Re: NOT A PERSON NOR A PENNY FOR THE BOSSES' WARS

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

Thanks for the post, Mauro.

Bryan Alexander
Department of English
University of Michigan
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On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Mauro junior wrote:

> I forward the english version of the internationakl statement/leaflet of the
> IBRP which is widely beeing distributed in UK, Italy and France against the
> peace-mission of Nato in Bosnia.

I'd love to hear reactions.

> NOT A PERSON NOR A PENNY FOR THE BOSSES' WARS
> OR THEIR PEACE
>
> Proletarians of all countries
> At last the capitalist powers have finished partitioning Yugoslavia and
> brought an end to the war which they tlemselves had fostered.

Always a good point to reiterate: external partition.  Susan Woodward's
THE BALKAN TRAGEDY has excellent accounts of the ways in which Western
powers' strategies "accidentally" fostered a violent breakup and state
constitution.

> In fact socialism never existed in Yugoslavia. It was only state capitalism
> that flnally broke apart under the impact of the economic crisis.

This needs more extensive analysis.  I hope to work on this in a few
weeks when I try out our fascist schema on the successor states in the
West Balkans.  The thin exploration of the topic I've done so far
suggests that experiments in workers' ownership were fatally skewed by
heavy nomenklatura presence and effects.

 And it was
> the crisis that pushed the bourgeoisie in the richest republics to separate
> from the federation

Which must only mean Croatia and especially Slovenia.  Bosnia has usually
been towards the poorer end of the list.

 They wanted to keep the wealth they robbed from their
> own working class instead of sharing it with the ruling class in the poorest
> republics: The supposed ethnic-religious hatreds didn't enter into It. These
> were nurtured by the bourgeoi-sie as a cover for their own disgra-ceful
> manouvres and led to the proletariat being slaughtered for these petty
> bosses interests.

What about the League of Communists?

> The various mlni-republics were encouraged to secede by the European powers
> who stood to gain economically (exploitation of local labour power at the
> cheapest wage rates) and politico-militarily. From Germany to the US, from
> Russia to Italy, some more some less, they all share responsability for the
> war. And now, wlth the usual hypocrisy, these imperialist powers, the USA at
> the helm, are imposing a "peace" which must first of all safeguard teir own
> interests and, less importantly, the interests ot the small but rapacious
> Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian etc. capitalist class.

Yep.

> Workers
> The dispatch of Nato troops is not a humanitarian mission. It is the way to
> enforce the terms of the pax-imperialista on the small and medium local
> bosses in the Balkans. For the working class in the area it means  post-war
> reconstruction according to the design of the great powers. The governments
> who are sending troops to Bosnia are the very ones who at home are
> overseeing a constant drop in wages, cutting social services and pensions -
> all in the name of making savings.

In other words, look for a continuity: Gingrich-Juppe-IFOR.  Worth
pointing out, folks.

> Workers of all countries
> So long as  capitalism exists any "peace" will
> only mean the preparation for a new war. This is especially true today when
> capitalism is shaken by a deep crisis of global proportions. Wars - up to
> now local, bul for how long? - are one capitalist response to the crisis. We
> all know what the other response means,, especiallu at work: ever-lower
> wages, growing job insecurity, bosses with rnassive powers.
> Therefore it stands the reason that war and militarism can only be opposed
> by a struggle against the capitalist system which generates all of this.
> It is about time that we turned back to the old working class maxims which
> have long be betrayed and ignored by decades of reformism, Stalinism (passed
> off as communism) and nationalist stupidity:

This si too vague to be reallyuseful.  The NATO line is in fact too
similar to this: big reason to impose more troops is to prevent
"spillover" (which is laughably unlikely).  Where will these new nations
turn next?  Skirmishes are likely, especially over the Sandjak and
Eastern Slavonia, but wars are another matter.

> War on War !
> Not a person nor a penny for the bosses wars and their hypocritical peace !
> International solidarity with all the exploited!
> For a working class fight back !
> For the abolition of wage labour !
>
> The intensification of imperialism's military operations demands that the
> march towards the workers International party be speedily renewed.
> This is the essential instrument for keeping the struggle on course and
> guiding the international working class politically towards its emanicpation.
> January
> 1996
>
> The founding members of the IBRP
> (International Bureau for the
> Revolutionary Party]
>
> Internationalist Communist Party
> (Battaglia Comunista)
>
> Communist Workers rs Organisation
>
> Mauro Junior
> Tel  (-39)02/35.51.275 fax (-39)02/33.200.101
>
>
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