Libya in the hands of imperialism and its reactionary collaborators
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Therefore, it is not on the revolutionary and the communist forces to defend either a dictator like Gaddafi or a bloody imperialist aggression like the NATO war in Libya, but to show all their solidarity and support to the Libyan people on their way to get rid of both reactionary regimes and imperialist dependency and occupation.

 

01 November 2011 /International Bulletin / Issue 110

 

 

The people's uprisings starting at the end of 2010 in Tunisia gave rise to a strong wave of revolutionary people's movements and a mass struggle for democratic demands in several countries of North Africa and the Arab peninsula.
In Libya, the situation is different. There, the protest movement has been under control of reactionary forces within and outside the country from the beginning on and was turned into a reactionary civil war followed by imperialist aggression.
Despite the legitimate democratic demands against the Gaddafi regime and accumulated anger of the workers, labourers and the youth inspired also by the uprisings in the whole region, the oppositional movement, starting in the East of the country, where the followers of the Libyan monarchy overthrown by a movement led by Gaddafi in 1969 are traditionally strong, was no progressive movement based on the people of Libya itself but dominated from the very beginning by clan leaders, monarchists and religious forces like the Senussi order. However the main force behind the protests has always been imperialism itself. Thus, it does not astonish that US secretary of state Hillary Clinton proposed to give arms to the "rebels" already at the first hours of the uprising.
The fact that the Libyan opposition and its National Transitional Council (NTC) formed in February 2011 officially adopted the flag of the old king gives an idea of their political content not really pointing to democracy, even in a bourgeois sense. Furthermore, NTC president Mustafa Abdul Dschalil, who was minister of justice in the Gaddafi regime, announced during the proclamation of "the complete liberation" of Libya on October 23, that the Shariah will be the bases of all laws in Libya. Needless to say, that the present situation in Libya has nothing to do with liberation but is a classic imperialist occupation followed by a puppet regime serving the imperialist interests. These interests are oil on the one hand, but maybe even more the attempt to establish a strong base in the region which is getting more and more out of imperialist control in order to stop the wave of revolts.
In face of the obvious imperialist manipulations and the military intervention destroying large parts of the infrastructure and killing tens of thousands of people, even some progressive and revolutionary forces in the world defended "the lesser of two evils" not seeing that there is nothing to chose among reactionary collaborationist regimes and imperialist powers. Although Gaddafi nationalised the oil in the past, he later privatised again big parts of the Libyan economy in favour of imperialism and especially during the last years and he had good political and economic relations with imperialism, first of all Italy and France. Considering the collaborationist dictator Gaddafi, who was a bourgeois nationalist, influenced by Nasserism at a time, as "anti-imperialist" is lacking any logic. However, this does of course not mean that the imperialist intervention may be excused or played down. On the contrary, we would miss the fact that the main goal of the attack on Libya was neither overthrowing the dictator Gaddafi nor putting an end to the civil war in Libya but the liquidation of the wave of peoples' revolts in the Middle East and the important task of the international revolutionary and communist forces to defend this stronghold of resistance of the Arab and Middle Eastern peoples. Therefore, it is not on the revolutionary and the communist forces to defend either a dictator like Gaddafi or a bloody imperialist aggression like the NATO war in Libya, but to show all their solidarity and support to the Libyan people on their way to get rid of both reactionary regimes and imperialist dependency and occupation.
Gaddafi was lynched on October 25 by the henchmen of imperialism. It would have been the right of the Libyan people to punish the dictator Gaddafi in a trial he deserved for having plundered and oppressed the people for long years in collaboration with imperialism, but not of the imperialists and their new collaborators.
 

 

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Therefore, it is not on the revolutionary and the communist forces to defend either a dictator like Gaddafi or a bloody imperialist aggression like the NATO war in Libya, but to show all their solidarity and support to the Libyan people on their way to get rid of both reactionary regimes and imperialist dependency and occupation.

 

01 November 2011 /International Bulletin / Issue 110

 

 

The people's uprisings starting at the end of 2010 in Tunisia gave rise to a strong wave of revolutionary people's movements and a mass struggle for democratic demands in several countries of North Africa and the Arab peninsula.
In Libya, the situation is different. There, the protest movement has been under control of reactionary forces within and outside the country from the beginning on and was turned into a reactionary civil war followed by imperialist aggression.
Despite the legitimate democratic demands against the Gaddafi regime and accumulated anger of the workers, labourers and the youth inspired also by the uprisings in the whole region, the oppositional movement, starting in the East of the country, where the followers of the Libyan monarchy overthrown by a movement led by Gaddafi in 1969 are traditionally strong, was no progressive movement based on the people of Libya itself but dominated from the very beginning by clan leaders, monarchists and religious forces like the Senussi order. However the main force behind the protests has always been imperialism itself. Thus, it does not astonish that US secretary of state Hillary Clinton proposed to give arms to the "rebels" already at the first hours of the uprising.
The fact that the Libyan opposition and its National Transitional Council (NTC) formed in February 2011 officially adopted the flag of the old king gives an idea of their political content not really pointing to democracy, even in a bourgeois sense. Furthermore, NTC president Mustafa Abdul Dschalil, who was minister of justice in the Gaddafi regime, announced during the proclamation of "the complete liberation" of Libya on October 23, that the Shariah will be the bases of all laws in Libya. Needless to say, that the present situation in Libya has nothing to do with liberation but is a classic imperialist occupation followed by a puppet regime serving the imperialist interests. These interests are oil on the one hand, but maybe even more the attempt to establish a strong base in the region which is getting more and more out of imperialist control in order to stop the wave of revolts.
In face of the obvious imperialist manipulations and the military intervention destroying large parts of the infrastructure and killing tens of thousands of people, even some progressive and revolutionary forces in the world defended "the lesser of two evils" not seeing that there is nothing to chose among reactionary collaborationist regimes and imperialist powers. Although Gaddafi nationalised the oil in the past, he later privatised again big parts of the Libyan economy in favour of imperialism and especially during the last years and he had good political and economic relations with imperialism, first of all Italy and France. Considering the collaborationist dictator Gaddafi, who was a bourgeois nationalist, influenced by Nasserism at a time, as "anti-imperialist" is lacking any logic. However, this does of course not mean that the imperialist intervention may be excused or played down. On the contrary, we would miss the fact that the main goal of the attack on Libya was neither overthrowing the dictator Gaddafi nor putting an end to the civil war in Libya but the liquidation of the wave of peoples' revolts in the Middle East and the important task of the international revolutionary and communist forces to defend this stronghold of resistance of the Arab and Middle Eastern peoples. Therefore, it is not on the revolutionary and the communist forces to defend either a dictator like Gaddafi or a bloody imperialist aggression like the NATO war in Libya, but to show all their solidarity and support to the Libyan people on their way to get rid of both reactionary regimes and imperialist dependency and occupation.
Gaddafi was lynched on October 25 by the henchmen of imperialism. It would have been the right of the Libyan people to punish the dictator Gaddafi in a trial he deserved for having plundered and oppressed the people for long years in collaboration with imperialism, but not of the imperialists and their new collaborators.