There is no single-issue struggle...

NO BORDER SERBIA is a collective that shares the views of

the already known grassroots No Border network, which is
based on the idea of freedom of movement. We are an
informal, non-profit, non-hierarchical, self-organized group
that advocates freedom of movement and settlement for all,
against the regime of borders and the migration policy of the
EU. We see our ideas and actions as embedded in the
context of a broader anti-capitalist struggle.

Few words on
noborderserbia@riseup.net militarism, border violence and capital
noborderserbia.wordpress.com
The ammunition factories in Kragujevac, Serbia, are
constantely producing weapons and supplies filling the
pockets of war beneficiaries, supporting the slaughter of
civilians. Most of the weapon export from Serbia is going to
UAE, an from there we can imagine where they end up... Until
July of this year serbian government was proudly presenting
that the new municion factory in Uice will be completed and
has already deals with international players 1 At the same time
the military and security industry as well as nationalist
politicians all over Europe got what they have been pushing for
years: Since October 2016 a "European Border and Coast
Guard Agency" has been launched 2, with more powers than
Frontex. The dice of capitalist game is rolling...

Last week the serbian prime minister Vui handed over a

paper to the austrian chancellor Kern, begging him for a
customs-union to facilitate the movement of goods (a high
number of it is military goods) over the border. Vui said
"(...) the idea is to form a free trade-zone and a custom-union,
through this we will become a bigger and more attractive
market.Whith this our territories and the countries of the
Western Balkan would become closer to one another, which
would have the result that our trucks would not lose 20 hours
at the borders, but we would reduce the waiting to two-three
hours and this would make us a bigger and more attractive
market for investors."3
A soap-opera-like presentation in preparation of his election
campaign for this year while thousands of people are being
held stuck in serbia due to these same borders that capitalism
needs to be open for a flowing of capital.

1 http://www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/353860/U-fabriku-streljacke-municije-ulazu-90-miliona-evra
2 http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-3281_en.htm
3 http://balkans.aljazeera.net/vijesti/carinska-unija-vuciceva-zelja-za-
investicijama-ili-politicka-igra
All this makes it more important that ever for us to stick
together locals, passengers,newcomers and share the spirit of
revolutionary solidarity. This means fighting for dignity!
Abolishing a military system of power that affects all of us and
the individualization of all of us.Standing together with people
who resist and sabotaging the capitalist infrastructure is and
must be our priority.
Febuary 2017, no border collective, Belgrade
* other sources:
http://www.slobodnaevropa.org/a/28137004.html
https://www.panarchy.org/goldman/patriotism.html
The so calledrefugee crisis has dissapeared from the news
but its happening accutally constantely there where people
who attempt to cross the militarized border are being stopped,
tortured, humiliated and pushed back on the border. In this the
hungarian border hunters and police well as the croatian
border police have shown a new levels of masochism in the
last months.
The torture - that we have reported on before, publishing
pictures of injuries - often consists of forcing the people to take
of their clothes, putting cold water on them and then forcing
them wait 3 hours in the snow or cold. Additionally there is
severe beating that is hard to show proof because the
borderpolice takes away peoples phones and smashes
them,then the beatings start. With iron sticks or other tools .
One specially disgusting way of beating is taking off the shoes
of people and beat the bare foot. After the procedure the
phones are givingback. Exept if there is a better phone than of
course it disapperars.
Also in the city of Belgrade and the other cities around serbia,
the state has to proof itself as the master. Gendarmerie is
circeling in big EU-financed-cars useless around the city
center or staying in front of the migrant-squats next to the train
station. In their terms this is an "operational support to
neighbouring non-EU countries who ask for assistance at their
border and share intelligence on cross-border criminal
activities with national authorities" 4
As our comrades from musaferat-group have once put it:
Armies in the streets of metropolises came once more to prove
the obvious: that peace is an integral part of the military
process.
4 http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-3281_en.htm
While huge protests against the corruption and mafia system
of the current government emerged, the level of the first BW
(=Belgrade Waterfront)- builduings get higher and higher. We
are supposed to think that everything will be better, brighter,
nicer here in Belgrade. But in fact we are aware that this
gentrification is part of the shithole we are in and no fancy
buildings will cover the state and its oppressive anti-human
agenda. The protest of the IMT-workers 5 and the homless
people in the bigger cities, those in the village thinking about
how to pay the water that is being privatized, all this is
showing that capitalist violence is still not accepted as
anormality .
The fences have become a fact that we can not ignore but
also they are not the only place where isolation and state
violence is applied. The humanitarian camp-discourse has
also arrived in serbia now. As we can not repeat often enough:
camps are not safe places for people. They are nonplaces that
remind us of colonialism and other fascist times.Practices from
those times , remembered as dark times in history, as
essential elements in the modern capitalist democratic state.
People from the so called Balkan-wars (for example refugees
from croatia who fled to serbia) are many still living in camps.
A third generation of people who have been fooled by a
nationalist serbian state that was promising them own
apartments and butterflies.
This is the legacy of the camp system: a place where the
state (in serbias case the Commesariat against refugees and
the police) have the total control over the body and the life of
peoples. Isolated in crowded places of not-hope people are
being held, and the state and its trying hard to emphasize the
lies about how safe it is for people there,how much they
5 http://www.masina.rs/?p=3640
recieve help. Especially for women and LGBTQI people its a
very difficult place to survive.
This has to be emphasized BUT at the same time the way how
single man on themove are always presented and
disadvanteged in the system is highly .As well as the potential
soldier in the naional-militarist state, theman is apparently by
its nature strong and can surviveeasyer all the direct and
indirect violence that comes from the Fortress (sleeping in the
cold and rain, not having food or clothes,not bein in contact
with family, sickness, ) All this is basedon a patriarchal
view of society and social relations. Thisconstructed image of
a unbreakable man needs to be dismanteled.
The ongoing war against migrants, the creation and
persecution of the otherin media and state-institutions is also
having a function for securing the state power internaly: This
arguements and practices are necessary for the ruling elite in
order to distract from the misery many of us live in. A concious
solidarity should be prevented which would have as a result a
war against patriotism and its militarism.
As it has always been where slavery and oppression rule:
From time to time protests errupt. In the camps, in the prisons,
in the self-organized spaceswhere people gather. A big group
of people in the squatted warehouseswas refusing food for
several days in january in order to call attention on the fact that
they are selforganized individuals calling for freedom to move
and dignity, not for pity or charity. The protests in Harmanli,
Bulgaria6, was another example where resistance against the
military-border-state-system is strong. It was followed by a
wave of violent state-oppression.
6 http://bulgaria.bordermonitoring.eu/2016/11/24/the-provoked-riot-in-harmanlis-
refugee-camp/