, Mauro junior wrote:

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> In 1914 the first imperialist war has been the event which forced the
> definitive split between the communists (marxist) and the reformist,
> traitors of the working class in lining up on the war's fronts.
> Today the Bosnia intervention, although far from to be such a global drama
> as the world war, is starting to play the same role: it becomes the border
> class line.

True.  Exactly.  -and the shame is that it does not instead resemble
1930s Spain.
>
 No concession can be made to the military intervention of the capitalist
> powers in Nato uniforms in the Balkans: it is an imperialistic intervention
> for to guarantee the settlement they gave to the conflicts in which they had
> the "upper" responsabilities. (The conficts started from the "republics" od
> the old Federation, yes, but have been reinforced by the manouvers of the
> great powers, and by _their_ contrasts of interests).

Don't let the power of "reinforcement" (aptly so called) distract from
the characters of the new regimes.

> The historical duty and interest of the yugo working class is to unite
> against all their national bosses, and the duty/interest of the world's
> work.cl. is to oppose the manouvers and the intervention of their
> respectives state.
> Too many subscribers to this list have already given enough proofs to be
> lined up with their imperialist state, supporting its military intervention.
> Obviously there are many - much or less sophisticated ways to justify such
> reactionary positions. Even Kautsky supported his state in the I WW in the
> name of the progress against the backward reactionary Russia. He tought:
> nowadays any bastard - no matter how stupid or ignorant - can use similar
> arguments. Much more if such a bastard is an academic, use to masturbate his
> brain with abstract concepts, so abstract to fly far high on the heads of
> the workers, for then falling upon the same heads in form of call-up cards.
> Folk, declare yourself without subterfuges: are you against or in favor of
> the intervenion? are you doing something against or are you doubting of the
> possible utility "for the yugo working class" (!!!) of such intervention?

You know my stance: proBiH, antiNATO.

> It's a fact that in Italy only the internationalists (altough divided in
> their three organisations) are making their campaign against the Nato
> intervention (which Italy is taking part in) with tens of thousand of
> leaflets, street speaking and public meetings.


Is Italy also donating airspaces and airstrips?

> What is going on in the other countries.

Zip here.
Is it possible that there are no
> more class revlutionaries able to say something clear to the workers of
> their damn. state?
> Rev. greetings
> Mauro Junior
> Tel  (-39)02/35.51.275 fax (-39)02/33.200.101
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