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Suppression of News in and about Yugoslavia and the Balkans


      Former Yugoslavia and the Balkans have been a site of both intense reactionary nationalism and revolutionary solidarity, the former being co-opted countless times in history to enable imperialist plunder including during the 90s. These divisions were for decades allowed to fester and worsened instead of being repaired under the revisionist Yugoslavian state from 1949 until the breakup of the federation.

     After the Second World War, the communist parties of the Balkans (Communist Party of Yugoslavia and the Communist Party of Albania) established socialist states instead of being reabsorbed into bourgeois democracies. However, in the case of Yugoslavia, President Tito’s split with Stalin and the Soviet Union in 1948/49 marked a consolidation to the capitalist road accompanied with socialist trimmings and rhetoric.

     This page features various writings on the manifestations and results of revisionism in Yugoslavia like workers self-management, the non-alignment movement, and national oppression. Other writings focus on the wars of the 90s as well as the neocolonial domination that the region is under nowadays.

      If you know of other suppressed documents, news reports or international commentary that should be posted here, contact us at: freespeech@bannedthought.net





Documents about the Current Suppression of Speech and Ideas in the Balkan Region


Yugoslavia and Its Political and Economic System

The National Question in Former Yugoslavia


Documents about the Countries and Political Organizations in the Balkan Region Since the Collapse of Yugoslavia




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      Due to the repressive legislation and judicial decisions in the United States, we at BANNEDTHOUGHT.NET want to make it completely clear that we do not have any connection whatsoever with any political parties or organizations in the former Yugoslavia or the Balkans, or in any other country for that matter. We do not aid, promote, assist, support, coordinate with, or provide any sort of services or advice to any party or organization in the Balkan region, nor to any of the other parties and organizations from other countries whose documents may be posted here. However, we do support the right of free speech, and the right of the people in both this region and internationally to read the views and publications of these and all other parties and organizations. And for this reason alone we are making copies of many of their documents available on this site.




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