#libya

[smsomah]

Tuareg, Libya. Olivier Föllmi

[tomi4i]

America has now bombed and conducted illegal wars in:

- Iraq

- Syria

- Libya

- Somalia

- Pakistan

- Afghanistan

- Palestine

- Yemen

But Muslims are the terrorists?

[natoapologistblocker]

So I'd like to enlighten folks a little bit more about Libya. The 2011 intervention was, of course, an act of catastrophic imperialism that set us back decades, ruined the country, and continues to have ramifications for our overall development, but it's worth noting that Libyan socialism was suffering a steep crisis even before that. After the disarmament of unconventional weapons that we had undergone in 1999 as a response to the excruciating effects of international sanctions, the country was further disciplined through brutal IMF supervisory regimes that conditioned reintegration into the global economy on a series of "consultations" like Article IV's back-rolling of subsidies, the laying off of hundreds of thousands of public jobs (most Libyans were employed in the public sector to one extent or another), and then obviously the entry of foreign consumer products into the country because of low import taxes, creating a visible strata of transnational, nouveau riche Libyans who strutted around urban centers with their luxury cars, fashionable clothes, perfumes, and other products that were put out of the reach of an increasingly precarious Libyan population. The discrepancy between the new economic reality and the increasingly hollow rhetoric of the Green Book, whose legitimacy rested on revolutionary redistribution and public service, had gradually eroded ideological loyalty. This is not entirely Gaddafi's fault (or the Jamahiriyya's fault in general), but after the Cold War isolated socialist countries, they had little in the way of trade or development but to succumb to these pressures, but the effect had already come about. The feeling of relative deprivation that Libyans suffered, coupled with the influence of increasingly visible foreign media and standards of living, mobilized people into rebellion. NATO was just the instrument that turned this rebellion from a domestic matter into an opportunity for global capitalists, but the festering had begun long before they stepped in, and in fact the IMF, the World Bank, and the Washington Consensus in and of themselves are to blame more than the UNSC or NATO.

This is exactly why I admire the PRC and Vietnam; contrary to "anti-revisionist" whining, those countries managed to navigate and avoid the exact pitfalls that my Libya plummeted headfirst into. It's largely not our fault, of course, as our conditions were very different, but it's definitely worth watching and learning instead of bible-thumping the quotations of Mao Zedong and misreadings of Lenin.

[folkfashion]

Libyan child's dress, Libya, by MohamedTamer96

[arinzeture]

[kropotkindersurprise]

June 10, 2025 - The "Soumoud" convoy (meaning "steadfastness" in Arabic) with over a thousand volunteers from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, left Tunisia on its way to Gaza, with the goal of breaking the blockade and bringing aid to the Palestinian population being starved and bombed by the genocidal Israelis. The caravan plans to meet up with the Global March To Gaza in Cairo, Egypt.

Over 10,000 join global solidarity march for Gaza to demand end to blockade A global solidarity march for Gaza, involving over 10,000 participants from 32 countries, began on Sunday to challenge 'Israel’s' blockade of the enclave and demand an end to the ongoing war. Organized by the Global March to Gaza coalition, the campaign seeks to deliver humanitarian aid and show worldwide support for Palestinians facing genocide. The marchers, hailing from Europe, North and South America, and several Arab and Asian nations, will convene in Cairo on June 12 before heading to al-Arish in northeastern Egypt. From there, they plan to march on foot to the Rafah border crossing, where protest tents will be set up, pending approval from Egyptian authorities, who remain cautious about public demonstrations. The Algerian "Caravan of Steadfastness" was among the first to mobilize, departing Algiers on Sunday to join a Tunisian convoy. Carrying Palestinian and Tunisian flags, the group crossed into Libya via the Ras Jadir border and will travel through Tripoli, Misrata, Sirte, Benghazi, and Tobruk, aiming to reach Egypt’s Salloum crossing on June 12 and Rafah by June 15.

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[komsomolka]

Muammar Gaddafi's son assassinated in Libya amid reports of French 'meddling' in Africa

A Russian intelligence report revealed that France is seeking to 'eliminate undesirable' anti-colonial leaders in Africa

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the prominent son of former Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, was assassinated by unknown gunmen in Libya on 3 February. Gaddafi was killed in his home in the town of Zintan, 136km southwest of the Libyan capital, Tripoli. Gaddafi’s political team released a statement saying that “four masked men” stormed his house and killed him in a “cowardly and treacherous assassination.” [...]

Gaddafi served as his father’s close advisor from 2000 until 2011, when Muammar Gaddafi was killed by NATO-backed militants with links to Al-Qaeda. As part of the so-called Arab Spring in early 2011, British and Qatari intelligence organized an army led by members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) to topple the Libyan state. [...]

Saif al-Islam’s assassination comes as France has reportedly been preparing “neo-colonial coups d’etat” in Africa and seeking opportunities for "political revenge" on the continent, according to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service’s (SVR) press bureau. [...] The SVR added that France was involved in the attempted coup against military leader and President Ibrahim Traore in Burkina Faso last month. [...] The SVR said France was also seeking to destabilize the governments of Mali, the Central African Republic, and Madagascar.

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