December 2nd, 2013

The conditions for the working class and its organization to take power are starting to get rotten.
Imperialism supported by the LNC and the Khadafyist bases launch a furious counter offensive against the masses
The local bourgeoisie setting armies per city try to submit and control the militias that the LNC cannot control

There is no time to waste!
It is necessary to coordinate and centralize the dual power bodies of the exploited, the Kativas and the fighting worker organizations

Out with LNC, its politicians and Khadafyist army men,
supported by Obama and NATO!

Long live, the revolutionary general strike of the oil workers in Libya!

On November 18 we published an article on the counter offensive of the LNC government in Tripoli in order to disperse the city from the militias that have been settled there since the fall of Khadafy.
Again, the LNC government is placing reactionary forces in the streets that are officials of the civil service and the state apparatus that had worked under the orders of Khadafy.
In Benghazi, the local government has threaten not to pay their due wages to the city civil servants, with the excuse of the “oil workers strike which paralyzes the plant for their demands of wages and better work conditions, so the production of the oil per barrel has fallen almost to half and there are no funds to pay the wages”.
It is clear now that the LNC government, who seemed a “weak” and “good” one, had been preparing a trap against the masses at their backs, while these masses since March were carrying on a huge offensive for their demands.

The LNC government seemed a “good” and “friendly-to-the-people” government, able to be “pressured”.  The masses freed by the revolution –after Khadafy’s fall- settled their militias in charge in Tripoli to get a pro-people budget and the immediate demands of the exploited whom they represented. 

As we always remark, with the militia’s actions in May imposing the law so no Khadafyist could be at the government plus the development of the revolutionary strike of the Libyan oil workers in July, the relation between the classes became unbearable. The dual power, i.e. the LNC on one side and the armed masses and the revolutionary general strike on the other side (which allowed the Libyan masses to control oil output, the main source of wealth in the country,) the existence of two powers within the state became unbearable.
The LNC should take the control of the cities before launching any attack because the armed masses with their Kativas would never allow the new army of the LNC, under the CIA’s command, to attack openly the workers in strike and took them out of the plant that the workers controlled it.

LNC prepares a new attack, this time in Tripoli to defeat the militias in Libya’s capital

November 15 was the day designed to trigger the trap. It was prepared with precision by the LNC, the local bourgeoisie in the most important cities of Libya such as Tripoli, Misratah and Benghazi, who are the social base of Khadafism, and under the command of Obama and the agents of CIA they controlled the counterrevolutionary offensive against the masses.

When the reactionaries attacked the militias’ headquarters in Tripoli in the Garbur neighborhood (a place where the Khadafyist high bourgeoisie used to live and their houses were expropriated by the rebels), immediately the bourgeoisie of Misratah, Benghazi, Zaiten, etc., called the militias to return.
The way back to Misratah the official army attacked the militias, and they were disarmed and dissolved without being paid a single penny when they got at the city.
It was a carefully organized plan to disarm and discipline the masses. The key aim is to dissolve the dual power armed by the latter, i.e. the 250 thousand workers and youths that overthrew Khadafy.
The bourgeoisie planned to destroy the power of the exploited and this means to disarm them. They are running against the time. The revolution has reached a point where the exploited that came back with their weapons after overthrowing Khadafy have gone to take what they deserve: the oil, which was plundered by imperialism, so that they could conquer bread and dignity.  After Khadafy’s fall, the imperialist oil companies were controlled by their private security guards whose numbers even increase in thousands.

The successful workers returned and were looking for what they deserved as they were who fought against Khadafy and won. The very same Khadafyst men of the oil companies were in charge of their management. Wages were the same. Work conditions were even worse. Since July revolutionary strike waves of the oil workers erupted from East to West. These strikes dispersed the private guards of ENI, Total, Repsol, and were checked by the militias, so that the workers themselves could start selling the oil to the boats near the docks.

The government, at the back, was forming an army with the Khadafyist officers, which cannot attack directly the militias nor disarm them, for that reason it was necessary to beforehand launch reactionary forces in the streets and involve the local bourgeoisie from different cities so the militias could either get disarmed or accept to be legalized as part of the official army.

The government did the same with this strike in Tripoli as it had done before in Benghazi; it is now trying to do the same with the oil strikes, blaming the oil workers forthe lack of supplies and the paralyses in the cities.

Both the US congress and Navy fleet in the Mediterranean Sea with the French imperialist command in Mali lead all the political operations and this counter offensive of the reaction in Libya. This general staff has centralized all the bourgeois fractions to attack the masses. The bourgeois fractions of each city can maneuver at will to their favor the militias and the oil workers in struggle in Libya, because in spite of the latter’s controlling –with the dual power- the most outstanding spots of economic power in Libya, they are not centralized or coordinate at national level, but isolated city per city. 
There was a central agreement among the bourgeoisie of Misratah, Benghazi and Tripoli under the US command of how to share the 37 thousands million of dollars of the oil wealth with the BP, ENI, etc.  This agreement has been sealed from above.

As we stated, the turning point for this counteroffensive were two events which expressed that the Libyan revolution could open again; this means putting under the risk the expropriation suffered by the bourgeoisie and the Khadafy generals.  This is risking the government, which expropriated –with the bourgeoisie and the Khadafy generals- the revolution.

This new revolutionary offensive which was and is on attacks directly the bourgeoisie, LNC which covers the imperialist plunder in Libya when the masses defeated the direct agent Khadafy.

On one side, and we insist on that again, as it was the offensive in May when the militias settled in Tripoli imposed the law of “political isolation” taking even the parliament and threatening to dissolve the LNC to make all the officials who were with Khadafy´s government to leave. At that moment, the militias took physically and with their weapons the parliament and threatened to dissolve the LNC. This made, for example the current prime Minister and all his cabinet to dismissed because they were officials in Khadafy´s government.

LNC attempted to cover itself facing this offensive calling other “council of notables” of all the Libyan cities in order to write another constitution that includes the law that no Khadafy’s men can be in the government. Plain demagoguery, as this government is not able to go on without committing suicide, while the armed militias are aiming at them in Tripoli. This is the way so far the LNC could be on feet. But the lie is over. The “political isolation” law could never be applied since the men in the government, the state and the public officials in Libya are all former Khadafyist men, agents of imperialism which plunder the nation. The clashes were inevitable. The bourgeoisie set the time. “On November 15 all the militias must leave Tripoli, and on December 31st, they must give up their weapons”.

The congress voted this law in May under the pressure “in extremis”, i.e. with the gun of the militias pointing to their temples. The most radical sector of the militias was in for the overthrow of the state apparatus because the entire corps of officials was Khadafy men.
The bourgeoisie could not work “normally”. The exploited’s power felt “strong” and this fed the illusion that they could make the LNC comply with the demands the masses asked. In this path, the power of the exploited disorganized step by step the bourgeois state. Facing this, the bourgeoisie decided that it had to smash the exploited’s power in order to stabilize its institutions of dominance, before this second revolutionary offensive of the masses could develop and dissolve the bourgeois institutions which had expropriated the Libyan revolution: LNC ad its fake parliament full of Khadafyist politicians.

The LNC recovers Tripoli to reestablish its dominance and the bourgeois power and tries to prepare the conditions for new counterrevolutionary blows against the masses in struggle

As it happened before the insurrection which settled scores with Khadafy, in 2013 through the occupation of the congress in Tripoli in May and the oil workers’ strike it was put on the agenda that the working class centralize their bodies at national level and take power to fulfill the masses’ program of “out with the covert Khadafists ” in order to get bread and put an end to the widespread suffering.

The dual power was not centralized; this lived in the armed masses in the strike oil workers committees and in the delegations of the militias settled in Tripoli. The expulsion of the militias in Tripoli was a key factor to establish the LNC government in the Libyan capital and re-establish the military power of the first body of Khadafy’s army. Now it is under the direct command of LNC, which is the same, as in Khadafy’s times, as to say under the command of Obama.

This plan has been named “Libyan shield”; now, this is a shield against the revolutionary masses of Libya.

A weakened government in crisis takes again the control of Tripoli.  This makes even more crucial for it to disperse the dual power of the masses… in the different cities, the local bourgeoisie makes an agreement with the LNC and tries to build again, in fact, the old “tribe councils” of Khadafy’s times. But they will be able to move forward along this path only if they can smash the militias and the revolutionary strike of the oil workers.

Other bourgeois fractions did not sign in the agreement, as the Islamic brigade, called Ansar Al Sharia, which is an expression of the Islamic Salafist bourgeoisie that disputes the Libyan oil in the East to the bourgeois fractions linked directly with the LNC. Even more, at the eastern ports this bourgeois fraction has threatened to set oil companies with their own names, which trade the oil with the world market.
The military clashes with the army of LNC in Benghazi are open. There is no doubt that this Islamic bourgeois fraction is on behalf of the “anti-imperialist fight” in Iraq and Syria and could organize and give a path of the hate of the most militant of the working class and youth against the LNC government and imperialism in Benghazi.
This also means that in this crisis local bourgeoisies emerge. They want to trade with imperialism and other fractions, supporting themselves on the masses, want to benefit from the oil profit.  This is also used by imperialism to control any mass radicalization process that could escape from the LNC, because turning these militias into an array of army-parties, as we can see in Syria, is another alternative to submit the masses’ dual power to the bourgeoisie.

The use of the “sharia”, the Islamic justice, is the form this bourgeoisie applies to take under its total control the masses it needs to stir in order to bargain with imperialism, but at the same time it completes that control with the discipline of the army-parties.  It is useful from the strategic point of view of the entire bourgeoisie and the imperialist plan, to dissolve the masses’ dual power.
The clashes between the LNC and these militias settled in the neighborhoods of the exploited and the youth of Benghazi are getting more violent day by day, while the LNC and the Salafist bourgeoisie meet everyday discussing the percentage of the oil wealth for their different fractions in the east of Libya.

The dual power of the masses failed to achieve its centralization. During their offensive, between May and November the new opportunity was lost to conquer the conditions for the seizing of power.
It is indubitable that the crisis of the working class leaderships prevented the Libyan masses from resolving to their favor the circumstances created by their offensive against the Khadafyist government of the LNC. The latter was pending from a thread, fenced by the militias in Tripoli and afterwards by the revolutionary general strike in the oil wells. This government made believe the masses that it was giving in, conceding the masses a constituent for applying the “political isolation” (of the former Khadafyist elements, NT); that was only, however, a smokescreen to gin time and launch the present counterrevolutionary blows. The masses couldn’t go to the end and throw down the government; thus, it could prepare this trap and the subsequent counterattack.  

The Russian Revolution of 1917 had its calendar from its start in February up to its October success. In July, the masses had already made theirs the Bolshevik slogan “out with the capitalist ministers from the provisional government!”;though they had not so far won over the majority of the poor peasants; moreover the workers still believed that hey could get something from the government by means of applying “pressure” on it, including with armed mobilizations. In similar conditions to those, of illusions still prevailing, of armed rallies to “pressure” the LNC, together with revolutionary strikes expecting to force the government to concede, but without throwing it down, the fights developed from May to July in Libya. The government could not yet react; it was not fully prepared to. But the masses gave it precious time as they did not advance to make it fall, and so the LNC was able to mount a smokescreen of elections and to counterattack in November.

In revolutionary Russia, the workers organized a big march in Petrograd with the slogan “out with the capitalist ministers”. They marched in confidence, they thought they could pressure the government that they believed was theirs. The bourgeoisie was waiting for them, ready to smash the Petrograd proletarians. Those were the “July Days”, a trap, a deception and a harsh blow for the Russian Revolution, one that could no extinguish the energy of the masses, but made the revolution retreat many steps. In Libya, the revolutionary pressure fights of the masses took the government by surprise, disconcerting it. Thus, it answered late, in November. The oil strike demonstrated in Libya who are that really produce its riches, who is the true owner of the nation, i.e., the proletariat, instead of imperialism. It was only necessary to centralize the dual power of the militias and the strike committees all over Libya and the exploited would have seized the power.

The crisis of revolutionary leadership has sharpened to an utmost degree in Libya these last few months. The masses have put the hell of a fight against their enemies. Though, contrariwise to Russia’s 1917, in Libya there is not and has not yet emerged an insurrectionist revolutionary party. In spite of that the masses, which have started an open break with the government and realized a huge experience, are now setting up true “milestones of socialism”. This is actually a hard blow against all the counterrevolutionary leaderships of the world proletariat, that accused them of being “agents of NATO and imperialism”, and stuck to the coattails of that assassin, Obama and Italian ENI’s agent, i.e. Khadafy.
The essential responsibility for the crisis of leadership of the Libyan proletarians falls on the shoulders of those who, while speaking in the name of the working class and its historic interests, ended in the trenches of Obama, the LNC, the Khadafyist and all the executioners of the heroic Libyan revolution. All of them were and are still stuck, as a true “Obama’s left hand” they are, to the coattails of Khadafy, his present epigones, the Italian ENI and the rest of Big Oil. That’s the only truth.

 
The revolutionary masses of Libya with their militias occupying the imperialist oil companies, while the shameless traitors as the Castro Brothers and other scum of the WSF selling out Cuba to imperialism AND THE MIAMI “GUSANOS”

Due to the crisis of the proletarian leadership, the bourgeoisie knows perfectly well that it cannot coexist with the exploited’s power and so it must smash it. To this it boils down the crisis of leadership of the masses.

In May the latter still believed that the government could be pressed to change its mind into their favor.

As we have said, the strike of 150 thousand oil workers all over Libya posed the question of who is the owner and producer of the wealth in Libya and who is stealing it, i.e. the imperialist MNCs.
From May to November the conditions to seize power developed as never did before. Because despite the reformist left –which look after the left pockets of the oil imperialist companies all over the world- wants to hide it, the conditions for the seizure of power by the proletariat to impose its dictatorship against capitalist and imperialist dictatorship existed, they were mature. Now, the imperialist-bourgeois counterattack indicates that those conditions are already decomposing.

The Militias in Tripoli were the ones who should have called in May to a big National Assembly to impose their law of “political isolation”, an assembly convening all the striking oil workers, their pickets and militias to send their delegates to a National Congress of Kativas and struggling committees so dual power would have been centralized and thus the seizure of power put at the reach of their hands.

This is the truth. This is what the den of bandits called World Social Forum, the club of mourners of Khadafy and NLC fan’s club want to hide: that in Libya after Khadafy’s fall, it started a huge revolution that dislocated the bourgeois state and its armed gang. This revolution armed the masses and posed the question of the expropriation of the people’s expropriators and the seizure of power by the workers and their allies, as immediate task.

For other lackeys of Obama’s left, the revolution had already triumphed in the moment Khadafy was overthrown. Actually it was just starting and began to be expropriated by the Khadafyist bourgeoisie in the former TNC.

Both views of the left, equally Khadafy’s friends as well as NLC’s friends, deny revolution and so they did not prepare the masses of Libya to seize power.
A revolutionary party, which could easily win the majority of forces among the militias and factory committees, would have had all the adequate conditions for heading a successful insurrection in those months above mentioned; it could have even put a date to it beforehand.

The crisis of leadership has become evident and a true tragedy for the masses of Libya and the international proletariat. The crisis of leadership boils down to treacherous leaderships who, while supporting Khadafy, pointed at the revolutionary masses charging them as being “agents of imperialism” and afterwards they were those who on behalf of an alleged “democratic revolution” called the masses to trust their “democratic allies” like the NLC.

The conditions to organize an insurrection existed from May to November. The deep crisis of those in the top, the masses’ revolutionary uprising, the power of the enemy fenced: those were the conditions. Missing was the centralization of dual power, the complete independence from the bourgeoisie and all its fractions both nationally and locally; in order to achieve it, they should have had to centralize themselves. Tripoli was where the exploited’s power should be concentrated to prevent the power of the revolution expropriators to be re-armed.

Today in Libya imperialism wants to increase its counterrevolutionary counteroffensive to be able to smashing completely the revolutions in Maghreb and Middle East

Imperialism learnt from the Libyan experience, with the huge crisis opened after Khadafy’s overthrow by the masses. They were armed while the bourgeois army got destroyed. Taking Tripoli solved the revolution in Libya. This is why imperialism in Libya is making its first serious step of counteroffensive to retake Tripoli and establish there, strengthened, its puppet the NLC government.

By supporting Al Assad and his genocide in Syria, imperialism shows what it has learnt from Libya. It must support Bashar so he and his generals do not fall; moreover, it knows that Damascus cannot fall in the hands of the rebel masses. It learnt from the experience of Libya: in the capital –Tripoli- the beginning of the revolution was defined because there the bourgeois army and the Khadafyist officers were destroyed; there the dual power settled down.

In Syria imperialism knows that there is no FSA or Islamic Front able to controlling the masses if Damascus falls. This meant that the entire bourgeois state machinery -which boils down ultimately to the officer caste- would be dislocated.

In Libya imperialism wants to reconstitute the officer caste, disaggregating the militias, disarming the masses and setting again the officer caste, this time controlled by the NLC in Tripoli.

Imperialism with its current counterrevolutionary offensive wants to rebuild the state power that was dislocated by the beginning of the revolution that overthrew Khadafy.

 

These “July Days” against the Libyan revolution; this counteroffensive by the imperialists won’t be benevolent. Contrariwise, it will be a reckless, bloodthirsty one, because the imperialists and their agents are obliged to smash a long revolutionary offensive that started in Tunisia and has reached martyred Palestine.
The counterrevolutionary coup in Egypt, after the Syrian massacre, is another mlestone in this imperialist counteroffensive that seeks to settle down in Libya.
In Tunisia a scenery is being prepared like that in Egypt.  After using the Islamist bourgeoisies as expropriators of revolution and counterrevolutionary shock forces –look at the fate of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt-, the same is looming for Enahda in Tunisia, which has played that role and today is confronting a new revolutionary assault of the masses.
The bourgeoisie, supported by the UGTT and the left (PCOT and NPA) has mounted a “National Dialoguing Board”, that alleges to be a “democratic” one, so including the old forces of the deposed dictator Ben Ali. They are preparing an orderly exit of the Enahda, before this is thrown down by the masses’ revolutionary offensive.
But there exists an iron alternative: either the masses, after the fall of the Enahda, take the power, or what comes is not “more democracy”. We have already seen that in Egypt. What comes behind the smokescreen of the “Democratic Front”, unless the exploited take the power, is the strengthening of the so called “democratic generals” of Ben Ali’s… in short, what the “Democratic Front” of the UGTT bureaucracy and the social-imperialist left is preparing is the new ascent to power of the “democratic” generals of Ben Ali’s who will establish “order y democracy”… Egypt-fashion.
En the revolution in Maghreb and Middle East, today beaten by the counterrevolutionary counteroffensive of imperialism, all the pseudo-theories and programs that are against the proletarian revolution.
The bourgeoisie is merciless. Its general staffs have learnt from each experience from the revolution that hit it in the region. The proletariat had not a General Staff at the same level. The masses demonstrated that they have given the hell of a fight all the time along. We are living one of the most heroic revolutionary processes of this epoch of crises, wars and revolutions, in Maghreb and Middle East.
The treacherous leaderships of the proletariat have re grouped their forces, which are coordinated by their chiefs from Wall Street for fencing and strangling the revolutionary processes. The apparatuses legated by the defeats of the past, as the ’89, as the Stalinist scum supported by the renegades to Trotskyism, turned again to control the revolutionary upheaval that started in 2008 at a world level, carrying it to a blind alley, up to now, and allowing to a ferocious imperialist counteroffensive.
As Trotskyism poses for the young revolutionary parties in the War Manifest in 1940, it is not about an only and alone revolution, but of a whole period of revolutions and counterrevolutions that is open.
The working class is giving and will give one and a thousand opportunities for maturing and forging its cadres and strengthening its revolutionary theory and program.
Today the Libyan question puts in the center of the scene not only an imperialist bourgeois counteroffensive, but also the possibility that that the revolutionary international vanguard draws the lessons from this huge revolution. In it there was posed in these last few months, the necessity and the possibility of organizing, if a revolutionary party existed there, an insurrection, including dating it; the lack of a revolutionary party prevented that and the bourgeoisie dated its counterrevolutionary counteroffensive: November 15.
The conditions for the success of the revolution have started to rotten a little… though, the last word has not been pronounced.
Effectively, the bourgeoisie and its government in Libya have accomplished a provisory victory. They have taken the militias out of Tripoli; have weakened the dual power in the capital city. It is a huge conquest that recreate the conditions for strengthening a bourgeois government that was pending from a thread, and beginning a reconstitute the bourgeois state and the armed forces of the LNC, this time yes, under the command of the NATO, as yesterday was Khadafy and his murderous generals.
It is a partial and provisory victory. Today reaction prevails, it is feeling strengthened; also there are emerging new bourgeois fractions that seek to control the hatred of the masses, as for example the appearance of Islamist “anti-imperialist” forces, which are discussing in the backroom their share of the oil rent while they control the masses strictly.
Though, here the core question is: the demands that motorized the masses towards the opening of revolution have not been met. Neither the bread, for which the exploited gave their lives, has been got, nor has ended the imperialist looting of Libya; imperialists take away the country richness, as is oil, leaving only hunger and misery reigning all over the place. Much less has been the thirst for justice of the masses placated, as the murderous Khadafyist had not been chastised; contrariwise, having been let hide in the shadows, today they come again to the light in the hands of the LNC.
This is not the time for beating a retreat. It is the moment for regrouping the exploited, for coordinating and centralizing the militias and the strike committees, so that they are not subdued by thr bourgeoisie and disarmed. This is the core task for the moment. The oil general strike goes on as another determinant factor in the present conditions in Libya.
Starvation and squalor has not ceased for the masses; the task of expropriating imperialism, its oil companies and Banks, without compensation, in order to recoup what the Libyan people has been robbed of, is both immediate and decisive for the proletariat and the masses to take it as their commitment.

Achieving the independence of the dual power, attacking the propriety of the expropriators of the people, conquering the break off from all factions of the bourgeoisie… those are the necessary conditions for defending the revolution and its organizations in the present conjuncture of imperialist counteroffensive in Libya.
Detachments of revolutionary workers and youth of the militias have not yet finished leaving Tripoli. Neither the full forces of the LNC army nor this same puppet government are able to dislodge them yet.
The militias defend themselves because the youth and the advanced workers have started to understand that the best missile they have against this Khadafyist LNC is the expropriation of the capitalists. The militias that resist in Tripoli do not cede to the government or its army the properties of the Khadafyist government that they have expropriated; moreover, they have redistributed them among the hundreds of thousands of exploited that don’t have a decent housing in Tripoli. This is the way the Libyan revolutionary militias resist!
ENI’s pipeline that starts in Melita and reaches Italy going under the Mediterranean Sea is still closed. Its workers closed it… The last word has not been pronounced. From the relationship that the militias are able to establish with the strike committees of the oil workers, which are swarming in the deep Libya, it will depend to a large extent the future of this revolution. The Libyan revolution deserves to live and succeed, because it is decisive to stop this imperialist counteroffensive all over the region.
The necessity for a revolutionary party has become crucial. The world reformist left supports the Castro Brothers and the other friends of Obama’s that has become into the cruelest executers of the world proletarian revolution. Others have taken the banner and the flags as “democratic” left wing of Obama’s, of the FSA as in Syria, the “national boards for dialoguing” as in Tunisia and the “Tamarod movements” as in Egypt, putting the proletariat to the feet of the democratic bourgeoisies that end massacring the workers and the masses as the LNC does, or giving in the democracy to the arms of the generals as they did in Egypt with the military dictatorship.
The condition for standing up on its feet a revolutionary leadership is combating, at an international level, against the stranglers and liquidators of revolution in Maghreb and Middle East as those grouped in the den of bandits of the World social Forum, either in its variant of “friends of Khadafy and Al Assad” or in that reuniting the liars that presented as “revolutionary” and “democratic” victories the ascent of governments, which, as the LNC came in the name of democracy to expropriate the proletarian revolution, and now are trying to smash it as in Egypt and Tunisia.
Due to the betrayal of the international leadership of the proletariat, the Libyan working class has not yet been able to identify the world working class as its great ally for victory. In imperialist Europe, millions of immigrants are treated as outcasts and many of them die in the Mediterranean while fleeing from the misery and the counterrevolutionary wars. The social imperialist parties treat the heroic youth and workers from the Middle East as “barbarian peoples” to whom they “bring democracy”. Here you are!... look at the “democracy” you kneel before! It is the Syrian genocide and the imperialist gangs looting the riches of that entire region!
The Libyan oil workers have taken over the Spanish Repsol, France’s Total, Italian ENI, British BP, Bush and Obama’s Chevron. It would be enough if the US, French, Italian, British, Spanish working class came out with the cry: “The real enemy is at home!!!”, and marched to support the fight against the imperialist oil companies confronting their “own” imperialists in the streets of Rome, London, Paris, New York and Washington, Madrid, and shut the ports in solidarity with their brothers the port and oil workers in Libya.
The agents of the worker aristocracy and bureaucracies in Maastricht’s Europe, use to speak about the “backwardness” of the Libyan workers, just in a moment when the latter are attacking the property of the imperialist oil companies that pilfer the riches of their nation. In these conditions, the circumstances to put up a revolutionary party in Libya are against the current, because the same treacherous left and bureaucracies that yesterday supported Khadafy –who spoke in the name of socialism while starving nd massacring his people- today shows the cold shoulder to the heroic oil strikes that attack the same MNCs that are enslaving, robbing their wages and retirement payments, and destroying the jobs and the future of the youth and the workers in Europe and the rest of the imperialist powers.
The Libyan working class has also filled up with martyred fighters the Syrian carnage created by Murderous Dog Bashar Al Assad and Putin the Butcher. It celebrated the fall of Khadafy with the Palestine flags waving in the squares of Tripoli. The same as the Syrian masses it was left and remained isolated, so the imperialists could advance there with a ferocious genocide. The vanguard of the Libyan working class is a practicing internationalist, in spite of those imbecile ones in Europe who speak in the name of socialism but only support their own bourgeoisie. That’s why it is necessary to tell the truth to the international and Libyan working class: the Libyan workers are again today the vanguard of the entire world working class.
The last word has not yet been pronounced. We Trotskyists know that due to the betrayal to our world party, the revisionists and opportunists could put our flags, the clean flags of revolutionary Marxism to the feet of the worst traitors to the world proletariat: Stalinism and Social Democracy. The same they do today before the Castro Brothers and the Cuban generals who have become into a new billionaire bourgeoisie in Cuba, allied to the Miami “gusanos”.
But this new Libyan working class movement is also emerging and realizing its first great revolution without this Stalinist and Social Democrat scum  molding, controlling and disarming them. Because there is an armed revolutionary working class, oil strikes lasting three or four months, in which the workers kick off the old Khadafyist and imperialist managements of the companies, take over their refineries with their strike committees and from the ports call the tankers to be charged by them, selling as their true owners the Libyan oil, the riches of their own nation.
This is the source of the LNC’s fury and its offensive against the cities.  We Trotskyists know that the Libyan revolution is giving us new opportunities for putting in place an insurrectionist party, on the condition that we collaborate with the Libyan masses for coordinating and centralizing their organizations of power. We know that fighting for coordinating and centralizing Trotskyism and the fourth International will gain authority for leading to the victory the Libyan revolution.
We know that we have an enormous responsibility. Today we see all the renegades to Trotskyism staying far, very far from the battlefields of the Maghreb and Middle East. The “democratic” factions of the world social forum, which only peep from Turkey the Syrian massacre form afar, have taken the Free Syrian Army officers and their bourgeois backers –the ‘democracies’ of Qatar and turkey- as their spokespersons and representatives in the region, who only come to disarm and control the masses in the zones that have been liberated of the murderous troops of Al Assad.
In Libya, neither the “Khadafy Mourners Club” nor those that supported the pseudo-democratic governments that expropriated the revolution can speak about socialism or the taking of the power by the workers. Those flags are now resting in the hands of us, Trotskyists who fight for founding anew the fourth International. The fight for standing up on its feet a revolutionary party is a necessity for this same and only revolution that has started in Tunisia, el Maghreb and Middle East, martyred Palestine included. In that revolution, the conflicts between the classes are resolved, more and more, weapons in hand.
Reformists cannot any more speak about reforms. Those who have betrayed the proletariat are exposed at each step. What we are living in the revolution in the Maghreb and Middle East is the falling to pieces of the fiction invented by those who made the world masses believe there was an “Arab Spring” and “democracy” and not the start of socialist and worker revolutions which imperialism would confront cruelly and bloodily; though this is what is happening and what we Trotskyists had announced.
In “Wither France?” (1934) Trotsky said “After the war a series of brilliantly victorious revolutions occurred in Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary and later in Spain. But it was only in Russia that the proletariat took full power into its hands, expropriated its exploiters, and knew how to create and maintain a workers’ state. Everywhere else the proletariat, despite its victory, stopped half way because of the mistakes of its leadership. As a result, power slipped from its hands, shifted from left to right and fell prey to Fascism. In a series of other countries power passed into the hands of a military dictatorship. Nowhere were the parliaments capable of reconciling class contradictions and assuring the peaceful development of events. Conflicts were solved arms in hand.”
This is what is happening today in the Maghreb and Middle East, this time with imperialism waging a counteroffensive.

We Trotskyists have arrived to the battlefield and will be the last ones in leaving it.
Long Live the socialist Revolution! Long Live the Libyan Revolution! Open the way to the revolutionary workers!
Open the way to the coordination of the militias, the Kativas and the worker councils!
Down with the LNC! All the power to the exploited and their fighting organizations!
It is urgent to stop imperialism and its massacres in Syria and martyred Palestine!
It is urgent to come back to Tahrir Square in Egypt!
Down with the del between the UGTT, the Enahda and the armed forces of Ben Ali in Tunisia!
For one and only revolution! For the Socialist Worker States of the Maghreb and Middle East!
Open the way to the Fourth International!
It is imperative to put up a revolutionary party for the insurrection and the seizing of power in Libya, which will be only an episode in the socialist revolution of the entire region, Europe and at international level!

Libyan Revolutionary Militias of the
FLTI-Collective for the Fourth International