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Those comrades who live near the poshest millionaire villas at Winnington Close, Hampstead may have noticed the removal vans over the last few days shipping out the Picassos and the Chagalls from number 7.
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Protestors threw hand grenades at the entrance to the National Transitional Council (NTC) headquarters in Benghazi on Saturday 21 January and torched the Head of the NTC’s car.
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University Arms pub, Brookhill Roundabout, Sheffield
A Workers' Liberty Sheffield meeting at the University Arms, Sheffield. Martyn Hudson from Workers' Liberty will be analysing what socialists should say about Libya, and what solidarity we can offer the Libyans. Come and discuss our position on Libya, ask questions and debate the way forward for democracy in Libya. Is there now more space for a labour movement to develop? What are the tasks for socialists now Gaddafi has fallen?
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Cafe Politique, Ustinov College (Durham University), Fisher House, South Road
Speakers:
Martyn Hudson, AWL
A speaker on Bahrain and the Arab revolutions
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The Lucas Arms, 245a Grays Inn Road, Kings Cross, London
The Western military intervention in Libya poses complex questions for socialists. Should we really oppose limited military action to aid the rebellion against Qaddafi (if that's what this is)? Or is such opposition the only way to remain principled opponents of US, UK etc militarism and imperialism? If the US, UK, NATO have not changed their spots - and of course they haven't - is "No intervention" the only thing we can say?
Beyond that, is 'humanitarian intervention' just old-style colonial imperialism under a new guise? What do 'imperialism' and 'anti-imperialism' mean in today's world?
A discussion led by Workers' Liberty's Clive Bradley. All welcome.
Facebook event here.
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Mustafa Abdel Jalil, chair of the National Transitional Council in Libya, has declared that post-Qaddafi Libya will be governed by Islamic sharia law, and so polygamy will be legalised and usury banned.
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Two weeks after the death of Qaddafi and the wholesale rout of the last remnants of pro-regime fighters in Sirte there are major debates in Libya about the post-war resolution and how Libyan civil society can implement a new policy and practice on human rights.
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By Martin Thomas
On Sunday 6 November we got a small down-payment towards the debate on Libya between AWL and the Socialist Party which we have been demanding, and the SP has been evading, since SP leader Peter Taaffe put his pen to work on the first of two long (and inaccurate!) polemics against us on the subject, back in April.
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Lucinda Lavelle of the British-Libyan Solidarity Campaign spoke from Benghazi to Solidarity.
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Unprepared to acknowledge his catastrophic mis-assessment of the situation in Libya, unreconstructed Stalinist Seamus Milne prefers to serve up more wholesale historical revisionism.
