From Libya comes a cry for freedom Dear readers, continue to subscribe to the poster! Dear fellow poster, editors and readers, I disagree with you on some positions, but I continue to read and defend (what little I can do) the manifest. The ideas have been advanced by Rossanda, Castellina, Parliament and Francis are sacrosanct, but lacking in one thing: do not give the Libyan issue in its historical context.
would be a discussion on advanced and profound doubts and shadows, if there was an ongoing tragedy a people who are killed every day in the Libyan city squares and squares of business in the industrialized world.
Quote of the company, talking 'are and remain a staunch admirer of Colonel Gaddafi "(Il Sole-24 Ore on 18/02/2011, then repeated on the pages of the manifest ten days later) it hurts a lot to those who - like me - lost their freedom because of the tyrant. How many items I had to sign the manifest differently, to avoid a crackdown against my family.
First, the current one is not a civil war, it will become in the future, but is now a popular resistance against a tyrant, his family, the militias and mercenaries.
is comparable to the Italian resistance against Mussolini's fascism. The question of the flag hoisted on the liberated areas, proposed by Manlio Dinucci, that independence is not a sign of returning to the past. That flag is not property of the former King Idriss Senussi or brotherhood. (By the way, I did not understand the reference of the company, talking to the alleged anti-Semitism Idriss. Being anti-Zionist is not necessarily anti-Semitism. I remind you that before the occupation of Palestine, among other projects to create Israel in the first half of twentieth century, Cyrenaica was one of the sites proposed. be contrary to those intentions is not some anti-Semitism). I would have used the red flag, but I and my generation does not count for anything in this revolution. The current monarchy is absolutely in opposition of the minority and the wave that flag, with white star and crescent is not an attachment to the past but a clear rejection of the regime.
based on this a criticism of young Libyans who faced bare-chested anti-tank guns of militias and mercenaries of Gaddafi, is a ingenerosità disarming. It is not denied here that there are international plans to get their hands on oil in Libya, but Libyan revolution of February 17, 2011 is led by puppets of imperialism, but by young people and Democrats who have a history in the country.
The fall of the wall of fear, following the experiences of Tunisia and Egypt, led them to raise their heads against tyranny. If we do not at the center of this cry of freedom that comes from below, it would understand nothing of the movements of revolt that are characterizing the struggle of the Arab countries against caryatids in power for too many years.
The second issue concerns the Gaddafi socialist. The arguments have raged on the so-called Arab socialism in the fifties and sixties, at the time of redemption from Egypt and Nasserites-Baathist Iraq. Interesting experiences of the national bourgeoisie of the South, which were only out of necessity, anti-imperialist in the first phase of their development. In Iraq, Egypt and Syria at that time the Communists and Socialists were persecuted and repressed sincere. Those experiences of many coups have given positive results on the social level, but only the first stage of their development. The top-down trend and the lack of democratic legitimacy on the one hand, and attack the Western allies of Israel on the other (the Suez War in 1956 and that of June 5, 1967) have made these new schemes of the military oligarchy that nothing have to do with the idea of \u200b\u200ba just distribution of national wealth and the social and cultural development of the human basis of all social experience.
Gaddafi arrives later, in 1969. The "thrust" of the military coup against the old King Idris, in the words Berlinguer, it's over very soon. Already in 1973 the Free Officers revolution there was nothing, if not the ruthless repression of any dissent.
Forks University, the expulsion of fellow soldiers, the cancellation of all forms of opposition, the ban on trade unions, the cancellation of any independent action of civil society, the killing of opponents abroad ( Italy was a favorite theater for terrorist actions) and military operations against civilians who were protesting peacefully against the will of the tyrant (80s and 90s ... to Derna and Benghazi), the massacre of Abu Selim (June 26, 1996), are examples of this domain to a new ruling class has been reduced by the fact that the family of Gaddafi and a small circle of his followers.
rampant corruption and the dominance of the intelligence on people's daily lives are the basis of a regime that has squandered the wealth of the country to build a modern Libya able to create jobs and prosperity for the people, but to buy the consciences , to win the support of other dictators, and losing wars impossible in Africa (Uganda, Chad ...) and luxury for his children and followers. Libya is a rich country, But the Libyans are poor. A clerk takes the equivalent of $ 170 per month, while one of the foolish children of the tyrant has spent two million dollars for a show that lasted one hour, one American singer, Beyonce, in a nightclub in Las Vegas. Gaddafi of socialism, the Libyans have a faded memory of merchandise from supermarkets empty and boring and stupid corrupt bureaucracy, similar to what they have inherited the younger generation of Eastern Europe.
And not everything was anti-communism. I do not think that Qaddafi represents a continuation of the experience is not aligned with Nasser. Castellina is good to remember the importance of that idea, however, silenced by the ruthless imperialist aggression, refusing to take sides with a force of two military pacts in which the world was divided after World War II. Nasser died poor and his son did not inherit any political role. But here we have the oil wealth of the country regarded as private property of the family and the power jamahiriano reduced to a ridiculous monarchy. Consider Gaddafi as part of that world who set out in the wake of the noble experiment of the "NAM" was a misunderstanding by the companion Castellina. Good intentions are not enough of Colonel!
What matters in politics is action. Like many young Libyans at the time, I occupied the Libyan Consulate in Milan and I have destroyed the giant King Idriss. But already in 1973, the General Union of Libyan students who drove, he held the Libyan embassy in Rome to protest against the hanging in the atrium of the University of Benghazi (moreover without trial) of the students demanded freedom and representation. The left
Libya was removed with killings and detentions, and in some cases with the purchase of consciences, in total silence.
It was also our fault because we were not able to communicate and build relationships and have lived in the action of opposition fragmented organizational forms. But you can give to Gaddafi the license of the representative of the idea of \u200b\u200bsocialism.
errors of this tyrant is not restricted to the last ten years, as claimed by the company, talking (on the poster, February 27), but go back much farther. Gaddafi has flaunted the banner of anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism, but has traded under the table their own personal salvation with agreements that have opened Libya to the looting of the rich countries. We are aware that oil is tempting to many. And that is why we are opposed to any external military intervention. The opposition has called for a "No Fly Zone" to prevent the use by the Air Force Colonel (as is happening in this hour and Ajdabieh Brega).
The men who form the provisional government of public health are people I know personally and are serious and trustworthy.
are no secessionists or fundamentalists. The Democratic matrix that moves them to rebel against the orders of the tyrant is beyond dispute.
not give them play, would be a grave mistake for the Italian Left and democratic throughout Italy.
Finally, self-injury. Persevere in error is the worst. The positive feedback that was given to some of the experiences of countries in the southern hemisphere does not preclude the possibility of a critical review. As it was critical for the countries of real socialism in Eastern Europe, even today you can take note of end of an illusion. The court then had his reasons quotas and context. The current situation is different. It must be recognized for what it is. I do not think is far-sighted sprinkle ashes on their heads for the errors of assessment and analysis of the past. Remember that Mussolini was a socialist and that Giuliano Ferrara was a communist. Even in the memory and reminder of those defeats, dear readers, continue to buy the poster, an essential tool to inform and discuss the world today!
