Belgrad: Generalstreik in Serbien (engl.)

Today (2 October 2000) General Strike started in whole Serbia. We, anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists from Serbia, are supporting the strike, even if it is made by opposition which we don't support because of their nationalistic and neo-liberal views and of course because of our anarchist believes that political parties are not going to bring anything good to the people, because we think that taking Milosevic from the power is top priority now and that ordinary people will benefit from it. Also we hope that we will have more space for our actions here.

Strike started all over Serbia, including capital Belgrade.

Belgrade is totally closed, main streets are closed down by busses and trams that are on the stand still. Workers in most of public firms are on strike. Students from High schools and Universities are protesting also. Proposed strategy by strikers it that people will start taking over electronic media (which, in Belgrade especially, are mostly controlled by state) by entering the buildings and forcing state people out. Milosevic is in panic, he was forced for the first time to talk himself on television, accusing people who are striking of being paid by NATO.

Situation in small cities is even better for strikers RTS (Radio-Television Serbia) locals in few cities stopped announcing state informations and started informing people about real situation in Serbia. Our anarcho-syndicalist friends from Cacak (small city in Serbia) told us that Cacak is totally blocked, that only institution that is working is onelementary school in which policemans are in, it is planned expulsion of those policemans out. Also main highway is blocked. That is news for now. When I have more time I'll send some fresh news...

Anarcho-syndicalist greet!
Belgrade Libertarian Group