Syria, Idlib– November 7th, 2019

Teachers’ strike and mass mobilizations against the HTS government
For decent wages, for bread and against the confiscatory taxes

The masses marched last Thursday, 11/8/2019 in Kafr Takharim, North Idlib, against HTS (former al-Nusra), shouting “the government must fall down” and “They don’t represent us”. The reason is they cannot bear anymore their conditions, as they have nothing to feed on. Furthermore, the millionaire bourgeois of the HTS go on taxing them to insupportable levels. Two days before, a similar march was performed in Idlib city. HTS responded to the mobilization in Kafr Takharim with repression and by blocking the exits. Therefore new mobilizations occurred on Friday 11/9 in Atareb, Saraqeb and all the towns and cities of Idlib in solidarity with Kafr Takharim and against HTS and its “Salvation Government”. Next day, a teachers’ strike started also against HTS that pays them a meager wage not enough to buy even a bag of bread.

After 8 years of genocide, where they have lost their housing, their lifelong savings, the exploited are now living in misery, many of them in tents, jobless, moneyless, without means for even the most elemental for their subsistence, and each day they have to think about how to survive a day more, how to get at least some bread; moreover, the millionaire HTS businessmen high-taxes them for everything.

These generals of HTS say they represent the revolution and self nominated government in Idlib so to fill their deep pockets at the cost of the masses hunger and the martyrs’ blood. They collect their taxes very far from where the combats against the dog Bashar are held. Far from opening the fronts and fight for the defeat of Bashar, they devoted to pact and make businesses with the al-Assad’s and Russian generals under Erdogan’s umbrella. They devoted to jail and torture anyone that did not submit to their pacts and businesses.

They are surrendering Idlib to the Geneva Conference of USA, al-Assad, Putin and Erdogan!
Among all of them, Syria is divided and looted, at the cost of the masses’ hunger. But the resistance in Idlib does not surrender; there are the hungry workers and poor people who take the streets Fridays after Fridays against al-Assad and now also against HTS for bread and dignity, the same demands that pushed them to open the revolution in 2011 in huge mass mobilizations. They hold alive the flames of revolution in the last trenches, in the opposite of the bourgeois generals of the HTS and FSA who have only sell out one after the other the rebel towns and cities.

Out with HTS and its “Salvation Government”! They don’t represent the revolution! Stop getting rich at the cost of the people’s hunger and blood!
The revolution must return to the hands of its true owners, the workers and poor people who featured it, and still fight and die against al-Assad! It is necessary to set up again the Coordinating Committees of the workers and the poor people, with direct democracy! The brigades that are fighting in the forefronts for the revolution, as the Glory Army must send their militia to those Coordinating Committees to defend the workers that today are marching against al-Assad and HTS!

The demand for bread and a dignified life that walk along the streets of Idlib is the same demand of the refugees in tents in the borders or the exploited that live under the jackboot of fascist al-Assad in the cities that he occupies, as Damascus. It is the same engine of the revolutions that are putting on fire the Middle East again, as in Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Algeria, Sudan, where the flags of revolution are raised. It is also the demand of the revolutions in Latin America, as in Ecuador, Chile, Haiti, Honduras...
It is a same class and the same fight, for the same demand, confronting the same enemy, imperialism together with its different agents.

That’s why...It is urgent to revolt the hungry workers in al-Assad’s rearguard and the refugees in the tents with the same demand in the same fight! Let’s expropriate all the banks, oil wells, factories and shops where the funds are to have bread, a decent wage, jobs, and to get back the housing. The snake head is in Dasmascus, out with al-Assad, out with all the invading troops! Freedom to all the political prisoners both in the prisons of Bashar and in the prisons of the HTS!

Long Live the revolutionary uprisings in Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Algeria, Sudan!
Long Live the revolutionary uprisings in Chile, Ecuador, Haiti and all Latin America!

Actually, there are our allies! There, as in the struggles of the American workers and in France, is the key to the success!