March 25, 2017

ON THE SIXTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SYRIAN REVOLUTION: HONOR TO ITS MARTYRS!
Sinforoso "Cheo" Navarro
Ex-combatant of the Simon Bolivar Brigade in Nicaragua in 1979

Comrades, welcome a revolutionary greeting. It is a great honor for me to participate in this meeting commemorating the sixth anniversary of the Syrian revolution as an example of militant internationalism, continuing the internationalist experience initiated with the volunteers participating in the Spanish revolution of the 1930s, followed by the participation of the Internationalist Brigade Simon Bolivar in the Nicaraguan revolution of 1979. This internationalist tradition continues today with the companions of the Brigade Leon Sedov that fights along with the exploited of Syria that face in a brave and heroic way the criminal regime of Bashar al-Assad.

We revolutionaries of the world know that this process in Syria must be backed up under the internationalist precept of struggle against world imperialism. The generation I represent is obliged to transmit the banner of militant internationalism to the youth of the world, understanding that we are only part of this important process for the triumph of the World Socialist Revolution as a response to the genocide and barbarism imposed on us by the rotten capitalist system.

We revolutionary Trotskyists today fight on the battlefronts of the most advanced of the world working class and in the trenches for the defense of Marxism and socialist revolution; that is why we are present in the Syrian revolution. The FLTI-CI, is the pivot to advance in this fight that millions of exploited in the world are waging, returning to the way of the Proletarian Internationalism, making it Militant, reason why the Re-foundation of the Fourth International, means life or death for the world working class, since with the present directions the masses cannot win.

These leaderships are in the hands of Stalinist revisionism and the new left, and it is here that the pseudo-Trotskyists have easily accommodated worldwide. There are tons of venom shed by revisionism, whose only aim in revolutionary processes is that the masses do not take power, and worse, they form cadres which are taught that the seizure of power is impossible and that this rotten system can be improved by making capitalism more humane.

The fight is set, it is open and we will win it, joining all the young and hardworking workers of the world, we are going to break the frontiers of the international combats of the oppressed, and that we are already doing. We do it together with the factory workers of La Paz; Chilean miners; teachers and oil workers from Mexico and Argentina; American workers fighting for $ 15 an hour; workers and miners in Africa; with the revolutionary militias in Syria and Yemen; with the Latin American and European workers and the masses of the Pacific and the Middle East ... it is time for the Trotskyists to see what the traitors do not want us to see ... that we have already stood up milestones of militant internationalism in the fringes of the world working class ... now we go for the cream of the cream, to organize the best of the masses to put up the Fourth International, the Party and the Program that they deserve for the victory ... there is nothing or nobody that prevent it.
It is not written in History that reformism can survive a world collapsed by the bankruptcy of imperialism ... We Will Win! ... How not to do it, if our class is extraordinary ... if our class ever lacked a date when it was a case to fight against the capitalists ... it will never let the exploiters live in peace ... we want to win and we are going to!

We want to have at least 10% of tenacity, audacity, selflessness and heroism in their struggle, as demonstrated by the Syrian revolutionary masses and the heroic fighters of the Leon Sedov Brigade, who have put the blood of their martyrs as an example of not accepting defeat. It is time for the internationalists to unmask and crush reformism in the trenches of theory and strategy of the true SOCIALIST REVOLUTION. We will not surrender in the civil war and a thousand times we will not yield in the defense of the program for that revolution.
For our honor as revolutionary Trotskyists! ... The next generations will not start their battles from scratch and they will know their allies and will be able to brand their enemies! ... Resistance fights in Damascus, but it is not alone; it is supported by the exploited people! ... The hunger of the people is the fire of revolution!

They will know how and by whom heroic revolutions were defeated! ... They will know who to execute for the massacres like Syria today! ... They will revenge our martyrs! ... We Trotskyists do not surrender, we hate too much this perverse system and its executioners as to doubt our convictions a single second!
The battlefield begins to fill with traitors' debris and we are going to clean it ... and we will raise from there the flag for the Re-foundation of the Fourth International and for militant internationalism, for the victory of the Socialist World Revolution!
Honor and glory to the martyrs and fighters of the Sedov Brigade of the revolution in Syria!

Sinforoso “Cheo” Navarro
Ex-combatant of the Simón Bolívar Brigade in Nicaragua, 1979
Correspondent to Democracia Obrera for Central America and the Caribbean