For a Socialist Federation of Caucasian peoples!Down with capitalist restoration and bourgeois Bonapartism- for a new Union of Soviet Socialist Republics!

1. The five days war in Caucasus between the Georgian pro-imperialist Saakashvili regime and Russia has not solely a major regional and local importance but world significance.

There are obviously local and regional reasons that cannot be ignored: Georgia’s drive for a forced annexation of Abhazia and South Ossetia, de facto and willingly independent from 1992; the many centuries on-going conflict between Georgian nationalism and Great Russian chauvinism. But all these national problems have to be put in their actual historical context. Today’s international dimension overshadows and determines the other factors. The recent war in Caucasus is the latest -but not last- violent convulsion following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, one more link in the bloody series of imperialist wars in the post Cold War world, from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan and Iraq. The re-integration of the former Soviet space into world capitalism proved to be, far from a linear, peaceful process, the opening of an entire period of zigzag developments, full of sudden crises and imperialist wars, led mainly by US imperialism, to re-establish world hegemony under new historic terms.
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Written by Sungur Savran

Thursday, 14 August 2008

“Serbia is a sovereign nation and its territorial integrity should be respected.” Had George Bush said what he said about Georgia from Beijing about Serbia as well, this is how he would have approached the so-called independence of Kosovo! The truth, of course, is far from this. The US was the first country to recognise the new “state” when Kosovo seceded from Serbia last spring. Yet now Bush has the audacity to talk about the territorial integrity of Georgia! The policies of imperialim will have pride of place in the annals of hypocrisy. The war over the issue of South Ossetia has three political dimensions. The first is an entirely local question. Certain peoples (in particular the Ossets and the Abhaz) that were part of Georgia under the Soviet Union have, since the dissolution of the latter, declared loud and clear that they do not wish to live under Georgian rule any longer. Georgia, on the other hand, wants to keep these peoples forcibly tied to its domination. Thus the rights of these peoples to self-determination are violated by Georgia.

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Statement by the Balkan Socialist Federation “Christian Rakovsky”

Imperialism has nothing to boast about the “capture” of Radovan Karadzic in Belgrade, Serbia, on July 21, 2008: the Bosnian Serb nationalist leader, formerly a protégé by the late Slobodan Milosevic, was cynically given to European and American imperialism and their ‘International Court’ in Hague by the nationalists of Milosevic’s Socialist Party itself.

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by Sungur Savran

Turkey is being convulsed by the successive waves of arrest of members of a certain wing of the Turkish Gladio (the “Kontrgerilla” in Turkish) and of putschist generals who plotted against the semi-Islamist AKP government in 2003 and 2004. The Kontrgerilla is responsible for innumerable assassinations and destabilisation operations against the workers’ movement and the left in the 70s and the Kurdish movement since the 90s. Lue lisää »