Oppose u.$. and NATO aggression in Yugoslavia!
statement by the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League
The Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League (RAIL) strongly condemns NATO’s attacks on Yugoslavia and opposes all forms of NATO intervention in the Balkans. The u.$. and its allies in NATO hypocritically claim that the bombing promotes democracy in Yugoslavia and protects the Kosovar Albanians. In fact such intervention has only brought increased suffering, while furthering the Western imperialists’ political and economic goals – and enriching arms merchants.
In the past, the u.$. claimed to be intervening on behalf of the people of Korea, Viet Nam, Panama, Iraq, Somalia, etc. etc. But u.$. aggression in these countries killed literally millions and served only to incite greater resistance to u.$. imperialism abroad and at home.
The u.$. is allegedly bombing Yugoslavia because of the "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo. But "ethnic cleansing" was fundamental the foundation of the u.$. itself – the u.$. drove hundreds of millions of First Nation people off of their ancestral lands, slaughtering many in the process. The u.$. has backed death squad regimes all over the world and carried out genocidal wars in Korea, Viet Nam, and Iraq.
The recent ethnic wars in the former Yugoslavia are indeed tragic. They have been wars of oppressed and exploited peoples against other oppressed and exploited peoples, largely orchestrated by Germany, the u.$., and other NATO powers. These bloody wars have done nothing to move the peoples of the former Yugoslavia forward.
Intervention by Western imperialists will not solve the problems of the peoples of the Balkans, because this intervention is itself one of their biggest problems. The peoples of the Balkans themselves must unite to solve their own problems. The Yugoslavian peoples’ struggle against German imperialism in World War II showed that the bloody machinery of modern imperialist militarism cannot prevail against the determined resistance of oppressed and exploited peoples.
The political and economic system of imperialism makes war inevitable. The imperialists insatiable thirst for profits drives them up against the sovereignty and well-being of entire peoples and pits them against each other. Achieving a world without war requires that we destroy imperialism.
Join RAIL in opposing NATO intervention in the Balkans and exposing NATO’s false "democratic" and "humanitarian" rhetoric! Join RAIL in the protracted struggle to overthrow imperialism!
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