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March, 2012

The Editorial Board of the newspaper "The Libyan Revolution day by day", integrated by the revolutionary fighters of the militias of Libya and the internationalist volunteer Committee around the world.

A newspaper of the revolutionary people and the oppressed in Libya

Introduction of the Editorial Committee

We introduce here ourselves to the reader as the Editorial Committee of "The Libyan Revolution day by day", a newspaper edited by internationalists of the world and Libyan revolutionary fighters, members of the militia that overthrew Gaddafi, defeated his army and refuse to allow the CNT and the friends of Gaddafi to hijack the revolution.  Our goal is to fight for an independent Libya, free from any oppression and looting. We want a new Libya, where the wealth of the nation is in the hands of those who produce it, workers and poor people, who are really those who have fought and continue fighting to have a decent standard of living.
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In Libya, after a revolution that threw Gaddafi as a result of a victorious war that cost thousands of martyrs, the people do not yet earn enough money to have a good standard of living. The Libyan wealth is being plundered by foreign oil companies which had juicy business with the Gaddafi regime and now with the CNT agreements. We need to stop this looting so that the money is in the hands of its real owners, those who work, and not in the hands of parasites living off the work of the Libyan people. Therefore the revolution that has begun must be completed. It must pass to the real hands of who fought for her, of those who like us, gave our lives for her. “The Libyan Revolution day by day” is the newspaper of all those who want to share their experience in this fight of the revolution, and its pages are open to them.

The CNT, which is in the Government now, did nothing to defeat Gaddafi. It was the heaviest burden that the masses and the martyrs had to endure in this struggle.
However Libyan society is not challenging the dominance of the CNT, although the CNT is a weak government. We know that the Libyan people were subjected by a terrible dictatorship for almost 42 years. Some people say that we have to wait, we're learning, that a new Government will come, that we need to have faith, etc. To them we say that, we, the Libyans have waited enough, that too much blood has been shed; this is an excellent situation to fulfill our demands. The longer we wait, the harder will be to conquer dignified living conditions.

Most of the factories are closed. The CNT focused 100% of its forces on oil companies which export 60 per cent of which was exported before the fall of Gaddafi, as the ENI (Italian oil) does today from Brega. In numbers, their sales are valued US$ 135 million per day (according to the U.S. energy information administration and the world press). The CNT and the former Gaddafist generals want us to be satisfied with miserable compensations which will be bread for today and hunger for tomorrow. They want to split our struggles, our militia, giving entitlements to some and removing them from others, so we fight each other, precisely those who get together our blood into a single body to crush murderous Gaddafi. They are not going to achieve that! Las fábricas paralizadas plantean inmediatamente la necesidad de ponerlas bajo control directo de las personas que trabajan en ella, para recuperar el empleo. La gran cantidad de dinero robado de Liba plantea la necesidad de tomar los pozos petroleros bajo control de quienes los trabajan y de las milicias. El trabajo que debe hacerse aquí y los millones de egipcios pidiendo trabajo en Libia plantean la necesidad de abrir las fronteras para que todos puedan trabajar.

Paralyzed factories immediately raised the need to put them under direct control of the people working therein, to regain employment. The large amount of money stolen out of Libya raises the need to take the oil wells under control of those working in them and the militias. The amount of work that should be done here and the millions of Egyptians seeking work in Libya raise the need to open the borders so that everybody can work.
In Tunisia and in Egypt they were sacrificed, and fight desperately, engineers and technicians that the only thing they can do is sell vegetables or be unemployed in the streets of our countries. They are essential, along with Libyan workers, to operate our steelworks, our cement plants and our oil wells, under the control of the workers.
The people, workers, students and the same militias are dispersed, and this raises the need to set up a Congress of all militias and worker organizations in Libya, that takes place in the Plaza of the martyrs or the enormous and luxurious former palace of Gaddafi. This Parliament of the armed people and those that really produce with their hands all the riches of the country will be the only structure with the authority to define the fate of Libya, disarming the generals of the CNT, judging and punishing all the murderous politicians –every one of both groups an accomplice of Gaddafi-, and expropriating their property.
That government of the committees of workers and militia, expropriating the banks, ports and the oil companies without compensation would have a huge income, sufficient to get food for the workers and the people in Libya.

Weapons should not be given in to NATO or the CNT or the Gaddafists! All the weapons and combatants are to deal with the counter-revolution and the dictators either in Libya or in Syria!

They want to slaughter our brothers and sisters in Syria. They neither want that there be a new Libya in Syria, nor that murderous Al - Assad run the same fate as Gaddafi the dog. We are one with Homs, we are one with the martyrs of the Tahrir square, we are one with the oppressed in occupied Palestine, and together we must fight to open a corridor to prevent the isolation of our brothers and sisters in Syria as well as the victory of Al - Assad, killer of his own people.

Libya is an example for the peoples of the world. Let’s make a new Libya! is what the masses in Egypt felt when they returned to take the Tahrir square. This is the feeling of the people in Tunisia. It's what people in Syria need to defeat Bashar! It is what we all need to liberate Palestine and destroy the fascist Zionist State of Israel!
Long live the revolution in North Africa! US imperialists out of Iraq and Afghanistan! For the destruction of the fascist Zionist State of Israel!
Our allies are also fighting their own oppressive Governments in the world. As it is painted in the walls on the streets of Sirte: Libya today, tomorrow Wall Street!

Worldwide free working-class people unite against the oppression!

Revolutionary combatants from the militias in Libya
Committee of internationalist volunteers from all over the world