What Were the Underlying Causes of the War on Yugoslavia?
By MARILYN VOGT-DOWNEY Following is a speech given at the New York City Socialist Action forum, “NATO’s War on the Balkans and U.S. Foreign Policy,” on June 30, 1999. The U.S./NATO military attacks against Serbia and Kosovo represented a military offensive against the Yugoslav revolution of 1945. It was also an effort to further soften up Eastern Europe for capitalist investors and to promote imperialist economic interests and power in the region. Gen. Wesley Clark, the NATO commander; all the heads of state-Clinton, Blair, etc.-and even the NATO pilots who flew the bombing missions shattering the Serbian republic’s industry, infrastructure, and living conditions for the Serbian workers, all are international terrorists and criminals, the most dangerous war criminals in the world. It was with the utmost cynicism and abuse of the ignorance and compassion of the world working class that the NATO forces and capitalist powers claimed that this aggression was for the sake of the rights of t
