Joint Declaration of Balkan anticapitalist organizations on the mass murder of refugees

International Initiatives of NAR and nKA for the crime against refugees in Pylos

Joint Declaration of Balkan anticapitalist organizations on the mass murder of refugees.

NAR for the Communist Liberation // Communist Liberation youth // Greece
Red Initiative – Red Action // Crvena akcija – Crvena inicijativa // Serbia – Croatia
Socialist Dawn // Социјалистичка зора – Agimi socialist // North Macedonia

Against racism and nationalism!

For a community of Balkan peoples in a solidary and socialist alliance!

We are shocked but also outraged by the new crime of the European Union, Frontex and the Greek authorities against refugees and immigrants from Africa and Asia. One of the deadliest shipwrecks in the Mediterranean shows the whole world that the policy that begins with imperialist interventions, the exploitation of the peoples of Africa and Asia by the European and U.S capital and the powerful states of the world ends with the murders and drowning of the poor and desperate people at European land and sea borders. It is a murderous and exploitative policy that dates back many centuries ago but is being carried out nowadays by the modern capitalist states which pretend to be the guardians of humanism and democracy. The dominance of the powerful states of Europe and the rest of the world is based on the appropriation of the resources of the poor states of Africa and Asia. For oil, diamonds, precious metals and rare earths there are no borders. Borders do exist exclusively for the poor, the victims of capitalist exploitation and wars. The anti-immigration policy of the European Union, the bilateral agreements of the E.U. with Turkey, Libya, Morocco which create prison camps for refugees, the policy of push-backs and building fences, in short the policy of “Fortress Europe” is responsible for thousands of drownings, deaths, rapes and tortures every year. This is a murderous policy. The workers, the young people, the great social majority of the European peoples must fight against murderous capitalism, the criminal and racist European Union and the respective governments of the member states and of those states that cooperate in the implementation of these policies.

Let’s fight for an end to capitalist wars and interventions by the powerful states. Let us fight for the common interests of the working class and the oppressed. Joint struggles of locals – refugees/immigrants! Solidarity is our weapon! We stand in solidarity with refugees and immigrants. We demand open borders and free movement for refugees and the poor, for the working class. Down with the Common European Asylum Policy. We demand asylum and papers for all refugees! A few weeks have passed since the murder by the Macedonian Police of the 23-year-old African girl Fatmata, at Gevgelija border crossing, while the deaths and torture of refugees on the “Balkan corridor” in Serbia and Croatia are a common practice. The institutional racism of the governments feeds the hatred of fascists and nationalists. It creates a civil war among the poor. They only talk about “our workers”, in order to wage more effectively the war against all workers. They talk of “Our nation”, preparing the slaughter of all peoples.

Let’s fight for a community of Balkan peoples in a solidary and socialist alliance, together with our refugee brothers and sisters. The people of the Balkans, just like the refugees, have experienced all the catastrophes that capitalism brings to humanity. They are victims of wars and interventions organized by the imperialist powers in order to impose their dominance. It is not the refugees who brought mass unemployment and poverty to the Balkan people. It is the oligarchs and their political servants. The refugees and the Balkan people are both victims of the dominant capitalist system that organizes the class war of the rich against the poor.

June, 2023