December 14, 2024
International Event of Support for the Second Syrian Revolution
From Japan
Greetings from the revolutionary Marxists of the Revolutionary Communist League - Revolutionary Marxist Fraction (JRCL-RMF)
To all comrades who are participating in the December 14th International Event, we are sending our greetings to express our resolve to fight in solidarity with you.
Comrades.
Besieged by the mounting anger of Syrian people, authoritarian ruler Bashar al-Assad finally fled away to Russia under the rule of his backer, Putin. After conducting a war against the people by even using chemical weapons, and imposing more than six hundred thousand deaths on them, the blood-stained regime fell down. The despotic rule of the al-Assad family, Hafez and Bashar, who had repressed anyone rebellious against them, has been terminated, and tens of thousands of political prisoners have now been liberated from jails. Together with Syrians and together with you, who have been fighting against the al-Assad regime backed by 'today's Stalin' Putin, we rejoice at these developments.
Comrades.
The road to the true liberation of Syrian people is still full of hardships. Russia will not abandon the military bases it has secured in this country. Be it Biden's or Trump's administration, US imperialism won't simply look on Muslim radicals of the HTS becoming central in a 'provisional government' whose formation they are initiating right now. And Netanyahu of Israel is already mounting air strikes on Damascus and even advancing its troops into Syrian territories, declaring that it's preventing weapons stored by al-Assad from falling into the hands of Muslim radicals and that it's for self-defence.
Warfare and confusion won't be ceasing but intensifying, not only in the Middle East but also all over the world. With the aim of exterminating Palestinians, Israel's homicidal mania Netanyahu is raining missiles deliberately upon children and women. The Russian evil murderer Putin is doing the same thing against Ukrainian people.
For the toiling masses in Palestine and the Middle East, and for those all over the world, the road to their self-liberation is still bleak. Conflicts raging in the Middle East have their backgrounds in the global confrontation between US imperialism, which is in decline, and the neo-Stalinist state of China, which is frantic to seize world hegemony from the former (and Russia in collusion with the latter). Imperialist America, which used to boast of being the world's sole superpower after the self-destruction of the Stalinist Soviet Union, was exposed to Muslim people's concentrated fire of indignation by conducting successive invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, thus having dug its own grave. Taking advantage of America's decline, its rivals, Xi-led China and Putin-led Russia, have embarked on their challenge. Today's world has now plunged into a new Cold War between the US and China (with Russia).
Amid this turbulent world situation, there appear fascistic 'dictators', who are abusing strong power of the state. While oppressing the toiling masses, these 'Hitlers of today' are amassing vast fortunes and have enriched themselves. Toiling people, on the other hand, are even unable to live on. Across the world, vast numbers of people are wandering about the world as refugees. Trampled and thrust into wars, poverty and oppressive rule everywhere in the world, toiling people are seething with rage. It's time for the downtrodden people to arise in unity. Let us fight hand in hand to carve out our future, a truly peaceful world without oppressive rule.
We will never tolerate those self-styled 'leftists' who shamelessly defend al-Assad and Putin the aggressor of Ukraine. Against them, let us fight arm in arm to create and develop powerful struggles of working people all over the world.
Sachiko Kihara
JRCL-RMF |
