Working peoples everywhere will pay the price of the war, in terms of jobs lost, declining wages, declining public expenditure for social services as an increasing amount of public and private funds is transferred from production and social expenditure toward war production and war costs and as the United States raises interest rates to draw the world's capital resources to pay for its war expenditure. Already ordinary people are paying for the war and the humanitarian catastrophe created by their principal class enemy. And, the money is going to fill the pockets of their principal class enemy!

Nothing can justify the destruction of a country and peoples. Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, contemporary history has shown the cynicism and hypocrisy of such intentions. People are not bombed for their own good!

In a report of 1967, 15 American experts eloquently affirmed that their society needs war. This affirmation lead to the publication in 1969 of a report prefaced by John K. Galbraith entitled "Undesirable Peace" where it is stated: "War fulfils certain essential functions for the stability of our society." The report goes on to argue: "Although we do not affirm that, for the economy, it is impossible to imagine a substitute for war, no set of techniques aimed at maintaining control over employment, production and consumption has ever been tried that is even distantly comparable to its efficiency. War was, and is, from far, the essential element of stability in modern societies… ."

The imperialist war of aggression is being waged, under the NATO umbrella, against a sovereign State and its peoples under the leadership of the United States and the active participation of France, Britain, Italy, Germany … The argument of legitimate defence cannot be invoked. Moreover, it was launched without authorization of the United Nations Security Council, without any approval of the national parliaments of these countries, and in violation of the terms of the Treaty governing the Atlantic Alliance. As such, the perpetrators have violated every rule of international law and are guilty not only of a breach of the peace but of war crimes.

The intervention of NATO is unprecedented and creates a new precedent. For the first time, Western Europe has endorsed and actively participated in a unilateral action of war that has upto now been a privileged weapon of the United States. What we are seeing today is not simply an alignment of Western Europe with US against Yugoslavia. Neither does it reflect any inability of Europe to provide itself with the necessary means to carry out its own politics. The war against Yugoslavia reveals a joint will to implement a common 'new strategic concept', elaborated and finalized together by Western Europe and the United States, and ratified at the recent NATO summit in Washington. The war serves to legitimize this new concept and, for this reason, NATO cannot afford to lose the war.

It is significant that the war is conducted in the name of the 'international community' when in reality it is being waged by a bellicose Euro-American alliance. On what basis does NATO arrogate itself the right to speak on behalf of the international community in a unilateral manner and claim to incarnate 'the law'? After Pax American, Lex Americana! One of its main results is the programmed death of the system of international relations built after World War II. In the US view, the present system has become anachronic and must be replaced by a new world order through a new role for NATO under US domination.