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Good article Chris! It's easy for people in the imperialist world to get excited about the overthrow of someone like Gadaffi, but it's not us that have to live with the consequences. Like with Iran in 1979, where any western leftist could drop in, march along the streets of Tehran chanting 'Allah Akbar!", and then fly home to London or New York while the Iranian left ended up exterminated, women's rights got set back, national minorities became more oppressed, etc etc. Phil On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 10:10 PM Chris Slee <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is an article I wrote in 2014: > > Libya's continuing struggle for democracy: > > http://links.org.au/node/3659 > > Chris Slee > ________________________________ > From: Marxism <[email protected]> on behalf of Philip > Ferguson via Marxism <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, 10 April 2019 1:19:13 PM > To: Chris Slee > Subject: [Marxism] Libya in the grip of the militias > > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > While Gaddafi was bad news, what came after i\s a whole new nightmare: > > In October 2011 the corrupt and repressive regime of Muammar Gaddafi was > overthrown in Libya by a set of rebel forces backed by NATO. Very quickly > the country descended into chaos, broken up into a series of areas run by > rival warlords and their militias. The Libyan people have paid a high > price for their ‘liberation’. The following article was written a year > later, in October 2012, and explains what happened and why. The article > has certainly been confirmed by events since. > > After NATO, another key imperialist institution, the United Nations, began > playing a central role in the ongoing chaos. Now a new peace deal is > supposed to unite the country behind a single parliament – two parliaments > emerged after the overthrow of Gaddafi – and a government has been > appointed. The prospects of peace, let alone peace and prosperity, seem > very limited however. Once again Western intervention has wreaked havoc. > > Article at: > > https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/12/20/libya-after-gaddafi-the-rule-of-the-militias/ > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/chris_w_slee%40hotmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
