Several army units refused to obey the order to march against Belgrade. In order to force Milosevic to resign, the demonstrators are absolutely determined and arm themselves. The workers' strike movement seizes further sectors. Strike committees are organized all over the country. The people protect factories, where workers have gone on strike, against the police.
Truck drivers build barricades.
The bourgeois opposition around Kostunica who won the September 24 elections against Milosevic calls on the masses to restrain themselves. It attempts to control the movement because this militant opposition increasingly makes an independent appearance and because it is led by the working-class movement. This movement's goals go further, and it takes a reluctant and critical attitude towards Kostunica, because he openly collaborates with the NATO countries from where he received massive support. The Belgrade uprising has placed the governments of the NATO states and of Russia highly on alert . Those who, one year ago, were responsible for bombarding the Yugoslavian people, now hypocritically declare themselves administrators of the interests of the same people.