By Ylli
Përmeti
As Moscow
was celebrating Victory Day over Nazism on May 9, we witnessed a fight in the
city of Kumanovo in which the Macedonian police were protagonist. At first it
was a fight without an opponent. A few hours later, news agencies reported that
the "opponent" was "the National Liberation Army" of the
Albanians. As a result, 22 innocent people were killed (14 members of the army,
eight police officers, a lot of wounded and ruined residencies). Although the
event will be reported by the final report of the Macedonian police, on how it
begun, which, unsurprisingly, is being delayed, judging from the final result -
we may conclude that it has fired without warning.
First,
because the police had preliminary information of it. For the same reason they
could manage it differently: for example, by encircling and pressuring it to
hand over into the police. Second, there was an unequal confrontation of
powers: a powerful army (state's forces with heavy army), with a very inferior
power. The police, therefore, violated the mandate: because the police before
attacking s/o seek preliminary negotiations. For the role of the police is to
prevent injuries, pains and bloodshed. And if we judge from the communiqué and
of the action of the Albanian "army" - it bears three main
contradictions:
- it claims to be a "liberation" army for all national Albanians. This is a contradiction because to represent a whole people it must be approved by it;
- it was there 'as a result of the terror exercised upon the Albanian people from the police state of Macedonia'. This is a contradiction because it ignores the emergence of revolt "from within", namely, from the same people; and
- it does not mention the right of Kumanovian people, for Self-determination and for the creation of another institutional framework through it the Albanian and Macedonian people will live together in harmony. On the contrary, it tells us that it 'is loyal of the ideal and the last will of martyrs, [and it] will fight until the end, for an Albanian national state, free and pure'!
The
realization of the objective 'for an Albanian national state, free and pure'
implies a lot of dynamics. But I will emphasise the last two conceptions:
"free" and "pure" - by raising a question: 'free' and
'pure' from whom? Presumably from Macedonians! The approach for a 'pure' nation
has been adopted historically by the Nazi. But let us hope that with 'purity'
they mean "something" else.
Who triggered the fighting in Kumanovo?
Thus, this
"army" misrepresent every struggle for "social and national
liberation": because the struggle for liberation begins "from the
oppressed people" and must not be pushed "from without", whoever
may be. So here we are talking about for "social and national
liberation". Not only for "national liberation". The later has
been embraced historically by the "National Front" in Albania which
collaborated with the Nazi! In short, this "army", if we can call it
an 'army', cannot represent the whole people of Albania, since it violates
every principle of 'representing' and 'liberation'. And there is another
contradiction: they showed a lack of military organization since they courted
disaster. Because if they were truly military officers - they wouldn't
undertake such an action - particularly in actual conditions in which both
Albania and Kosovo are in a deep multi-dimensional crisis.
The state
of Macedonia, on the other hand, suffers from everything that other
neighbouring countries suffer too - if not every country integrated into the
New World Order (NWO) of Neoliberal Globalization (N/G) fully or/and partly.
So, first, in Macedonia, there is no political organization that would fight
for Self-determination and national unification. Albanian political parties
have adopted the approach similar to all political parties in Albania: to
integrate the country into the NWO of N/G. Second, Macedonia has installed the
modern institutional framework of representative "democracy" and
market economy as all other countries in the region and beyond - where the
heteronomy and the exploitation of humans by humans is the main characteristic
of the state. The concentration of power therefore becomes unavoidable. The
ecofascism, in the double sense -economic and ecological- becomes also
unavoidable. The accusations that the state of Macedonia is fascistic and the
solution is the eradication of Macedonia, which are coming from
"patriotic" circles, are without scientific foundation. Even if we
accept this approach, the issue of organised ecofascism, as it was mentioned
above, cannot be solved.
The use of
Scanderbeg, the national hero of Albania, on the other hand, as an inspiration
for the liberation of the Albanian territories from these circles is
contradictory: because Scanderbeg, just because he was a 'strategist' (this
word implies good knowledge of the military strategies, the advantages and
disadvantages of the parties involved in the war and, of international
politics) - triumphed in his battles against the biggest Empire of the time:
the Ottoman Empire. Moreover, he had the approval of the Albanian people for
leading it in war battles; had created the conditions and had a visible enemy.
Unlike that time, the Albanians who fight for 'freedom', not only failed to
create the conditions in the 'bosom' of the oppressed Albanians (Macedonia
etc.) but they, unlike Scanderbeg, cooperate with the biggest Empire of our
time: America! Namely, they cooperate with the hub of global power in order to
replace a smaller regional power: the Macedonian state power. In addition, they
cooperate with a power that lives thousands of miles away from them. This
orientation in itself will estrange the people of the region with which they
lived and will live in the same area for thousands of years. So, these circles,
instead of revealing the real enemy of the people -the modern institutional
framework and neoliberal globalization- and to self-criticise for their
spontaneous actions from different organizations, they conform with the general
approach that the enemy is Gruevsky who, moreover, may use the military
doctrine of state terror for political reasons under the flag of the opposition
(false flag)!
Who wants to set up Macedonian Prime Minister Gruevsky?
Thirdly,
the crisis in Macedonia was caused by the opposition leader, Zoran Zaev, when
he revealed in public that the government of Gruevsky wiretapped his citizens.
According to him, wiretapping was made possible with the help of a foreign
agency! Albanian political parties have stood far from this battle. So the
appearance of the Albanian armed forces in Kumanovo cannot have any relation
with the battle of the political parties in power. On the other hand, the
actual government consolidated its relations with the Russian government with
the appointment of the new ambassador to Moscow, Goce Karajanov, an ex-member
of the Russian Institute for International Relations. Meanwhile, Russia
supported Macedonia for the arrests in Kumanovo in April of this year and
condemned the efforts of Zaev for the "colour revolution" he has
warned. Unlike other countries in the region, Macedonia sent its president for the Victory Day in Moscow and does not
support Washington's sanctions against Russia.
Russian and
Serbian newspapers, meanwhile, propagate the creation of "Greater
Albania". The main problem with this propaganda is that it does not
mention the right of the Albanian people for Self-determination! Nor do they
mention the main characteristic of modern state: the concentration of power. It
would not be a surprise that the government of Russia related the events in
Kumanovo with the opposing stance of the Macedonian government against
anti-Russian Western sanctions and the Balkan Stream gas pipeline. This
confrontation raged with the revealing conversation of the interior minister,
Jankulofska, in which she's being fascisticised against the Albanians of
Macedonia. Clearly, it aimed at angering and including the Albanians of
Macedonia for the 17th May protest against the government.
The
Americans, on the other hand, understood that Russia, with the agreement with
Turkey - and later on with Greece (the government of "SYRIZA")- that
the new stream, which could pass through Macedonia and beyond, along the line
of the "TAP", which is being controlled directly by Washington and
Brussels' bureaucrats, may challenge its monopoly. In other words, it will
threaten its profits from the "TAP". For the same reason the
annulment of the gas-project of Russia in the Balkans for Washington is a
priority. It is not accidental that Washington uses the
argument of 'dependence' from Russia and ignores the fact that it 'monopolises'
the sector of energy in the region and beyond! And it is not accidental that after the agreement between the Greek
and the Russian governments about the Balkan Stream, Washington
"castrated" Greek Foreign Minister Nikolaos Kotzias by visiting him
in all Zionist's "nests" (AIPAC, B'nai B'rith etc.) and other centres
of international relations (CSIS etc.). Immediately after the meeting
Washington sent its envoy of the State Department of Energy, Amos Hochstein, to
Athens.
If we judge
from recent reports, Washington is putting pressure both on Athens and Brussels
for the annulment of the Russian project. And, it is not accidental that Greece
operates unilaterally in some disputed regions for oil, and Washington keeps
silent: because Greece signed an agreement in 2013 for the creation of a US
army base in southern Greece to patrol the entire region with the use of UAVs!
To implement the project, it would be normal that the government of Greece
would seek Washington's diplomatic assistance in puting pressure on Albania.
The latter, moreover, is being occupied economically mainly by three countries:
Italy, Greece and Turkey, and has no political power for negotiations.
Thus,
instead of fighting for the Russian gas, both countries, Greece and Albania, in
order to put pressure on the price of the western gas industry and to lower the
cost of production...they are playing the game of Washington and are in the
process of destroying not only relations between the two countries, but the
ecosystem of our seas and beyond. It should be emphasised here that both the
Greek and Albanian governments are being dominated by western oil corporations.
In other words, the exploitation of oil resources will be realised mainly by
American corporations. And if the project of Russia is going to be impeded - it
passes from the destabilization of Macedonia too. Because if Macedonia gets
politically destabilised - Brussels will suspend any gas-line that could pass
through Macedonia and Serbia towards Europe.
In other
words, Washington is playing the same time with two (if not more) project
"cornerstones": the Greek elite and Macedonia. If the Greek elite
moves forward the Russian project, which under actual conditions is impossible
- Washington will play with Macedonia. If not, Macedonia will be used. And if
the objective of suspending it is being realised - Washington monopolises the sector
of energy for the next hundred years. The monopolization of gas sector has been
put forward recently by global oil and gas companies, such as Shell. This is a
war, as administrators of global companies argue, of who is going to dominate
the sector of energy in Europe for the next hundred years.
Ylli
Permeti
Source:
English Pravda 21-05-2015
