Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 20:58:30 -0400
Subject: Re: AUT: boycott june 5



"solidarity means sharing the same risks" - Che
( la solidarita significa correre gli stessi rischi)

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>From: "bob brown" <vacirca-AT-charm.net>
>To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: AUT: boycott june 5
>Date: Thu, Jun 3, 1999, 12:10 AM
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QUESTION OF THE DAY: HAS THE US LEFT LOST ITS MIND?

 What i want to know is why has the the IAC, WORKERS WORLD, and rest of the
so-called anti-war coalition  sponsoring the june 5 demo in DC
opportunistically decided to fraternize with the serbians and  not say one
word about serbian nationalist fascism and its genocidal war against the
albanians in kosovo?
unbelivably the Call for the june 5 demo would like the us people to believe
that the genocide going on in kosovo is NATO's fault and that its not even
genocide, which is roughly milosovich's propaganda line!  across the board
the us left  seems to have decided not to SAY A WORD ABOUT serbian fascist 
genocide and focus only on NATO's bombing war.
 for a betrayal of socialist and anti-imperialist, anti-fascist principles
this has to rank with the stalin-hitler pact and ww1 socialdemocracy's
support  of imperialist war. With this march the us left can kiss its moral
credibility goodbye for the next ten years. an anti-war left that can't
oppose genocide  and covers for fascist nationalism ALL DISGUSTINGLY IN THE
NAME OF FIGHTING  US IMPERIALISM is neither left nor anti-war any more. FOR
WHAT ITS WORTH I URGE PRINCIPLED ANTI-IMPERIALISTS TO BOYCOTT JUNE 5  AND
ORGANIZE A REAL ANTI-WAR MARCH TO FIGHT SERBIAN GENOCIDE IN KOSOVO, OPPOSE
NATO 'S WAR AND FIGHT FASCIST NATIONALISM AND PATRIARCHY EVERY WHERE.

 it seems to me that what we have in the balkan war is three gangs of
fascist patriarchal men  fighting for power, actually two small weak gangs
and one supersizer tecky godzilla, the us,aka nato. how anyone can
solidarixze with any of these fighting forces is beyond me, the big losers
in this patriarchal  war are , big surprise, women and children , primarily
at this point albanian ethnic women and children and older men. the kla is
taking few casualties as is the serbian army, and nato virtually none, mass
executions and mass rape have terrorized  the ethnic albanian population 
and close to a million ethnic albanians have been forced out of kosovo,with
most of the rest of the albanian population hiding in the mountains and
forests this is nothing less than genocide no matter what professor
bubblehead chomsky thinks genocide is. genocide=destruction of a people,
doesn't have to mean outright physical extermination, when there is no land
, no economy, no social structure, no family life, a peoples culture cannot
survive very long; that is genocide. but hey, the white us left can't
recognize genocide in its own backyard history so why should it be able to
see it in yugoserbia?

from the beginning of the first genocidal campaign against the bosnian
muslims by serbian fascists the european and us left has been incapable of
building any serious oppostion to fascism in the balkans. so when the kosovo
genocide began the left found itself with no real political choices, because
it had not built a anti-fascist anti-genocide movement ,. oppotunistically
some left organizations decided to focus on the nato bombing only and avoid
any criticism of serbia to build a "broad" anti-war movement. incredible as
this may seem this meant that leftists in the us and europe were marching
with serbian nationalists chanting their fascist slogans while NATO  could
present itself to the general public as the only opponent of genocide in
kosovo. brilliant: present no left alternaive to the kosovar people push
them into the arms of NATO and the albanian nationalist fascist KLA. this is
left real politique with a vengeance.  so try and march with a n
anti-milosovich, anti-genocide sign saturday folks and yu will probably get
beat up by slobo's boys.

TIME FOR A NEW ANTI-PATRIARCHAL LEFT, PEOPLES, PLEASE............ ENOUGH OF
THIS LEFT PATRIARCHAL OPPORTUNISM

BOB BROWN




   


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