As Marxists we deplore the misery and waste caused by war, and share the pacifists' condemnation of both Nato and the brutal Milosevic regime. But we do not agree with their view that all wars are morally wrong. We support the right of the Kosovar people to fight a war of national liberation against Serbia. For us, war and peace should be looked at, not as simply two opposites, but as opposites within a national, historical and class unity. War, and defeat in war, can lead to conditions of social fluidity and instability which provide opportunities for the advance of progressive forces.
Wars produce crises which can lead to socialist revolution.