As a new spree of terrorist attacks unravels with increasing frequency, the menace of Islamic fundamentalist terror seems to be beyond the control of the ruling class. The claims of the political elite, of “uniting against terrorism” and for “national unity”, have proved to be boastful absurdities and hypocritical deceptions.

The political, tribal, and religious divisions in Libya, which have been fuelled for many years by imperialism, are dragging the country into a bloody civil war, never seen before. Roberto Sarti discusses how, just as in Iraq, military intervention by the imperialists, rather than stabilising the country, has enormously destabilised it.

History demonstrates that if you do not remove the class enemy from power within the country, they will not stop until they have crushed the revolution. This is the relevant fact faced today by the Venezuelan revolution. We publish here two articles by the Marxist Tendency of the PSUV, the IMT in Venezuela, which analyse the latest developments in the Bolivarian Revolution.