Reply #13: Great post. Great thread (so far). Highly rec'd. This revolution belongs to Libya's working class [View All]

[Catherina]

It is the task of the Libyan working class, leading all of the oppressed sections of society, to overthrow the right-wing dictatorship of Gaddafi. That is the precondition for replacing it with a genuinely democratic government that will attack the entrenched power and privileges of the native bourgeoisie and its imperialist masters.

The aim of the US-backed intervention is precisely to abort any genuine revolution and install a regime even more subservient to Washington and the oil companies. Libya is then to become a base of military and political operations to suppress the revolutionary upsurge of the working class throughout North Africa and the Middle East.

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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/liby-m19.shtml

Shock and Awe II. Full scale war. The govt went from non-commitment to a no-fly zone to being on board for a full-scale war in a matter of days.