The Independent Workers' Party condemns resolution N° 1973 by the United Nations Security Council, voted on Thursday March 17th, opening the way to a dangerous military escalation which will primarily hit the Libyan people and which can only worsen the terrible situation in which they already find themselves. This military escalation is a threat against all the nations in the regions, especially against the revolutions in Tunisia and in Egypt.
On this Friday March 18th, the media have announced:
“American President Barack Obama called Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron to coordinate their strategy. The European Union declared it was ready to “implement” the resolution within the limit of its authority. The question will be examined at a meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers to be held in Brussels next Monday, and then a Summit of Chiefs of States and Governments is planned on Thursday and Friday. At NATO too, representatives of the 28 member states are to meet on Friday to decide on the follow up actions to be taken after the United Nations resolution.”
The Arab League (excepting Algeria and Syria, who are opposed) is also being called on, in response to a request from Saudi Arabia whose army is meanwhile intervening in Bahrain to unleash savage repression on the population.
The excuse of “humanitarian intervention” to “protect the civilian population” is pure hypocrisy. Who is voicing this excuse? These are the very same ones who provided Gaddafi with all his military armament, the same ones who yesterday welcomed Gaddafi as a “respectable partner” in Bush's “war on terrorism” when he was privatising Libyan oil resources.
The Independent Workers' Party shares the views expressed in the International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples' March 5th2011 communiqué, in which it affirmed:
“These are the very same who, yesterday, invaded Afghanistan and Iraq and continue a murderous occupation there, and who are now engaging in military intervention in Libya. Such an intervention would not only be turned against the Libyan people but also against the revolutions in Tunisia and in Egypt.
It would be turned against the sovereignty of all the nations of the region, taking a further step after the establishing of AFRICOM, (the united command set up to co-ordinate all the military and security activity of the United States on the continent). It would be turned against all the peoples and all the workers, including those of Europe and of the United States, who are opposed to the privatizations, to the counter-reforms imposed by the IMF and by the European Union, to the undermining of national sovereignty.”
Any organisation that claims it speaks on behalf of the working class, of democracy and the right of peoples to self-determination which would – under any possible excuse – give its support to the intervention would thus accept to file in under the banner of the US British and French governments and would destroy any trust people could have in its capacity to abide by the principles its claims to hold on to.
The Independent Workers Party considers that, in these difficult times for the Libyan people, there can be only one position in conformity with the working class position of combat against any military intervention dictated by the sole defence of oil markets: that is, against the French, British and US government, against the United Nations, NATO and the European Union, to demand:
End the military intervention against Libya now!
Withdraw all the foreign troops!
No to bombing!
For the right of peoples to self determination!
Hands off the Libyan, Tunisian, Egyptian peoples!
Hands off the sovereignty of all the nations in the region!
Foreign troops, UNO, NATO, IMF, European Union: out of North Africa!
Claude Jenet, Jean Markun, Gérard Schivardi, Daniel Gluckstein,
National secretaries of the Independent Workers' Party.
March 18th2011 2.p.m.
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