Re: [Marxism] Healyite dregs still gung-ho on Qaddafi

[Einde O'Callaghan]

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On 24.02.2011 02:18, Louis Proyect wrote:


Gerry Healy was the crackpot cult leader in Britain who was expelled
from his own cult for preying on young female members. As he grew more
and more unstable psychologically, his politics did as well--launching
at one point a big campaign to "expose" SWP leaders in the USA as FBI
agents. He was also notorious for lionizing Qaddafi in his newspaper, a
practice that lives on in the sect that succeeded him despite the sort
of tepid criticisms of the despot that you saw in the WWP article as well:

http://wrp.org.uk/news/6150

Wednesday, 23 February 2011 GADAFFI IN TRIPOLI – HAGUE IN DISARRAY!

That was Wednesday's editorial. The Thursday issue contains extracts 
from Gaddafi's bizarre and bombastic speech on Tuesday night:




The introduction goes as follows:

"WE print excerpts of Colonel Gadaffi’s speech to the Libyan people made 
last Tuesday evening to rally them against the internal 
counter-revolutionary forces and their UK and US backers."


'Nuff said about these relatively obscure dinosaurs!

Einde O'Callaghan


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[Marxism] Healyite dregs still gung-ho on Qaddafi

[Louis Proyect]

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Gerry Healy was the crackpot cult leader in Britain who was expelled 
from his own cult for preying on young female members. As he grew more 
and more unstable psychologically, his politics did as well--launching 
at one point a big campaign to "expose" SWP leaders in the USA as FBI 
agents. He was also notorious for lionizing Qaddafi in his newspaper, a 
practice that lives on in the sect that succeeded him despite the sort 
of tepid criticisms of the despot that you saw in the WWP article as well:


http://wrp.org.uk/news/6150

Wednesday, 23 February 2011 GADAFFI IN TRIPOLI – HAGUE IN DISARRAY!

WHILE Cameron is in Kuwait seeking to sell more rubber bullets, poison 
gas and a variety of war machines to the British-trained Gulf 
monarchies, the Libyan leader, Colonel Gadaffi, remains in Tripoli, 
fighting for Libyan independence, and making a fool of the British 
Foreign Secretary Hague,who announced Britain’s real ‘war aim’ when he 
told the world that Gadaffi was fleeing to Venezuela.


The British ruling class from the 2004 meeting between Blair and Gadaffi 
in a tent in the desert, where he cooed sweet nothings into Gadaffi’s 
ear, in order to win big oil contracts, had been treating Gadaffi like a 
long-lost cousin.


Now with a right-wing reactionary uprising under way, the British hyena 
is showing its teeth, mustering its media to treat Gadaffi as a ‘mad 
dog’ who must be put down, spurred on by the hope that some Islamic 
state of Benghazi, if established over Gadaffi’s dead body, will hand 
over Libya’s oil to them.


However, Hague has overreached himself. He is now being cautioned to be 
more careful, since if Gadaffi wins this struggle, oil-obsessed British 
capitalism may well find that the ‘Blair tactic’ of massive, 
rear-licking cosiness may not work!


The British ruing class is in a bigger crisis than Gadaffi, that is for 
sure. It is desperately worried that it may lose out on both the Libyan 
and Gulf oil fronts as the revolutionary wave throughout the Arab world 
proceeds.


However, it must be said about Gadaffi’s turn towards the UK – after all 
Blair is the Butcher of Iraq – that it resulted in an accommodation with 
BP and British imperialism, which enriched a section of the Libyan 
apparatus, and encouraged the neglect of the interests of the Libyan 
youth in particular.


It was a major mistake for Gadaffi not to place himself and Libya in the 
front line of those supporting the revolutions that began in Tunisia and 
spread to Egypt.


In fact, he opposed them when he should have shown solidarity with them, 
and then urged the Libyan masses to say what changes they wanted to see 
in Libya, as part of the struggle for a socialist North Africa.


His stand alongside Mubarak and Ben Ali, created the conditions where 
the reactionary Libyan right wing, long-term agents of British 
imperialism, were able to win a bigger support for their opportunist 
rebellion (posing as out and out democratic revolutionaries) from 
amongst the youth than they should have been able to.


In fact, the aim of the right wing is to put Libya and its oil at the 
disposal of imperialism, and impose an Islamic state or states in place 
of the secular Libyan state – whatever the imperialist powers wish.


They have already proclaimed the Islamic Emirate of Benghazi, and 
declared that Gadaffi is an enemy of God and that it is the religious 
duty of every Libyan to rise up and kill him and his sons.


We urge the working class of the world to oppose the imperialist 
intervention into Libya that is being made, and the greater, possibly 
military intervention to come into the affairs of the Libyan people.


We urge the Libyan masses and youth to take their stand alongside 
Colonel Gadaffi to defend the gains of the Libyan revolution, and to 
develop it.


This can only be done by the defeat of the current rebellion and a major 
national discussion about the introduction of workers control and 
management of the Libyan economy and society, as well as the 
introduction of the political organs for exercising that political 
control and management.


Further, the Libyan workers must take their place as a leader of the 
revolutionary wave that is sweeping through North Africa.


This can only win through the establishment of the United Socialist 
States of North Africa.











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