The two “camps”

During the past five years a series of ideological and political issues arose, relating to choices, orientations, experiences, dilemmas and hardships faced by the multiform resistance and action of millions of people against neo-liberalism, war and imperialism. It could not have been otherwise, since different opinions, lines and ideological currents always co-existed and fought each other within the mass movements. Consequently, the revival of movements at the dawn of the 21st century brought about or refueled a series of political and ideological issues:

“We will live unprecedented situations”

When in 1990 the father Bush declared that the humanity enters in the period of New World Order, he did not simply repeat a Hitler’s slogan: He expressed the conviction of the imperialists and of the free market preachers that finally they finished with the cursed History and its socialist parentheses. Fifteen years later, the supposedly omnipotent New World Order already has sunk the humanity in an unprecedented International Disorder. The wars, the invasions and occupations, the genocides and the partitioning of countries spill blood all over the planet as never before since World War II.

Let’s strengthen the solidarity in the Balkans!

We, the Parties and Organizations gathered in the Conference of Thessalonica on 23-24 of April 2005, after discussing and exchanging information and assessments about the situation in the Balkan countries, are deciding the establishment of a Conference for mutual information, coordination and solidarity, bearing the name of “Conference of Communist and Workers’ Parties of the Balkans”.

After a fertile and comradely discussion, we, the Communist and Workers’ Parties and Organizations that met in Thessalonica in the 23rd and 24th of April 2005, have decided to proceed to the establishment of a “Conference of Communist and Workers’ Parties of the Balkans”.

Today, the closer cooperation and solidarity among all of the left, communist forces of the Balkan countries becomes more and more necessary.

For over a decade now, Balkans became a field of intense inter-imperialist antagonisms that, by using local chauvinisms and submissive states and governments, have transformed the area again into a powder-magazine and a war field. War, half a century after the end of the 2nd World War, is today a constant threat. Troops of imperialist forces, under various labels (UN, NATO, USA, etc.), check at Balkan countries, while many Balkan countries have joined or are about to join NATO and the Western-European Union. Almost as a whole these countries helped the USA and Britain during the unjust war in Iraq. Military bases of the USA, NATO and of the other imperialists, used for the control of the Balkans and for raids in oppressed nations and countries, have been scattered throughout almost all of the countries.