Internationalist conference on the 12th anniversary of the Syrian Revolution

From the bloodied, partitioned, occupied and plundered Syria

From the Editorial Comitee of the newspaper The Truth of the Oppressed

Speech by Abu Muad

"In Syria there was too much heroism and not only a lack of revolutionary leadership, but above all there was an overabundance of counterrevolutionary leadership"

To end this section, it seems fundamental to us to take up the lessons of 12 years of struggle, of combat, of revolution and counterrevolution, the product of betrayal and slander. A revolution that started as a chain of revolutions all over Middle East, from Tunisia, Egypt, through Libya where the masses armed themselves and a similar scenario is happening in Syria. In Syria, our brothers defeated Bashar's army. They blew up his military apparatus, they defeated Bashar's generals.

Imperialism, frightened, sees its Zionist gendarme threatened, and did not hesitate to intervene, in the way the masses let it intervene. Because it was not the time of Bush, but the time of Obama, the "good brown guy", where the US working class did not allow its imperialist bourgeoisie to go to war.

So, what imperialism did is to paint the generals that Amir was talking about as "revolutionaries" in order to place them at the head of the revolution. They tried to control the masses, who did not give an inch because they wanted a dignified life, like in the whole Middle East. Thus, the Free Syrian Army emerged as a fifth column.

The first to make pacts with Bashar were the Kurdish bourgeoisie, who must be denounced at every opportunity, because the left at the international level presents them as the model to be followed and supported. This bourgeoisie broke the front of the Syrian revolution and made a pact with Bashar.

This Syrian revolution tended to converge with the revolutionary processes in Europe in 2011-2012. Imperialism knew that it had to stop it. And who fired the first poison darts against this revolution were the parties that call themselves left-wing, that call themselves Trotskyist, accusing the Syrian masses of not being working class, of being NATO troops, of "committing the crime" of arming themselves.

The revolution poses to us that unless we conquer the armament, unless we coordinate with other countries and other comrades to set up a revolutionary party on an international level, which is the leadership that can put forward the conditions for victory, the revolutionary uprisings will be led by their leadership towards defeat. In Syria there was too much heroism and not only a lack of revolutionary leadership, but above all there was an overabundance of counterrevolutionary leadership.