Syria - January 28, 2026

“No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations”

The PKK subjected the Kurdish people to the USA, and to the fascists and war criminals al-Assad and Putin

They acted like mercenary troops for the imperialist oil companies that plunder Syria and massacred its oppressed people

Now the Americans have changed managers:
they've put in al-Jolani, the new head of the PKK

The Kurdish bourgeoisie calls on Zionism to intervene directly in Syria

While the US imperialists march to define their occupation of Gaza and establish a “Greater Israel,” and as the Arab bourgeoisies fence the Palestinian masses, the leader of the Kurdish forces in Syria, Ilham Ahmed, stated: “The crisis of the Middle East requires that everyone understands that without Israel and Jewish people playing a role, a democratic solution for the region will not take place” (...) “The security of the border areas in Syria requires everyone to be engaged in the solution, and Israel is one of the parties to that. Its role is going to be very important, so having a discussion with Israel at this time is very important.” You wretches! Lackeys of fascist Zionism and the USA!
Now, after the massacre of 300,000 Palestinians in Gaza, the Kurdish bourgeoisie from Syria is calling for the strengthening of "Greater Israel" and even for an invasion of Syria.

The Kurdish working class must break with this cowardly bourgeoisie, which is tutored and financed by Trump! They publicly supported the Zionist massacre in Gaza and called the masses of Gaza as “jihadists” and “terrorists,” just as they did yesterday in Syria, just as they did yesterday in Syria.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the "libertarian communes" of "Rojava" are, and have been, a smokescreen for the Kurdish bourgeoisie to provide cover for US bases in northern Syria. The US flag flies in all these "communes," and until yesterday, so did the Syrian flag of al-Assad.

The global reformist left and several anarchist groups must explain their complicity with the counter-revolutionary Stalinists of the PKK and the pro-imperialist Kurdish bourgeoisie. Or will they also claim that the cities in northern Syria, which are not part of Kurdish territory, are “libertarian communes”?
From Kobani and Hasakah, the control of Kurdish troops under US command extended tenfold across their territory, occupying a large part of northern Syria. This is the oil region in that nation, and it was taken over by the YPG. They acted as a true occupying force in Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor, the two most important cities in northern Syria. They entered at gunpoint under the pretext of attacking "terrorists." They starved the Syrian people and filled their prisons with political prisoners who had confronted Bashar al-Assad and the genocide he perpetrated alongside butcher Putin and the sinister Shiite bourgeoisie.
There you have the prisons full of women and children accused of "being from ISIS." Despicable liars.
The left wing of the "anti-terrorist front" (aligned with the USA, Russia, Zionism, and al-Assad) has a lot to explain. They were the protective umbrella for the Kurdish bourgeoisie and their counter-revolutionary forces, funded by imperialist oil companies.

For the Kurdish bourgeoisie, Trump's proposed Gaza model of scorched earth and reconstruction is the "perfect commune." For the Kurdish bourgeoisie, their YPG, and the Stalinist PKK, as their commander says, "Zionism is the only thing that will achieve a democratic solution for the region." In the midst of the genocide in Palestine, what the SDF spokesperson are proposing is such extreme counterrevolutionary cynicism that it has only been heard from the spokespersons of the White House and Tel Aviv. It will be no coincidence if the SDF ends up in a pro-Zionist agreement with al-Jolani, integrating themselves into the unified army of the Syrian bourgeoisie.
The SDF calls for Zionist intervention, when the Syrian Arab masses are rising up against all policies of occupation of their nation, despite and against al-Jolani, the new servant of the USA in Damascus.
The masses freed their prisoners. They arm themselves and self-organize whenever it is necessary to attack shabihas, counter-revolutionary troops of al-Assad that are rearing their ugly heads, etc.
On the contrary, al-Jolani's policy is to integrate into a common regime and armed forces all the bourgeois and imperialist factions or their representatives, who have invaded and split Syria, and from there negotiate with "Greater Israel" the control of of the oppressed nation on behalf of the imperialism.

There are the interviews and agreements of al-Jolani with the murderer Putin, partner of al-Assad and the PKK in the massacre of the Syrian people.

Al-Jolani is not coming to defeat those who occupied, split, and massacred Syria, but to form a government with all of them… including the SDF, in order to contain and eventually crush the masses seeking justice for their dead, recover the Syrian nation from occupation, and solve the problems of hunger, bread, and housing, which no bourgeois government can solve.
Al-Jolani has come to contain the popular justice that the masses in revolt seek to impose against the fascist murderers of their families from the Alawite big bourgeoisie, against the Druze big bourgeoisie partner of Zionism in its business in Syria, and against Erdogan with whom the PKK made a pact by handing over the arms in Turkey.
There is no doubt that the SDF, under US orders, will end up making a deal with the new "Caliph" of Damascus, but on the condition of handing over part of their dividends... That is what is being negotiated at this moment: the Kurdish bourgeoisie obeys its US master.
Everyone of them fears that a new revolutionary offensive like that of 2011, by the masses who have just expelled al-Assad, with new uprisings city by city, could turn into new clashes against the government of al-Jolani and the entire regime, servant of imperialism.

Trump and the US imperialist are the chiefs  of the SDF and the PKK, to whom they paid hefty dividends from the plundering of Syria.

The PKK, by subjecting the Kurdish people to imperialism, has confronted every just struggle of the Syrian masses to end the fierce dictatorship of al-Assad, with whom it made a pact, breaking the front of the revolution in 2014.
By allying themselves with their executioners of yesterday and today, they have betrayed the Kurdish people's right to self-determination. They have become occupying forces. Their right to self-determination has been transformed into a reactionary offensive to occupy northern Syria on behalf of the USA. As we have already stated, they occupied much more than Hasakah and Kobani: they occupied the most important and strategic areas and cities in northern Syria, from where the oil wells of imperialist corporations are controlled and monitored.
The demands of the Kurdish people were left in the hands of the imperialist butchers, supported by a mountain of corpses and mass graves of the Syrian masses… This is the “self-determination” defended by the groveling Islamophobic Left of US imperialism.
Let us be clear: no nation that oppresses another one can free itself.

The SDF, publicized to the world with hairdresser’s girl models, were nothing more than the guards of the oil companies' wells in northern Syria, from where they plundered all the nation's "black gold." They were the private security guards of Shell, Exxon, Chevron, Total, British Petroleum, ENI…
Let those traitors who claim to be creating "libertarian communes" with British Petroleum and Shell go try to fool someone else! Bastards!

Trump himself said it: “But just so you understand, the Kurds were paid tremendous amounts of money, were given oil and other things. So they were doing it for themselves, more so than they were doing for us.” When there's a voluntary confession, you need no other proof.
“Rome does not pay traitors.” The US has secured a stable army, without heavy weaponry, like al-Jolani’s, which can currently contain the masses with “mermaid songs” and by diverting their struggle for bread and housing, which have been destroyed by years of counterrevolutionary war. Al-Jolani also promises transnational corporations that it will be cheaper and safer for them to keep plundering Syria.

For al-Jolani and the Syrian bourgeoisie, recovering their territory means centralizing the bourgeois state that guarantees property ownership for capitalists and plunder for imperialists.
For the masses, recovering Syrian territory means expelling the oppressors and their lackeys, settling accounts with the murderers who massacred them. This is the truth.

The SDF is already obeying its US master. The pact of agreement and integration with al-Jolani has already begun. They are dividing up the crumbs they are entitled to from the plunder of Syria among these bourgeois gangs, lackeys of the US.

The path to resuming the struggle for self-determination for the Kurdish people in Syria lies in their breaking with the bourgeoisie and the PKK. The PKK has already surrendered in Turkey to Erdogan, as we have already stated, where they laid down their arms. They must break with the Kurdish bourgeoisie that co-governs Iraq, covering up the retreat of the defeated USA in that country. They must break with the jailers of the Syrian Arab people, whom they occupy…
They must unite with the revolutionary struggle of his Kurdish siblings in Iran. They are the vanguard of the fight against the murderous clerics who have just carried out a wohlesale massacre against the uprising masses in their country, just as they did yesterday alongside al-Assad and Putin in revolutionary Syria.

The unity of the Syrian and Kurdish working class is the only guarantee that the right to self-determination of oppressed peoples can be conquered, because the working class is the only on
e that does not oppress other classes.
Only a revolutionary workers' and peasants' government in Syria, following the path of the workers' and partisans' committees as in the 2011 struggle against al-Assad, holds the power to liberate all oppressed peoples. It is the only one that could establish Syria as a bastion of anti-imperialist struggle throughout the Middle East and as the vanguard of the fight against Zionism and for the destruction of the fascist state of Israel.

The SDF and the Stalinist scourge of the PKK, allies of Netanyahu, the murderer of the Palestinian people, are asking Zionism for help so that this time it will be Zionism, which is already occupying part of Syria, which puts order in the protectorate and defends its business.

 
The betrayal of Islamophobic social-imperialist movements is exposed:
They claim that “Trump has betrayed the Kurdish people”… Imperialism is not about liberating peoples, but about crushing them or using them for its own business.

Social-imperialist currents, which all joined the “anti-terrorist front” called by French imperialism to crush the masses of Syria, today lament that “Trump has betrayed the Kurdish people.”
We will never tire of saying it: US imperialist has not betrayed anyone. They were and are loyal to their own class, to their businesses and to using each of their agents when they need them.

Those who betrayed are the ones who told the world's working class that the traitorous Stalinists of the PKK and their military forces, monitored by US bases, were going to liberate the oppressed Kurdish people. Those who said that together with al-Assad and Putin—the fascists who did the "dirty work" for the major powers and crushed the 2011 revolution— the right to self-determination would be conquered.
Today, the Social-imperialist Left wants the world's workers to believe that imperialism is a force that can fight for national liberation and that one only needs to "stay alert to ensure no betrayal occurs"... They claim that to achieve liberation, one must march alongside imperialism for much of the way, even if it means oppressing other peoples...

One of these factions —monitored from London by the “Queen’s socialists”—, the PTS of Argentina, in addition to lamenting the alleged “USA betrayal,” now claims that “the leadership of the Kurdish movement must evaluate its conciliatory strategies, whether it be the alliance with the United States or the agreements reached with the regimes of Bashar al-Assad and Putin…” Why evaluate the alliance with counter-revolutionary forces now and not in the midst of the revolution? Why didn’t they call on the Kurdish masses to evaluate their pact with al-Assad and Putin, which placed them under US command in 2014 to strangle the Syrian revolution?
Millions rose up against al-Assad and Putin since 2011, and the Kurdish people were part of that uprising. Then, under the orders of imperialist oil companies, and due to the betrayal of the PKK, they broke with the revolutionary front and became mercenary troops for those same companies.
The PTS and its London allies, among others, applauded this decision. Now they must be held accountable.
Not only must they step up and take responsibility for the discipline imposed by "friendly imperialism" on their allies in Syria, but also for the 10,000 political prisoners, including women and children, who, accused of "being ISIS members," are imprisoned like dogs in the jails of Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor. You Messrs., you must take responsibility for the 120,000 disappeared in Syria. You must explain the genocide of 600,000 Syrians. You must no longer remain silent.
In the prisons of Rojava, as in those of Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor, the families are imprisoned of the best fighters of the 2011 revolution. Call for a fight for their freedom! Stop covering up for those who jail the workers and the people poor.

Tell the truth! We insist: you were on that counterrevolutionary front that left 600,000 massacred and 120,000 disappeared. That is why you claimed at the time —do not hide it!— that "the best thing that can happen is for the Kurds to win," while maintaining all the alliances they now confess to having with the USA and with  genocidists al-Assad and Putin.
When you said it during the early years of the revolution, riding on Islamophobic propaganda from the imperialist front, you knew it perfectly well.
You are the continuation of Stalinism in the Middle East, which spent its time supporting the so-called “democratic” imperialisms, like Washington and London, which dedicated themselves to splitting the nations of the Middle East at will and oppressing and plundering their people and all their wealth. You are filthy. The blood of the martyrs of the Syrian revolution will not let you live in peace.

You have no more arguments to bring up, nor any way to hide. The result of the policies of these social-imperialist parties and of all shades of international Stalinism, which applauded the Stalinist traitors of the Kurdish people, was to break the unity of the Syrian working class with the international working class, and in particular with that of Europe and the US.

They isolated the Syrian revolution … They turned off the lights so that in the darkness, al-Assad and Putin could massacre at will millions of workers and oppressed people who rose up in 2011. And you say that “imperialism betrayed”… No, YOU betrayed. Traitors! Come on, explain.

How is it that the best thing that could happen in the Syrian tragedy was for 'the Kurds to win,' when they ended up becoming the guardians of the oil on behalf of imperialism for it to loot? You have written rivers of ink on this. You cannot erase them. You got tired of betraying. Now, explain yourselves, You traitors.

To fight again for their right to self-determination, the Kurdish people must break with the PKK and the SDF that subjected them to the US imperialists
For the unity with the workers of Syria to expel all invading troops from the nation and get rid of the al-Jolani government, servant of imperialism!

We revolutionary Marxists tell the Syrian masses in revolt that they have every right to recover all the areas occupied by the counter-revolution that split and occupied Syria from north to south, along all its borders and boundaries, and that this is a task that no bourgeois government will be able (nor willing) to carry out to the end.
The struggle of the Syrian masses to expel all invading troops from their nation is just. Today, in particular, this includes those of Turkey and Zionism.
We affirm and patiently explain that recovering the Syrian nation from its partition and occupation means expelling and nationalizing, without compensation and under the control of its workers, all the imperialist oil and transnational companies in Syria, which are the ones that have financed the counter-revolutionary governments and international forces that occupied it, massacring its people.

It is the task of the Kurdistan workers and people of Hasakah and Kobani to break with the sinister traitors of the PKK and the YPG who collaborated with the US to occupy Syria, and to unite and fight alongside the workers and the poor people of Syria to expel all invading troops from their nation and recover all their territory. We call upon you to rise up, take up arms, and liberate all the cities occupied by the USA in northern Arab Syria.
Only in this way, by standing at the forefront alongside the Syrian workers in the fight to recover their occupied nation, can the Kurdish people once again lead their demands for the right to self-determination in their regions, and they will surely have the support of the vast majority of the people poor. And together, they will be able to confront the al-Jolani government and the infamous pact it is preparing with the SDF and the PKK to integrate them into the new lackey government of imperialism that took hold in Damascus after al-Assad did the "dirty work" for the imperialist gangs.

We call on the Kurdish people to open the doors and gates of all the prisons in Raqqa and Deir ez Zor, in Hasakah and Kobani, where the best fighters from northern Syria who faced the dog Bashar and Putin's barrel bombs are imprisoned.
Today, the SDF has agreed with the US imperialists and this scoundrel of al-Jolani to transfer political prisoners from Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor, and all of northern Syria to Iraq to be arrested for “being ISIS.” A LIE! They are political prisoners of the Syrian revolution! This is how the militants feel and recognize it, and despite and against al-Jolani, they are liberating all the prisons and freeing the political prisoners of their revolution. We stand with them; not with their jailers.
What is ISIS? It is the USA who gives the YPG dollars to protect their oil wells.

We call on the international working class to condemn the Social-imperialist Left that has treated as “terrorists” the Syrian working class and masses who a year ago overthrew the fascist al-Assad and were desperately searching for the more than 120,000 disappeared and more than 20,000 political prisoners who were in tomb prisons 7 stories underground.

What strengthens al-Jolani, the expropriating government of this new democratic-revolutionary uprising of the oppressed in Syria, is precisely this sinister policy of the currents that claim to be leftist but are lackeys of imperialism, treating the Syrian masses as “jihadists” or “ISIS members” and thus separating them from the European and global working class…
Without the support of the international working class, why would the Syrian worker break free from or overcome the scoundrel al-Jolani, who manipulates their struggle? The vast majority of workers' organizations, under the leadership of Stalinists and renegades of the Fourth International, condemn them as "terrorists," when it is the Syrian people who are still mourning their dead… Yes, murdered in a true genocide. We repeat this because everyone wants to silence and forget it. 600,000 were killed. 120,000 disappeared.
But despite this, weeks ago, on the anniversary of the new uprising a year ago, in every city in Syria, alongside the flags of their nation, which is seeking its liberation by the people poor, the flags of Palestine were raised, despite and against al-Jolani and that sinister Sunni bourgeoisie.

Attacking the Syrian masses as “terrorists” is not only speaking for the Pentagon, but it is a political crime because Syria is precisely the place where the masses could  open a new front against Zionism to break the siege of Gaza. The Syrian masses are fighting to do so, just as the workers and the oppressed people of southern Lebanon are fighting for, even against Hezbollah, even in the last trench, seeking arms to break Gaza's isolation. So too are the heroic workers of Iran, who seek justice by fighting the infamous regime of the Ayatollahs that has murdered their best, as it did in the Syrian uprising of 2011 there.

The curtain rises and blood gushes from beneath the earth of the peoples whom reformism calls "backward", "terrorists" or "ISIS’ troops".

The PTS tendency in the Spanish State was publicly repudiated by Palestinian groups like Al-Yudur for condemning the Gaza self-defense struggle of October 7th two years ago. The PTSists call "terrorists” the Gaza resistance without any hesitation. Now they have to hide it more and more, because they are being exposed more and more. They are despicable.
They even went so far as to say, as one of their leaders publicly does, that October 7th was a "Zionist self-inflicted attack"... What an explanation for the beginning of one of the greatest genocides in history... A real confession.
Today, when Zionist settlers throughout Palestine are invading more and more land and expelling Palestinian peasants with their fascist gangs, when we see the massacre in Gaza, it is already clear who the terrorists are and who the workers and the people in arms defending their oppressed nation. We are facing infamous and hubristic reformists.

The blood of the exploited cannot be hidden from history. They labeled 27 million Syrians as "terrorists" and "ISIS members." Bastards! They hid the Syrian working class so that no other sector of the working class would support them when they were being massacred by Putin and al-Assad.

We are dealing with Islamophobic reformists who speak with a dismissive attitude towards the working class of the Middle East, which has been one of the most combative in this 21st century. These people have nothing to do with the program and policies of the Third International towards the "backward" peoples (as these shameless bastardos call them) of the East.

The Syrian masses, and all those throughout the region, lack the leadership they deserve. This leadership will surely emerge from the heroic resistance currently being waged by the Palestinian masses, from the revolutionary uprisings against the murderous clerics in Iran to revive the revolution of the Shoras, of the councils of workers and soldiers.
It will be a revolutionary, internationalist, combative, and insurrectionist leadership that will reignite the spark of Tunisia and lead the revolutionary offensive in Egypt to retake Tahrir Square, so that this time the masses will seize power.
A new revolutionary leadership that will only stand under the banners of the Fourth International, truly marking who the allies of the world working class are and who its enemies.

Editorial Committee of the newspaper “The Truth of the Oppressed”
of Syria and the Middle East