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General Strike in Serbia day 3! (4th October)

Ratibor Trivunac | 07.10.2000 17:59

Dear friends,
News from Serbia. Every day more and more people are
organizing in General Strike. Milosevic regime is enforcing new represion messures, again, for us that is sign that he is weekening with every day of our protest.

The Strike is taking a new form. Now not only that all the cities in Serbia are blocked, and that there is a great walk organised through Belgrade, but now local communities in Belgrade organize in their parts of the city after walk through Belgrade, and are blocading streets in their
districts. Today, again, we blocked city and university. We walked through the biggest streets in Belgrade, and to the New Belgrade (New part of the city) in which we visited Student City (part of the town where sutdents from small cities who are studing in Belgrade are living). People from all over the town greeted us, and showed us their support.

Miners that are striking or 4 days now, got ultimatum by the police that if they don't stop striking by 16h p.m. police will start forcing them, but huge number of people (100.000) from all over Serbia went to those mines when they heard that report, and now strike is still going on in mines.

Urgent situation papered at University of Belgrade. Four Deans were change, among them Philosophical university den. The man who is now the new dean is well known fascist professor from the university. We are not going to give out the university this easy! Blockade of university was
announced by students. Now there are still some people inside the university blocking it.

For tomorrow the greatest strike is planned in Belgrade. People from all over Serbia are coming there. It is planned that we will enter media houses tomorrow. Most of us think that tomorrow is the day of decision.

We, anarchist, made contact with organization of protest, we
connected them with independent unions and now we are together with them trying to organize this strike as good as we can.

I'm sorry because this message is this short. But now I'm going back to university and I don't have much time for writting mails.

Anarcho-syndicalist greetings!

Rata

Ratibor Trivunac