Syria – June 9th, 2019 “May the blood of the martyrs not be in vain!" Abdul Basset Sarout, murdered by fascist forces of al Assad and Putin Those who die fighting for bread and freedom live in the revolutions of Syria, Sudan, Algeria, Tehran, Gaza! For the workers and the rebellious people of Syria to live, imperialism, Al Assad and Putin must die!   From the paper “The truth of the Oppressed”, we bring to Democracia Obrera, the Trotskyists' paper of Argentina, the latest news from Syria, reporting Abdul Basset Sarout’s death, a young revolutionary. He is a new martyr of the Syrian revolution that fell in the north of Hama province, killed by Al Assad’s regime. We know that your paper is about to be issued and we want to bring you the statement of our Editorial Board about the fall of this new martyr, Abdul Basset Sarout, a young man beloved by all the people, who became an icon of the revolution and the resistance. This comrade joins the hundreds of thousands who fell in this massacre of Al Assad and Putin on behalf of imperialism. These fascist forces today are trying to finish crushing the last trenches of the revolution and that is why they have launched an onslaught on Idlib. Tens of thousands of young people, workers and oppressed of that province marched to receive their martyr, whose body was brought from Turkey. And again the masses took to the streets. They said goodbye to a great fighter of the Syrian revolution. A young former football goalkeeper, whose four brothers and father were killed in Homs, who since he was very young was part of the Coordination Committees of that city in 2011/2012 and organizer of the resistance that for several years prevented Assad from taking Homs, the so-called capital of the revolution. The desperation of the fascist Al Assad's generals is still remembered. They spoke of that city as "a 7-head hydra" that they could not occupy completely. The masses and their revolutionary vanguard defeated and evicted their armies from that city a thousand times; they returned to recover their houses and neighborhoods. The fall of Homs in 2014, sole out from within -as it would happen later in Aleppo- by the bourgeois generals without a battle of the Free Syrian Army, began the Assadist counter-offensive stage, with which the revolution in Idlib has been besieged today. Thousands of refugees came, with a huge experience of struggle and also with a great learning. Many of them have denounced, as they had done from Aleppo, Douma and Ghouta, the surrender of the FSA generals of the rebellious cities, to end up as partners with Al Assad, his army and his businesses. From the newspaper “The Truth of the Oppressed”, we want to pay homage to this great fighter for the bread and freedom of Syria and to all the youth who fights and dies on the battlefield in the front. At this moment we cannot forget our comrades Abu Al Baraa and his father Mustafa Abu Jumaa, killed in the fight to break the siege of Aleppo. We remember all the millions of workers and peasants who today are refugees in the desert on the borders of Syria. And to the political prisoners tortured and martyred by the fascist forces of Al Assad in their jails, true human slaughterhouses. We must also say that, before so much massacre and ignominy caused by counterrevolution, the masses re-take to the streets after 8 years, chanting "The people want the fall of the regime" and "The blood of the martyrs will not be in vain", as Comrade Abdul Basset Sarout said with his last breath. He was not part of the infamous bourgeoisie and surrenderers of the FSA and HTS (ex Al Nusra) businessmen nor a coward traitor, as are the "leftists" tied to the apron-strings of Al Assad or the Yankees, who support the offensive of the counterrevolution in Syria, comfortably seated in their parliamentary seats or in the luxurious armchairs of the labor bureaucracies and aristocracies, betraying the working class of their countries and all the exploited of the world. The Syrian revolution gave a generation of young rebels, who sought during these years a way to the triumph of their revolution, but that hit the biggest wall to overcome and to find the program for victory. All those who spoke and speak in the name of socialism, of "real democracy" - as the Stalinists and other renegades of Marxism like to say - have supported Al Assad, for the most part. Others, such as the PO and the PTS of Argentina and their respective international currents, declare themselves "neutral". They supported the YPG and the Yankees in Kurdistan. They accuse the resistance of being "terrorists" and "jihadists". Today tens of thousands of dispossessed accompanied the bodies of the revolution's heroes until their burials, vowing to resist in the last trenches against the dog Bashar. The masses know very well what the victory of the dog Al Assad means. If he enters their cities, he will do it by blood and fire, killing everyone older than 10, raping their women, slaughtering their children, expelling millions to the borders to steal their property. In this fascism and imperialism's war against the oppressed being neutral means flying Al Assad and Putin’s planes; taking them ammunition; and allowing their fascist troops to be supplied. It means supporting Erdogan, who remains "neutral", but closes the borders to surround Idlib. It means being Zionism, which declares itself "neutral", but the more and more the rebel Syrian cities fall, the more and more it crushes Gaza and the West Bank. Being "neutral" means sitting at the UN with Trump, which frees the air space so Al Assad and Putin can attack with their airplanes, bombing the villages of Syria. Being "neutral" means deceiving the masses by saying that there is a, "confrontation between the US and Russia." Actually, those who die are neither the oligarchy of Moscow nor the Yankees of Wall Street. The masses die and fall. Others, so called "anti-capitalists", support the generals without battles of the Sunni bourgeoisie, who for 7 years have been meeting in "peace talks", in five star hotels, to sell out the blood of the Syrian revolution's martyrs. More than 35 ceasefires were signed by these inside men in Brussels, Astana, Sochi and Geneva. There are the 600 thousand martyrs of the Syrian revolution to denounce them as what they are: the betrayers of the Syrian revolution. These "anti-capitalists" have begged on their knees and pleaded the US and imperialist "democracies" to intervene by giving arms to the resistance for 8 years. And the US intervened in Syria. It ordered Al Assad to bomb and IS to massacre and then surrender the cities to the Yankees, doing the dirty work of liquidating the revolution with fire and blood. Obama in the past and now Trump have sent Putin and his planes, which leave neither home nor school nor hospital standing in the rebellious cities of Syria. Our tribute to Abdul Basset Sarout is a tribute from the revolutionary socialists to a fighter for bread and freedom. It is a tribute to those who repudiated and repudiate the infamous pacts of Astana and the UN. We honor the brigades of those who suffer hunger and fight in the front with their bare feet; those who seek a way to victory; those who fought to unite the brigades and opened the fronts, as the Army of Glory entering Hama was doing. Our tribute is to the Syrian revolution, whose masses in Idlib today have taken to the streets again. Our tribute is to the new fronts that have been opened against imperialism and its ferocious dictatorships in the Maghreb and Middle East, as in Khartoum and Algiers, and that resist in Gaza and Tehran. Our tribute is to the fighters who for years defended Douma, Ghouta, Homs, Aleppo, Daraya and our heroic fighters from the Leon Sedov Brigade. The revolutions of Maghreb and the Middle East, full of martyrs, are still alive and their heroes live there. We revolutionary socialists have been and are part of that heroic revolution of yesterday and resistance of today. We continue and we will continue fighting so that the masses have in their hands the program they deserve to win. This Program is none other than expropriating the expropriators of the people, to rise the entire Syrian people again, from the refugee camps to Damascus, from Homs to Aleppo ... For the people to eat, recover their homes and have ammunition for their rifles, we must recover the money and wealth stolen by the warlords, the usurious bourgeoisie and the bankers who made enormous fortunes with the blood of the exploited. A program that calls on the workers and the Syrian people to take what belongs to them, the oil fields of Raqa and Deir Ez Zor that the Yankee imperialism appropriated and today are in the hands of Shell, Total and Exxon, guarded by NATO ground troops, namely the YPG and the Stalinist traitors of the PKK. A program for victory, that strives for all the workers and the oppressed to earn what they need to live, that the lands of the great Alawite bourgeoisie be divided among the poor peasants. Such a program would be the strongest missile to shoot fascists Putin and Al Assad, which would awaken the solidarity and unity of all Arab peoples, to bury imperialism in the sands of the desert. The great obstacle to follow this path is called reformist left who honors Al Assad; who has said that "socialism does not work anymore, not even in Cuba," as the Castro brothers did. The obstacle is Maduro, who with their swindle of "Bolivarian revolution" supports the counterrevolutionary forces of the Ayatollahs of Tehran and not to mention the fascist Al Assad. The great obstacle is Syriza, the scoundrels of the “Podemos” of Spain and the treacherous bureaucrats of the European trade unions. They are the ones who have guaranteed the worst attacks against the working class and immigrants in Europe and have supported the perfidious actions of the imperialist the UN war machines and to crush and plunder the oppressed peoples, while supporting oppressive regimes lackeys of imperialism in the Maghreb and the Middle East. It is clear that if only 10% of the forces that fought to stop the imperialist war machine in Iraq yesterday and earlier in Vietnam had been put on the streets of the world, the dog Bashar's fate would be already casted and the resistance would have already triumphed in Damascus. That is our commitment: to fight at international level against all those who have besieged and betrayed the Syrian revolution and prevented the exploited of the world from seeing that those who are dying are their oppressed class siblings, and from rising to help them. Honor to all the revolutionaries fallen in combat! Honor to the masses massacred by Al Assad and Putin’ assassin bombs! Open the road to the revolution for bread and freedom! A single Intifada from Gaza to Idlib, from Khartoum to Algiers! Let Assad and Zionism die! Out with imperialism! For the Socialist United States of the Maghreb and the Middle East! Until the victory always, comrade Abdul Basset Sarout!   Editorial Board of the newspaper “The Truth of the Oppressed”