Dear comrades,
First, I would like to salute you on behalf of the Central Committee of the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia. We especially want to send greetings to our fraternal organization from Greece—Collective for the Revolutionary Unification of Humanity. Also, we would like to thank the efforts of comrades from the People’s Democracy Party for a significant ideological and practical job in the World Anti-imperialist Platform.
Today, we gather in Athens to mark 50 years of the heroic uprising in Politehnica. It was the start of the end of the Military junta regime and dictatorship supported by the USA in Greece. During the 20th century, Greek people fought for independence and social justice. Also, they led the anti-fascist and anti-imperial struggle, and the Communist Party had a significant role in this struggle. Unfortunately, after the Second World War, the USA started to control the political processes in Greece, and they occupied this country. NATO has a significant number of military bases in this country. Thanks to it, after the Second World War and during the dictatorship in Greece, one of the biggest genocide happened against communists in history. During the ‘90s, Greek people supported my country against NATO bombarding and sanctions, and we will never forget it. Communists and progressive people organized sabotage against NATO, and thanks to it, NATO stopped the land invasion from Greece to my country. The Greek people’s heroic struggle inspired many progressive people in the World. Unfortunately, many opportunistic organizations from this country use sentiment and symbols, shout revolutionary slogans, and use revolutionary phraseology. Still, in practice, they lead pro-imperialist and opportunistic politics and disorient the masses.
We are a country from the Balkan Peninsula, like Greece. The region of the Balkans is a region of great strategic importance. The Balkan is attracting the imperialist powers like a magnet and making our area an essential arena for manifesting NATO strategic goals. NATO occupied our Peninsula. Practice showed that NATO is the most significant security risk in the World, and the people of Serbia felt that on their skin during the bombing in 1999.
The Serbs directly opposed the interests of Western imperialism and NATO and no doubt suffered significant damage and were victims of it. Starting with the fact that the most crucial number of displaced persons from their homes in the territory of Yugoslavia were among the Serbian people, that NATO bombed us with weapons prohibited by international conventions and thus committed a severe war crime for which no one has been accused and convicted yet, with depleted uranium, from which tens of thousands of people die every year in Serbia.
Undoubtedly, however, all the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, without any exception, have been and are victims of Western imperialism and the violent dismantling of Yugoslavia. Political and economic dependence and conditioning are crystal clear everywhere in former Yugoslavia. We have become easy prey for sharks that have entered our waters.
The necessary and urgent duty for the people is to reject and oppose the policy of “divide and conquer”, which aims at the emergence of new and weak states, in fact, protectorates, as is the case in the face of the situation emerging in Kosovo. Today, the imperialist plans and rivalry may again cause bloodshed in the region. The policy promoted by the imperialist powers aims not only to intensify foreign interventions but also to establish governments servile to the imperialist dictates of regimes that will further deepen the capitalist exploitation and bind their countries to the imperialist organizations of NATO and EU.
Today, imperialist Western plans may cause bloodshed in the region again. The policy promoted by the Western imperialist powers aims not only to intensify foreign interventions but also to establish governments servile to the imperialist dictates of regimes that will further deepen the capitalist exploitation and bind their countries to the imperialist organizations of NATO and EU.
In the international public, for a long time and with clear political intentions, an untruthful, distorted picture was being created regarding what happened in the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Everything has been presented crookedly to protect those genuinely responsible and draw the wrong conclusions about what happened and the background of the war against Yugoslavia.
There is a fundamental historical fact that one should proceed from when seeking to understand what happened and which led to everything that happened in the territory of Yugoslavia from 1991 until the present day, and that is the violent destruction of a European state, Yugoslavia, which was derived from the statehood of Serbia. There is no doubt that this fundamental historical fact will leave an imprint on European history in the times to come. A multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-confessional state was destroyed, a condition that had its historical and international legal legitimacy.
Today, under the pressure of NATO and the EU, Serbia is forced to recognize Kosovo and Metohija as independent countries. Western imperialism wants to present that as a historical solution between Serbs and Albanians. If Serbia agrees to that scenario, that would violate international law and create new clashes in multiethnic Balkans, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, southwestern Serbia, and Montenegro… It is clear to everyone that Western imperialism does not want a peaceful solution but new clashes to control the Balkan Peninsula. That is precisely what is going on in Kosovo right now. Dangerous developments of the current administration in Pristina continue to take unilateral moves regardless of the security risks.
At the end of September, the situation in Kosovo and Metohija escalated. In these clashes, 3 Serbs and one policeman (NATO legalized former terrorists in the so-called Kosovo Police) have died. The New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (NKPJ) points out that the exclusive and objective culprits for the new escalation of violence in the north of Kosovo, which led to tragedy and loss of human life, are the separatist puppet regime of Aljbin Kurti in Pristina and its Western imperialist masters.
The anger and rebellion of the Serbian people in the north of Kosovo, who are daily exposed to the terror of the Albanian pro-imperialist regime in Pristina, are entirely understandable and justified. The behavior of KFOR is hypocritical and shameful. It indicates that the continuous violence of the so-called “Kosovo police” is carried out with the permission of that formation, tools in the hands of imperialists from Washington, Brussels, and London.
On the occasion of the tragic event, the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia sends its sincerest condolences to the families of those killed in the clashes in the village of Banjska in Kosovo and Metohija.
Since June 9, 1999, and the signing of the “Kuman Agreement”, the southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija has been under the occupation of the striking military fist of Western imperialism, NATO, and the Serbs living in that area have since become second-class citizens.
The NKPJ demands that the puppet pro-imperialist government in Kosovo immediately stop the pressure on the Serbian people living in that territory and provide all refugees the opportunity to return to their homes.
The Serbian and Albanian people in Kosovo and Metohija should live in peace and togetherness and follow the tradition of fraternal relations between Albanians and Serbs who fought side by side against the Nazi-fascist occupier in the Second World War.
Conflict in Kosovo is not over; it is just waiting for the moment to erupt and explode again because peace is not achieved, and it won’t be achieved as long as imperialism decides the destiny of the people living there.
Before the end, we need to say that in these historical circumstances, the main task of communists and imperialist forces is that we, on the one hand, fight against theoretical opportunism, phraseology, manipulations, and theoretical ignorance. On the other hand, we need to find solutions for our practical problems.
Also, we need to repeat our Slogan! NATO killers get out of the Balkans! Balkans belong to the Balkan Peoples.
