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The death of Anwar al-Awlaki

The death of Anwar al-Awlaki

(new-power.org)

The death of Anwar al-Awlaki is not only another murder at the hands of imperialists, but it also reveals that the First World “legal system” is a sham.  We often see the United  States violate their own international “law,” however they are usually not so blatant about the violation of domestic law.  This is an exception. Anwar al-Awlaki was an American born citizen.  The drone attack against Awlaki is a deliberate attack against an American citizen without “due process.”

Liberal ideas of “moral superiority” hold no weight when the Unites States condemns others for “human rights violations” while simultaneously firing hellfire missiles at American citizens. The United States easily gets away with the murder of non-American citizens, including noncombatants, but it is obvious now that the United States can kill its own without condemnation. This is not a war on terrorism, it is a war of the First World against the Third World.

This was not collateral damage either.  Awlaki was not the tragic casualty of a carpet bombing. Awlaki has been deliberately targeted in the past. His death was at the hands of two predator drones. Not only was he targeted, but his murderers were hundreds of miles away, deliberately ending his life as if it were a video game. Predator drones are the newest dehumanizing weapon in the imperialist arsenal, successfully separating assailants from their victims both physically and emotionally.

Awlaki’s father and the ACLU had been working on removing his son from the US “targeted killing” list since 2010. They stated:

“The United States is not at war in Yemen, and the government doesn’t have a blank check to kill terrorism suspects wherever they are in the world. Among the arguments we’ll be making is that, outside actual war zones, the authority to use lethal force is narrowly circumscribed, and preserving the rule of law depends on keeping this authority narrow.” (1)

This is an instance of the United States violating its own self-serving “legal code” and sense of morality. The United States only upholds its laws when those laws suit the needs of imperialists.  Awlaki’s rights didn’t assist the needs of imperialists, but the rights of Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, and Josh Fattal in Iran certainly did.  The United States was quick to denounce the Iranian government for “violating human rights” but allegations against the United States fall on deaf ears.

The imperialists will stop at nothing to exploit the Third World masses.  Not only will they kill and remove all that oppose their rule, like Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, and Osama bin Laden, but they will even kill their own citizens without arrest, charge or trial.  Imperialism knows no categorical imperative, only death and destruction. The United States claims to uphold law and order. They claim to fight the good fight. The reality is that they plunder and murder wherever it is strategically convenient.

The United States will never win the “war on terror,” they will only use it as an excuse to continue to exploit the 5 billion people of the Third World.  They will use the war to continue their consumerist lifestyle.  The First World bleeds the Third World.  Anti-imperialists like Awlaki are many, and where one falls, another picks up his gun and continues fighting. We uphold the broad united front.  The global struggle will have casualties, but our allies outnumber the assassins. We will win.  There is a revolutionary saying that the physical atom bomb is no match for the spiritual atom bomb. No amount of predator drones will ever hold down the spirit of the masses.  Leading Light Communism will lead the way to a world free of oppression.

Sources:

[1]http://seerpress.com/cia-on-the-verge-of-lawsuit/3341/

November 6, 2011 | Categories: Middle East, Yemen | Leave A Comment »

Qatar reveals it invaded Libya to aid so-called “rebels”

Qatar reveals it invaded Libya to aid so-called “rebels”

(new-power.org)

It is now being reveled for the first time publicly that armed forces from Qatar were operating against Gaddafi in Libya. Qatari chief of staff Maj. Gen. Hamad bin Ali al-Atiya stated:

“We were among them and the numbers of Qataris on ground were hundreds in every region.”

It was long known that Qatar, the West,  and other Gulf States, among others, had financed the so-called rebellion. It has been known that Al Jeezera, Qatar state-owned media company, had been the mouthpiece of the so-called “rebels.” Not only was Gaddafi faced with NATO and MI6 intervention, but Qatari military forces had boots on the ground too.

Even with all these forces arrayed against the Gaddafi regime, the regime fought tooth-and-nail for months. In fact, the regime was easily sweeping aside the so-called rebellion until NATO bombings changed the equation. This admission shows that what occurred in Libya was not simply a popular revolt by Libyans or a civil war, but an orchestrated plot that involved Western airpower, MI6, CIA, Gulf-state financing, and, now, even Qatari troops.

Source:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Oct-26/152269-qatar-admits-it-had-boots-on-ground-in-libya.ashx#axzz1cRBxL4wo

November 1, 2011 | Categories: Libya, Middle East, Qatar | Leave A Comment »

Prachanda says New Democracy isn’t possible

Prachanda says New Democracy isn’t possible

(new-power.org)

It is being reported that chairman Prachanda of the UCPN(Maoist) has now stated that New Democracy is not possible in Nepal. He justified this by stating:

“Things have undergone a sea change since the launch of the people´s war in 1996. We therefore have to adopt the policy of peace and constitution as per the changed context.”

And:

“If any of the comrades refuse to acknowledge this reality and insist on going for a revolt, they may choose to quit the party.”

The reversal of revolution in Nepal had been justified by the revisionists as a “substage” in the struggle for New Democracy. All the twists and turns, all the classic revisionist lines, were given cover by this formula. The claim was that New Democratic revolution was still the goal as a way to transition to socialism and communism, but a substage was needed in Nepal. The twisted path was not some elaborate plan to reach New Democracy, as the revisionists and their apologists continued to  claim even until recently. It was a blatantly revisionist course with a known endgame.

Many chose not to look at the science. Instead, they pimped off the movement in Nepal, even as it turned blatantly revisionist. Such cheer leading and movementarianism does not do the proletariat any good. The proletariat needs clarity and science. In this age of no socialist states, the burden is on us to carry the banner of revolutionary science, of the revolutionary tradition. The old lessons of revolution over reform, of New Power, of the united front, of people’s war, etc. must be taught, even if it requires us to swallow a bitter pill. The new lessons of the Leading Light must be taught also. We will go nowhere if we bow to opportunism, movementarianism and revisionism. Leading Light Communism is the way forward.

Source

1. http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-democracy-not-possible-says.html

October 25, 2011 | Categories: Asia, Nepal, Revisionism | Leave A Comment »

US kills more Africans with drones

US kills more Africans with drones

(new-power.org)

According to a recent report:

“The Friday attack took place near Ras Kamboni town in the Badhaadhe district of Lower Juba region near the border with Kenya, a Press TV correspondent reported.

In a similar incident late on Thursday, a US done attack killed 22 in Kudhaa Island in southern Somalia near the border with Kenya.

Somalia is the sixth country where the US military has conducted drone strikes.

The US has deployed bombing and intelligence drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq and Yemen to launch aerial missile attacks.

Washington claims the airstrikes target militants, though most such attacks have resulted in civilian casualties. “

The United States is trying to strengthen its grip on Africa at the moment. The toppling of the Gaddafi regime was not an isolated incident. Gaddafi, whatever his flaws, was seeking to unite Africa so that Africa could better defend itself. He was a key player in the African Union. Obama’s regime has recently increased its activity in Somalia and also Sudan. Obama does not have the best interest of Africans at heart. He is an imperialist. Obama is a war president. Obama is guilty of war crimes.

It is also important to note the increasing use of drones as an instrument of imperialist policy. Drones are being used by the US in several conflicts right now. They are even being used on the Mexican border. The use of drones and airpower is a way to intervene at a distance. It is a way to engage in imperial war with little consequences in the court of imperial public opinion. In reality, the US is engaged in continuous war worldwide even though the US does not always put boots on the ground.

Leading Lights call for African and Third World unity against all imperialist intervention.

October 21, 2011 | Categories: Africa, Somalia, US | Leave A Comment »

US beating war drums: Mexico and Iran

US beating war drums: Mexico and Iran

(new-power.org)

A sensational story is being reported in the media. The FBI and DEA have claimed to foil a plot by Gholam Shakuri, an individual with alleged connections to the elite Iranian Quds Force. According to reports, Iranian agents operating in the United States were attempting to contact Mexican drug cartels in order to secure their help in blowing up the Saudi ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir. They also reportedly sought to supply the cartels with “tons of opium.”  US Attorney General Eric Holder held a press conference:

“High-up (Iranian) officials in those agencies … were responsible for this plot… I think one has to be concerned about the chilling nature of what the Iranian government attempted to do here.”

Iranian state television has rejected the accusations:

“The Islamic Republic of Iran has rejected U.S. accusations of the country plotting to assassinate the Saudi envoy to Washington as a prefabricated scenario.”

It is important to use common sense here. Even though Saudi Arabia and the United States, along with Israel, have been trying to prevent the growing regional power of Iran, the allegation against Iran has to be looked upon with great skepticism. Iran has little to gain from assassinating a single individual, especially an ambassador. Such a plot would be extremely risky. If the plot were uncovered, as it has been, it would  turn international opinion against Iran in diplomatic circles. It would also give the United States a reason to launch more attacks against Iran, especially Iran’s nuclear facilities. The United States and Israel have already been accused of targeting Iranian scientists. The discovery of “terrorism” on US soil would sway US public opinion for more military action against Iran.

We cannot say for sure whether Iran was involved or not, but this looks like elaborate psychological warfare. Not only does this elaborate plot stir up US public opinion against Iran, it also begins to lay the groundwork for linking the so-called “war on terror” to the so-called “war on drugs.” It begins to lay the basis for US intervention in Mexico if the situation in Mexico continues to degenerate. The United States is laying the groundwork for a possible intervention on Mexican soil. This may be the United States reacting to the possibility of the chaos of warlordism spreading into the United States. The United States may be preparing for this contingency. Another possibility is that the United States may have a direct hand in aiding the drug warlords in an attempt to break up and more easily control Mexico. We cannot say for sure. US predator drones are already operating on the border. In any case, it is important to note these trends.

Leading Lights oppose all imperialist intervention against Iran and Mexico.

October 12, 2011 | Categories: drug war, Iran, Mexico, Middle East, psywar, US | 1 Comment »

Who are the one percent?

Who are the one percent?

(new-power.org)

This is an interesting poster we found online at globalequality.me. We do not know who made it, but we like the sentiment. The numbers aren’t exactly correct. Most Americas fall within the top 10% globally, almost all fall within the top 15%. Now, change will come from the bottom up. It will come from the global poor, not the global rich. Revolution will come from the Third World, not the First World. Revolution will come through global people’s war, not through First Worldist populism. Even so, it is important to educate those in the margins.

October 7, 2011 | Categories: occupy movement, pop culture, poverty, protests | Leave A Comment »

NTC can’t take Sirte, needs NATO help

NTC can’t take Sirte, needs NATO help
(new-power.org)

Since the fall of Tripoli, the so-called National Transition Council (NTC) has sought to extend its hold over the rest of Libya. Gaddafi’s forces appear to have retreated to areas where Gaddafi’s support is strongest, including Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, which lays halfway between Tripoli and Benghazi. Sirte has now been declared the capital of Libya by the Gaddafi regime following the NTC capture of Tripoli. However, things are not going exactly according to NATO’s plans. Once against the NTC requires help from NATO to impose its will. Just as the NTC required NATO bombs in the sky and MI-6 muscle on the ground to turn the tide against Gaddafi leading up to the battle for Tripoli, just as the NTC required NATO bombs to take Tripoli, the NTC has demonstrated that it cannot even take Sirte without NATO help. This is a profound statement about the unpopular character of the NATO-backed uprising. After being beaten back several times, the NTC now asks NATO to increase its bombing of Sirte.

The number of NATO sorties against Libya is well over 20,000 now. Not only does this confirm the Gaddafi regime’s claim that NATO is acting as an air force for the NTC, but it has created a greater humanitarian disaster. According to mainstream media, thousands of civilians have been forced to flee due to the NTC and NATO offensives. Over 3,000 have been forced to flee. The price for the civilians of Sirte has been high. Reporting on an attack a little over a week ago, Gaddafi’s regime stated:

“NATO attacked the city of Sirte last night with more than 30 rockets directed at the city’s main hotel and the Tamin building, which consists of more than 90 residential flats. The result is more than 354 dead and 89 still missing and almost 700 injured in one night.”

The mainstream media confirms the carnage. An elderly woman reportedly said:

“They are bombing us and women and children are dying.”

Another resident:

“Since the 19th March when Nato started bombing we have been living in hell.”

Another:

“There is no medicine, no food, no electricity. It is a disaster.”

According to mainstream reports, the NTC forces are not making distinctions between combatants loyal to the regime and citizens caught in the crossfire. Some NTC loyalists implied that all of the residents were legitimate targets and the civilians had “chosen to die.” According to NTC loyalists, “Here, inside [Sirte], most people still want Gaddafi.”

NATO will oblige its NTC clients with more bombings aimed at the populations of Sirte and other Gaddafi strongholds. However, NATO’s help comes with strings attached. In a high-profile visit to Libya, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Senator John McCain of Arizona, and others toured Tripoli and met with the head of the NTC, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil and other high-ranking officials. Graham reported to journalists that “there is a desire here by the Libyan people to make sure that those who helped will get paid back.”

McCain was also optimistic that Libya under the NTC would play ball with the United States:

“I think that American investors are more than eager to come invest here in Libya and we hope and believe that they will be given an opportunity to do so.”

McCain, like much of the First Worldist social-imperialists, expressed hope that Gaddafi’s fall will also lead to color revolutions in Syria and Iran. It is the duty of all Leading Lights to oppose imperialist intervention, even when it disguises itself as rebellion.

Sources

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8794617/Libya-exodus-from-Sirte-as-thousands-flee-rebel-offensive.html

http://news.yahoo.com/anti-kadhafi-fighters-capture-hometown-port-101257414.html

http://news.yahoo.com/us-senator-says-libya-wants-pay-back-supporters-172008157.html

http://new-power.org/2011/08/29/clarity-on-libya-mi6-is-not-part-of-the-united-front/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/17/gaddafi-claims-nato-airstrikes-kill-hundreds

September 29, 2011 | Categories: Africa, Libya, Middle East, psywar | 1 Comment »

9/11 – Chile had it worse, America

9/11 – Chile had it worse, America

by modernmarxist

(new-power.org)

September 11th is a dark day in history for freedom, democracy, and equality. We’re not talking about the Trade Center. On September 11th, 1973, Chilean president Salvador Allende was ousted in a bloody coup by his reactionary military generals, Augusto Pinochet among them. This is yet another example of imperialism’s bloody hand in Latin America:

On September 4th, 1970, Salvador Allende and a social-democratic coalition were elected. CIA agents  had been operating in Chile for months before the election. (1) After Allende was elected into office, he quickly began implementing moderate reforms, moving Chile away out of the US orbit, closer to the Soviet Union. Social-democratic efforts to help the poor were promoted, such as a program to give free milk to Chile’s children. Important social services were made more accessible. Chilean workers began to occupy their factories, demanding more rights. Tax breaks were granted to poorer sections of the population. (2) Chile’s unemployment rate was cut almost in half, and 300,000 pensioners got an increased level of income. Prices were frozen. Wages were raised. Efforts were made to give indigenous peoples more respect and power. Even the petty bourgeoisie, who were some of the most vocal opponents of the new social-democratic Allende government, benefited, receiving labor insurance. (3) The UP government also nationalized industry. This effectively cut the American imperialists off from their parasitic hold on Chilean resources, which include, copper, timber, iron ore, nitrates, precious metals, molybdenum, and hydro-power. (4) At the time, copper was Chile’s main export. The nationalization of what were foreign-owned copper mines (mainly owned by the United States, but also owned by others), as well as other industries such as steel, coal, and nitrates, was met with opposition among the First World corporations. By 1972, a US-imposed international blockade had hurt the Chilean economy. This, in combination with CIA subsidies financing the right-wing opposition, caused social unrest and dissent. (5)

Allende’s social-democratic efforts were not unlike those in other countries where the leftwing of the patriotic bourgeoisie in the Third World allies with poorer sections of the population. Even though the patriotic regimes are not truly socialist, they take on a socialist flavor in order to remain in power. They implement limited reforms as a way of rallying the poor to the regime. This class alliance is made by the patriotic bourgeoisie because this section of the bourgeoisie is too weak to stand on its own against the imperialist bourgeoisie and its comprador allies. What results from such alliances are left-flavored, nationalist, populist regimes that enact moderate social-democratic reform and nationalist-oriented development. However, even this moderate reform was too much for the United States.

The United States decided that Allende had to go. It was on 9/11 that a successful military coup destroyed the elected government. Salvador Allende was killed. (6) Thousands of people were rounded up, tortured, and killed. Chile’s national stadium became a make-shift death camp that held thousands. Thus Pinochet’s regime was born. Pinochet effectively reversed the progressive policies and changes made by Allende’s government. Industry was privatized and once again open to Western investment, and ultimately, the Chilean people were once again open to American oppression and exploitation. Chile, under Pinochet’s brutal regime, became a showcase for the wisdom of neo-liberal, Chicago school economics. (7)

The true death toll will never be known. Official estimates tend to downplay the numbers in the name of so-called “national reconciliation.” However, recently, the current, moderate social-democratic Chilean government has stated that previous estimates of the victims were too low. Another 9,800 people are estimated to have been victimized by the dictatorship. Total of those tortured, abused, and killed now stands at 40,018. (8) Many more were incarcerated and suffered in other ways. These deaths in Chile were part of a bigger picture. All over Latin America, the United States established death-squad regimes that brutalized their populations. (9) (10)

Following a 1989 election, Pinochet was out of office, but kept a seat in the Chilean senate. He never faced trial. Today, the Chilean people remain victims of American imperialism. The lessons of Chile are clear. Imperialism will stop at nothing to retain its power. It will set up bloody dictators. It will use death squads. It will turn whole countries into graveyards with its bombs. It will even overthrow “democratically elected” regimes that play by the rules that Western liberals claim to uphold. Similarly, the Indonesian Communist Party was massacred at the hands of the Indonesian dictatorship. Today, the so-called “Maoists” of the UCPN(M) in Nepal have once again given us a negative example. They have shown that parliamentarianism is not a path to New Power; it is not a path to proletarian power. Bourgeois elections are not a path to socialism and communism. Power is seized, not given. This lesson is at the heart of Lenin and Mao. It is part of the ABCs of Marxism. The path to real power is global people’s war led by the most advanced revolutionary science, Leading Light Communism.

Notes.

1. Salvador Allende wins the elections: first coup attempt http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/chile/torre/Allende.html

2. The Government of the Popular Unity http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/chile/torre/UPgov.html

3. supra 1.

4. FIELD LISTING :: NATURAL RESOURCES https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2111.html

5. supra 2.

6. September 11, 1973: the definitive coup http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/chile/torre/September11.html
New Files Tie U.S. to Deaths of Latin Leftists in 1970′s http://www.remember-chile.org.uk/news/01-03-06nyt.htm

7. Pinochet’s Giveaway: Chile’s Privatization Experience http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1991/05/collins.html

8. Chile recognises 9,800 more victims of Pinochet’s rule http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14584095

9. Flashback: Caravan of Death http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/850932.stm

10. CJA: Background on Chile http://www.cja.org/article.php?list=type&type=196

Supplementary links:

http://llco.org/the-other-911

http://www.remember-chile.org.uk/news/00-09-20wp.htm

http://www.remember-chile.org.uk/news/01-03-06nyt.htm

http://www.remember-chile.org.uk/news/00-11-19wp.htm

 http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20000919/index.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/depression-and-unpaid-wages-add-to-woes-of-trapped-miners-in-chile-2067129.html

http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/chile/torre/tanquetazo.html

September 10, 2011 | Categories: Chile, Latin America | Leave A Comment »

The Leading Light Has Always recognized the Statehood of Palestine

The Leading Light has always acknowledged the statehood of Palestine by cherokeetears

(new-power.org)

A UN vote on the statehood of Palestine will be held this month.(1) Not only will this vote pass the general assembly, but it is said that it will pass with a 190-2 vote, with the US and Israel being the only countries expected to vote against the statehood of Palestine. Though the United Nations is a lackey for the US and other imperialists, the overwhelming vote will be against the US and Israel, America’s crooked cop in the Middle East. World opinion, even in a body as biased as the UN, is against the imperialists in Palestine.

The Zionist occupation of Palestine that established the state of Israel has yielded nothing but pain for the people of Palestine. The war against this occupation has been a long struggle that the Palestinians have fought courageously. The Arab street has been supportive of their brothers in the Palestinian national struggle, and many groups within the Middle East have gone to war with Israel to show support for the sovereignty of the Palestinian people and opposition to imperialism and its disguise: Zionism. Groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, and al-Qaeda have previously shown support for the sovereignty of the Palestinian people, and states such as Syria, Iran, and Gaddafi’s Libya have denounced Israel for its crimes against the Palestinian people. However, this support has often been inconsistent and limited.

Crimes against the Palestinian people have included the use of chemical weaponry, biological warfare, and systemic oppression by the Israeli state against displaced Palestinians. (2) For many decades, an apartheid against the Palestinians has led to the systematic oppression of an entire ethnic population: a crime that has been denounced by almost every group outside of US political circles and Israel itself. (3) Not every Israeli supports this apartheid, and not every Jew supports Zionism. (4) Zionism is a view that is separate and distinct from Judaism, which is a tool used by the imperialists to justify crimes against humanity. Even so, most Israelis support Zionist policies because they benefit from them.

It is unlikely that this vote will mean much in the end. Hopefully, things will change this time; however, there are already dozens of votes, going back half a century or more, that condemn Israel’s actions against the Palestinians. Another one is unlikely to change anything on the ground. In reality, the vote is nothing more than an international community’s bleak attempt to oppose the US hegemony that it can’t control. The resolution will fall on deaf ears.  Israel will only react to this gesture with more violence. More genocide. More outrage.  The international community will voice impotent protests and make empty gestures. Even so, the vote is a public relations problem for Israel. The UN  acknowledges that Israel is occupying another member state’s land in yet another resolution.  At the same time, according to the vote, the Palestinians are only entitled  to  a small part of their land. Oppression of the rights of the Palestinian people will likely continue without UN response, but other countries — like Iran or Venezuela — that take a stance with Palestine will be further empowered to speak out and act out against Israel.

To protect its interests, the US is set to oppose the bid for the statehood of Palestine, an action both typical and predictable. If the US passes a veto in the Security Council, the country of Palestine will not come to fruition. However, in this case, the Palestinians will go to the General Assembly to seek a 2/3 majority, an action that they will use to pressure statehood against the wishes of the US. (6) Even without the US vote, Palestine will only need a majority vote in the UN General Assembly in order to be admitted to the UN as a “non-member state,” a designation that soon leads to admittance to the UN as a full member. Before the dissolution of the USSR, 75 states recognized the Palestine as a sovereign state.

Israel is based on imperialism, racism and violence.  Israel is a settler state based on the theft of Arab land, continuous wars and apartheid against the Arab peoples. Imperialists and their Zionists goons will continue to oppress and exploit until they are defeated everywhere.  National sovereignty for all Arab people without fear of foreign oppression is the only solution. A UN mandate will not secure that, but it may help empower the Palestinian people to continue to oppose imperialism. Palestine will not be free until Israel ceases to exist.  Palestine is not simply the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.  All of Zionist occupied Palestine, including the modern day apartheid “state of Israel,” belongs to the Palestinian people. The migration of Palestinians into the area will soon make them the majority in their occupied homeland for the first time since their displacement and the virtual ethnic cleansing enacted against the Palestinian people. Until the Zionists are forced from the Middle East, the Palestinian people will never be completely free. Until the US and its lackeys are expelled from the area, the Arab people’s will not be free. Zionism is the strong arm of US imperialism in the Middle East, and by eliminating the Zionists from the region, we remove the US’s strongest ally in the Middle East. The realization of the Palestinian state, and the expulsion of the Zionists from occupied Palestine is one of the first steps to eliminating imperialism in the Middle East.

The Leading Light Communist Organization has always recognized the self-determination of Palestine.  Leading Lights around the world actively oppose imperialism in all forms. Leading Lights support the end of all oppression, including national oppression, racism, and apartheid.  This is what makes the Leading Light Communist Organization the real arm of the people. We oppose all forms of imperialism, including Zionism. We oppose all oppression. No one is free until everyone is free.

Sources:

1. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/04/24/the-israel-palestine-un-statehood-vote-igniting-the-mideast-behind-the-scenes.html

2. http://www.vtjp.org/report/overview.htm

3. http://www.ceia-sc.org/page55/page55.html

4. http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/

5. http://www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/US-to-Oppose-Palestinian-Recognition-at-UN-126200088.html

6. http://www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/US-to-Oppose-Palestinian-Recognition-at-UN-126200088.html

September 8, 2011 | Categories: Israel, Middle East, Palestine | 1 Comment »

More ethnic cleansing by NATO-backed forces

More ethnic cleansing by NATO-backed forces

(new-power.org)

As NATO’s forces consolidate their hold on Libya, many are expressing their fears about ethnic cleansing. Throughout the conflict, there were many reports of attacks by NATO-backed forces against darker-skinned peoples in Libya. The mainstream press encouraged these lynchings of blacks by publishing numerous angry reports about Gaddafi’s use of mercenaries from Africa — an ironic claim, since the entire anti-Gaddafi cause was a mercenary one financed by NATO.  In addition, the number one employer of mercenaries in the world is the United States — who is currently using massive mercenary forces in their occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. (1)

The chairman of the African Union Jean Ping said that the NATO-backed forces are indiscriminately killing the black population of Libya, which comprises a third of the population, and African migrants:

“NTC seems to confuse black people with mercenaries,” AU chairman Jean Ping said Monday, referring to the rebels’ National Transitional Council. “All blacks are mercenaries. If you do that, it means (that the) one-third of the population of Libya, which is black, is also mercenaries. They are killing people, normal workers, mistreating them.”(2)

These atrocities by NATO-backed forces are cited as one of the reasons that the African Union will not recognize the NATO-backed regime. Richard Sollom, deputy director of Physicians for Human Rights, who is back from a June fact-finding mission in Misrata, Libya, stated:

“I really fear vigilante justice and retribution and attacks by civilians against other civilians.” (3)

Sollom said Monday that his group  knew of about 500 Darfuris “who are desperately trying to get out of Libya. They have no money, they are basically homeless because they are from Darfur, and they very much fear for their lives because of the color of their skin.” (4) He added that guest workers from Sudan, Chad, Darfur and other sub-Saharan African locales were also targeted.

NATO has no concern for human rights. The imperialists have never been concerned with human rights. They are concerned with control of the resources of Libya and the Third World. They are concerned with maintaining their regional power. The regime change in Libya by NATO was a brazen act of imperialist aggression. It was designed to ensure continued flow of value from the Third World to the First World. (5) The NATO-backed forces spread the most racist lies in order to encourage a bloodbath against black Libyans and others into to maintain their imperial power.

NATO is encouraging a narrow and reactionary form of nationalism to divide and conquer Libya. Sam Dagher reports:

“Some of the hatred of Tawergha has racist overtones that were mostly latent before the current conflict. On the road between Misrata and Tawergha, rebel slogans like ‘the brigade for purging slaves, black skin’ have supplanted pro-Gadhafi scrawl.” (6)

The violence against black Libyans is brutal. (7)(8) Many black Libyans are being rounded up and detained. (9) Anwar bin Naji, who helps run a detainment facility for black Libyans, said the following:

“They [the detainees] are all arrested by rebels or by civilians who love the homeland.” (10)

Other black Libyans are holed up in refugee camps, terrified of leaving due to the so-called rebels, who threaten to rape and kill them. (11) The refugees are calling for assistance from the United Nations, despite the fact that the UN has been nothing more than an arm of imperialism throughout the conflict.

A 25-year-old man from Mali, who is as of the time of writing being detained in a school along with 75 other detainees, said the following regarding his arrest at his home:

“At about 10 p.m. a big group of Libyans came with the owner of the building. They tied us up, took all of our passports and possessions, and beat us. They brought us to a big mosque in the neighborhood, and then they went to other African houses and arrested them. In the end, they had more than 200 Africans in there. Then they put us on vehicles and took us around town shouting ‘Allahu Akhbar!’ ['God is great'] and saying we were mercenaries they had captured.” (12)

The streets of Tripoli are littered with the bodies of black Libyans and migrants, their hands tied behind their backs. (13) NATO is complicit in the ethnic cleansing. Gaddafi, by contrast, has always encouraged African unity and pan-Africanism — even if his leadership was unscientific and flawed. Leading Light Communists support the unity of all exploited and oppressed peoples, the unity of the Third World and their allies, against the First World. Those so-called “leftists” who stood with imperialism, NATO and MI6 are totally discredited in the eyes of the world. The Leading Light has always taken a principled stand. Support the broad united front. Hold the red flag high. Critical support to all those fighting imperialism.

Sources

1 Cenus counts 100,000 contractors in Iraq xhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120401311.html

2 AU head: Libya rebels may be killing black workers xhttp://news.yahoo.com/au-head-libya-rebels-may-killing-black-workers-153142974.html

3 ibid.

4 ibid.

5 Maximillian Forte, “The War in Libya: Race, ‘Humanitarianism’, and the Media” xhttp://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/forte200411.html

6 Libyan rebel ethnic cleansing and lynching of black people xhttp://humanrightsinvestigations.org/2011/07/07/libya-ethnic-cleansing/

7 Lynching in Benghazi xhttp://humanrightsinvestigations.org/2011/07/17/lynching-in-benghazi/

8 Amnesty and racist rebel atrocities in Libya http://humanrightsinvestigations.org/2011/08/31/amnesty-racist-rebel-atrocities-libya/

9 Libyan rebels round up black Africans xhttp://news.yahoo.com/libyan-rebels-round-black-africans-130723394.html

10 ibid.

11 Dark skinned people in Libya say they suffer at hands of fighters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tnJ7jt97d4

12 Human Rights Watch and persecution of black people in Tripoli http://humanrightsinvestigations.org/2011/09/04/human-rights-watch-and-persecution-of-black-people-in-tripoli/

13 ibid.

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