The wars deployed by the western governments in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya had as unique real cause the control of natural resources. In the case of Libya the same pattern has been repeated through war and destruction. From the western powers there has not been the willingness to reach a peaceful solution for the conflict in Libya as was proposed by countries like Brazil, Venezuela, or by the same African Union. The real aim was the control of Libyan resources and the establishment of a western military base in order to control also the whole North African region. United States and the European Union never had a real concern on the situation of the people living there or even on the human rights of the Libyan citizens neither of the Arab societies. The true is that this military intervention from the western powers in an internal conflict like this is a typical colonial invasion that searches to be legitimated under any circumstance.

The NATO as the armed tool of the aggressive western powers has revealed its real nature after eight months of brutal bombing in Libya through the most sophisticated death mechanisms, aerial attacks and launching of missiles. The NATO has showed that its main purpose as armed organization is the domain and control all over the world and to crush any possibility of threatening the  capitalist order. The purpose of the NATO is to exert its control in more and more geographical zones of the world considered as vital to the interests of the finances oligarchies and transnational enterprises.

All the armed forces gathered and used by USA, France and Great Britain in this war against Libya have destroyed hospitals, schools, the daily life of the society and have forced a new exodus of hundreds of thousands of African people that were living and working in Libya. At the same time they have destroyed the social frame of the Libyan State.

The main purpose of this war is now very clear. It looked at the beginning like a kind of humanitarian intervention to protect human lives within the unequal civil war with the “no fly zone” helping the pro-western allied National Transition Council (NTC). But the reality has shown the NATO as being the guiding force of the war against Khadafy. In fact the aim of the NATO has been not only to keep a close control on the natural resources of the country, like oil or gas, and to have a military base in order to exert an influence on the region, but also to give an authoritarian message to the societies of the region that try to conquer  democracy in Tunisia or in Egypt. The real intention is to say that there will be no possibility of transforming by the uprising of these societies, the “Arabic spring” into a process of more social justice, democracy and independence from the western countries. In this region the society as a whole has suffered and suffers a lack of democracy with oppressive regimes that were behaving always with the consent of western countries, with its complicity. Never has imperialism give democracy and social progress to the any society. Whenever they have intervened the western powers have brought death, poverty, division, and religious or ethnical conflicts. In the case of Egypt it is now rather clear that military elite in power tries to refrain the willingness of democracy of the society by increasing the repression with the consent of western countries. 

With the killing of Khadafy it has been completed the military purpose of the NATO by which the international law looks like absent and it seems that it needs not to be applied in Libya. We think on the contrary that Libya has the right to enjoy democracy, and to be a place where human rights are respected and where justice has to be reigning together with security and sovereignty. From the international forces and organizations against imperialism we ask for the immediate and complete withdrawal of all the NATO forces from Libya and the creation of an international commission charged with the task of enquiring on the role played by the so called “rebels” in the killing of Khadafy and also in the case of many corpses found belonging to the Government army with unequivocal signs of torture and of being killed by the troops of the NTC. We are in favor of not allowing crimes to be left without legal punishment to the assassins from both sides. After the cruelty and violence showed in this war by the NTC we have seen how the President of this NTC has announced that the law to be applied in Libya will be the Muslim Sharia by which any previous law in contradiction with this will be abolished. He expressed very clearly that “any law, for example in the case of marriage laws, limiting polygamy will be refused”. At the same time he asked “NATO forces to remain in the country until the end of 2011 in order to guarantee that the western oil companies will recover the “security” in their functioning in the country” It is clear for the European Left Party that this Libyan war has been a brutal setback in the process of conquering an international legal framework by which the UN would play a positive role in the solution of the conflicts. In a situation of global crisis by which one can foresee the emergence of more future conflicts due to the tensions created by the crisis with its brutal contradictions (ecological, economical, natural resources, water, food, etc) the Libyan war and the role played by the NATO and the western powers makes a dangerous reference. We, the ELP, are convinced that the peace and the peaceful means are the only way to avoid a clumsy future of war and destruction. Who will be the next in this dramatic logic, Iran, Syria?. Brussels, 11th of November of 2011.