International Event on the 13th anniversary of the Syrian revolution

From Argentina:

Claudia Pafundi, member of the Commission of Convicted Workers, Relatives and Friends of Las Heras

"With all of them we marched on December 12, 2013 to the court. The flag of the Syrian and Palestinian revolution waved in our hands that day. At the head of the march to the court that sentenced us there were the names of the young anarchists who had rebelled against the Troika government in Greece and who are still imprisoned.
It was on that day that we understood that we workers are strong if we unite worldwide."

I am Claudia Pafundi, member of the Commission of Convicted Workers, Relatives and Friends of Las Heras.

We want to greet this event. We will never forget the genocide committed in Syria, nor that this revolution drowned in blood faced the same enemies that attack all the workers of the world.

Al-Assad and Putin have been massacring our brothers and sisters, in the service of the imperialist oil companies.

Those same oil companies were the ones that condemned our comrades to life imprisonment and are the ones that today are carrying out a holocaust like the one by the Zionist occupier against the Palestinian nation.

We were able to face the court that condemned us for fighting for our demands thanks to the support, solidarity and unified struggle of hundreds of workers' organizations in Argentina and around the world.

They treat our comrades in Syria and Palestine as terrorists; they did the same to us and they do it as well against all those who rise up in the world against oppression and for bread for their children. We are not terrorists, we are exploited people who fight against the real terrorists: imperialism, its murderous governments and regimes. 

We confronted those cowardly judges who condemned us in 2013, by breaking the borders.

From Japan the JRCL fought shoulder to shoulder with us; we joined the fathers and mothers of the 43 students of Ayotzinapa disappeared by the Mexican State; we twinned with the families of the martyrs of Senkata and Sacaba in Bolivia; with the Marikana miners massacred in South Africa, because their struggle is also ours and we will never be separated.

But there is something engraved in our hearts. From Syria, under the bombs and bullets of al-Assad and Putin, comrade Abu Al Baraa and the revolutionaries fighting in Aleppo sent us their solidarity and fought for the freedom of all the political prisoners of the world working class.

Also in Palestine comrade Al Issawi and the prisoners in the jails of Jerusalem occupied by the State of Israel, went on hunger strike in solidarity with us. The same did Georges Abdallah and the Basque prisoners in the prisons of France.

With all of them we marched on December 12, 2013 to the court. The flag of the Syrian and Palestinian revolution waved in our hands that day. At the head of the march to the court that sentenced us there were the names of the young anarchists who had rebelled against the Troika government in Greece and who are still imprisoned.

When our comrades were sentenced, those judges, so "brave" to torture and repress were pale, their hands and faces were trembling... it was the strength of the working class beating as one fist. And that is why, although we were condemned, today we are still free, fighting for our acquittal.

It was on that day that we understood that we workers are strong if we unite worldwide.

That is why, with all of them, we set up the International Network for the Freedom of Political Prisoners and Justice for Our Martyrs.

We understood that those who tell us that we can confront divided country by country the monopolies that plunder and oppress us are liars.

That is why we will not be silent nor will we stop fighting until our comrades in Syria succeed, until we expel the Israeli occupier of the Palestinian nation, until we free the last prisoner for fighting against the oppressors all over the world.

The working class is one and has no borders.

Long live the Syrian resistance!
Long live the Palestinian cause!
Long live the world working class!

The rebellion of the slaves is not a crime, it is justice! Justice!