Bonjour
camarades,
salut
de Yougoslavie!
Speech by Dimitar Anakiev
I
want to address you in the name of workers of former Yugoslavia,
particularly from two today so called independent republics: so
called independent Republic of Slovenia and so called independent
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. I live in Slovenia, while
recently, during the revolutionary days in the beginning of February,
I visited Bosnia and Herzegovina and witnessed great success of
Bosnian revolution. Let me first start with Slovenia:
Slovenia
left Yugoslav socialistic federation founded during the National
Liberation War 1941-1945 to join European Union in 2004. During the
socialistic regime Slovenian people founded their nation and become
the most developed Eastern European country. Slovenia's path to
joining the EU started in the name of better society, democracy and
ruling of law. As soon as Slovenia left socialistic Yugoslavia it
adopted Chauvinism for its leading ideology, committing
administrative ethnic cleansing of 25,000 of own compatriots of
different ethnic origin. That was an act of counter-revolution, an
act of dividing the working class. Twenty years after the
capitalistic transformation Slovenia is on its knees: economy is
destroyed, people are robbed and over indebted.
The
situation caused a serious turmoil starting in autumn 2012 and ending
in spring 2013 in which about 300.000 people (out of 2 million
inhabitants of Slovenia) took part in demonstrations against
government. At that time a so called “right wing” government
resigned but a new, so called “left wing”, government continued
with EU politics changing even the constitution for implementation of
fiscal rules (so called “golden rule”) and anti-referendum law.
The situation in Slovenia is still difficult. More and more
Slovenians understand that EU means slavery to Slovenian nation. A
new turmoil is to be expected.
What
was in Slovenia administrative ethnical cleansing, in Bosnia
escalated to a civil war (1992-1995). In this war over 100.000 people
were killed and about 1.5 million of people left Bosnia as refugees.
Bosnia was multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-religious country of
people speaking the same language. After Dayton “peace agreement”
was signed – which ensured American domination in the Balkans
–Bosnia and Herzegovina turned to be ethnically divided in two
republics, ten cantons and one district. Divided into pieces Bosnia
and Herzegovina is today a protectorate of so called “international
community” and has two high delegates: one from the EU and one from
the USA. Bosnian and Herzegovinian people call their own country
designed by Dayton agreement: “Frankenstein state” and
“Strait-jacket state”. Twenty years after Dayton agreement
Bosnia and Herzegovina is the poorest European country where more
than 50% of the population is poor, 20% are totally poor, 2/3 of
young people under 30 are unemployed, while a total unemployed rate
of the population is 48%. At the same time over 50% of Bosnia and
Herzegovina product is going for paying heavy administration that is
dividing people and working class. But even in such a country working
class kept its vitality. On February 5th
2014 revolt started in Tuzla, industrial town in Eastern Bosnia. The
revolt of workers from 5 recently privatized factories exploded and
destroyed in only two days all institutions of Dayton colonialism.
Soon after 3 more factories in Tuzla supported the demands of
revolutionary workers.
Tuzla's
revolution spread fast through the entire country and all around
Bosnia and Herzegovina Dayton institutions were burned and destroyed.
Workers and people that supported them shouted “Death to
nationalism” and “We do not want to be ethnically divided”. So
massive and fast mobilization of people by the working class is a
hope for the future. It shows the direction and it brings light to
worker's movement in Bosnia, in the Balkans and in general. The lords
of Bosnia and Herzegovina understood the message very well too. They
made broad mobilization of quasi-democratic forces to falsely engage
people and stop the revolt by creating “direct democracy” plenums
(broad public forums). But in fact revolutionary workers of Tuzla had
their own demands from the very beginning-they did not need
bourgeois, so called “plenum” to understand what they want. Their
key demands are:
-No
to Dayton, no to nationalism
-Stop
and revision of privatization
-People's
government
The
state of “no war-no peace” is common for many countries of the
present day Balkans. Workers in Bosnia and Herzegovina succeed to
shake neocolonial institution of Dayton and to bring confidence to
the peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to the peoples of Balkans and
to the working-class in general. They showed that power of people is
unbreakable. In that name I greet you!
Paris,
March 1st, 2014
The
speech was repeated by author in a debate at Paris' Marxist Circle,
March 3rd 2014
Romanian publishing of the speech: http://ssu.ro/dimitar.html
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