In a recent blog post at PM Press, Noel Ignatiev has some good comments on the collapse of Gaddafi’s government in Libya. Ignatiev criticizes those leftists who supported the NATO-backed rebels, and also those who, “in their zeal to oppose the NATO intervention, spread tales of the ‘accomplishments’ of the Gaddafi regime…”
Some more quotes:
“Why should the ordinary people of Libya lay down their lives in defense of an oppressive regime that never saw them as anything but pawns in its effort to cut a favorable deal with global capital?”
and
“Today all the forces preparing to fatten themselves on the flesh of the Libyan people, including the NATO powers, Russia and China, are stressing the importance of the orderly restoration of the authority of the new regime.
“Let us hope that they do not find it so easy.”
"Libya protest against moves to establish rebel power with superficially retro-fitted Gaddafi-ites":
http://revolutionaryfrontlines.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/libya-protest-against-moves-to-establish-rebel-power-with-superficially-retro-fitted-gaddafi-ites/