Syria, Idlib- January 18th, 2018

The masses took the streets at the war cry “Open the fronts!” and “may the brigades unite to defeat Al Assad!”

Military clash between HTS (former Al Nusra) and the FSA for the control of Idlib…

The Sunnite bourgeoisie provokes a blow to take the masses off the streets and end up in a pact with Al Assad, Putin, Erdogan and Trump in the conference of Geneva-Sochi!

The last trenches of the revolution cannot fall!
Neither under the massacre of the dog Bashar nor handed over from within as in Homs, Ghouta or Daraa

 

On January 10th, 2019, HTS (former Al Nusra) ended up imposing on the National Front for the Liberation (a front of the FSA made of pro-Turkish brigades between which there’s Aharar al Sham and also Nuridin Al Zenki among others) and other FSA brigades that 8 days ago had declared war and called to expel HTS from Idlib. In this military clash there was a dispute to see who was the one that controlled the different cities of the last rebel stronghold that there’s in Syria and keep the businesses deals of Idlib’s administrations.
They used artillery, mortars, machine guns and they disputed the control of every town and city using all their forces, which hadn’t been used in a while in the fronts against Al Assad. As HTS was entering to every city it took, the FSA forces that were in there gave the heavy weaponry away and left for Turkish occupied areas… either Afrin or Al Bab and neighbouring towns.
HTS was imposed in every city in Idlib and started to build there the local governments and barracks. In those areas, HTS wants to impose a strong domination, making the people follow their laws with their military apparatus as the sole force, chasing opposition away, putting them in jail and clerics preaching in mosques for HTS support.

Thus, HTS starts to settle its control in Idlib, mainly upon the masses. So far it was unable to control them completely… not HTS nor the FSA. Over the last few months, the exploited had taken to the streets, stopping in the first place a massacre offensive of Al Assad and Putin, and also the sell-out plan that was to be imposed on them from last September’s conference in Sochi between Putin, Erdogan and under Trumps command, using all the army-parties of the Sunnite bourgeoisie that accepted and endorsed that plan. Between their demonstrations, they raised the slogans “Open the fronts” and “let the brigades unite to confront Al Assad”… and they even denounced those who refused to do so.
However, with this confrontation between HTS and the FSA, they did the opposite that the masses posed. The fronts against Al Assad were closed and the brigades only used their forces to kill each other. Only a few brigades were an exception: Jesh al Azza (Army of Glory), Jesh al Nasr (Army of Victory), Jesh al Nakhba (Elite Army) and Faylaq al Sham (Levant Legion) which said they would only fight against Bashar. However, the broad majority in Idlib was involved in this fratricide war, which is also a hard blow on the masses and their revolution. There were hundreds of dead and they took the masses to demoralization as they saw that instead confronting Al Assad they were fighting against each other. Mostly, it was a hard blow because they took the masses off the streets and HTS advances in its control. And even these last brigades still exist, they don’t control any city, but they are under HTS.
It was another defeat for the revolution, caused from inside the liberated areas, as it had been caused before with the FSA generals in Aleppo, Ghouta, Daraa, northern Homs countryside, where they are now the inner police of Al Assad and manage those cities. That is to say, the big losers of this confrontation between FSA and HTS are the masses and the big winner was Al Assad.

With this blow on the masses of Idlib, the revolutionary forces centralized in Geneva are ready to finish defeating the revolution

This confrontation between HTS and the FSA, encouraged by USA, Erdogan and Putin from Geneva’s conference (from where all the counterrevolutionary forces are gathered together to defeat the revolution in Syria under the US command) is opened because they had to control Idlib entirely, where the resistance was focused and still is the last trenches of the revolution.
Al Assad and Putin couldn’t take over them with and invasion and direct attack… as it was shown in Daraa, Aleppo and every rebel city that fell because they were also yielded. Also, the masses had seen and learnt how those cities were handed over and they didn’t let the same thing happen in Idlib, marching in mass demonstrations. That’s why they needed that an army-party of the Sunnite bourgeoisie managed to control the masses definitively from inside Idlib.
As we have seen before, HTS imposes itself as that army-party and one of the legs of Geneva, the one that is to guarantee Idlib… that is to say, the one to finish defeating the Syrian revolution. This was already agreed with Erdogan and is pointed in the fact that HTS declared it will “support Turkey in any operation against YPG” and that both recognize the areas each one occupies.

We are witnessing the beginning of the end of the Syrian revolution, of its defeat. If HTS manages to settle its control completely (which has already started to do so) there’ll be a partitioned Syria, cut into pieces and dismembered by all the forces that are defeating the revolution and distributing the business deals.
USA kept the oil Wells. Trump says it will withdraw its soldiers, but keeps the military bases, the generals and warplanes, because Syria has turned a US colony. Their man to keep Syria under the control of a fascist boot is Al Assad, reinforced by Putin, the hit man of imperialism. They did the dirty work of massacring the Syrian revolution. Also, Turkey occupies the oil pipe routes and trade routes, while commands the Sunnite bourgeoisie to control wherever Al Assad cannot enter. HTS is entering to these business deals of partition by administrating and controlling Idlib. If this is fully imposed, the forces of Geneva would take control of the entire Syrian territory to impose the “pax” in this US protectorate.

This cannot be the end of a heroic revolution that left hundreds of thousands of martyrs
Let’s take to the streets once again!

We cannot let this to be the end of 8 years of a heroic revolution in which so many martyrs shed so much blood and hundreds of thousands of prisoners were tortured to death in Al Assad’s jails. In Idlib, yesterday, a massacre offensive of Al Assad was stopped and he couldn’t enter to take Idlib by force. Now, we have to take the streets again! Open the fronts against Al Assad!
Reorganize all the forces of the revolution. We need to get back all the weaponry of HTS (even the heavy ones and all that it captured from the defeated brigades) to put it to disposition of the people that want to confront Al Assad! Workers and oppressed militias! We call on all HTS fighter that truly wants to fight against Bashar, or those who are in an FSA brigade that want to defeat the regime, to be part of this fight, breaking with their generals that will only led them to Al Assad’s feet.
Out from the resistance those businessmen that filled their pockets during war while our martyrs died! No more dictatorship of army-parties! The revolution is from the people, let it return to the people! Expropriate without compensation all the bosses that got rich with the blood of the Syrian people, even the Alawite bourgeoisie of Al Assad and his cousin Rami Makhlouf, bankers front men of the imperialist oil companies! Expropriate their shops and factories where they overexploit the Syrian workers in long shifts of 12 hours a day for miserable wages! Expropriate their banks where they steal the wealth of the Syrian people! Recover the oil wells from the hands of the US transnational companies! There are the funds to conquer bread, a decent house and have weapons!
Let the revolutionary coordination committees of workers, peasants and soldiers with direct democracy! We need to organize committees in the refugee camps, for the displaced to get back to the fight for their houses! We call all the workers, overexploited under Al Assad’s jackboot in Damascus to rise in this fight.
Defeat Al Assad! Out with all the invader troops!

The forces for this are not only in Idlib. In France the masses fight in the streets in true revolutionary days of struggle against the imperialist Fifth republic, whose transnational companies as the oil company Total also plunders the Middle East. In Iran the workers and the people have risen for bread and for a decent life, confronting the Atatollahs and their guard that massacre in Syria at the war cry “the clerics live as kings and the people as beggars”, “Death to Rouhani”, “Death to Khamenei”, “Get out from Syria!”.
In Sudan, against the sky-rocket price increase in bread and the 70% rise in the cost of living which cannot be taken anymore, at the doorstep of the revolution, the masses have taken the streets for more than two weeks of the entire country and clashing against the police they want to take over the government buildings with the war cry “The people want the downfall of the regime!” In Tunisia, new revolts for bread shook the country after the journalist Abd Erezoq Zorqi. The same thing happens in Jordan or Lebanon, where the war cry also is “the people want the downfall of the regime!” As in 2011, a new wave for bread shakes the entire Maghreb and Middle East once again.
At the same time, the Palestinian people keeps on resisting against the Zionist occupation and fighting to recover their territory, while the Yemeni masses haven’t surrendered before the brutal massacre of the Saudi invasion.

These are the allies of the Syrian revolution that have risen. These are the forces to confront Al Assad and all those who support it. They are rising against imperialism and its agents.

In the entire Maghreb and Middle East, one single intifada!