Jeffey,

Do these events give any credence to the Second Ammenden?

Jerry


----- Original Message -----
From: Ratibor Trivunac <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 4:17 AM
Subject: [CHOMSKY] General Strike in Serbia...Final report!


>     Dear friends,
>     We won! I don't have enough words to describe to you all how do we all
> feel  now in Yugoslavia! Last night, after burning parliament and
national
> television celebration started. People were going around kissing and
hugging
> each other, you could see on every face smile or tears of happiness.
During
> the night small groups of most violent anti-milosevich people went around
> city destroying headquarters of Milosevicis (now) ex-party "Socialistic
> Party of Serbia". There were some looting reported but those were only
> isolated cases. There was music in the streets, people were dancing with
> "Let the Sunshine in" and other great songs.
>     University is free also. There was no need for any of us to continue
> sleeping inside of it, now when there was nobody left who wanted to take
> university from us. Today and in next few days we, students, will take
over
> all of the institutions and locals which once were student governed and
were
> taken from us by the state.
>     Milosevic couldn't go without spilling some blood, there is reported
two
> deaths and big number of ingured people, that was last evil thing that he
> did to us! He apparently fly away from Yugoslavia, it is pity that he will
> not get what he deserves.
>     Now we have to understand that we have another enemy to fight with.
New
> president is also nationalist, strong one, with neo-liberal economical
> policy. We, anarchists, will have to organise resistance to them. As I
> earlier sad, we supported General Strike against Milosevich because we
think
> that we will have more space for our actions, and we hope that we will
have
> that space now.
>     What this strike showed? It showed that the idea of General Strike is
> not outdated as some people said, it showed that when people are boned
with
> the same goal (taking Milosevich out of the power this time) and have
enough
> solidarity they can do everything! Now it is time that we start working on
> an International  Social General Strike, which will stop capitalistic
system
> and crush states.
>     At the end I would like to apologize for my imperfect English, all the
> reports were written in the hurry so I didn't have time to check grammar
but
> I hope that all of them were readable. Also I would like to thank to
> everybody who sent messages of solidarity to us, it is of outmost
importance
> to us to see that International Solidarity is not just a fancy word
> everybody is using.
>     Goodbye to you all, from a society which made one big,again only one,
> step towards freedom!
>
>     Anarcho-syndicalist greet!
>
>     Rata
>
>     "If I can't have a Revolution, what is there to dance about?"
>                                                 Albert Meltzer
>