The freak Gaddafi in his braid. He is kept in power by the US and British oil companies who profit from the countries oil wealth.
The freak family that rules Libya does so on behalf of major British and US oil companies. As their rule is threatened by the heroic movement of the masses they are resorting to indiscriminate slaughter. One report says that up to 30,000 mercenaries have been brought into the country to put down the uprising. At least hundreds have already been killed. The young Gaddafi is standing in for the old freak as the public face of the regime. In his speech to the nation yesterday his position was clear. Unless you continue to accept us as your rulers we will unleash civil war on the nation, turning tribe against tribe and region against region. What incredible arrogance of the regime and its international backers in the US and British oil companies, it is either the multi millionaire freaks or civil war.
We have always said on this blog that all minority elites have one thing in common about how they rule. They rule through divide and rule. It is only a matter of degree in terms of division. In Libya they are now talking about the division being as extreme as civil war. Divide and rule is what is used from Ireland to the USA, from China to India, from Belgium to Argentina, the ruling elite always find some way to divide and rule. If there are no obvious divisions they will create one. Now Libya is being threatened with the most extreme form of divide and rule, that is civil war.
So far the masses in Libya have stood against this strategy of the regime and its international backers. Together they are holding the streets and taking over government buildings and whole cities and winning over sections of the military to their side. This is a great heroic movement. What a time to be alive. We salute the masses of the Middle East and North Africa. The region will never be the same again. We salute the heroism of the people of the Middle East and North Africa. Thank you.
We also salute the workers in Wisconsin for their stand against the union busting governor there. But we are worried. The union leaders obviously feel that a passive movement is all that is needed. That is if they march long enough this will do the job. This is not correct. Who can march longer or who can sit in their office longer cannot be the way this decided. The union movement, but particularly the union leaders, must take an active offensive approach.
The union leaders must adopt a program which demands increased wages and benefits for all workers public and private together and they must seek to unite and mobilize the private sector workers along with the public sector workers. They must drop all talk about if they are allowed back to negotiate they will agree to concessions on wages and benefits. This is a catastrophic approach. Workers will have been mobilized, put up this great fight, and then their leaders would go back into a room and sit down with the bosses and give away wages and benefits. What would have been the point on the movement? Such a result would demoralize the movement and prepare the way for defeat in state after state across the country. Such an approach would strengthen the bosses offensive.
The movement in Wisconsin is great and very inspiring but the policies of its leadership threaten to lead it to a terrible defeat which would spread across the country and lead to a further wave of defeats, when what is possible from Wisconsin with the correct program and strategy is a great victory which would spread across the country in a wave of victories and the throwing back of the capitalist offensive and this being replaced with a workers offensive which would open up a whole new period. Like having our own Middle East here in the USA. The union leaders must stop their passive policies in Wisconsin, must unite the private and public sector workers around a program of increased wages and benefits for all. This is the strategy that can take the movement forward. the Wall Street Journal says the country is "awash with cash" the Wisconsin movement must take the first step to putting this in the pockets of working people not letting it lie in the pockets of the criminal bankers and Wall Street.
Sean.
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