★☭ KGB OFFICIAL REPORTS (INTERNATIONAL&IMPARTIAL) PARTISAN WORLD NEWS ★☭ Neo-liberalism and Imperialist hands off Libya! The Libyan government abolished a series of import quotas in 1987-88, allowing food imports to compete with local produce. Neo-liberal agricultural and industrial policies provoked opposition within the government and among the people. Writing in The Independent (22 February 2011) Robert Fisk asks, 'And who knows what the Green Book Archives -- and please, O insurgents of Libya, do NOT in thy righteous anger burn these priceless documents -- will tell us about Lord Blair's supine visit to this hideous old man [Gaddafi].' Gaddafi's son Saif told the Daily Mirror in June 2010, 'Tony Blair has an excellent relationship with my father. For us, he is a personal family friend. I first met him around four years ago at Number 10. Since then I have met him several times in Libya when he stays with my father. He has come to Libya many, many times.' Blair has visited Libya on behalf of JP Morgan Chase investment bank and played a pivotal role in turning the country over to multinational capitalism. In the past ten years Libya has privatised over 100 state companies and there are plans to privatise state owned banks. The 2004 Royal Dutch Shell deal was followed by Libya's application to join the World Trade Organisation. BP signed an oil exploration deal worth $900 million in 2008. Other investors in Libya's oil include Italy's ENI, Germany's Wintershall ...