Paddy Meehan of the Socialist Party said “Typhoon jets are being deployed from Norfolk in an outrageously expensive 3,000 mile round trip using up 60 tonnes of fuel. These flights and attacks will cost thousands of pounds an explosion while every second here thousands of pounds are being cut from schools funding, health budgets and public services.
“The role of the UN including Britain is not to assist democratic revolutionaries in a struggle against a brutal dictator. Their intervention is to stabilise the country and the region in the interests of big business, in particular the big oil companies.
“BP have a £15 billion stake in oil and gas contracts which they negotiated after lobbying the British government for the release of the Lockerbie bomber Al-Megrahi in 2009. Big business is now lobbying for the UN to defend their profits.
“Rather than fighting BP’s wars we should be spending this money on much needed public services. A democratic Libya that meets the needs of its people will not be bombed into existence by British, French and US war planes. It must come from a united struggle of all workers, young people and oppressed minorities linking up with the revolutionary movements across the Middle East and North Africa”.
’Third round on the streets’ - Big gains for Socialist Party and allies, and also for far right, but new Anti-capitalist Party in disarray
No such records are kept of civilian deaths in Afghanistan. It is estimated that thousands of Afghan civilians have been directly killed due to military action, including use of air strikes by the US forces. As well as this, possibly tens of thousands of Afghan civilians have died indirectly from the war, as a consequence of displacement, starvation, disease, exposure, lack of medical treatment and violent crime.
1973 bloody coup against Popular Unity government – Lessons for today 
Across Europe governments are pursuing the same policy of savage cuts