A SHRINE in the Libyan capital Tripoli venerating a Sufi Muslim saint has been destroyed – the latest in a series of outrages by al-Qaeda militants, this time armed with huge bulldozers to destroy a religious site that is a very holy place to a large number of Libyan and other Muslims.
This follows on from a number of car bomb attacks, and a series of assassinations in which the victors of NATO’s war to smash the most developed welfare state in Africa, have been tearing each other’s throats out.
What do the NATO vandals who organised the destruction of Libya make of this situation? The answer is nothing. They are content that their work, which reduced Libya to a number of rival city statelets, has made it possible for them to divide and rule, so that they can make their oil deals and billions of profits in the midst of chaos.
What about the Democratic dividend that NATO was allegedly bringing? This was clearly a joke.
They are so proud of their work that they are seeking to transfer it to another Arab nationalist state, Syria, where the Ba’ath Party holds power and under whose regime a quite remarkable secularism has flourished which sees women not just driving cars, as is the Saudi ambition, but running government departments – a horrific sin as far as the Saudi and Qatari feudalists are concerned.
In a struggle to smash the secular Arab states, Cameron and Obama have found their natural allies, al-Qaeda, who will allow the oil wealth of their countries to be plundered, provided they are allowed to set up one-man rule under a Caliph.
These two forces, western Imperialism and Arab reaction, are now in harness with each other to smash Arab nationalism and secularism.
The rule of the West is that as long as the Arab nationalists are dead, than anything goes, as long as the primacy of Western oil interests are respected.
Under this perspective, the advanced state of Libya has been pushed into complete breakdown.
Last week, three car bombs were set off in Tripoli, and in the hunt for the culprits, one of the new regime’s generals was killed, they say, by Gadaffi forces using heat-seeking missiles.
The Libyan ‘army’ then proceeded to the bomber’s camps and discovered that it was run by supporters of Gadaffi and that they had 200 tanks on site, along with very heavy artillery and numerous shells and missiles.
The ‘government’ says that it thought that the Gadaffi forces were defenders of the revolution, and have only just found out what they were. Other spokesmen say that the camp was made up of the fighters that occupied Tripoli airport last June when a part of the regime wanted its grievances settled.
Now they have been turned into public supporters of Gadaffi.
If there were Gadaffi supporters with hundreds of tanks and heat-seeking missiles ready to take down the NATO puppets we would be among the first to applaud.
However, we would suggest that the truth is that the different wings of the regime are now so hostile to each other that they are ready to accuse each other of anything, as a prelude to a mutual slaughter.
We have no doubt that the Libyan masses are heartily sick of these NATO puppets and that it will not be long before there is a generalised uprising to overthrow them so that the Libyan workers can restore what has been lost and advance to a workers’ government and socialism, as part of the revolution that is now sweeping through Africa from south to north.
While the Libyan masses are getting ready for action, we must make sure that the attempt to destroy Syria is smashed and that one of its would-be assassins, the UK coalition government, is brought down by a general strike.
This is the way for the UK workers to join hands with the workers of the world to smash capitalism and imperialism.
