African Revolutionary Writers, Part 9c Colonel Gaddafi as he was Muammar Gadaffi Muammar Gaddafi led a small group of junior military officers in a bloodless coup d'état in Libya against the pro-Imperialist King Idris on 1 September 1969. By the grace of god he is still the leader of that country. In fact, he is the longest-serving national leader of any country in the whole world at this stage. Libya is a large African country on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, West of Egypt and East of Tunisia, by now much more developed than before. Gaddafi and Mandela Muammar Gaddafi’s 1975 “Green Book”, and especially the part on “Democracy”, is a very useful text for discussion in study circles, because it does not take bourgeois democracy for granted, but interrogates it, criticises it severely and to a considerable extent, rejects it. Gaddafi is certainly and African Revolutionary Writer. In the other, much more recent piece for the New York Times, Gaddafi sets out a plain case (see the second linked download) for the “One-State Solution” in Palestine, which is the same in principal as South Africa’s one-state solution (“One person one vote in a unitary state”). Muammar Gaddafi recently Muammar Gaddafi is a wise man and a humble Muslim man of great energy, in spite of the sorrows that he has personally had to bear. He is loved by the revolutionaries of Africa. Please download and read the text via this link:Muammar Gadaffi, The Green Book, Part 1, on Democracy, 1975 (6000 words)Muammar Gaddafi, The One-State Solution, 2009 (939 words) Further reading:Shivji, Struggle for Democracy, 2003, with Malik, Struggle for Culture, 2002 (5035 words)Samir Amin, 2004, The American Ideology (3214 words)Ahmed Ben Bella, People's Liberation Unachieved, 2006 (6778 words)
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