Arm the revolutionary masses in Tripoli for the final push to defeat Gadaffi and his imperialist backersWhen the masses ousted Ben Ali and Mubarak, it was a blow against world imperialism that lives parasitically off the masses of the world through control by similar capitalist dictatorships. The international tide has swung in favour of the world working class. No longer can the imperialist do as they please. The masses that have started revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and now Libya show that in order simply to eat we have to overthrow the capitalist regimes. Since 2003 Gaddafi became the blue-eyed boy of US and UK imperialism. Imperialist agent Tony Blair visited Gaddafi many times acting as an agent for the US imperialist bank, JP Morgan Chase. It is the same bank that works with several other imperialists to push up the price of wheat (and couscous), to deliberately starve the world’s masses, despite there being enough wheat to feed the world, in order to make super-profits. The beginning of workers revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, and now Libya, are beginning to put a stop to the murderous plans of world imperialism (the ‘international community’) that already starves more than two-thirds of the planet. ‘Miraculously’ the price of rice has come down, as imperialists move to contain the revolution that has started in North Africa from spreading to Asia- this victory of the world working class is due to the revolutionary masses in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, who have paid with their lives to begin overthrowing their repressive regimes. The price of rice has come down not because the imperialists have kind hearts, no, it is because they live in fear of the world Socialist revolution. The central task of the moment is to arm the Libyan masses and in particular the masses in Tripoli to finally defeat Gaddafi and his imperialist backers. No confidence to the officer caste of the ex-generals of Gaddafi or to the tribal chiefs to lead the onslaught against Gaddafi- they are more likely to cut a deal with imperialism to regain control over the revolution and then strangle it. Already imperialism is actively promoting the flag of the hated monarchy which repressed and killed thousands of the Libyan masses. There can be no return to any form of monarchy- this would mean the return of a bloody anti-worker dictatorship. Do not allow imperialism to impose the flag of the monarchy. It is time to raise the red flag, the flag of the international working class. The final push on Tripoli must be under the orders of the workers militia and revolutionary youth, not the generals or tribal chiefs. The workers should be independently organised based on councils of workers in the oil and other sectors, marching side by side with the rest of the revolutionary masses. Imperialism realizes that it is discredited and cannot invade on its own; thus they are seeking the support of the AU (African Union) and the Arab League. The AU was chaired by the very hated Gaddafi himself- the AU is a group of puppets of world imperialism- they cannot be trusted. The headquarters of the Arab League was supported all these years by the hated Mubarak. The Arab League is made up of dictators and imperialist puppets all of whom are being challenged by the masses- The Arab League cannot be trusted. Imperialism wants to use the Egyptian military to invade, not to defeat Gaddafi but to disarm the masses and to secure the oil installations once more for imperialism. We should not forget that the Egyptian military is still run by Mubarak’s generals. These generals are on the direct instructions of US imperialism. Asking the Egyptian military to send military ‘Aid’ would be like asking George Bush (or the black Bush- Obama) to come and defend the independence of Libya- all they are interested in is the oil wealth of Libya. The US banks are already rubbing their hands at the ‘investment’ (plunder) opportunities that now open up on the backs of hundreds of martyrs. We should not forget the role of the UN who disarmed the Palestinians in Beirut and then sat with folded arms while the Zionist forces committed the atrocities of Sabra and Shatilla. There are some of the bourgeois and middle class Libyans who call for the ‘international community’ to intervene. This would be a grave mistake as the ‘international community’ are not neutral. They sat with folded arms while US imperialists used China as a conduit to send hundreds of thousands of machetes to Rwanda in 1994. A million were killed while the UN and the ‘international community’ looked on. Since 1996 over 6 million were killed in the DRC while the imperialists plundered (and still plunder) the massive mineral wealth. The ‘international community’ sat with folded arms. The South African and AU soldiers went to guard the Anglo American installations while 6 million were murdered around them. No, the Libyan masses cannot depend on the ‘international community’. The ‘international community’ invaded Afghanistan in 2001, today, ten years later, they are still terrorizing the masses there. The US imperialists invaded Iraq in 2003, they have taken the oil and they still occupy and plunder the country. These are the same imperialists who are starving the world. They cannot be trusted. We can only depend on the world proletariat, the working class of Egypt and Tunisia, not their dictatorial regimes (that sit minus the old dictator but have all the old killers and assassins in their ranks- trained in the schools of genocide in the USA). We call for a revolutionary workers government based on workers committees and representatives of the revolutionary masses that break with the imperialists and the Libyan bourgeoisie. We call for an international conference of revolutionary workers organizations and internationalist Trotskyists on the barricades of Libya to set up a revolutionary International. Forward to revolutionary working class parties as part of this refounding of the Fourth International. 25.02.2011 workersinternational@gmail.com |