Syria - August 13th, 2022

The resistance does not give up and takes to the streets throughout northern Syria

No to reconciliation with the fascist regime! Occupants out!
Down with the Erdogan-Putin-Al Assad counterrevolutionary pact!

The masses of northern Syria once again took to the streets massively in more than 30 cities, shouting "there is no place in our revolution for reconciliation with the regime" "our revolution continues until Bashar is overthrown!" "Out with the invader!", in response to the statements by the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavusoglu, who called for "reconciliation with the Syrian regime, to build a lasting peace". After meeting in Theran with Putin and Khamenei, Erdogan has been emboldened and wanted to impose the surrender of the areas of Syria that they control and occupy, where the Turkish currency is used.

But in those areas, there was no fascist crushing as happened in other zones of Syria, where the dog Bashar Al Assad, Putin (Russia), Khamenei (Iran) and Nasrallah (Lebanese Hezbollah) commanded a genocide of hundreds of thousands of dead, millions of displaced and razed cities reduced to rubble. Here in northern Syria, there is the resistance, those who refused to surrender, those who do not want to accept Al Assad’s dictatorship, those who continue to say that the blood of the martyrs has not been shed in vain, those who continue fighting to free the more than 500 thousand prisoners under torture who are in the dungeons of the fascist regime.

In northern Syria, what was endured was deception, betrayal, manipulation, disarmament and then strict manu-militari control and persecution of activism by the Sunni bourgeoisie under the orders of Turkey. Today, the uprising burning Turkish flags and marching to expel its occupying forces who want to impose reconciliation with Al Assad has set up a combat trench against one of the parts of the Geneva-Astana-Sochi counterrevolutionary conference. From there, Turkey with the Sunni bourgeoisie, in a pact with Russia, Al Assad, Iran, under US command, left a divided, bled, looted, occupied and devastated nation, with millions of displaced people living in tents as a reservoir of labour force. The US kept all the oil wells, occupying them directly with their YPG gurkas.

Erdogan believed that the defeat of the Syrian revolution was already settled and intended to continue advancing in his occupation. He reinforced his military positions, announced a plan to establish a 30km strip along his border into the Syrian interior where he could directly occupy. The first bombings began against the YPG, which occupy that area as guardians of the Yankee oil companies. Erdogan believed himself to be the occupant of oil zones sharing directly with the US, dispensing with the Kurdish bourgeoisie. But the masses taking to the streets let him know that they do not accept his reconciliation, his occupation, the partition, the displacement of refugees to live in camps on the borders and the misery that they impose on them. Syrians want dignity, their homes back, prisoners released and justice for the martyrs. The resistance does not give up and wins the streets!

Long live the struggle of the masses in northern Syria! The trenches are there to reopen the fronts against the regime and kick out the occupants! Down with the generals of the National Army and all the Sunni bourgeoisie that is in the pact with the fascist regime! The weapons to confront Al Assad and Putin, not to ensure reconciliation with them! The police stations and arsenals of the servant Sunni bourgeoisie of Turkey must be seized to recover the weapons! The coordination committees must be set up again!

In Daraa the resistance did not give up either and is facing the shots against the fascist forces of Al Assad.
In the south and north of Syria, the same fight! Al-Assad out! Out with Turkey, Russia, Iran, U.S. and all the invading troops! Damascus and the rest of Syria must be revolted in the same combat to defeat the fascist regime!

Only the working class leading the poor peasants and all the exploited can unify Syria and get it out of the barbarism to which it has been led. It is the one that has in its power to expropriate the oil wells, the banks and all the businessmen who enrich themselves at the expense of the blood of the people, in order to solve the bread problem.

Only with the coordination committees and their workers' and peasants' and partisan militias will we reach Damascus, and with a workers' and peasants' government we will conquer bread, we will recover the housing and the freedom of the prisoners of the revolution.

This is the same combat alongside the Palestinian masses, who today face a Zionist offensive of massacre, assassinations, arrests and dispossession of homes in Gaza and the West Bank. Al Assad, Putin, Hezbollah and the Iranian ayatollahs advanced further on the Syrian revolution and Zionism was further strengthened, recovering firepower and with its borders well guarded, in order to advance in defeating the Palestinian people and establishing itself as what it was historically: the key gendarme of imperialism in the Middle East.

We face the same enemy in Syria and Palestine. Our struggle is unified, although for years the leadership of the Palestinian bourgeoisie kept us divided. The same was done by the treacherous leaderships of the world working class, who isolated not only the Syrian revolution from Palestine, but from all the workers on an international level, slandering the Syrian masses as “terrorists”, “barbarians”, “backwards”… It is time to break down those barriers and defeat our executioners.

In particular, we have to weld unity with the working class of the central countries. They can strike from within the imperialist beast that plunders our region with its oil companies, that invades with its armies, that commands the massacre of our people behind the scenes.
It is the same fight shared by the exploited throughout the region, which will rise again to conquer bread and end so much misery imposed on us by imperialist looting and its lackey governments.

Editorial Board of the paper 'The Truth of the Oppressed'