Syria - February 22th, 2022

Today’s partitioned Syria under fascism
After the genocide of al-Assad and Putin and the betrayal of the Left

In Syria, since March 15, 2011, the day the Syrian revolution started, the regime of al-Assad and his allies Iran, Hezbollah and Russia has destroyed Syria and murdered and displaced the Syrian people. The bombings of al-Assad and Putin left hundreds of thousands of dead, millions as refugees in other countries and in tents across the borders. They destroyed the cities of Syria and drowned in blood a people that rose for bread and dignity.
Today, Syria is partitioned in different areas, each one under different authorities, all of them are agents coordinated in Geneva-Astana-Sochi Conference, under US command. Every region has a different authority, and each area is divided by borders.

In the south and centre of Syria there’s al-Assad’s regime, who does not hide his crimes and his allies’ and how he destroyed the cities in which he recovered control where he killed and displaced his people. They justify this behind an “anti-terrorism” applauded by the entire social-imperialist left, which also labels al-Assad and his ally Putin as “anti-imperialists”. Al-Assad still rules with his regime of security forces of oppression for those who are still in the areas under his authority, supported mainly by Putin. In there, all the institutions are meant to support the regime of al-Assad. The imprisonments and tortures carried out there are still killing all those who criticize the corruption and brutality of the chief of the authority, Bashar al-Assad, and the world sees how those who are still in Syria are trying to flee the country to escape from this brutal repressive regime and the hunger it causes on the civilian population.
Al-Assad could retake control in these territories after losing control of 80% of the country in the 2011’s Revolution. He has done so due to the sellout of the bourgeois generals of the former Free Syrian Army (FSA), who today are wearing Bashar’s army uniform. This is something that happened all across Syria, where the generals of the Sunnite bourgeoisie sold out the rebel cities one by one and then they returned to the place where they came from: Bashar’s army. In particular, the generals of the so-called “Southern Front” of the FSA (Ghouta, Daraa and surroundings), when they returned to al-Assad’s army, they were organized in the “Fifth Corps”, which is directly under Putin’s command. Their commander in chief, Ahmed Awoda, travels regularly to Moscow to coordinate how they keep on crushing the masses under al-Assad and Putin’s fascist jackboot.

In Northeast Syria, there’s Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), formerly known as Jabhat al Nusra, ruling the city of Idlib and northern countryside. It also rules the people by force, with a security apparatus that takes all the material and human advantages to keep themselves in power. It has terminated every organized opposition, like brigades or activists groups, and it suffocates anyone who dares to criticize them, even arresting many fighters of the revolution. For that reason, many revolutionaries fled from those areas it controls. HTS has formed the Salvation Government, which is a civilian government but it is a part of its regime. It has civilian and military courts, but all of them work under the security apparatus, which has secret jails and makes fast trials without justice.

In northern Aleppo countryside, the National Army controls. The National Army is a union of all factions of the FSA who didn’t return to al-Assad’s army after they handed over the rebel cities. In here, the FSA is directly commanded by Turkey, which is occupying this area with its army too. The leaders of the fractions became war lords. Originally, they were not military, although there are also some officials that defected from the regime who are inside these factions. In this area, there are secret prisons, handled by the Turkish intelligence. They are not subjected to any authority but Erdogan’s. They don’t even take the detainees to court, which is controlled by the war lords, under Erdogan’s command. They carry out forced disappearance and torture is practiced when they investigate in the majority of the detention centres.

In Northeast Syria, the area where the oil is in Syria, there are the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), headed by the Stalinist Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK), a party directly commanded by the United States from their troops and military bases there. They control the justice, the army and all the institutions of that area, whether political or military. The control of that party is based in the leadership of one sector against the other sectors and against the members of their own sector who do not agree with their policy. It has several secret jails and uses torture and forced disappearance of the detainees. All kinds of the world left parties have called this “the Rojava revolution”, and praised it as “the only progressive place in Syria” and called for a world support, when PKK is nothing but the security guard of the US oil companies that plunder the black gold. The results are in plain sight. PKK was only a force that besieged Aleppo, and attached liberated areas, it signed an agreement with al-Assad and placed itself under the US command for the plundering of Syria.

There are borders that divide these four areas in which Syria is partitioned and there are taxes on the goods transported from one area to the next one. The people can only move across different areas area throughout smugglers, where casualties are very common. The authorities want to avoid smuggling from one area to the other at all costs, which means, as we’ve seen, shooting to kill those who try to get an extra income to fight against starvation, as they work for the traders that want to jump taxes.

This is the partitioned Syria after the victory of the forces that the Left called “progressive” and “anti-imperialist”. They are also responsible for fascism, partition, the millions of refugees, starvation, secret jails, disappearances, tortures and massacres.