Syria, Afrin - March 27th, 2018
From the Geneva conference, under the US command, they come to impose the crushing of the last trenches of the revolution such as Ghouta and the partition of Syria
THE SURRENDERING OF AFRIN
PKK gave the keys of the city to Al Assad, who agreed giving it to Erdogan
The FSA generals go to Afrin with Turkey and withdraw their forces from Ghouta, leaving it at the mercy of the brutal attacks of Bashar and Putin
On Sunday March 18th at dawn, the Turkish troops -together with the FSA that was under its command, led by generals of the Sunnite bourgeoisie loyal to Erdogan- entered Afrin, a Kurdish town in northern Syria. Only a few hours later, in the morning of that very Sunday, Turkey announced this event in the world press, showing his troops in the centre of Afrin waving Turkish flags.
There were no battles at the doorstep of Afrin. The forces under Erdogan’s command didn’t find any resistance. The troops of Al Assad, which had taken over the control of the city weeks ago by the hand of PKK and YPG, opened the road to Turkey while the city had been already evacuated.
Meanwhile, the warplanes of Al Assad and the murderer Putin reduced Ghouta to ashes and bombed Idlib, two of the last trenches of the revolution. The FSA generals weakened the forces of the resistance in Ghouta and Idlib (leaving them at the mercy of Al Assad and Putin) to place themselves under Turkish command in Afrin. We are seeing a sellout of Ghouta and Idlib by the generals of the FSA.
Yesterday, they did the same by selling out the capital city of the resistance, trading Aleppo for Jarabulus. That is to say, they withdrew the forces that were fighting against Bashar from Aleppo and they took them to Jarabulus, also under the Turkish orders, to “confront ISIS”, so Erdogan controls later that border crossing and later that of Azaz.
This was agreed in the Geneva conference, the general staff of the counterrevolution for Syria and the Middle East. That conference is the coordination of Al Assad, Putin, Erdogan and the FSA generals, all of them under US command. This conference has been working since 2013 and it is an operation table from where they agree on the acting of each one of these agents to defeat the revolution and also to partition Syria.
In the last meeting in December last year, once again it was resolved that Al Assad stayed in Damascus, since more massacres were needed to the last trenches of the revolution such as Ghouta and Idlib. This is where it was defined this trade of Ghouta for Afrin, where Turkey keeps the latter and Bashar and Putin crush Ghouta.
The last chapters of a bloodied and a thousand times betrayed revolution are being written in Syria
This trade happens when, from Geneva conference, they come to defeat the revolution and split the loot of the bloodied Syria. In Syria, the final chapters of a revolution are being written; a revolution that was massacred and betrayed by all the reformist left parties that besieged it. Over this basis, in Geneva conference, they are negotiating how the businesses in post-revolution Syria will be.
In the first place, with USA having military bases and their own troops on the ground, keeping the oil wells for themselves in Raqa and Deir ez Zor and having the business of re-construct Syria: 200 billion dollars that the Syrian state will have to ask in loans. Syria has become a protectorate, militarily invaded and totally indebted and economically dependent of USA. This is the result of the victory of Al Assad and the counterrevolution: Syria subjugated to imperialism, which rises as a true and the big winner of the war.
On the other hand, Turkey has also negotiated its cut in Geneva. It keeps control of the border crossing of trade and most important the oil pipes. That is their place in the world division of labour: to be a gendarme of NATO and guarantor of the oil pipes. That’s why Turkey has entered with its army the northern area of Syria of Azaz and Jarabulus (west of Euphrates) and this is another reason for the trade of Ghouta for Afrin, which ended up under Turkish control. Russia doesn’t keep anything for itself. It can only sell weapons. Putin’s role is a hit man to crush the revolution.
PKK gives the keys of Afrin to Al Assad and he opens the door to Erdogan
When Erdogan announced that his army was going to invade Afrin, PKK, the Kurdish Stalinism which is under US discipline and its 10 military bases in Rojava, gave the keys of Afrin to Assad and he entered with his troops. PKK said that Assad troops would defend them from Turkey and, by using its YPG, took the Kurdish people out on the streets to celebrate the arrival of Bashar’s tanks as if they were “liberation troops”. That is to say that PKK used the threat of the Turkish army as a “gun to their head” to make the Kurdish exploited of Afrin be disciplined to Al Assad, who together with Russia ended up opening the doors to Erdogan.
This is a tragedy for the Kurdish people of Afrin. This is the result of the policy of PKK and the entire world reformist left that went behind PKK’s leadership. The world left called to defend Afrin silencing the massacre in Ghouta and Idlib. With this, they created a “smoke screen” to hide in the world that the last trenches of the revolution were being burnt to ashes.
Also, they had a policy of supporting the Stalinist PKK, affirming “that the only progressive in Syria are the Kurds”, when the PKK has agreed with Bashar already in 2012, separating the Kurdish people from their subjugated class brothers and sisters of the entire Syria that were fighting for the victory of the revolution. The PKK led the Kurdish people to a front with Bashar and Putin, the murderers of the Syrian masses. At the end of 2016, Afrin had been part of the siege of Aleppo, the capital city of the resistance. The Kurdish neighbourhoods of that city were centers from where the genocidal forces of the regime and Russia had a base from where to advance over the rebel neighbourhoods, demolishing them and going into a killing spree. In each Syrian town of Kurdish majority where the PKK is, he carried on an “anti-Arab” policy, even using its YPG to expel the Arabs that lived there and for only Kurdish to remain.
Stalinism created a river of blood among the Kurdish and Arab exploited of the entire Syria. In this division, Turkey is settled to enter to Afrin with FSA troops. Turkey is posing before the Syrian resistance as the “liberator of Afrin” when they are just placing that town under Turkish rule, while they command the FSA to withdraw forces from Ghouta and Idlib, allowing Al Assad to advance.
PKK affirmed that with Bashar, Russia and USA, the Kurdish people could get their right for self-determination. This meant that this fight for the national self-determination of the Kurdish people was defeated beforehand, because it was submitted to the executioners and opposed to the Syrian masses allies.
This is how the Kurdish people tragic fate was sealed, as we see today: Afrin given to Erdogan by Assad, the “ally” of the PKK; Rojava under US military occupation, and in Turkey more than 20 million of Kurdish workers are brutally over-exploited, persecuted and repressed every day.
PKK and all the parties of the reformist world left that followed it must account before the world working class for this tragedy that meant for the Syrian and Kurdish masses and their treacherous policy! They besieged the Syrian revolution. They supported Al Assad and they claimed to defend the Kurdish people but they were the ones that sold it out.
The last Word is not said
The Syrian revolution resists in the last trenches
The last word hasn’t been said. The resistance hasn’t given up. The masses in Idlib take to the streets for the fronts to be opened, to make a unified fight for the fall of the regime. The most oppressed sectors of the Syrian working class such as women come out to demonstrate and fight. In Ghouta, the people live in basements and tunnels to get shelter from the bombings and they refuse to surrender, affirming they won’t leave their land.
All the forces of the Syrian resistance must concentrate to defend Idlib and march to break the siege on Ghouta! Let’s stop the massacre of Al Assad and Putin on Ghouta and the rebel cities! Open the fronts to defend the last trenches of the revolution and to unify the fights for the fall of the regime!
As the rebel masses of Idlib say: The revolution belongs to the people! Then it must return to the people. Enough with bourgeois generals that sell out the rebel cities and the blood of the martyrs in exchange of business deals! We need to set up the coordination committees again, working with direct democracy as in 2011! Let the weaponry return to the people! One man, one gun!
There are enough forces for this. We need to organize the refugee camps where more than 15 million Syrian exploited that want to recover their houses are piling up.
March over Damascus to expropriate the banks, the oil companies and all the capitalists without compensation, in order to give back the wealth of Syria to the Syrian people! There are the funds to have bread, rebuild the houses and have a decent life.
Out with Al Assad, Russia, Turkey, USA and all the invader troops! Out with the generals of the Sunnite bourgeoisie that are servants of Erdogan from Afrin!
Only by re-establishing the front of the revolution of 2011 against Bashar; fighting together with the Turkish working class, the Iraqi exploited and the uprising that has started in Iran, the Kurdish people will be able to even conquer the right to their self-determination. Let the Kurdish people disobey the PKK and YPG and turn around the guns to shoot against Al Assad, Putin and the US military bases of Rojava!
Down with the Geneva conference!
The Syrian revolution lives and is one with all the exploited of Maghreb and Middle East. From Palestine to Yemen, from El Cairo to Idlib, A single intifada!
The world working class needs to take to the streets in solidarity with its class brothers and sisters of Syria. Let’s organize demonstrations to all the embassies of the genocidals Al Assad and Putin in the world! Let’s take to the streets of all the capital cities of the planet!
Internationally, one single class, one single struggle against the same enemy: imperialism and all its servants and hit men!