En Passant

Qaddafi was a tyrant whose corrupt rule served to enrich the tiny circle around him, while the mass of Libyans endured poverty and repression. No one should shed a tear that he is gone.

But the U.S. government has advanced its imperial interests with its role in Qaddafi’s death and the overthrow of his regime. All those opposed to war and oppression need to speak out against U.S. attempts to determine Libya’s future–and to curb the Arab revolution.

Former Gaddafi apparatchiks dominate the Libyan National Transition Council. The co-opted revolution is in safe pro-imperialist hands, for now.

No to Gaddafi. No to NATO. Yes to the masses in Libya and across the region.

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At the same time these barbarians of empire were crying their crocodile tears for Libyan civilians Israeli bombs were killing Palestinian kids and Obama’s drones were murdering innocent people in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The victory of the Libyan revolution now, I believe, depends on the deepening of the revolutions in the region, in Egypt and Tunisia in particular, to defeat the dictatorships still in power there and the American imperialism which supports and profits from them.

The only route to justice for people across the Middle East, North Africa and the world is to throw off the shackles of imperialism and fight as a class—as ordinary people—against the rulers of all countries who seek to oppress and exploit the masses.

The decision to attack Libya and impose regime change – for that is what the
UN resolution means – may have been authorised by the Security Council. But
it was instigated by the despots of the Arab League, desperate to secure deeper
western involvement in the region to save them from their own peoples. And it
will be implemented by the same powers which have wreaked such mayhem
throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds over the last ten years and longer.

So there you have it. A simple formula really. The US backed dictators in the Arab League sacrifice one of their own to save themselves. All they had to do was call for a no-fly zone against Gaddafi in Libya and they got the green light from the US to kill those demonstrating for freedom and justice elsewhere and so keep themselves in power.

Not all the Libyan revolutionaries want a no-fly zone. A no-fly zone is an invasion. It is war. Imperialism will invade,  if it does, to destroy the revolution. The excuse imperialism uses to justify its brutality is always ‘humanitarian’ in some form. The reality is always death. Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti all come to mind. The US, […]