Workers World Oct. 19, 2000:

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------------------------- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Oct. 19, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper -------------------------

WWP candidates denounce U.S. destabilization

Workers World Party issued the following statement Oct. 5.

Monica Moorehead and Gloria La Riva, Workers World Party's presidential and vice-presidential candidates, denounced the U.S./CIA destabilization campaign against the government of Yugoslavia and characterized Washington's support for opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica as a gross violation of Yugoslavia's sovereignty.
Moorehead said: "The over $77 million poured into the Yugoslav election campaign by the U.S. government is a gross violation of that country's sovereignty. The House of Representatives recommended last week that an additional $105 million be allocated to the so-called 'democratic opposition.' Therefore, the recent election in Yugoslavia can in no way be regarded as a democratic expression of the will of the people, and the violence in the streets of Belgrade today is the reflection of a well-orchestrated campaign of destabilization against the Yugoslav government.
"We have seen these dirty tricks of the Pentagon and the CIA before in Africa, Latin America and Asia," Moorehead said, "where people's liberation movements and independent governments were destroyed by the power of the dollar."
She added: "While pouring money into the coffers of the counter-revolutionary movement in Yugoslavia, the U.S. government refuses to make money available for health care, housing or education here at home, so that millions of people are without medical coverage, shelter and decent education. Yet Washington is free to funnel millions of dollars into destabilization campaigns around the world."
La Riva, who traveled to Yugoslavia during the 1999 U.S./NATO bombing campaign, pointed out: "The U.S. corporate-owned media function as an arm of the military, playing on the war weariness of the Yugoslav people after a decade of sanctions and 78 days of NATO bombing. They promise that if the Milosevic government is overthrown, the country will be returned to peace and normalcy. But we know this is a lie.
"Under cover of a so-called democratic election, Washington and the NATO powers want to turn Yugoslavia over to the rule of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. If they are allowed to do so, the people will lose all the social benefits and rights they won in the revolutionary liberation struggle of 1945 and be returned to the status of colonial slaves."
Moorehead and La Riva support the call by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and the International Action Center for an Independent Commission of Inquiry to investigate U.S. interference in the Yugoslav elections.

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