it is so sad the European left movements have nothing to say .. for the invasion of their counties military against N Africa to capture the Libyan oilfields..
Sooooo sad ...

They have nothing to say, because they were supporting the calls for no fly zone (read: bombing of libya). They have nothing to say because they were too busy squatting libyan owned properties in step with brtitish foreign policy. They have nothing to say because they wanted so bad to believe the propaganda about the supposed libyAn revolution. They have nothing to say because ALL they know regarding Libya and Gaddafi is informed by their imperialist media and history books.

never heard of them

"They have nothing to say because they wanted so bad to believe the propaganda about the supposed libyAn revolution. They have nothing to say because ALL they know regarding Libya and Gaddafi is informed by their imperialist media and history books."

First off, having been involved with many movements on a range of issues, such of which have been remarkably effective, I am not part of the "left". I have never been part of the "left". I am part of a wider movement for justice and most of my work was targeted at the Labour government. I had huge problems with elements of the traditional "left" during that time.

I am fully aware of libya's past and history including the overthrow of King Idris by the revolutionary Muammar Khaddafi in 1969, having presented himself to the world after forming the Union of Free Officials in London. Kahaddafi has achieved a great deal since he took control in Libya. He has been a moderniser especially in the agricultural sector. He sparked a tremendous program of rapid growth in that country driven by skilled immigrants from other arab countries. He has driven the creation of the People's Committee and the Peoples General Congress. He created a system of Social Security with medical provision and family allowance benefits to encourage families.

He has intervened into industry granting workers share of the profits of corporations, He has driven a policy of industrial and agricultural investment, he has transformed Libya into an African nation with the highest per-capita income and the highest GDP.

Above all, Khaddafi has united Libya under a solid program of internal investment driven by the profits of the nations primary resource, oil.

But this extraordinary development has come at a cost, under the Socialist Peoples Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Khaddafi has sought to expand libya's revolutionary zeal into other nations such as Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America bringing him into a state of direct conflict with the United States. From that moment on, he has sparked animosity from the United States who have, for decades, driven a policy of associating Socialist Libya with terrorism.

This is the standard policy for America when confronted by threats to its economic commercial empire. If you do not prostrate yourself before this empire, and worst of all you refuse under the banner of Socialism, you are a terrorist and America will set about "building your reputation" in that area irrespective of reality or the facts. And that indeed is what the then President of the US, Ronald Reagan, set into motion in 1980. This false and utterly fraudulent campaign to link Libya with international terrorism was widely disseminated around the world by the so-called "objective media" in duty to US foreign policy.

Just a year later, Reagan was able to successfully manoeuvre US naval forces into position and targeted and destroyed two Libyan Sukhoi su-22 in the Gulf of Sidra. This act was of course then argued about relentlessly by representatives of all the worldwide political factions, few if any able to hold any kind of discourse that wasn't subject to US disruption in order to steer world opinion away from the obvious post-incident conclusion, the United States had carried out an act of international terrorism!

Libya has been through a great deal since then and our view of Libya, Khaddafi and even the Libyan people themselves is still today, as it has been throughout the entire post-war period, defined not by rigid, hard, rational fact, but by slack, malleable, populist propaganda emanating directly from the military planners at the pentagon.

You do not detect silence on the part of the "left" because IMC is not a representative of the "left". IMC is simply a conduit for the "left" in much the same way as it is a conduit for the "right". Sitting between these two camps, are the real shooters...and they only come out when the target has stumbled clearly into the open.

The situation in Libya at the moment is a very difficult one for the people of Libya, ultimately everybody outside the country who is involved is aggravating the situation. From the diplomats and politicans at the UN, to media commentators drunk on their own sense of importance and perceived power, through to the rebels and even Khaddafi himself. There is no humanitarianism in play here as far as national leaders are concerned, just a continuance of US foreign policy which has been ongoing throughout the post war era.

Ultimately, it will be the people of Libya who will pay.

Rather than complain about the "left", you should try to redirect that anger into speaking up for the people you claim to be so angry on behalf of!

>> Rather than complain about the "left", you should try to redirect that anger into speaking up for the people you claim to be so angry on behalf of!

Telling other people what they can and can't say or do. Brilliant.
Why not leave people to make their own choices?

"Telling other people what they can and can't say or do. Brilliant. Why not leave people to make their own choices?"

The bombs are dropping. Your "choices" just vanished into thin air!

Supporters of the For Bolshevism-AUCPB based in UK translated this from Russian recently denouncing latest NATO aggression, although it will be a stroke of luck if it remains on here due to strict Indymedia guidlines. But we'll see.

HANDS OFF LIBYA!

On the night of March 18, the controlled by the U.S. UN Security Council adopted a resolution authorizing the imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya. This means that from now on, warplanes of Muammar Gaddafi have no right to strike at the "opposition" (in fact: bandits who had seized the government arms warehouses and are leading an armed struggle against the lawful government of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya). In addition, the UN Security Council resolution calls for "all necessary measures" to protect the civilian population of Libya from the forces of al-Gaddafi (rebels with arms in their hands – is that a civilian population?) This wording actually allows international military intervention to take place.

Participants in the military operation (aggression) in Libya (they claim to be the United States, France, Great Britain, a number of Arab states) in the first stage are to use cruise missiles and combat aircraft to destroy command posts of the Libyan air defence. U.S. Navy ships, such as the aircraft carrier Enterprise and the amphibious assault ship Kearsarge will provide artillery and air support.

10 members voted in the UN Security Council with the necessary nine votes in favour of the resolution proposed by the United States, Britain, France and Lebanon. Five countries abstained from the vote: Russia, China, India, Brazil and Germany.

This resolution unties the hands of the imperialist hawks for aggression against Libya. France and Britain, according to the diplomats of these countries are ready to carry out strikes on the positions of government troops of Muammar Gaddafi.

In turn, officials of the Libyan Government said that the resolution adopted by the U.N. Security Council making air strikes on positions of government troops legitimate, jeopardizes the country's unity and indirectly encourages Libyans to kill each other.
Shaken by crisis, the imperialist world for the sake of renewing its existence, is trying to ignite the fire of world war in different parts of the globe. In Libya, the international gendarme - United States, fighter for "human rights", is attempting to repeat the scenario of the destruction of Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan. In a unipolar world, which become such because of the dismemberment of the USSR, unfortunately there is no force capable of confronting the criminal policy of the United States – the world dictator, brazenly ignoring the fundamental provisions of international law on the full sovereignty of each independent state.

As you know, in September 1969 after the revolution led by Muammar Gaddafi, in Libya the monarchy was overthrown, the monarchy which helpfully entitled foreign companies to shamelessly plunder Libya and for a song to take away its national wealth - oil. The new revolutionary government after overthrowing the rotten regime, strongly indicated its desire to achieve national independence and the elimination of foreign domination and to implement progressive economic and social transformation. Britain was forced to evacuate their military bases in March 1970 from the territory of Libya and the U.S. - in June 1970.

As a result of the transformations, the Government of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, headed by its leader Gaddafi, put the country's oil resources in the service of the Libyan people. In recent years, Libya has firmly ranked first in terms of human development in Africa and has the highest life expectancy on the continent. This is the most advanced country of all countries on the African continent.

However, the country needed a large number of foreign workers to carry out ambitious plans for economic growth and social development. The Libyan government has provided jobs to hundreds of thousands of foreign workers - Egyptian, Tunisian, Chinese and others. Today, most of them (for good pay) along with a small part of sold out to the US Libyan intellectuals and drug addicted youth have been used by an extensive network of foreign intelligence services (primarily American) as the "opposition" in an attempt to overthrow the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. World imperialism needs Libyan oil, the oil of the highest quality, and gas. The rhetoric of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton about "democracy" and "human rights", are lies and misinformation, propagated by all the foreign media regarding events in Libya, have the same goal - to overthrow the anti-American independent Muammar Gaddafi, and to lay their hands on their wealth of Libya, putting at the head of the country their own loyal puppet. But, as witnesses say, the majority of Libyans support their leader.

Huge amounts of money dumped into the laps of the "opposition" by the West, have allowed the opposition for a time, to establish control over the east of the country and some western areas. However, to capture entire Libya by means of "quick wins" and another "colour revolution" failed. Gaddafi and his entourage were able to mobilize all the loyalist part of the country and launch an offensive against pro-Western forces "insurgents." As a result, the "rebels" were forced out of major refining centres of Libyan oil and the port of Ras Lanuf and Marsa el-Brega, cities Es-Zawiya, Sirte and Adzhdabiya, and also an assault on the third city of Libya, Misurata, was launched and government forces are preparing an operation to free the main centre of the pro-Western rebels - the country's second city - Benghazi.

Seeing that the sweet dream of owning Libyan oil is becoming unattainable, the U.S. pushed through on March 18 this year via the UN Security Council, a resolution, paving the way for predatory attacks on a defiant state. The Italian government has already announced that it is ready to provide military bases to implement the UN Security Council resolution adopted, and the military air base in Sicily, which is used by the 6 th U.S. Navy, the most closely located to Libya, a NATO base, is preparing to conduct military operations ...

The All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks strongly opposes the impending aggression of NATO forces led by the USA against sovereign Libya.

We fully support with the people of Libya and its leader, Muammar Gaddafi, fully support their just struggle for freedom and independence of their country!

We demand an end to the inhumane preparation of international imperialism, headed by the U.S. of new aggression against Libya now!

Hands Off Libya!

We urge the entire international community, not wishing to burn in the hell of a third world war, to block the path of the imperialist madmen, trying to rekindle the fires of war in North Africa!

CC AUCPB
18.03.2011
Translated into English by For Bolshevism-AUCPB
 http://aucpbenglishwebsite.blogspot.com

Original AUCPB Russian version
 http://vkpb.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=707:2011-03-18-20-16-29&catid=1:2010-03-02-17-50-53&Itemid=2

The African Unity has called for a ceasefire from the beginning, and especially before the Imperialist Camp started its aggressive war against Libya. The AU-African Unity, has a membership of every country in Africa except Morocco. This ignoring of the rights of nations to independence and self defence against aggressive war was made illegal as the most supreme international war crime by the anti-fascist fighters of the second world war in the Nuremburg Trials (1945-46), chaired by U.S. Judge Jackson who wrote into international law that the planning and doing of aggressive war is the supreme international crime on the planet earth as it actuates all other crimes high, low, big, and small. He further says that it is the supreme international crime whether Germany does it or the U.S.A. does it.

This shows that the American Administrations since the second world war have been breaking national and international law with over 75 aggressive invasions and occupations of sovereign nations against those treaties of the anti-fascist war, to which the U.S. Constitution is signed on to. That is because the U.S. Constitution says that all international treaties signed on to by the U.S. Constitution, are to be treated as the supreme law of the land.

We the people therefore need stop the aggressive war of the Imperialist Camp against the sovereignty and independence of Libya, and the AU, which is every country in Africa except Morocco. Surely the anti-fascist side must win as the liberation of all countries on the planet earth is the dismantling of the war machine and its manufactury.

In line of development that means Re-tooling the entire industrial revolution to the renewables such as wind, tidal, and solar power which transforms to electricity and is more power than all fossil fuels and atomic nuclear power plants combined. Viva socialist liberation. End pollution wars, not endless wars for more and more pollution.

bomb the shit out of him. the rebels asked us to.

Let's see, how many countries of the Arab League are dictatorships facing popular uprising? Oh, maybe Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia ... and then you wonder why they oppose the action against Gaddaffi.

The Arab League are mentioned quite frequently in the news, but for those who haven't heard of them and can't use a search engine:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_League

The Arab League, officially called the League of Arab States, is a regional organisation of Arab states in North and Northeast Africa, and Southwest Asia (Middle East). It was formed in Cairo on 22 March 1945 with six members: Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan (renamed Jordan after 1946), Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Yemen joined as a member on 5 May 1945. The Arab League currently has 22 members and four observers. The main goal of the league is to "draw closer the relations between member States and co-ordinate collaboration between them, to safeguard their independence and sovereignty, and to consider in a general way the affairs and interests of the Arab countries."