AFTER SIX LONG MONTHS OF BLOODY, PROTRACTED STRUGGLE THE OVERTHROW OF THE DICTATORIAL GADDAFI REGIME WAS GREETED WITH REJOICING BY LARGE NUMBERS OF, BUT BY NO MEANS ALL, LIBYANS. ANOTHER AUTOCRATIC RULER, SURROUNDED BY HIS PRIVILEGED FAMILY AND CRONIES, HAS BEEN OVERTHROWN. IF THIS HAD BEEN PURELY THE RESULT OF STRUGGLE BY THE LIBYAN WORKING MASSES IT WOULD HAVE BEEN WIDELY ACCLAIMED BUT THE DIRECT INVOLVEMENT OF IMPERIALISM CASTS A DARK SHADOW OVER THE REVOLUTION’S FUTURE. THE CONTINUING BATTLES IN TRIPOLI AND ELSEWHERE INDICATE THE INSTABILITY OF THE CURRENT SITUATION IN LIBYA AND ALSO HOW THE REVOLUTION THAT BEGAN THERE LAST FEBRUARY HAS, IN MANY WAYS, BEEN THROWN OFF COURSE.
By Robert Bechert from the Committee for a Workers International (to which the Socialist Party is affiliated)
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