For International Conscientious Objectors Day, Reconstruction Women’s Fund presents “Lili from Belgrade”, song by feminist writer and political activist Jasmina Tešanović.
Jasmina Tešanović says: “I am hacking/remaking the war songs from a pacifist woman’s point of view in occasion of the centenary of the First World War in order to avoid the stupid question asked to a Serbian writer: was Gavrilo Princip patriot or a terrorist? Hundred years later that question shows the world we live in!”
RWF conceptualized an on-line Anti-War Centenary of the First World War, the serial of political and educational texts written by the key critical actors who at the time consistently opposed the war with their antimilitarist analysis, talks and deeds. Rosa Luxemburg, from the prison, wrote the Junius Pamphlet titled “Crisis of Socialdemocracy”, analyzing imperialism and militarism and fiercely opposing nationalism of social democratic parties who voted for war credits. On the same political line was Dimitrije Tucović in Serbia, whose SD party was the only European parliamentarian party voting against war credits, and who exposed the Serbian militarism and nationalism in the Balkan Wars. Both Rosa and Dimitrije are kept as historical tokens whose work is mentioned only superficially, or mostly forgotten.
