From: Adam Rose <Adam-AT-pmel.com>
Subject: M-I: Serbia was RE: Thugs
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 15:26:29 -0000




Jon quotes the New York Times on one of
the Stalinist - free market - nationalist thugs in Serbia.
These people have their counterparts in the GDR,
China, Russia etc. When people argue that there
has been a social counterrevolution in these countries
since 1989, they have the problem of explaining how
these people flourished under both the pre and post
1989 regimes.

Today in Serbia, we can see a possible alternative
to the Stalinist - free market - nationalist ruling class.
Not in the leaders of the mass demonstrations, but
in the forces that they have mobilised - students and
workers.

What seems to be preventing the movement from
spreading to the workplaces at present is that 
workers quite rightly do not trust the free market
- nationalist opposition. For the movement to 
mobilise the forces required to get rid ot Milosevic,
and as end in itself, class demands need to be 
linked to the question of democracy.

What is exciting about this movement is that 
just at the same time there is a very similar
movement developing in Croatia as well. At
last, an alternative to the war mongers is
emerging.

Adam.

Adam Rose
SWP
Manchester
Britain.



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