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Leon Trotsky: I am confident of the victory of the Fourth International; Go Forward!
Statement on Libya by the Liga Comunista of Brazil, the RevolutionaryMarxist Group of South Africa and Socialist Fight of Britain
21 April 2011
Declaration to the workers of the worldand their internationalist vanguard
For the unconditional defence of Libya againstImperialism!For a Military United Front with Gaddafi to de-feat NATO and the CIA armed "rebels"!No confidence in the government of Tripoli; onlyby arming all the people and by the permanentrevolution can we win the struggle!
T
he global economic crisis has increasedthe appetites of Imperialism to appropri-ate the planet's riches by super exploitingthe working class and recolonisation.Capitalist governments of the world have movedenormous sums of money from state coffers tolarge private capitalist financial intuitions in the
name of saving capitalism’s crisis cause by specu-
lation. Now the bourgeois governments are seek-ing to recapitalise their coffers. For this, they forcethe working class to pay the price of this financialorgy. This payment is made through fiscal adjust-ments, the attacks on wages, and victories overunionised labor and the attack on social security,etc. It has also increased the cost of living for themasses, and increased inter-Imperial competitionin the semi-colonies.In Europe, from Greece to Ireland, popular resis-tance was restrained by pro-Imperialist partyleaders and trade unions. In Wisconsin in the USAworkers leaders linked to the Democratic Partydid the same. In Latin America, so far, but not forlong, the governments of the "centre left" aredelaying and dampening social conflict by thecontrol they exert over mass organiza-tions. Obama ordered the start of the bombing onLibya when he was with the pro-imperialist Presi-dent Dilma Vana Rousseff, in Brazil.In Africa the liberal bourgeois opposition to dicta-torships in Tunisia and Egypt made democratictransition arrangements to install new puppetgovernments to stabilise the country and keep itsympathetic to the U.S. and Israel. We do notconsider these processes as "Arab revolution" or"democratic revolutions." These popular uprisingare genuine expressions of the outrage at priceincreases and increased oppression caused by theimperialist crisis which began in 2008 but Imperi-alism seek to divert these potential revolutionarysituations enhance and extend its dominance inAfrica and the Middle East.If Imperialism cannot take ownership peacefullyas in the fraudulent referendum that divided theSudan, then the UN will come to occupy the coun-try by military force and impose their fraudulentelections as happened in Ivory Coast. All this, withthe support of the African Union and the ANCgovernment in South Africa.In Libya, Syria and Iran, Imperialism seeks to ac-complish coups camouflaged as "democratic", bytaking advantage of the "popular uprising" inneighbouring countries. In Iran, the U.S. and Israelseek to revive the reactionary "green revolution".In Syria U.S. Imperialism and its Zionistenclave strive to create the same sce-nario of civil war to justify anothermilitary intervention. In Libya, Imperial-ism made a qualitative leap in its inter-vention. Not only by what it did afterstarting the "rebellion", but they hadalso prepared beforehand. A "revolt" inLibya is not any kind of revolution, but acounterrevolution, directed by Imperial-ism and supported and sponsored bythe CIA. It is the continuation of a seriesof attempts to restore the monarchyand tribal privileges in favour of U.S.and European Union, which beganshortly after Gaddafi took power in1969 and continued sporadically sincethen. Not coincidentally, the flag of the"rebels" is the flag of the monarchyimposed by Imperialism, the flag of thepuppet King Idris (1951-1969).Rebel leaders in Libya were CIA agents from thebeginning, as were the anti-Chavez coup leadersin Venezuela in 2002. Imperialism, headed by theU.S. and France, seek to balkanised Libya, as it didin Yugoslavia or to dominate it together, as inAfghanistan and Iraq. We have also have seen thisin Bolivia, where Evo Morales surrendered a largershare of the revenues from gas exploration to thepro-Imperialist coup makers in the east of thecountry.Those who hold the naïve notion that what hap-pens in Libya is a revolution of "masses" and acontinuation of the riots in Tunisia and Egypt, theyforget that the masses have been duped by thefall of the Berlin Wall, the Velvet Revolution(Czechoslovakia), the Orange Revolution (Ukraine)
and all other ‘revolutions’ made in the CIA. They
were all, in fact, counter-revolutions, sponsoredby Imperialism.Since the new escalation of Israeli attacks againstPalestinians 20 Palestinians have been killed and50 wounded in the worst Israeli offensive in Gazafor two years. It is the bloodiest attack since the2008 military operation that killed 1,400 Palestini-ans. We are for the destruction of the Zionist stateof Israel and for a multi-
ethnic workers’ and peas-ants’ government a based on workers’ and peas-ants’ councils.
For 21 years Hosni Mubarak’s National Democ-
ratic Party (NDP) in Egypt was a member of theSocialist (Second) International (SI) alongside theNew Zealand Labour Party, the Australian LaborParty and the British Labour Party. The SI onlyexpelled the NDP in January 2011, after the massdemonstrations emerged that brought downMubarak, but not the NDP. But true to its longhistory of defending British Imperialism BritishLabour leader Ed Miliband gave unequivocal sup-port to the Benghazi rebels and to the bombing of
Libya on the totally hypocritical basis that, “as
internationalists we have both the responsibilityand the opportunity to help enforce international
law and save innocents from slaughter”. UsingGaddafi’s foolish threat of "no mercy, and no pity”
he sanctioned the bombing which will result in farmore deaths than Gaddafi could have caused, but,
as an ‘unintended consequence’ will put the oil
resources of Libya in the hands of western Imperi-alism to invest in the markets of Wall street andthe City of London and divert it from schools,hospitals and welfare payments in Libya and in-vestments in other African countries.Jim Murphy MP, Labour's Shadow Defence Secre-tary gave the cue that the rest of the soft-left inBritain and internationally have followed,
“Inaction would have undermined the cause of
freedom not just for the hundreds of thousands of people who have risen up against Gaddafi in Libya,but in other countries where people are also fight-
ing for change.”
And just so as we are left in doubt about the La-
bour party’s position on Imperialism’s murderersMurphy writes; “our thoughts should be with all
British Forces around the world, including themore than 10,000 Britons in Afghanistan. Thoseundertaking courageous acts in the sky aboveLibya and in the Mediterranean should be given allthe support they need because their bravery iswhat enables the UN resolution to be enforced
and the Libyan people to be protected”. There is,
naturally, no concern about the civilians and fight-
ers blown to pieces ‘to save lives’ in Iraq, Afghani-
stan or now Libya only concern and praise for thekillers.The greatest proof that the "rebels" are nothingbut butchers and Libyan agents of Imperialism isthat they have invoked NATO bombing on theirown people, as did the collaborators at all times of the class struggle since the Paris Commune Thiers(1871) to Lebanon (2006). As each day passes itbecomes clearer that the native agents of Imperi-
alism are merely open cat’s paws for multinational
intervention in the country. They are racists andxenophobes, the enemies of all black workingclass Saharans in Libya. Inthe hunt
for "Gaddafi mercenaries” they seek to demoral-
ise the work force in the country, preparing it forthe super exploitation in a new era of extremeImperialist plunder. The Libyan "rebels" are abunch bourgeois turncoats from Gaddafi regimein favour of big business internationally.Political groupings claiming to be Marxists whoportray the popular uprisings in the Arab world asdiverted "revolutions" are demagogues, whoflatter and stupefy the masses while new pro-Imperialist bourgeois puppet governments arebeing stabilised. But the worst is when thesegroups in the name of supporting the Libyanmasses in their struggle for democracy, combinedwith Imperialist war propaganda by the worldmedia to cover up the CIA coup. Those who nowrefuse to establish a military front with Gaddafiexternally and internally to defeat the interests of Imperialism, betray the struggle and the fightagainst global Imperialism and the genocidal stateof Israel that massacres the Palestinians.We denounce the main international revisionistcurrents that formally share the following posi-tions:1) characterise the existence of an "Arab revolu-tion" or "democratic revolutions" in Africa and theMiddle East2) Support the pro-imperialist "rebels" in LibyaThese include the USFI (NPA-France), LIT (PSTU-Brazil), ITU (IzquierdaSocialista-Argentina), IMT(Socialist Appeal, Britain); CWI (Socialist PartyBritain): IST (SWP, Britain). FT (PTS-Argentina);FLTI (LOI-DO Argentina); L5I (Workers Power-Britain)It was the anti-working class, neoliberal policies of Gaddafi during the last decade that paved the waythis reaction. Gaddafi has established new agree-ments with Imperialism, destroying the gains of the process of nationalisation of the means of production and post-1969 energy resources. Gad-dafi banned trade unions and strikes and maderacist anti-immigrant agreements with Berlusconi,he has sponsored the election campaign of Sarkozy and privatized and made auctions withthe energy resources of Libya. Thus, the caudilloof Tripoli has lost popularity with the Libyan andAfrican population and fuelled the appetite of sectors of the native bourgeoisie to negotiatedirectly with Imperialism, freeing up Gaddafi clan.The masses can have no confidence in the anti-Imperialism of Gaddafi. Therefore we demand thearming of the whole Libyan people against Imperi-alism and the reactionary opposition. We demandthe unconditional defence of Libya against Imperi-alism and its agents. We demand a military unitedfront with Gaddafi against NATO and the royalist,CIA agent, "rebels" who are politically similar tothe pro-Imperialist Loyalists of the north of Ire-land, the Inkatha Freedom Party of South Africaor, more closely, the Contras of Nicaragua.This was the revolutionary tactics of Lenin andTrotsky before the Kornilov uprising, Kerensky'sformer general who tried to carry out a coup inRussia in August 1917. The Bolsheviks called for aunited front and military weapons to Kerenskydemanded at the same time that Kerensky beblamed for paving the path for reaction, and thusprepared a social revolution. Similarly, the reac-tion to the responsibility of Gaddafi for the coupwill drive the masses to combine the tasks of theanti-Imperialist struggle with the democratic andsocialist to move toward the establishment of aworkers and peasants government where the pan-Arabism of Gaddafi has stopped. The victory overthe counterrevolutionary Imperialist militaryoffensive would not only be a huge boost for theproletariat Libyan who could settle accounts withthe warlord of Tripoli, but would also give a hugeimpetus to the struggle of workers in Tunisia,Egypt, Bahrain, Ivory Coast, Palestine, Iraq andAfghanistan against Imperialism and the nativecapitalists.The first step towards this is to fight in our owncountries against the Imperialist bourgeoisie andsemi-colonial Britain, Brazil, South Africa. Weadvocate the defeat of our own governments, asallies against Imperialist recolonisation of theworld proletariat. We support the full right of theLibyan masses to seize the multinational British,Brazilian and South African companies and of allcapital in Libya to nationalise them without com-pensation under workers' control.
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Defeat Imperialism, Fight for the sovereignty,unity and independence of Libya with the meth-ods of permanent revolution!
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For a Military United Front with the Libyanarmy against pro-Imperialist INTC and against allgroups sponsored by the CIA!
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Build Revolutionary Committees in all work-places, colleges and regions against Imperialistintervention!
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For Constituent Assembly based on theserevolutionary committees.
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For a Workers and Farmers Government!
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In defence of the right to establish trade un-ions and the right to strike!
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No immigration control, equal rights andconditions for all immigrant workers!
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Workers' Control of work places and oil fields,food subsidies and essential goods, minimumliving wage, full employment, expropriation of allenterprises and Imperialist capitals
Quant au "Front Militaire Uni" avec l'armée libyenne...j'ai l'impression qu'ils ont un peu montés sur les lampadaires, mais bon, comme politique, c'est peut-être ce qu'il aurait fallu propulser dans des condition autres. Je vais dire si c'était possible de la faire. En tout cas, voila leur point de vue sur la question.
Je ne traduis pas, vu qu'on est sur un forum avec des "internationalistes pur jus"...