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The upcoming book (March 20, 2001, 300 pages):
"DEMONIZATION OF SERBS �WESTERN IMPERIALISM
AND MEDIA WAR CRIMINALS" (Ed. REVOLT, Ottawa)
By Emil VLAJKI

Price: $25 US + $2 US for shipping; or
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MAIN IDEAS
Demonization of Serbs is a part of a worldwide process of demonization
carried out by the current world masters (the US led "international
community") trying to justify their neocolonial exploitation of
developing countries. The demonization, combined with military
interventions and other repressive measures, is applied to any regime
willing to resist the western domination, being also a warning to any
other country wanting to preserve political, economic and cultural
identity of its own.

A
Regarding Yugoslavia, the truth is that for geo-strategic and economic
reasons, the US-led "international community" has never wanted peace
and stability for the region, and especially not for Serbia. Here are
some facts:

-In 1991, the "free world" broke all international laws and agreements
by encouraging the separation of some of the former Yugoslav republics.
-The "free world" did not allow the Yugoslav army to defend the
integrity of the country.
-All Yugoslav peoples except the Serbs, had the right to self-
determination.
-All new "independent" states created out of former Yugoslavia were
internationally recognized, except the Montenegro-Serbia federation
(FRY).
-All US-NATO attacks against the Serbs rested on false accusations and
fabricated events.
�Accusations against the Serbs concerning their "atrocities" and
responsibility for the Balkan wars, has been an ideological screen
intended to cover up the US-NATO-EC crimes.
-The destruction of Yugoslavia has very little to do with the former
Milosevic`s regime. Even with the most democratic rule in Yugoslavia
and Serbia, the US-NATO-EC coalition would continue to destroy this
country.

B
The book claims that, in modern history, no other nation, except the
Jewish people, has been so demonized as the Serbs during the last
decade of the 20th century.

Because the media have played and continue to play an important role in
the demonization of Serbs justifying US-NATO military interventions
against this people, it is possible to say the following.

-In developed countries, the information and communication systems
preserve, in combination with ideological, economic, military, spy and
other repressive institutions, the worldwide, brutal domination of the
West.
-In dominated countries with no independent identity, the major part of
the mass media, reflect opinions of the prostituted local bourgeoisie
going along with a bunch of quasi-intellectuals receiving orders from
their "rational", "democratic", "free trade" US-NATO-EC masters.

Let us repeat some media lies leading to the hundreds of thousands of
victims throughout the former Yugoslavia:
-Trnopolje was presented as a "concentration camp" showing people
behind the barbed wire fence.
The barbed wire in the picture was not around Bosnian Muslims but
around the "objective" British journalists. To make the
Serbian "concentration camp" more truthful, the observation military
tower from the Nazi concentration camp was added through "photo-
montage"!
-The "objective" western journalists "found" in Bosnia 105 "death camps
run by Serbs" with 260,000 people and 17,000 deaths!
At the same time, the International Red Cross found 10,000-11,000 the
total number of prisoners of all warring parties.
-Furthermore, the "objective" western journalists "found" 47 "rape
camps" containing (from 20,000 to 100,000) Muslim women allegedly raped
by Serbs!
In October 1993, the UN commission for war crimes gave a total figure
of 330 documented cases of rape by all three warring sides.
-The �Breadline Massacre� in Sarajevo and two similar �Marketplace
Massacres� were probably fabricated by the western secret services. At
any rate, the UNPROFOR�s secret reports and ballistic expertise
practically exonerated Serbs in this matter.

By the way, the Serbs have been depicted by western media not only as
brutal mass-killers but also as extremely stupid nation. Take two
examples:
-During the Bosnian war, the Serbs permitted western journalists and
politicians to visit camps for refugees and prisoner camps (Muslim and
Croats never allowed such a thing). If the Serbs had really run
the "concentration", "rape" and "death" camps, why would they have
shown them to everybody?
-Racak, January 15, 1999. Serb forces attacked and killed a number of
the KLA terrorists. They allowed western journalists to visit the
premises and to film everything. In the afternoon Serb forces and
journalists left Racak. During the night the KLA entered the village
and in the morning the "Racak massacre" (forty killed people wore like
civilians) was "discovered". If the Serb army, having all necessary
equipment, had really killed these people, why would they not have
hidden the crime? Serbs were masters of the premises and they could do
whatever they wanted. Why line up forty civilian bodies being aware
that in the next 24 hours the whole world would know about the crime,
and also risk a new demonization and NATO military intervention?

C
There is a strong evidence that the demonization of Serbs will continue
in spite of the recent democratic changes in Serbia and Yugoslavia. The
US especially, trying to prevent Europe from unification and to renew
the Cold War against Russia, provokes permanent wars and tensions in
the Balkans.

-It is obvious that the continuation of the KLA terrorist activity in
Southern Serbia is fostered by the US-NATO-EC coalition. Moreover, the
same type of propaganda used by western media during President
Clinton�s era is now used to explain a new conflict: "There is an
Albanian majority in Southern Serbia", "The Serbs are oppressors and
Albanians are victims", "Albanians fight for freedom", "Southern Serbia
historically belongs to the Albanian nation", "The Serbs have to remove
their provocative security forces", and the like. For example, on
February 27, 2001, Shawn Sullivan, political advisor to the commander
of the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) said that there was a 'definite
danger' that NATO troops and the Yugoslav army could clash if the
Yugoslav Army would continue to fight Albanian rebels in Southern
Serbia!
Remark. A similar situation occurred during the war in Bosnia in August
1993, when the Bosnian Serbs were forced, under international pressure,
to leave their positions from Mt. Igman. In early October 1994, Muslim
forces crossed the buffer zone killing 20 Serbs and continued with the
same provocation. At that time, Serbs were "advised" by the US to
demonstrate restraint, as NATO Chief Robertson warns the Serbs now.


-In the end of the Clinton`s era, a resolution has been considered
according to which the Hungarians in Serbia are the "oppressed
nation", "an intolerable state of affairs" for the USA:
"Congress finds that:
1)approximately 350,000 ethnic Hungarians, as well as several other
minority populations, reside in the province of Vojvodina, part of
Serbia, �
4)this population is subjected to continuous harassment, intimidation,
and threatening suggestions that they leave the land of their
ancestors; and
5)during the past ten years this form of ethnic cleansing has already
driven 50,000 ethnic Hungarians and members of other minority
communities out of the province of Vojvodina�".

In fact, who is so naive as to believe that President Bush will act
differently withdrawing American troops from Kosovo, that he will be
opposed to the powerful Albanian lobby led by Republicans in the US
Senate, that he is going to change the main US geo-strategy against the
will of military and economic establishment?
D
-As for the war, it will probably come if the new Yugoslav leaders
resist the current US blackmail policy. The contrary may prove, sooner
than expected, that the part of the present governance can not preserve
the interests of the Serb people. The unconditional obedience to
Americans will stop, only temporarily, the dissolution of Yugoslavia
and Serbia.
-If this is so, then Serbia would possibly be torn to pieces. Once
Serbia is reduced to a third of its present size, a leader will appear
and bring the Serbs from Kosovo, Krajina, Bosnia, Sandjak, Montenegro,
Southern Serbia, Vojvodina and other Yugoslav/Serbian regions to battle
for unification. After all, if all the other peoples of Yugoslavia have
the right to decide for themselves and gain their territorial
integrity, then why can't the Serbs have the same right?
-It is with the resurrection of the Serbs and their final victory in
the constitution of a historically grounded statehood, that the issue
of Yugo-Slav, Balkan and European integration and emancipation from the
US imperialism can truly be resolved.
E
Few opinions about the book:

This is a book about the US false humanism. It analyses the
articulation between the media and the political, economic and military
power, which is more and more used to make war against developing
countries, but also to justify and to protect the US-NATO imperialism.
Raquel de Almeida Moraes
Co-Editor of Brazilian Portal of Philosophy

2.Emil Vlajki who wrote the book "The New Totalitarian Society"
which was at the time the only profound book about our times,
has now managed to write even better book "Demonization of Serbs�"
. He is a brilliant man, not a simple one. He is the only one who
offers a very
profound and deep analysis of the former Yugoslavia and the
world in which we live in. Any serious intellectual should
read his work because it is best that exists at this time.

What is happening in Yugoslavia is only a symptom of what is
happening everywhere, all over the world, including the USA.

Professor Nadja Tesich, writer of novels, plays, filmmaker,
screen writer, journalist and political analyst., New York

3. The book of professor Vlajki "Demonization of Serbs�" will be a most
welcome antidote to the nauseating
"free world" propaganda which has disfigured so much "news" and comment
on the Yugoslavian tragedy.
Geoffrey N. W. Locke
Lawyer, Barrister, QC, Great Britain

4.The demonization of Serbs was intended to make the West feel better
about themselves; it contributed to the strengthening of the Western
alliance; it justified massive attacks on Serbia and its isolation from
the international scene, and perhaps, it served the economic interests
of the media-industry by increasing the view figures and rates of its
programs.
I hope that "The demonization of Serbs" by Emil Vlajki will contribute
to establishing or restoring a balanced view on the recent history in
former Yugoslavia and on the true nature of the Serbian nation.
Jef Syroit
Associate Professor in Organizational Psychology at
Utrecht University in The Netherlands

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> Subject: BF Declaration (final text) and Program of Action
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:30:59 +0200
> From: "Vladimir Krsljanin"
> To: "Belgrade Forum"
>
> Belgrade Forum International Conference "Two Years On: The Truth About
> NATO Aggression", with participation of 30 scholars, political and
> public personalities from Argentine, Bulgaria, Cuba, Germany, Greece,
> Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Macedonia, Netherlands,
> Palestine, Romania, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, USA and 100
> from Yugoslavia, unanimously adopted Declaration and Program of
> Action, submitted by International Drafting Committee.
>
>
>
>
> DIGNITY VS. BARBARISM
>
>
>
> Declaration of the Belgrade Forum International Conference
>
> - Two Years On: The Truth about NATO Aggression
>
> 24 March 1999 - 24 March 2001
>
> Belgrade, Yugoslavia
>
>
>
> On this second anniversary of the Washington-led NATO aggression on
> Yugoslavia, we free people of the world have gathered here in
> Belgrade, March 22-23, 2001, to honor the brave Yugoslav people who
> defended freedom, dignity and universal human and social values
> against NATO. We especially honor those who lost loved ones, homes and
> property to that criminal aggression.
>
> In waging an illegal and undeclared war of terror against Yugoslavia,
> NATO threw all decency out the window.
>
> * Over 50.000 rounds of bullets and missiles encased in depleted
> uranium were fired or dropped on people whose only crime was that they
> never kneeled in front of aggressors and occupiers in their long
> history and always stood for dignity, freedom and equality.
>
> * Over 80% of NATO's targets and victims of this aggression were
> ordinary civilians and their homes, hospitals, schools, TV stations,
> work places.
>
> * After accepting the guarantee of the territorial integrity of the FR
> Yugoslavia, as provided for in UN Resolution 1244, and after agreeing
> in that Resolution to disarm and disband the terrorist KLA, what did
> NATO do? It continued to train and support the terrorists, raising
> them to official status as the "Kosovo Protection Corps". NATO
> supported them as they drove 350,000 Serbs and other non-Albanians,
> and anti-fascist Albanians, from their ancestral homes in Kosovo and
> Metohija. NATO turned a buffer zone between the Serbian province of
> Kosovo and Metohija and the rest of Serbia into a haven for the "KLA".
> Now they have unleashed these terrorists against districts in southern
> Serbia and whole of Macedonia. After committing themselves to respect
> and guarantee existing international borders in the region, NATO has
> supported the "KLA's" drive to break up countries and form a 'Greater
> Albania.' This represents the greatest danger for peace and stability
> in the region.
>
> The NATO aggression enshrined gangsterism, drug trafficking and
> terrorism as the new standards of law. This was in fact an attack on
> the world. In heroically resisting NATO, the Serbian people defended
> not only their own country, but the entire world from Imperial
> conquest. They deserve recognition and solidarity from all
> peace-loving people, all the more because the NATO aggressors are
> continuing to use the same methods to break the Balkans into a series
> of weak, gangster dominated protectorates.
>
> There is a great danger confronting our world and also a great hope.
> Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Clinton Administration,
> working with their like in England and Germany has launched a drive to
> recolonize most of the world. This has involved attacks on many
> fronts. In Yugoslavia and in many other countries Washington, London
> and Berlin organized terrorist, separatists and racist movements and
> armies financed by covert agencies and by organized crime, which has
> made drugs the world's biggest business. In Kosovo and Metohija
> Washington and Berlin organized the terrorist KLA, out of drug
> dealers, bandits and racists.
>
> While fostering terror and crime, the enlightened Western
> Establishment also fosters so-called democratic civil society groups,
> political parties and media as a Fifth Column to soften up resistance
> within. These groups and media use psychological warfare techniques to
> destroy the very possibility of reasoned political discourse, reducing
> politics to the level of a lying advertising campaign.
>
> The Western controlled media all over the world, and especially in
> target countries, such as Yugoslavia, slander national and social
> self-defense as fascist. This has been done for ten years to the
> Serbs, whose crime is that they defended multiethnic Yugoslavia and
> opposed foreign occupation. And while proxy forces break up nations,
> such as the strategically important Yugoslav federation, and then
> reduce the component parts to mere protectorates, world economic
> organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World
> bank, controlled by Washington, pursue the same ends. The IMF and
> World Bank call for economic modernization and . This slogan is a lie
> - reversals of reality. In fact the IMF seizes national governments,
> destroys their currencies and takes over their central banks, as they
> have taken over the Yugoslav Central Bank. Then they bring in Western
> pirates, as they are now trying to do in Yugoslavia, who seize key
> financial and industrial sectors and strip them bare. Meanwhile,
> "structural reform" programs wipe out social protections so that while
> prices and unemployment skyrocket, working people don't even have a
> social safety net. The people are reduced to misery and poverty.
>
> So NATO bombs the Serbs and drives them and other non-Albanian people
> from their historic home in Kosovo and Metohija. It creates an ad hoc
> Tribunal, violating all international law, to cover up its own crimes.
> It kidnaps Serbian leaders, illegally detains them and proclaims to
> the world that they are guilty for NATO's killing of Serbs. Thus NATO
> leaders kill rational thought as well.
>
> Some leaders in Yugoslavia offer their services to NATO governments,
> but there is no violation of national dignity, no betrayal of ordinary
> people sufficient for the United States Establishment. NATO has no
> friends - only future victims.
>
>
>
> We demand:
>
>
>
> 1) NATO must leave the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija and all
> of the Balkans;
>
> 2) The guarantees of Yugoslav sovereignty and territorial integrity
> included in UN Resolution 1244 must be enforced;
>
> 3) The Yugoslav army and police must return to Kosovo and Metohija and
> must be allowed to take control of all Yugoslav borders including and
> especially the borders with Macedonia and Albania;
>
> 4) The terrorist KLA must be disarmed and disbanded and its criminal
> leaders put on trial;
>
> 5) The refugees and displaced persons driven from Kosovo must be
> returned freely and safely to their homes, farms and work places and
> compensated by the NATO governments for all damages committed by NATO
> and the terrorist KLA;
>
> 6) Kosovo and Metohija must stay in Serbia. Elections must not be held
> under present conditions of terror, ethnic cleansing and occupation. A
> return of 350.000 displaced Serbs and other non-Albanians is the
> condition sine qua non for multiethnic, multi-cultural and
> multi-religious Kosovo and Metohija as well as for free and democratic
> elections.
>
> 7) Leaders of NATO and the NATO governments, first of all former
> President Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright, Javier Solana, and the
> others should be put on trial for their crimes against peace and
> humanity . The NATO governments must compensate Yugoslavia and all the
> Balkans as well as all individual victims for war damages;
>
> 8) The West must immediately pay for the clean up of all areas
> contaminated by their weapons of mass destruction including low level
> nuclear waste from depleted uranium, laced with plutonium, and the
> chemical poisons released due to NATO's bombing of refineries,
> chemical and other factories. All the victims of the use of such
> armaments must be compensated;
>
> 8) A smear campaign has been launched against Yugoslav political
> leaders who resisted NATO aggression. This campaign is accompanied by
> politically motivated arrests and politically imposed court
> procedures. The fabricated accusations against President Milosevic are
> an attempt to hide the crimes of NATO and to threaten anybody in the
> world who would stand for freedom and independence. Mr. Dragoljub
> Milanovic and Mr. Rade Markovic must be freed from their illegal,
> political detention. The public lynching of political opponents as
> well as the harassment, intimidation, beating and arbitrary firing of
> managers and professionals in factories, hospitals, schools, public
> administration - must cease forthwith. These are notorious violations
> of human rights;
>
> 9) The Hague Tribunal, a political institution created to demonize the
> Serbs and to justify NATO crimes, must be closed down forever. Its
> victims and their surviving relatives must be compensated for illegal
> arrest, imprisonment and death.
>
>
>
> We call on all freedom loving people of various political views and of
> all races, religions and ethnic origins - let us unite. Let us defend
> the truth against media lies. Let us defend the right of all
> countries, particularly small and "underdeveloped" countries, to
> equality. Let us defend the right of ordinary people all over the
> world to live a decent and secure life.
>
> And let us rally to support those who have resisted NATO's attempt to
> recolonize our world. Defend the Serbian people who have stood up to
> NATO.
>
> We honor all the victims of NATO's aggression against Yugoslavia. It
> must not be repeated anywhere ever again.
>
>
>
>
>
> Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals
>
> International Conference "Two Years On - The Truth about NATO
> Aggression"
>
> Belgrade, March 22 - 23, 2001
>
>
>
>
>
> Program of Action
>
>
>
> 1. Raising public awareness in our respective countries on the truth
> about NATO aggression.
> 2. Demand the abolition of the illegal ICTFY. Defend the former
> President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Mr. Slobodan
> Milosevic as well as Mr. Dragoljub Milanovic, former Director
> General of RTS, and all victims of political oppression.
> 3. Raise the issue of the responsibility of Carla Del Ponte, Michael
> Jackson, Bernard Kouchner and others for consolidating of the
> Albanian terrorist groups
> 4. Insist on NATO-member countries paying compensation for the
> damages done during the aggression.
>
>
> To join or help this struggle, visit:
> http://www.sps.org.yu/ (official SPS website)
> http://www.belgrade-forum.org/ (forum for the world of equals)
> http://www.24casa.co.yu/ (the only free daily newspaper in Yugoslavia)
>
>

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>
> THE PRICE OF TRUTH
> by Diana Johnstone [posted 29-3-2001]
>
> [Note: On March 23-24 the Belgrade Forum hosted an
> international conference
> to commemorate and analyze the NATO aggression against
> Yugoslavia. Diana
> Johnstone, whose work awakened many of us to the truth
> about the
> U.S./German/British assault on Yugoslavia, could not
> attend. However, she
> sent the following statement. It includes most interesting
> comments about the
> U.S.-pushed effort to jail Yugoslav President Miloshevich
> who was removed
> from office Oct. 5th in what is described oxymoronically
> in the Western press
> as a "democratic coup."- Jared Israel]
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> Thank you very much for your invitation to attend the
> Conference on "The
> Truth About NATO Aggression". The 24th of March, 1999, was
> a day of lies,
> injustice and war that must be neither forgotten nor
> forgiven. The injustice,
> the loss of life and the destruction cannot be undone, but
> the lies must be
> relentlessly denounced and exposed. It is appropriate to
> hold such a
> conference on Truth on this tragic anniversary -- this
> year and no doubt for
> years to come, as the task of establishing the truth is
> likely to be long and
> hard.
>
> Unfortunately, this year I am unable to attend for
> personal reasons. However,
> I wish to stress that my absence in no way indicates any
> lessening of my
> commitment to the struggle for truth, justice and peace in
> the Balkans. This
> struggle is now in a very difficult phase, as the United
> States is bringing
> all manner of pressure to force the Serbs themselves to
> endorse the falsified
> version of history used by NATO to justify the cruel and
> illegal air war
> launched against Yugoslavia just two years ago.
>
> It was not enough to bomb Yugoslavia, killing innocent
> civilians and
> destroying the country's infrastructure, or to turn over
> part of its
> territory to criminal bands of armed racists who murder
> defenseless citizens
> and mount new military provocations as NATO looks on
> helplessly. The United
> States and its NATO partners now demand that Serbian
> authorities cooperate in
> rewriting history in order to blame the victim not only
> for the bombing but
> for all the wars that ravaged Yugoslavia throughout the
> 1990s. That is the
> reason for the insistent demand to turn over former
> President Milosevic to
> the "International Criminal Tribunal". The objective is a
> political show
> trial, no different from the notorious show trials of past
> dictatorial
> regimes, designed to rewrite history to suit the dominant
> power and its
> clients.
>
> American officials are quoted as urging Serbian
> authorities to keep searching
> for some crime committed by Milosevic, since "he's
> certainly guilty of
> something..." No such frantic search is necessary to find
> the guilt of NATO
> leaders. They launched an illegal war. They targeted
> civilian infrastructure,
> used toxic weapons. The evidence has been compiled by
> jurists in several
> countries. The matter is clear. But the ICTY prosecutor
> refused to
> investigate NATO, not surprisingly, since she works for
> them, although she
> seems not even to realize it.
>
> The demand to extradite a former head of state to a
> grossly biased political
> Tribunal in return for dollars is an attempt to turn
> Serbian government
> ministers into bounty hunters. A reward of $5 million is
> offered for
> Milosevic. The U.S. Congress dangles aid dollars in front
> of Serbian
> officials, and gives them a deadline to comply with U.S.
> dictates by the end
> of the month or else the goodies will be snatched away.
> Serbia is summoned by
> the United States to abandon its dignity and capacity to
> judge its own
> reality in exchange for a fistful of dollars -- a scenario
> worthy of a
> spaghetti Western.
>
> Milosevic -- and Serbia -- must be found guilty in order
> to prove that NATO
> was innocent. The bounty hunters might profit from the
> bounty money. The
> Serbian people would pay dearly. Politically, materially
> and in the right to
> their own truth.
>
> At the conference in Belgrade last year, I remarked that I
> did not consider
> it my business to intervene in Yugoslavia's internal
> politics. I can
> understand that people may be tired of suffering
> hardships, of being treated
> as pariahs by the Western powers, isolated and subjected
> to sanctions. I can
> understand they may grasp at illusions. I can understand
> that they may want
> to be treated as "normal", regardless of the price. But
> watch out! The price
> for giving up the truth and abandoning justice may be much
> higher than it
> seems. Serbia deserves the respect of the world, and this
> respect is and will
> continue to be earned by a courageous and stubborn
> devotion to truth.
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Subject: Notizie dalla Zastava
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:46:04 +0200
From: "Rossi Alma" <alma@...>
To: "0 - coordinamento" <coord.naz.rsu@...>


Nei giorni 22-23-24 marzo, una delegazione della Cgil di Brescia,
accompagnata da rappresentanti della associazione ALJ di Bologna, delle
Rsu
di Milano e dell'associazione SOS Zastava di Trieste, si è recata alla
Zastava di Kragujevac.
Il prossimo 5 aprile partirà la delegazione dei delegati rsu e dei
sindacalisti Cgil del piemonte con altre adozioni.
In questa occasione sono state consegnate le quote di 274 adozioni già
attive e di 13 nuove adozioni oltre a numerose lettere e regali di
lavoratori italiani alle famiglie dei lavoratori Zastava adottate.
La Consegna è stata fatta nella giornata del 22 marzo in una affollata
assemblea.
Il confronto con le famiglie dei lavoratori della Zastava e con i
delegati
dello stabilimento è stata anche occasione per verificare la situazione
in
cui versano i lavoratori della Jugoslavia a due anni dai bombardamenti.
Per quanto riguarda la zastava le prospettive sono tutt'ora incerte.
Dopo la decisione della nuova direzione aziendale di fermare la
produzione
delle due linee che con tanta fatica erano state riavviate la
preoccupazione
rimane altissima anche alla luce del fatto che il nuovo Governo non ha
ancora predisposto alcun impegno preciso riguardo ad un eventuale piano
di
investimenti utile alla ripresa della produzione. D'altro canto, sempre
il
nuovo Governo, con la legge che favorisce l'importazione e la
commercializzazione di auto usate ha chiuso praticamente il
potenziale mercato interno su cui poteva appoggiarsi una pur difficile
speranza di rilancio del lavoro e della occupazione alla zastava.
(confermiamo, per averlo visto con i nostri occhi alla frontiera serba,
come
l'importazione di auto usate sia ormai un fenomenro visibile anche ad
occhio
nudo. Almeno 2 tir carichi di auto usate dall'austria e dalla germania
stavano per essere sdoganati quando siamo passati in frontiera)
Per quanto riguarda la situazione economica e sociale in generale,
confermiamo come l'aumento dei prezzi abbia ormai toccato tutti i generi
ed
i servizi
(compresi quelli di prima necessità) con incrementi pari al 70 -110 %
rispetto allo stesso periodo dell'anno precedente.
L'allentamento dell'embargo (comunque ancora efficace e visibile nelle
sue
conseguenze) ha riaperto l'importazione di medicinali che
però risultano quasi del tutto irreperibili presso le strutture
pubbliche.
Gli unici beneficiari dell'allentamento dell'embargo sono in questo caso
le
farmacie private presso le quali i medicinali sono reperibili solo a
pagamento.
Il tutto in una situazione nella quale almeno 450.000 lavoratori in
tutta la
Jugoslavia sono tutt'ora senza lavoro e senza reddito a causa dei
bombardamenti delle fabbriche, il pagamento delle pensioni rimane
dimezzato
ed in tempi incerti.
I più fortunati sono costretti a lavori precari e saltuari ai limiti
della
legalità in condizioni di vero caporalato
ed a condizioni di sfruttamento vergognose. Una situazione di cui
favoriscono solo i nuovi esponenti del nuovo e arrogante liberismo che
in
Jugoslavia è molto presente nei piccoli commercianti e nelle piccole
attività economiche (sopratutto tessili e meccaniche) alcune rilevate
dai
soliti
imprenditori occidentali (sopratutto tedeschi, ma si affacciano anche
gli
italiani).
(abbiamo visto in televisione un servizio in cui si annunciava come un
pool
di piccole imprese tessili Italiane del veneto avessero deciso di
investire
in piccole imprese tessili di Kragujevac. Il servizio parlava
chiaramente di
trasferimenti di produzioni dall'italia alla jugoslavia - Stiamo
informandoci sul nome e sul tipo di aziende che avrebbero fatto questi
accordi con l'amministrazione di Kragujevac e vi terremo informati).
Gli scioperi degli insegnati contro il non pagamento degli stipendi
intanto
continuano (è appena finito uno sciopero di 15 giorni). E' bene
sottolineare
(senza voler fare polemica) come questi scioperi siano iniziati già
durante
il governo milosevic e come
anche la nostra stampa e televisione desse loro molta pubblicità come a
sottolineare che la situazione degli insegnanti fosse causata dalle
politiche del precedente governo e come quegli stessi scioperi fossero
sostenuti attivamente dalle forze della DOS. Ora gli scioperi continuano
anche più
decisamente di prima, sempre per il mancato pagamento degli stipendi, ma
a
differenza di prima di questi scioperi non si parla più e gli
scioperanti
sono ormai impegnati in completa solitudine a sostenere i loro diritti.

Sempre nei giorni in cui la delegazione italiana era presente a
Kragujevac
si
sono tenute le elezioni per il rinnovo delle cariche sindacali del
gruppo
zastava.
Un fatto importante anche perchè seguiva un periodo di forti tensioni
dentro
al sindacato.
Come già vi avevamo raccontato in precedenza il risultato delle elezioni
politiche in jugoslavia aveva portato nei mesi precedenti a vere e
proprie
agressioni nei confronti dei sindacalisti della zastava che non
apparivano
garanti del nuovo ordine politico.
Alla zastava auto ed alla iveco rappresentanti sindacali che si
riconoscevano nella DOS avevano costretto alle dimissioni i delegati
eletti
dai lavoratori autonominandosi nuovo rappresentanti. Una decisione al di
fuori di ogni regola e statuto e chiaramente illegale e coercitiva che
però
il sindacato nazionale confederale ha infine riconosciuto (anche se con
una
iniziale opposizione da parte del sindacato nazionale metalmeccanico).
In risposta a queste agressioni ed a queste azioni illecite la
rappresentanza sindacale del gruppo zastava aveva proposto che venissero
convocate libere elezioni perchè fossero i lavoratori a verificare ed
eleggere la loro legittima rappresentanza. Queste elezioni sono state
osteggiate dalla componente sindacale che fa riferimento alla DOS che
rivendicava una corrispondenza ed un automatismo tra risultati delle
elezioni politiche e il cambio della rappresentanza sindacale. Alla
fine, le
elezioni convocate nel dicembre del 2000 venivano boicottate con atti di
vero squadrismo e quindi sospese.
Queste agressioni sono continuate anche sucessivamente da parte della
componente della DOS del sindacato autonomo della zastava.
Proprio lo scorso 15 marzo, la componente della DOS del sindacato
zastava ed
il sindacato indipendente avevano organizzato una manifestazione a
Kragujevac che si è risolta in un assalto alla sede del sindacato
cittadino
di Kragujevac (la nostra camera del lavoro) con una agressione fisica al
segretario cittadino costretto a
firmare le dimissioni. Abbiamo recuperato il filmato di questa
manifestazione e delle agressioni e risulta chiaramente come la
manifestazione (a cui hanno partecipato un migliaio di persone) sia
stata
concepita proprio come mera agressione. Infatti la manifestazione era
guidata da quei sindacalisti zastava che si erano autonominati senza
verifica nei reparti ed era chiaramente apoggiata dall'amministrazione
comunale di Kragujevac (il sindaco era presente ed ha incontrato ed
incitato
i
manifestanti). Alla manifestazione erano presenti solo poche decine di
lavoratori della zastava (alcuni per altro convinti che si trattasse di
una
manifestazione
contro la chiusura della fabrica), gli altri, quasi tutti portati dal
sindacato
indipendente sono arrivati a Kragujevac con camion e pulmann organizzati
da
altre città della jugoslavia e, dalle interviste loro fatte dalla
televisione, si capiva chiaramente che non sapessero nulla delle vicende
zastava, erano li solo perchè gli era stato chiesto.
Comunque, anche a causa di questa ennesima agressione e per evitare
degenerazioni,
l'attuale presidentessa del sindacato zastava (Sig.a Rusika) rassegnava
le
dimissioni a condizione che si tenesserp ufficiali elezioni per il
rinnovo
delle cariche sindacali
del gruppo per il giorno 23 marzo, proprio quando la nostra delegazione
era
presente a Kragujevac. Si è temuto sino all'ultimo l'ennesimo
boicottaggio
delle elezioni che comunque si sono tenute regolarmente anche se in
presenza di una discussione accesissima.
Le elezioni delle cariche per il gruppo funzionano così. Ogni reparto
(che
loro chiamano fabbrica) è rappresentato nel coordinamento di gruppo con
un
numero di delegati in proporzione al numero dei lavoratori.
Questi delegati effettuano una consultazione nei loro reparti e poi
portano
il risultato alla riunione del coordinamento.
I candidati alle elezioni erano 4.
L'attuale presidente del sindacato di gruppo della zastava (la Sig,a
Rusika)
non si è ripresentata motivando la decisione come iniziativa utile a
togliere ulteriori
elementi di strumentalizzazione da parte della componente della DOS del
sindacato, proponendo in sua sostituzione il delegato del reparto di
utensileria.
Altri candidati facevano riferimento alle varie anime della componente
della
DOS.
Le assemblee in preparazione della elezione sono state sicuramente molto
accese ma alla fine il risultato delle elezioni è stato chiarissimo.
Il candidato presentato dall'attuale gruppo di delegati che hanno fino
ad
ora portato avanti l'esperienza del sindacato autonomo Zastava ha preso
23
voti, mentre gli altri candidati (forti dell'appoggio dei delegati che
si
erano autonominati in precedenza) hanno preso rispettivamente 3,6, e 2
voti
soltanto.
Il che dimostra come la maggioranza dei reparti e dei lavoratori
sostenga
l'attuale gruppo dirigente del sindacato del gruppo zastava.
E' un risultato importante, che dimostra come l'attuale sindacato del
gruppo
zastava abbia il consenso dei lavoratori che riconoscono la validità e
l'efficacia della loro linea sindacale. Una linea che punta alla difesa
delle prospettive di lavoro e di ripresa produttiva della zastava,
condotta
in chiara autonomia dal quadro politico e imprenditoriale. Una autonomia
difficile da praticare oggi come ieri in Jugoslavia per il tentativo
delle
forze politiche al governo di controllare ogni struttura sociale e
sindacale.
E' bene ricordare come i delegati del sindacato autonomo zastava, già
durante i bombardamenti ed a differenza di ogni altra struttura
sindacale
jugoslava , abbiano saputo prendere immediatamente contatto con i
lavoratori
europei. Invitata in Italia dal coord.rsu hanno fatto assemblee in
numerose
realtà, collegandosi col movimento dei lavoratori italiani contro la
guerra
e costruendo quella rete di solidarietà che oggi rappresenta uno dei
pochi
concreti ed efficaci interventi di sostegno alla lotta ed alla
resistenza
dei lavoratori jugoslavi per il lavoro e per l'occupazione e di impegno
all'unità internazionalista tra i lavoratori.
La vittoria alle elezioni per il sindacato di gruppo non risolverà
certamente le tensioni comunque ancora presenti ma è sicuramente un
risultato ed una conferma del consenso tra i lavoratori molto
importante.


Continua intanto il lavoro per l'allargamento dell'impegno di
solidarietà a
favore delle famiglie dei lavoratori della zastava.
Per informazioni e contatti potete collegarvi al sito internet del
Coordinamento RSU - http://www.ecn.org/coord.rsu/ e (dal link 'notizie
in
evidenza') scaricare i materiali e le informazioni sulle iniziative
attive -
adozioni a distanza e raccolta fondi tramite la vendita di un CD.
Per quanto riguarda il CD potete anche averne un certo quantitativo in
conto
vendita da utilizzare in occasione di iniziative o da distribuire e
vendere
in occasione di riunioni sindacali.
Per contatti Alma Rossi 055-8498256

ciao

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