Lizzie Phelan – 18th Jul 2012
Here is a statement regarding the International Youth Day to Condemn Imperialist Aggression, from the Libyan Popular National Movement, which was founded a few months ago as the political body of the majority of Libyans who support the Jamahiriyah and for that are being brutally persecuted by NATO and their proxies.
Statement from the Libyan National Popular Movement:
The Libyan National Popular Movement, which includes components of the institutions of Al-Jamahiriya, “the public system based on the power of the people”, which is the legitimate authority chosen by the Libyan people through the main public conferences, the sole legitimate representative of the Libyan people of all tribes and social classes, salutes this youth movement and the global revolutionary youth forces in this event which aims to mobilize the youth around the world to resist the imperialist and neo-colonialist attack.
And they would like to show the whole world that on the 8th of August, 2011 the brutal destruction against the peaceful, revolutionary people of Libya which started by NATO on March 2011, was completed after damaging most of the civil and military establishments as well as the infra-structure, houses, schools, mosques, churches, and archaeological sites by thousands of continuous airstrikes for 9 months that spared no one and no thing, pouring bombs and missiles on innocent people, where the destructive power of those airstrikes against Libya has leveled entire blocks and cities to the ground.
This aggression against Libya is just another episode of continuous Imperialist aggression against peaceful peoples since the end of World War 2. Tripoli is surely not the end of this tragedy just as Kabul and Baghdad were not; it is a total, continuous, brutal war that the Imperialist forces have launched without any justifications or any moral or legal restrictions.
Imperialism is trying to survive, by rejuvenating colonialism and direct and indirect hegemony through military interventions and imposing regimes that are financially dependent on Imperialism and are under its full control.
The Libyan National Popular Movement salutes the international youth that is aware of the Libyan people’s suffering, and is especially grateful to Nicaraguan youth their role in defying the Imperialistic project and for their support for the Libyan people, and through them sends regards and gratitude to the progressive revolutionary youth of Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas and confirms its persistence in resistance to defeat the Imperialistic project in Libya and to defend the liberty of the peoples of the world.
Glory for the Libyan martyrs,
Glory for all martyrs around the world who died fighting Imperialism.
Fighting imperialism? So all rebels were puppets of western imperialism? How ironic to say when Gaddafi made friendships with imperialist leaders like Silvio Berlusconi and he supported brutal dictators like Ben Ali and Mubarak. Also the former Libyan leader worked with the CIA against Islamic terrorism, there are reports about Libyan prisons used by the CIA to torture people.
Not to mention the luxurious houses of the Gaddafi family. His daughter owned a underground swimming-pool. This while Libya claimed to be a socialist people’s jamahiriya. The Libyan rebels were genuine and they had the full right to oppose Gaddafi. Because that dictator ruled for 41 years and never gave political power to the Libyans. Gaddafi was like king Idris, he banned political parties. The Jamahiriya was a lie and the Libyan Popular National Movement is nothing more then idiots who defend a regime that was not anti-imperialist at all. Just look at Air Libya a private owned airliner, or what about the capitalist stock market opened in 2007! Very capitalist things for a supposed socialist Libya.
I have no love for the pro-capitalist leaders of the current State of Libya. But many of them worked with Gaddafi and were already pro-capitalist then. Anti-imperialism died in Libya after 2003 when Gaddafi ended his isolation and reopened Libya for foreign capitalists. The luxury he and his family enjoyed was equal to that of king Idris. For a man win out any political positions, Gaddafi sure had luxurious palaces and a huge cult of personality!