On 20 March 2011, during the Libyan uprising, the RS condemned the UN Security Council, the European Union and the Obama Administration on their decision to implement a no-fly zone and foreign military intervention in Libya as "part of the counter-revolution". They accused them of remaining silent "for decades while Gaddafi, and his like among the Arab regimes, suppressed their people with the utmost brutality and piled up wealth... so long as these regimes implemented the recommendations of the International Monetary Fund for the abolition of any social support for the poor... as long as companies kept open their doors to global capitalism...".