Opinion is divided over the call for a 'no fly zone' in Libya. The general consensus is that the rebels need help...but what help...and from whom? But a 'no fly zone' is serious stuff. It doesn't mean signs being pinned up around Ras Lanoof, it means war.
But whose war ?
The momentum for conflict in numerous countries is steadily gathering. The BBC and Al-Jazeera clearly want it. The newspapers, left and right seem to be propelled along, The government want it, naturally.
Even dissident anarchists are making appeals. Ian Bone writes on his blog:
''I would be quite happy to see western planes bombing the fuck out of Saif Gaddafi and his cronies.How can revolutionaries in the uk gainsay what rebels fighting and dying are crying out for? Quite easily is the answer – far better to keep your revolutionary credentials than soil your hands with reality – the reality that the rebels will die unles we support them.''
It's an argument, but hang on. Phil Dickens reminds us:
''those of us musing on blogs or in newspaper articles are not discussing what "we" should do. We are discussing what THE STATE should do. As we are discussing it whilst in no position to influence government policy and (in my case) from the understanding that said policy has to reflect the rough consensus of the elites rather than popular will anyway, it is something of a moot point.''
What should concern everyone at the moment is the break-neck speed with which events are unfolding.
Let's pause for a second ...and take things in.....
So...the global financial collapse happens....it's effects take a few months to show themselves....unrest in Athens (yes, respect to the rebels in Athens, they set the ball of direct action in motion) but then things swing away to Tunisia....a revolution....swift and relatively simple...Dictator jumps on plane and escapes to....??? London ? Usually.
Then the events of Tahrir Square take precedence as Al-Jazeera stamps its journalistic credentials once and for all....round the clock coverage of the revolution in Cairo....Journalists hanging out of Hilton Hotel bedroom windows 24/7....Mubarak's police and army make a last ditch attempt to get the Egyptian's to fight amongst themselves.....IT FAILS....Dictator goes shopping in Kensington....
...now the dispossessed, downtrodden and silent masses in numerous Middle-Eastern and African countries become inspired and emboldened...there are uprisings everywhere...of various shapes and sizes.
No chance of Gaddaffi being troubled in Libya though ....
then Gaddaffi is troubled in Libya...
BUT THINK BACK.
In early February the thought of revolution in Libya was almost inconceivable.....
It's ONLY the middle of March and yet Saudi tanks are rolling into the streets and squares of Bahrain and the British and American governments are debating sending the army to Libya ! WOA THERE !!
Time for some deep breaths.
Don't take your eye off the bigger picture for one second. This is a hegemony orchestrated conflict.
CRISIS IS THEIR WEAPON
We need to remember that the only just war is the CLASS WAR
Under no circumstances must we forget that the war planes being prepared for Libya and who knows where else are NOT being sent to liberate the people. Ever. Not them not us.
All the intelligent blogging is coming from Phil Dickens right now:
''States will always act as they need to in order to serve the power behind them. The masses will combine when they wish to break free of that power and act for themselves. Rather than speculating on the power plays of the ruling classes and presuming benevolent motives that aren't there, we should be taking the side and agitating in the interest of ordinary people. Everywhere. Always.''
http://truth-reason-liberty.blogspot.com/
Without doubt the best way we can repay or show solidarity with the brave people of Greece, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Bahrain ( to name just a few of the places where the squares have been occupied and lit up by the genuine call for proletariat freedom) is NOT to condone the deployment of War planes, which KILL indescriminately. It is NOT to jump on the bandwagon of Obama and Cameron et al when they talk about Democracy (which is nothing more than the exportation of value-system wage slavery. It is NOT to believe without question that the arab billionairres behind Al-Jazeera really give a damn about liberty and justice.
The best way we can repay those people who died in Tahrir Square is to TAKE TO THE STREETS of London on 26th March and show that the momentum for 'eternal' ethnic and ideological conflict and the genocidal accumulation of capital CAN and MUST be stopped in it's tracks.
To send a clear message that the outrage of a British democratic system which routinely returns a 'permanent' aristocracy to power MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE.
The world establishment media stands complacent and assured that Britain and America are the last places on Earth where proletariat revolution could ever break out. It is our job to show that revolution here is inevitable. The media must be FORCED to place it's spotlight NOT on the slums of Cairo, Sanaa or Tripoli but AT THE VERY EPICENTRE of exported imperialist white patriarchal power....
LONDON has to become the frontline in the struggle for freedom and oppression from tyranny.
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