May 17 2014 -Libya

Libya daily
Open clashes between revolution and counterrevolution have started

Kaddafist generals, under the command of Heftar, a lackey of NATO and the CIA, are attacking in Benghazi the same masses that defeated imperialists’ servant Khadafy with their revolution

From the working-class neighborhoods, the rebel brigades and the revolutionary youth they came the forces who have stopped, for the moment, this counter-revolutionary attack

The rebels don't surrender! They form their self-defense committees and encircle the barracks of the counter-revolution!

For the dissolution of the "New Libyan Army" commanded by the GNC! There arises the counter-revolutionary conspiracy of Heftar, under the command of Obama and imperialism.

Out with the class collaboration and submission of Libyan militias to the GNC and its caste of assassin officers! For a working, rebellious and revolutionary Libya! NATO, go out! Out with imperialism!

Counter-revolutionary armed forces led by Khalifa Heftar, under the command of imperialism, launched last  Friday May 16  an attack seeking to crush the armed masses in Benghazi (where the spark of revolution was lit in Libya, which got up insurrected for bread in 2011 and with their revolution executed Khadafy, defeated his army and demolished its State, standing on their feet  their bodies of dual power. Khalifa Heftar is a former Khadafy’s Army Colonel, living as a "refugee" in the United States and trained there as a military cadre for 20 years. Three months ago This Colonel threatened a coup, denouncing that the GNC had no more legitimacy. Today he is running the GNC counter-revolutionary plan.
We have here a coup attempt to crush now openly the masses, in a determined way, for earning social base on the Kaddafist officers of the Libyan "New Army".
The GNC sent reactionary forces permanently to the streets to defeat the militias and disarm the masses, though it met with their overwhelming resistance. And what is more serious for the bourgeoisie and the transnational corporations, from July 2013 it collided with the enormous struggles of the oil workers. These even got to control production and sell oil under their control.
Imperialism and its firmer allies in Libya begin to lean to direct a counter-revolutionary output to the situation, crushing the masses anytime soon.
The GNC and its songs of siren and delusions, trying to co-opt the upper layers of the militias and the  dual power that defeated Khadafy, has failed to stabilize the situation or defeat the huge and grand revolution that the exploited of Libya staged.
In his attack on the masses in Benghazi, Khalifa Heftar even bombed with airplanes. Its principal targets were the barracks of the brigades of rebels that are not part of the new Libyan army, and that even now are not controlled by the radical Islamic bourgeoisie. I.e., it used the same methods of counter-revolutionary crushing that Khadafy tried in the months of February and March 2011 (in the early days of the Revolution) in Benghazi. For the Libyan exploited it was then clear that it was an attack of Kaddafist character, under the command of NATO, against them, their revolution and their armed dual power.
The imperialist bourgeoisies and their Libyan lackeys seek to chastise, then, the vanguard of the masses that had taken the oil wells in the Libyan East. They seek revenge against the best anti-imperialist fighters who came to execute the US Ambassador and made flying through the air the barracks of the CIA in Libya. Such a counter-revolutionary hatred is because they want no remains or trace of the enormous and heroic fighting and the organizations that the masses put on foot.
This military cadre of imperialism, now nicknamed 'general Supreme' Khalifa Heftar, declared that he began an offensive to "clean the city of Benghazi from terrorists". It is a slander to say "terrorist" to the masses by the fact of being Muslim, since all Libyans are Muslims. Calling all Libyan Muslims "terrorists" and pursue them for that is an excuse to go for the masses that rose in 2011. Their real deed is that they divided the army and armed themselves, put in place their militias, and today refuse to disarm and submit to the control and the chain of command of the new Libyan bourgeois state. In Libya there is a dual power that cannot be controlled by the new Libyan State. This situation is today what the breed of officers of the "new Libyan army" want to solve to their favor under the command of NATO, of which Heftar is nothing more than an outpost.
Therefore, it is clear that we have an attack of the propertied classes led by Khalifa Heftar. If it were imposed, it would have created the conditions for dissolving the dual power and establishing a new Government and stable regime of the bourgeoisie and the big imperialist MNCs. These require "order" in society, and disciplining the exploited to be able plunder freely at and their leisure, oil from Libya, which is the fifth largest exporter to Europe in the OPEC. This counter-revolutionary offensive seeks to follow in the footsteps of the military coup in Egypt. It is held in the fall of Homs and strangulation and siege to the Syrian revolution. It is a link in a same counterrevolutionary chain.
Libya, despite the slandering and isolating the revolution of 2011 by the entire WSF and the left, is the place where furthest came the great revolts and revolutions against hunger, misery and the imperialist plundering which starred the masses of the region. Here it was destroyed the khadafista breed of officers and a true regime of dual power opened with armed masses. This situation, where there are two powers within a State, cannot be sustained over time. The bourgeoisie feels forced to disarm the masses.
The  GNC and its Kaddafist politicians, which was made up as "kind" and "democratic", has come to pouring water on the fire of the revolution. Meanwhile they were trying to regroup reactionary forces in the streets in order disarm the rebel masses. This "weak" Government was putting together a new breed of officers with the old Kaddafist Generals, to put up a "new army", what included opening a fusion process with the  highest, more privileged, and collaborationist layers from the rebel militias.
This regime of dual power prevents the arising of a strong Government that could discipline the masses, and create for imperialism a new stable period of plundering of the riches of the Libyan nation.
All the bourgeois and imperialists today mourn Khadafy and his counterrevolutionary regime. The club of the "weeping widows of Khadafy" left, whom they painted as "Socialist" and "anti-imperialist", would not be able to explain why today his generals, under the command of NATO and the CIA, and  supported by the US fleet in the Mediterranean, have launched an offensive for the  crushing and disarmament of the masses, which are the true authors of the defeat of the murderous regime and the Government of Khadafy, direct agent of British Petroleum and the Italian ENI.
The cynicism that pictured Khadafy as a "Socialist" and "anti-imperialist" fighter is today again exposed. The old Kaddafist Generals, educated by NATO today lead a coup to crush the armed masses, the same that were yesterday accused by the ESF and its minions of being "counter-revolutionary forces" for the single "crime" of fighting for bread and defeating Khadafy.
To the left of Obama (who is still mourning the death of US Ambassador that organized hundreds of CIA terrorists secret prisons in Maghreb and Middle East), the mask falls off them today. They have looked and continue looking the other way, playing the naïve fool, keeping a shameful and complicit silence before thousands of attempts to crush the heroic revolutionary masses from Libya, their rebel militias and their insurrected working class.
Small surprise! They come from supporting Al - Assad and other accomplices of Obama and imperialism in Geneva II, as the FSA, which have  agreed with Dog Bashar the surrender of the Syrian masses.
Since the meeting of the World Social Forum in Tunisia in 2013 of the lackeys of imperialism, grouped under the old flags of Stalinism waste, the social-imperialist parties , plus the traitors and renegades to the fourth international, a huge chain of counter-revolutions was opened to crush the 2011 uprisings of the masses of the region.
Egypt’s Coup, the counter-revolutionary outpost of the Ayatollahs of Iran saving Al - Assad, and the counteroffensive of Obama and Dog Bashar with their barrel bombs - that led more than 10 million workers and exploited in Syria to refugee camps in the borders - were the first steps in the settlement of the counter-revolutionary attempt.
In Tunisia, the left and the Trade Union bureaucracy, after the departure of the WSF - that honored Chavez there in its meeting- released a "rescue" plan of the bourgeois post-revolutionary regime, opening a transition that buttresed the shock of the masses with the hated Government of the Enahda and its semi-fascist forces that, like Salafism, were devoted to crush every action of the country's working class and revolutionary youth.
The Government of Tunisia , backed by the "francophile" left, including the "anti-capitalist" French party (NPA) only prepares, under the deceptive mantle of 'democracy', the conditions for a new coup, as in Egypt.
This is the Covenant of Geneva II, where treacherous directions of the international proletariat play a decisive role to strangle the revolutions of 2011.

With the excuse to “fight against terrorism”, Obama, NATO with the complicity of WSF have launched a huge counterrevolutionary offensive to establish its domain in the entire Maghreb and Middle East
In order to establish its plan, imperialism must smash the Libyan masses. The international proletariat cannot allow it!

From Conference Geneva II of Obama, Putin, Hollande and the direct agents of imperialism have launched a huge counteroffensive, with the excuse to “fight terrorism”.
With this excuse, after Homs fall, the masses near Hama, near Damascus, and the city of Deraa and Alepo, this is the main towns of the free area that are still in Syria. In the “fight against terrorism”, the murderer generals of Egypt put in jail and condemned to death more than 500 fighters of the revolution.

The Libyan masses put a limit to this counterrevolutionary offensive in their resistance. Form the worker neighbors of Benghazi the self defense committees were set up again. They set up guards again, as they did 3 years ago against Khadafy. They have even taken anti air weapons to defend themselves from the planes. They went on fighting with their class methods as they did the first days of the revolution, with generalize weapons, with their own bodies. As a consequence of that, Heftar troops went back, despite their heavy weapons and the planes.

The answer that halted, for now, the attack of the forces commanded by imperialism was not only in Benghazi. There were demonstrations in support of the Benghazi exploited hitting the heart of the armed forces in the city of Tripoli. There, workers and revolutionary youth gathered around the barracks of the army high command and blocked them. The generals, were in fact hostage, since the action of the exploited prevented them to leave. They clearly identified who were the enemies that attack the masses today. Therefore, the masses marched to Tripoli, the Libyan capital, and held their fighting measures to cease the attacks on Benghazi.

It was then, before the counterrevolutionary attack of Heftar, workers and revolutionary youth responded and arrested momentarily on Friday 16/5. There were 79 dead and 141 wounded on both sides. Heftar forces had to go back, claiming "we are going back, this is not over."
Today in Libya, the masses resist the imperialist counter-offensive that seeks to go for "the capital of the revolution" as Tunisia, Homs, Tahrir Square in Cairo and Benghazi itself.

Facing the mass response from the masses who defeated the attempt to smash counterrevolutionary cynically CNG's government sought to relocate. During the day of the attack, there were silence and troops of the armed forces jointed Heftar command. Just the other day, GNC broke his silence. Heftar stated that he did not act under the orders of the government, but on his own, and that the government his actions but what Heftar wanted to do was "a coup." Benghazi airport was also closed and it was declared in the city a "no fly zone".  

What really ​​the government was to get momentarily unstuck with Heftar, since he found a huge response of the exploited. Even the government declared "that the army is with the people and the revolution, and are not part of the Heftar group". They hide that the troops of "new Libyan army" were part of the attack against the exploited in Benghazi, and quickly they went with Heftar bands to smash the revolution, even getting rid off the government of GNC, which is not consider necessary to defend the imperialist property.

The hit of Heftar is the first step of a counterrevolutionary counteroffensive at great scale

The imperialist press stated that in Libya the ones who attacked the armed masses were “the leal forces of Hertar, many of them came from the army itself”. They also reported that although there was a new Lybian army, the chief of command was very weak and the individuals as generals and Coronels as Heftar, have a huge influence and could lead an independent sector of the government. It is an excuse to cover what real happens: an attack to the masses to impose the counterrevolution and define the situation for the imperialism.

With this attack and counterrevolution plan, from the self defense committees, from the revolutionary militias, who are not under the direct command of the GNC, setting up factory committees and establishments, of oil workers and the revolutionary youth in the entire Libya: it is necessary to centralize all the revolutionary forces into a National Congress with rank and file delegates to defeat the GNC government and dissolve its new army with the Khadafy officer caste, so enemy of the revolutionary masses as Heftar.

It is a matter of death or life to coordinate and centralize al the rebel Kativas of Libya to smash the attempt and disarm the “new army” general caste. It is not possible to allow a new Khadafist blood bath against the masses.
GNC, with its Khadfafy politician conspire from behind against the masses. The fight to impose a revolutionary provisional government of the worker organizations and the militia rebels is the only way for the masses. It is a death and life task so they are not smashed and strangles by the revolution.

The trenches are clear during these fights. The world left must say what they did facing the world proletariat. The “club crying for Khadafy” who slander the masses calling them “land troops of NATO” would have to give explanations, now the real land troops of NATO attack the revolutionary masses.
The silence which sieges the slaughter in Syria and this counterrevolutionary hit in Libya condemned them and place them with a sting in their forehead, which will not be ever cleaned.

At the same time there were other groups from the world left that in Libya supported openly the transitional governments, saying that they were “democratic”. They are today with the GNC. They supported the “democratic” generals of the FSA under the NATO command and Turkey in Syria. They were the ones who strangles from within the Syrian masses in the “free areas”, to strangle the Syrian revolution to imperialism in the negotiation table of Geneva II.

.In Tunisia, claiming “to be left” and fight for “socialism”, they support the judges and politicians of Ben Ali, who full the jails with the ones they call “terrorist. Those are just anti imperialist fighters and fight for the Palestinian cause.

In their fight “against terrorism”, imperialism is follow by the entire left of Obama. They kept silence on the biggest terrorist and murderous of the region who is the Zionist State of Israel and the US troops in the Mediterranean. They are the last guarantee for the imperialist transnational companies in the region.
At the same time they are silence on the terrorist forces of the French imperialism who invaded Mali.
The terrorism from the ones “above” is to keep plundering, starving the people and exploiting the masses, for them this is called “democracy”. The fight for living, to defend the interest of the exploited ones against the imperialist plunder, the fight to self defense and get arm against the ones who murder and invade entire nations –as in Iraq and Afghanistan- and against the genocides as Al Assad, for them this is called “terrorism”.

The ones fighting now in Benghazi and Tripoli, to stop the current counterrevolutionary hit, they are the only “democratic” forces, who represent the absolute majority of the workers and poor peasants in Libya and the entire region. They must take power and expropriate without payment the transnational companies and the native bourgeoisie. They are the real fighters for freedom.

It is necessary to smash Heftar and his counterrevolutionary troops!
Dissolution of the “new Libyan army”, under the commands of GNC! From there the counterrevolutionary conspiracy of Heftar emerges, under the command of Obama and imperialism!
Enough with collaboration and submitting the Libyan militias under the GNC and his murdered officer caste!

For a National Congress of the revolutionary militias, factory committees, of oil workers and the revolutionary youth of the entire Libya! This is the only one who can take power, guarantee the food for the people, decent jobs and end with the imperialist plunder to the nation.
Only a revolutionary Provisional Government can prevent a bloodbath of the exploited ones in Libya.

A Provisional government of the rebel Katibas and the worker organizations is the only one who can expropriate without payment and under worker control the entire oil industry, in order to end with the plunder and give the hardest coup to the ones who command the counterrevolutionary attack today.
The oil for the Libyans! In order to guarantee wages, work and housings with decent conditions for the entire working class of Libya and their class brothers of the immigrant workers, health free and quality education and all the revolutionary demands.

For a Worker, Rebel and Revolutionary Libya!
Out with NATO! Out imperialism!

The Libyan masses cannot be isolated! The international working class must give the solidarity to the Libyan masses in these fights! 

Against the dog and genocide Bashar in Syria; against the coup of the “new Libyan army” and its Khadafist generals… In Syria and Libya is defended today the heroic revolution of the masses of Maghreb and Middle East.
From Tunisia to Palestine, a single fight. Down with the murderer military junta of Egypt! For the destruction of the Zionist-fascist state of Israel!

FLTI - Collective for the 4th International