RESOLUTION OF THE BALKANS WORKERS' CONFERENCE, held in Ljubljana, 13-14 September

RESOLUTION OF THE BALKANS WORKERS' CONFERENCE, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 13-14 September, 2014

(Issued by delegates from Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia; supported by delegate of French independent workers and workers from Romania, Macedonia and Greece)

1. A great deal of the working class and people has been deprived of the right to labor and the rights arising from it.

2. A great deal of the social property, working class and people has been plundered; people are deprived of the right to schooling health care and pension.

3. The criminal who deprived workers of their rights and robbed them is called a bourgeois state – with all its governments – which has again proved itself to be an instrument of coercion in the hands of the ruling class – the class that got enriched overnight.

4. The state and the state government are part of the international neocolonial system (International Monetary Fund, World Bank, The EU and its institutions etc.) which uses the policy of „divide and rule“ while leaving behind a bloody trail in Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Palestine and all over the world.

5. Spontaneous working struggle (Trade Unionism) has achieved considerable results all over the Balkans in the form of a workers’ self-consciousness and class recognizability.

6. At the same time, the achievement of the spontaneous working struggle has proved itself to be limited, most of all because of its subjection to the bourgeois ideology imposed on it instantly in the form of „help“ and „interpretation“ of all sorts of servants of the bourgeois regime.

7.After ten or twenty years of Trade Unionism in the Balkans it is necessary to launch a new phase, that of the political struggle of the working class. In other words, this implies that the workers’ ’consciousness’ should press out ’spontaneity’. The contents of ’consciousness’ should fill in the political program of the working class struggle. Workers cannot fight against criminals – bourgeois state – until they acquire their own consciousness and reject bourgeois ideology.

8. Workers’ struggle cannot be won within the borders of the national state which has the function of a straitjacket for the working class. That is why it is necessary to inter-connect the working class of the Balkans and this in three phases: program of Yugoslavhood, program of the Balkan Workers’ Federation and the program of connections with the working class of Europe and the world.

9. Yugoslav program is – regarding the recent past – the most demanding and it has to be carried out

in an ambitious and urgent way. Within this framework it is necessary to clearly state that the working class of Yugoslavia does not accept Dayton over-government and fragmentation of Bosnia. The territory of former Yugoslavia is occupied by a foreign power of neoliberalism and the clientist regimes subjected to it; this must be clearly stated and repeated again and again.

10. Regarding to Kosovo, we, workers of the Balkans, accept standing point of Dimitrije Tucović and we emphasize that present day Kosovo is not independent but USA-EU protectorate.

11. Likewise, the working class of Yugoslavia and the Balkans cannot accept the plundering of the social property which is euphemistically called ’privatization’. The future working class must revise all such privatizations carried out in the regime of neoliberal occupation.

12. For the realization of the Yugoslav program it is necessary to establish common institutions and this, first of all, in the form of a workers’ magazine in Serbo-Croatian. We propose the name of the “NEW MILITANT – The Yugosav Workers Tribune” (Novi borac – Jugoslovenska radnička tribina) for it since new militants are what we need now. This magazine should be issued relatively often – in the electronic form as well as printed – at least once in three months with the common editors and distribution. It would be a foundation for education and organization of the Yugoslav working class and its leadership after the break-up of Yugoslavia.

13. In the phase of the realization of the Balkan Workers’ Federation which would be the fruit of the democratic agreements of the Balkan workers and their organizations, it would be necessary to create a web page in English and other languages. The workers of the Balkans join the workers of Europe and the world in their anti-imperialist struggle for peace and rights of the working class and peoples in Ukraine, Palestine, Iraq and everywhere all over the world.