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LESSONS OF LIBYA FOR THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT

So this has to be our focus if we are to build a meaningful, broad based unity against imperialist war. To quote Huey Newton, the founder of the Black Panther Party: “there can be no real freedom until the imperialist – world-enemy-number-one – has been stripped of his power”. We should be clear that our loyalties are with the anti-imperialist world; our loyalties are with the Global South; and we stand united against that world-enemy-number-one of imperialism.

WHY ARE PRO-REGIME CHANGE LEFTIES IN THE LEADERSHIP OF THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT?

"Nothing short of a completely new anti-war movement needs to be built, one which divorces from the politics of sectarianism and eurocentric liberalism, and is rooted in resistant-oppressed communities, addresses the concerns of African communities and western-backed wars across Africa (which the anti-war movement has never addressed, and actually helped facilitate in the case of Libya), and has a clear and militant line of anti-imperialism and internationalism."