November 2, 2024

Speech by Abu Muad from the newspaper “The Truth of the Oppressed” of Syria and the Middle East and co -author of the book “Syria Under Fire”

Good afternoon comrades, greetings to everyone present…

On a day like today we have the honor of being able to pay tribute to comrades who fell in combat at the height of the battle that the world working class is waging on the Middle East front… We have the honor of having been in those places; the battles we fought in Libya showed the left that we could reach out, to that left that celebrated and applauded Tunisia for its “peaceful revolution” and condemned Libya because the workers defended themselves from the bombs with rifles. We were part of that and as part of that process we not only reached the doors of Gaddafi’s barracks, but once we had executed him, we were able to reach Syria with a group of comrades and that is where the scenery began to open up.

The comrades who were there resisted, while those who were here waged a huge battle against the left that never stopped slandering us. They also denounced once and again at each meeting the Geneva Convention that imperialism was holding together with Bashar and the native bourgeoisies to besiege the Syrian revolution and surrender it from within together with the Sunni generals. The comrades here traveled as far as Japan to carry the banners of this struggle.

While we were resisting in Syria, we were able to have the honor of being part of the exodus of refugees that invaded the shores of Europe, of refugees fleeing from that war and that conflict that we had been supporting and denouncing, and for which we had been branded as “extremists” and “terrorists”. The billions of refugees arrived on the shores of Europe and told their stories and they agreed with ours. We were no longer the “crazy ones” who shouted; we were proven right. We fought the battles that we had to fight, together with the refugees who were isolated once again.

The counterrevolution was beginning to gain ground and we suffered one of the first significant casualties, that of comrade Mustafa Abu Jumaa, the father of Abu Al Baraa, the founder of Syrian Trotskyism, who in that fateful October finally fell on the Aleppo front fighting not only for the liberation of the Syrian people, but to establish an international current. A revolution could not be won in just one country. We had executed Gaddafi, but they had already killed 600,000 of us and math doesn’t lie. In order to balance the scales, it had to be on a global level or nothing. That was the lesson that Abu Al Baraa learned and that is why he gave his life fighting for an international center to establish an international current that knows how, when and where to support a revolution.

Today the counterrevolution has advanced. Zionism, which had no firepower then, has regained it today…

I think that the best way to pay tribute to the more than 1 million martyrs left by the Syrian Revolution, among whom are Abu Al Baraa, Mustafa Abu Jumaa, Abu Jud, Abdul Basset Sarout and other martyrs who, although they have not fallen in battle at the front, have known how to fight and be at the front, like comrade Alejandro Villarruel. I believe that the best way to honor them is to follow their path and take up the flags of the comrades who fell and left them for us right there so that we can continue with their struggle and their combat.