THE INFAMOUS 38th international NATO conference, held in Munich to plan new wars under the illusion of maintaining world peace (what peace?) and increase the arming of western hemisphere, caused anger with a lot of people opposing both militarism and globalisation.

These two phenomena are walking firmly hand in hand mostly as a result of American foreign policy, which indicates only one thing - that western democracy and capitalism separated a long time ago. NATO, whose role after the Cold War became questionable, is more and more transforming into an army tool at the disposal of great western powers in achieving their political and economic interests. These were some of the messages sent to the NATO delegates by the freethinking people demonstrating on the streets of Munich.

While demonstrations in Munich attracted much media attention, a similar anti-NATO street manifestation took place in Zagreb, the capital city of Croatia. This demonstration wasn't just a sign of solidarity towards fellow protestors in Munich, it's more important to state that it was provoked by a decision of government of Croatia to set up nine huge new radars on the coast of the country. Since Croatia does not need such a big radar system, many people recognize this government's act as "a shameless sucking up" to the NATO in hopes to start soon negotiations to join this organization.

The demonstration was organized by a local anarchist group called Attack. They managed to gather about 300 mostly young and ambitious people. Thirty-five of them, including myself, came from the neighbouring country on the north, Slovenia. Almost all of us were students or fellow anarchists - or both. Personaly I was very excited to be there knowing I'd see some old friends of mine. For example Davor, a local anarchist from Attack, who assured me several months ago, that such a demonstration wouldn't be done in Zagreb in years to come. I was glad to remind him, that he was wrong.

At noon we left the gathering point, Flower Square, and headed towards the Ministry of Defence - armed only with flags, drums, whistles and one loudspeaker. Throughout the city march we displayed various symbols like "International Solidarity!" or "Say No to Nato and Every War!". In front of the Ministry of Defence building, people from Attack displayed a model of a radar and gave a speech why Croatia doesn't need new ones. Besides ecological worries, they stated, it would just be too large an expense (3% of state budget) for a contry which is struggling with great social and economic crisis. They also accused the government, that for the last two years has been acting like it's self-evident, that everybody in Croatia wants to see their country in NATO at any cost. Next stop - American Embassy.