[Marxism] [LeftCast]Michael Karadjis: Is Kosova allowed to declare independence?

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LeftCast interview with Michael Karadjis on Kosova's declaration of independence
http://leftcast.blogspot.com/2008/02/michael-karadjis-is-kosva-allowed-to.html

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"The Kosovar Albanians were an oppressed people in the old Yugoslavia,
and much more so in Serbia following the collapse of the Yugoslav
federation in 1989-90. Kosova had a per capita income one quarter that
of Serbia; Albanians constituted only one per cent of military
officers of the Yugoslav army, while Serbs constituted 70 per cent;
Albanians made up 70-80 per cent of political prisoners. They are a
national group in a long well-defined territory that deserve the right
to national self-determination.

"Much mystification surrounds Kosovar independence. It is claimed
Kosova is a "mere province" of Serbia that happens to have an Albanian
majority, and thus its "secession" is a violation of Serbian
"sovereignty". The alleged difference between Kosova and the other
parts of the former Yugoslavia is that the latter were
constitutionally fully fledged federal republics, which had the right
to independence, whereas Kosova merely had autonomy within the Serbian
republic."

To address some of these issues, LeftCast spoke with the writer of the
above lines, Michael Karadjis -- author of of Bosnia, Kosova and the
West, published by Resistance Books in 2000.
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