Marxism, Opportunism and the Balkan Crisis: Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International

This pamphlet presents an in-depth analysis of the break-up of the former Yugoslavia in 1991 and the ensuing civil wars. It reviews the history of the Balkans, analyses the social character of the rival ethnic factions, and examines the positions of the petit bourgeois lefts who backed military intervention by NATO.

See also

• An exchange on the break-up of Yugoslavia
• The historical, political and economic background to the war in the Balkans
• Media lies and hypocrisy in wake of Milosevic’s death