Workers Party Pakistan, Labour Party Pakistan, Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party, Revolutionary Socialist Movement, Awami Party, Awami Jamhoori Forum, National Students Federation, Progressive Youth Front, Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee and National Trade Union Federation have vehemently condemned the aggression and ruthlessness of United States and its allies in the name of humanitarianism and democracy.
The leftists said that after 'drowning Iraq and Afghanistan in blood', Western imperialism has now sunk its fangs into Libya. Like a wild beast that smells the scent of its prey from a distance, it has seized upon the rebellion in Libya as if it were the opportunity of a lifetime. Attempts by America, Britain and France to portray bombardment of Libya as a humanitarian act are totally fraudulent.
Saudi Arabia sent its troops to crush the protestors of Bahrain, yet here America and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) silently watched, or rather, covertly assisted their ally. So why attack on Libya? The answer is oil. America and Nato are today visiting the same destruction on Libya that they visited upon Iraq. Whereas in Iraq they launched a full invasion, in Libya, they are pursuing other methods - by assisting collaborators within Libya itself.
Let us be clear, they said 'this is about regime change and oil' and as with Iraq, oil will be privatised or linked to development projects for western co-operations. It is another instance of capitalism as imperialism. The victim again will be the poor of Libya and the world, the environment that this capitalism is destroying and all those movements that aim at the democratisation of the political, economic and social spheres - these are all those movements that aim at socialist solutions.
The leftist parties noted that this is what Western imperialism has always done in the name of humanitarianism and democracy. In the name of democracy, it has propped up the most ruthless dictators in Latin America, the Middle East and all over the world. In the name of humanitarianism, it has savagely rained down death and destruction upon millions from its warplanes and tanks. History shows that every such intervention has been for securing strategic resources, subjugating third-world countries and crushing people's movements, so that the rich may continue to remain rich and the poor continue to remain poor.
Concluding, they said it is true that Gaddafi and his model of ruling is autocratic and repressive and cannot be supported by any progressive grouping, but a few things also need to be stated about Nato and its discourse of humanitarian intervention and let us state them clearly.