March 25, 2017

As part of the actions carried out around the world for the 6th anniversary of the Syrian revolution…

THE TRIBUTE TO THE SYRIA REVOLUTION AND ITS MARTYRS 
A day organized by socialists of the newspaper "The Truth of the Oppressed" together with the Solidarity Committees of Argentina and Brazil...

It is necessary to coordinate and unify all the forces that fight around the world to break the siege of the revolution
and to end the genocide of Al Assad, Putin, on behalf of imperialism

Let´s break the siege of the rebel masses of Syria!

Comrades from Syria participated decisively from the battle front, while Putin´s missiles fell a few meters from them. The fellow journalist Ahmed Rahhal from Idlib spoke. In direct communication, he said that the actions that were made in the world mean strength for their fight. He also sent a message to the exploited of the entire planet: "Rise up against your governments, because they all conspired to support Al Assad in his massacre against the masses". When masses are beginning to mobilize in Russia against Putin, comrades of the Russian Committee for Syria sent their greetings. From the guts of Putin's fascist forces who massacre the Syrian masses, those revolutionary comrades fight for the triumph of the Syrian revolution against Putin's Bonapartist regime denouncing that this genocide has sustained Bashar since the day one.

SEE ALL THE TRIBUTE, GREETINGS, STATEMENTS FROM ZIMBABWE, GREECE, SPANISH STATE, CHILE, SOUTH AFRICA, BOLIVIA, ARGENTINA, MOROCCO…

Refugees and members of the Arab community of the Spanish State also took part in the tribute. They are members of the Solidarity and Action Committee for the triumph of the Syrian Revolution, including comrades Jamil, Wasim, Eduardo Ballan, Saukaina, Suzzane Zaura, who have put their profession and daily actions into the service of this fight. They all greeted the revolution and its martyrs and affirmed to remain strong in the fight until the triumph. The writer Sirim Adlbi Sibai from Morocco sent her message. She wrote a book about Syria, the Arab countries and the role of women, and travels to different countries giving lectures to spread the voice of the Syrian revolution.

Spain and Greece are two of the most advanced areas where refugees have fought in Europe. Refugees from those countries, organized in solidarity committees for the triumph of the Syrian revolution organized marches and days of protest. On this sixth anniversary, comrades from Greece, with whom we shared the Solidarity Committee with Syria of Athens, as the comrade Safi, also sent his words for the homage. His message was that we will keep fighting for the triumph of the revolution until the regime fall.
Syrian refugees from Brazil, who also participate in the edition of the Arabic newspaper "The Truth of the Oppressed", also greeted raising the struggle of the Syrian masses around the world and the need to keep fighting.

That is to say, refugees were part of the Homage. Voices were heard of those that are confined in real concentration camps in the imperialist Europe suffering the same or worse conditions that the Syrian masses under the bombings of Al Assad, Putin and the imperialism. Such a terrible situation pushed a young Syrian man to immolate himself catching on fire in one of the concentration camps on the Greek island of Khios.
Activists of the USA anti-war movement and left-wing movement like David Turpin reproduced their speech in the rally they carried out in Washington denouncing the left movement and its own anti-war movement for supporting the genocidal Al Assad and for abandoning and isolating the Syrian revolution.
The Marxists of the Japanese Revolutionary Communist League (JRCL) also sent their greetings and expressed their support to the Syrian revolution. With those comrades we have been intervening together to break the siege of the revolution; as well as the comrades of the Workers International Vanguard Party of South Africa (WIVP). WIVP´s comrades have also reproduced all the Leon Sedov Brigade´s  statements and defended the Syrian revolution in every media and action in the streets where they have participated . Comrades of a Trotskyist group from Argentina named "La Cuarta" also addressed his word in the Homage.

Comrade Cheo Navarro, founder of Colombian Trotskyism and who participated directly in the struggle against Somoza´s dictatorship in the Nicaraguan revolution in 1979 as part of the Internationalist Volunteers Movement, driven by the Morenist current of the Fourth International. This comrade remarked that the Syrian revolution is not only Syrian, but is an international struggle for its content, as all the revolutions of the working class are. As such, he highlighted the internationalist tradition which it was part of, as before did the workers 'organizations in the Spanish revolution in the' 30 and which today is taken over by the Leon Sedov Brigade.
Textile workers´ revolutionary leaders from Zimbabwe (Africa) and Argentinean meat workers´ leaders, such as the Paty Workers' Commission named June 16 in struggle, addressed their words. The comrades from Radio Siria Libre (Radio Free Syria) also spoke to express their support and commitment to fight. The same did comrade Alberto Santillán, the father of Darío Santillán, an unemployed young man killed by the Argentinean police in 2002 just for fighting for decent work in what was known as "Avellaneda massacre ". The oil workers´ comrades from Las Heras did not miss the appointment. They are sentenced to life imprisonment and jail just for fighting and they sent their greetings from their Commission of Condemned Workers, Relatives and Friends of Las Heras through a moving letter and the words of the comrade Claudia Pafundi.

The moment when the workers and miners of Huanuni of Bolivia sent their messages of support to the Syrian revolution was a very important moment.  This is a  struggle banner that they have already taken from the past year. The Workers´ Federation of La Paz was the first working organization in take this struggle with international classes solidarity, breaking that infamous slander, lies and silence imposed by the reformist left and the treacherous leadership of the labor movement, which have separated the world working class of his Syrian class brothers and sisters.
The Syrian revolution was and is a great and heroic revolution of the working class, for bread and freedom.  There the imperialism concentrated all its counterrevolutionary forces to give a lesson to the world working class. They all supported Al Assad, reinforced with Putin, Iran, Hezbollah and mercenaries from several countries to carry out a brutal genocide that massacred 600,000 people, destroyed the cities, forced two-thirds of the Syrian masses to leave their houses and live as internally displaced persons, refugees, going to other countries, living in marquees on borders in the middle of nowhere...

It was a brutal counterrevolution, disguised by all the imperialist powers, by the national bourgeoisies, the Bolivarian friends of Al Assad and Labor bureaucracies and social-imperialist parties that supported him directly or denigrated the masses by saying that there were no workers, only barbarous, backward, uneducated, jihadist and terrorist people.
This was what comrade Carlos Munzer, co-author of the book "Syria Under Fire" and member of FLTI, said. He denounced these leaderships that isolated the Syrian revolution, which tainted it, which left Al Assad's hands free to carry out his counterrevolutionary crushing.
He also said that six years of siege, counterrevolution and massacre were not enough, because the revolution is still alive and fighting in Damascus. That despite all the conferences in Kazakhstan, Geneva, Trump's plans have not yet been able to reconstitute the exploiters´ state that the 2011 revolution blew up.

Comrade Abu Muad, editor of the newspaper "The Truth of the Oppressed," emphasized the current fighting of the revolution. The starved masses refuse to accept the conditions of misery imposed even in the zones under Bashar´s control,  where current wages only allow people to buy some bread, tea and a handful of rice. They refuse to climb into the green buses of Bashar, who take them to the middle of nowhere, after stealing all their belongings and humiliate them. They refuse to accept that genocidal dictator remains in power and they refuse abandon the blood of martyrs and the revolutionary fight.
These are the masses, the true revolution´s  protagonists. Those who rebelled and fought with their methods, as in 2011, and took over the most important industrial park in Damascus and fight only 70 blocks from the government house.
Abu Muad made clear that in these six years the Syrian masses did everything to succeed, heroic actions and battles and defeated and demolished the bourgeois state, which lost control of 80% of Syrian territory. But the Sunni bourgeoisies went there to sell them out  from inside like Trojan horses. And so they did. The FSA  and Al Nusra´s  generals hid the arms, they controlled their actions, they dissolved the coordination committees and after giving up Aleppo they entered directly the Kazakhstan´s  negotiating table to negotiate a divided Syria where all they distribute their businesses.

The masses rose up in Damascus against this Kazakhstan´s negotiating table. The Syrian revolution lives! This was the batlle cry throughout the world on this sixth anniversary.
The day culminated in homage to the revolutionary masses and their martyrs, highlighting the struggle of the revolutionary socialists of the Leon Sedov Brigade.

In this 6th anniversary of the revolution, our best homage is to take steps to conquer an international assembly of all the forces that are fighting around the world for the triumph of the Syrian revolution; A counter-conference facing the plans of Kazakhstan conference to unify the international fight for the Syrian masses, to break the siege and defeat dog Bashar. This rally-tribute we made was at the service of taking a step in that struggle.