Anti-imperialism does not equal pro-Gaddafi, argues James Turley As it threatened, briefly, to do this spring, the regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi has collapsed. The forces previously known as the Libyan rebels have seized power in most of the country, including the capital, Tripoli - assisted, of course, by months of aerial bombardment by Britain, France and ...
Those who are waiting for a 'pure' opposition will wait forever, writes James Turley (first published in the Weekly Worker) Friends: Tony Blair and Muammar Gaddafi In my last article, I attacked those on the left who imagined that the imperialist intervention in Libya was, or could be, somehow to the profit of the masses of that country.[1] ...
Students at the London School of Economics have taken action against their university's financial and other links with Libya's increasingly tyrannical dictator, Muammar al-Gaddafi. We reproduce their statement below. In the past week Gaddafi has launched a war on demonstrators demanding his overthrow; flying in foreign mercenaries, using snipers to assassinate protesters, and ordering military ...
James Turley asks who is the real threat to the world’s masses The release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi - the ‘Lockerbie bomber’ - has triggered a huge, seemingly disproportionate explosion. As most readers will know, at 6.25pm on December 21 1988, Pan Am flight 103 departed Heathrow airport for New York. Less than an hour later, ...