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<p class="MsoHeader"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Militant Labor
Forum Presents:</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 28pt;">Kosova and the <br>
Fight for Self-Determination</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><font size="3"><span style="">As the ruling apparatuses in Yugoslavia began
crumbling in the late 1980s, rival sections of the bureaucracy used nationalist
demagogy to justify their grabs for land and resources. Competing Stalinist
gangs pitted Serbs, Albanians, Croatians, Bosnians, and other nationalities
against each other.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><font size="3"><span style=""><span style=""> </span>In
1989, <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1198110514_0">Belgrade</span> revoked Kosova’s autonomy. In 1999, <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1198110514_1">Belgrade</span> unleashed an
“ethnic cleansing” campaign, killing up to 12,000 people, mostly Albanians, and
expelling 1 million from Kosova. Washington and other imperialist governments
bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days and then sent in troops, claiming this was to
stop the violence. But the imperialist powers had in fact fomented the violence
for years. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font size="3"><span style=""><span style=""> </span>Kosova has been
“administered” by the <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1198110514_2">United Nations</span>—and thousands of foreign troops and
cops—ever since. The <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1198110514_3">European Union</span> (EU) now proposes a plan whereby the UN
administration of Kosova would be replaced by an EU administration. <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1198110514_4">NATO</span> and EU
troops, some 16,000 of which are stationed among Kosova’s 2.1 million people,
would remain.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font size="3"><span style=""><span style=""> </span>What interests are the rulers
from imperialist countries pursuing in the Balkans, with Washington in the lead?
Why should working people should oppose the plans for imperialist troops to remain
stationed in Kosova? What interests the rulers in <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1198110514_5">Belgrade</span> and<span style=""> </span><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1198110514_6">Moscow</span> are pursuing, and what stance should
be taken towards the right of the oppressed nations to self-determination?</span></font><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 4pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.2in;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Come to a
discussion of why working people should support the fight for an independent
Kosova – not a UN “supervised independence.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;">Speaker:
Bill Estrada, representative Socialist Workers Party</span></b></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Friday, December 21, 7:30 PM<br></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Militant Labor Forum Hall</span><br></span><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial;">13 Bennington St., 2<sup>nd</sup>
Fl., </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial;">East Boston</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></b></h2><div style="text-align: center;">
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