Bolivia -October 24th, 2021

From Bolivia, Milenka Lopez by the Liga Socialista de Trabajadores Internacionalistas / FLTI

Good afternoon comrades. I salute the fifth anniversary in homage to comrade Abu Al Baraa.
First of all, my salute to his brother, to the relatives of Abu Al Baraa, to all the comrades in Syria and to all those present.
From Bolivia, the Socialist League of Internationalist Workers (LSTI) of Bolivia, member of the FLTI, wants to pay tribute to our comrade worker, revolutionary, internationalist, fighter of the Syrian revolution Abu al Baraa and also to all those who fell in combat against the fascist al-Assad.
From Bolivia, in this tribute to comrade Abu al Baraa, we have several comrades connected, such as some comrades from Huanuni and factory workers comrades. Those of us who are present here want to say that here in Bolivia we have been fighting a great battle to break the siege and stop the massacre perpetrated by the fascist al-Assad, since there are several Stalinist currents and former renegades of Trotskyism who have slandered and besieged the Syrian revolution.
Here in Bolivia, currents like the Revolutionary Workers Party (POR), a party that claims to be Trotskyist and claims to fight for socialism, had a policy of voting in different congresses of the Mining Federation a support to Qadafy first and then to al-Assad, even guising them as "anti-imperialists", when they are fascist murderers of the masses of Syria and Libya. That was the policy of this POR organization as part of the international siege with which the massacre in Syria was allowed.
From the LSTI of Bolivia, as member of the FLTI, we fought a great battle and a tough fight against this policy, for breaking the siege, against slanders. We defeated the policy of this party (POR) and, as part of that battle a pole of revolutionary workers from the vanguard in Bolivia took the flags of the Syrian revolution and raised them. This happened with Huanuni miners, who expressed solidarity and echoed the fight to break the siege on Syria. Also on May Day, they took the flags of the Syrian revolution when they marched together with the factory workers of La Paz, because they saw that the working class of Syria was the new martyrs of Chicago of the world working class.
Also, the relatives of the wounded, prisoners and massacred during the 2019 coup in Senkata raised the flags of the Syrian revolution on March 8 and in different demonstrations. They carried posters expressing the demand to open the borders and that they were standing with the women and the vanguard of the Syrian working class.
In May Day demonstrations, in which the miners, factory workers, also sectors of the youth of the UPEA University marched together with factory workers, they raised the flag of the Syrian revolution and also of the exploited in Palestine. We can also see in the images how a group of comrades in the Huanuni mine showed solidarity with Syria and echoed to open the borders and stop the massacre of the fascist al-Assad.

Also, in the public University of El Alto, we held rallies, conferences and others over these years, for the youth to echo to break the siege and stop the massacre of the Syrian revolution.
From a pole of the youth, the working class, the miners, we waged the struggle to break the siege and stop the massacre perpetrated by al-Assad and Putin. For all these we want to say that this was not unpunished and it will not go unpunished. For the honor of our comrades in the Leon Sedov Brigade, for Comrade Abu al Baraa, for Comrade Mustafa, we have to maintain that battle and continue, because the last word has not been said and the Syrian and Maghreb and Middle East revolutions must succeed.
That is why we want to cry out loud GLORY TO ALL THE FALLEN OF THE SYRIAN REVOLUTION! GLORY TO COMRADE ABU AL BARAA AND TO ALL THE MARTYRS OF THE LEON SEDOV BRIGADE!
As we cry here in Bolivia, RIFLE, MACHINE GUN, SYRIA DOES NOT SHUT UP! SYRIA ON ITS FOOT, NEVER ON ITS KNEES! LONG LIVE THE SYRIAN REVOLUTION! LONG LIVE THE LEON SEDOV BRIGADE! HONOR TO THE SYRIAN MARTYRS AND OF THE WHOLE REVOLUTION OF THE MAGHREB AND THE MIDDLE EAST! UNTIL VICTORY, ABU AL-BARAA!