Libya and the Arab Uprisings
Against The Current vol. 152
The Editors
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/3261
Date Written: 2011-05-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2011
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Cx Number: CX13765
The sweeping upheavals in Arab countries and North Africa continue to unfold. Among these events, the uprising in Libya and the subsequent United Nations/NATO intervention have provoked intense controversy within the international left and antiwar movement. The debate is an inevitable and necessary one — given both the imminent massacre that appeared likely to occur if the Qaddafi regime recaptured Benghazi and other opposition population centers, and what we well know to be the far-from-humanitarian motives of the imperialist intervening powers.
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