Revolution in the Middle East
Students Against War want to declare our solidarity with and support for the revolutionary uprisings against the autocratic regimes of the Middle East. What is going on right now in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Jordan, Syria and elsewhere is of truly world historic significance – it is the event of the twenty-first century. Dictators right across the region who have been in power for decades – many supported all that time by the West – are being toppled one after the other in the biggest wave of uprisings the world has seen since 1968.
The hypocrisy of NATO countries – in continuing to back and arm many of these regimes which are shooting down their own citizens in the hundreds, yet crying foul over what is happening in Libya and intervening – is breathtaking. This has nothing to do with saving lives, and everything to do with imperial power. Furthermore, it’s disgusting that UOW is performing military research for arms manufacturers like BAE Systems, who have sold millions of dollars’ worth of weapons to the Libyan regime, as well as to many of the other dictatorships in the region.
SAW was very impressed and moved by this article, The signs of the defeat of the Libyan revolution, written by a Libyan anarchist, which condemns both the NATO intervention and the militarisation of the revolution against Ghaddafi. So much so that we decided to link it on our website. Enjoy!
