Stop NATO strikes on Libya!
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from “no fly” to “no drive.” Said one rebel fighter, “We have information that Gadhafi’s tanks are ahead and we also have information that [Western forces] will bomb them, so we are waiting for the air strikes before we push forward.” In other words, rebel forces are counting on the United States et al. to win the war for them—a far cry from the scenario in the rest of the Arab revolution.
But as one young activist in Tunis told British Guardian correspondent Jeremy Corbyn, when asked if he wanted Western help: “No, we will do it ourselves; the problem with the West is, it never knows when to leave.”
Other Arab voices against intervention include Mog niss Abdallah, an Egyptian writer and filmmaker, who wrote in International Viewpoint (the Fourth Interna (Above) Funeral procession for rebel fighters killed by Gadhafi forces in Brega, Libya, March 3. tional’s English-language journal) of the hypocrisy of imperialist governments’ attacking Libya while sup porting the invasion of Bahrain by the Saudi army and the massacres of protesters there—measures backed by the U.S. Said Abdallah: “I would like to say frankly to sincere Libyan friends … we unconditionally condemn the massacres of the population in Libya by Gadhafi and his regime. But I am outraged by the slogans ‘One, two, three, Viva Sarkozy’ shouted in Benghazi.”
Abdallah also asked progressive Libyans to condemn (continued on page 4, in “U.S. workers battle nationwide assault on public unions”)