A Split Syria, after ten years of genocide, while the revolution was betrayed and surrendered
The result of the counterrevolution by the Geneva Conference among al-Assad, Russia, Iran, Turkey, the Syrian Sunni bourgeoisie, under the US command

After a bloody counterrevolution, a brutal genocide, with hundreds of thousands of dead and millions of refugees, with its cities devastated, and the rebel areas handed over by the generals of the Sunni bourgeoisie, today Syria  has been totally divided. The more al-Assad and Putin massacred, the more Syria was occupied and plundered by the imperialist powers. This is the result of the actions of the counterrevolutionary conference in Geneva among al-Assad, Russia, Iran, Turkey, the Syrian Sunni bourgeoisie, under the US command. Each played its role to crush the Syrian revolution and thus led the nation to barbarism.
The monetary unit has already been broken. The Syrian currency (lira) is no longer the unit of measurement for the entire Syrian territory. In the areas occupied by Turkey and in Idlib, the currency used to buy things and pay salaries is the Turkish lira. Still, the transit of goods flows between the different areas of Syria. HTS has already opened the checkpoints in the borders of Idlib for the transit of goods from Damascus.
In addition to the Syrian lira and the Turkish lira, the dollar also circulates, as it is the unit of measurement of the currency of each country. In the case of the Syrian currency, one dollar equals 4000 Syrian liras on the black market, which means that it is terribly devaluated. This is because the Syrian economy has collapsed as such. Before 2011, 25% of its GDP came from hydrocarbons (between 380,000 and 500,000 barrels a day, depending on the operative  capacity it worked) and it no longer has any oil, because it is taken directly by the US. It is a brutal imperialist looting. Damascus had to stock up on oil and gas by buying its own oil or by buying it from Iran, which sells it on credit. It has also bought other essential goods from Russia on credit that are not available in the country, partly because of the war and partly because of the shortage. Furthermore, Damascus has to pay Moscow for the war they are waging. Reports have been leaked showing that Russia is demanding to be paid for everything it provided to Assad with the extraction and sale of phosphate in Syria. In addition to all this, the infrastructure of Syria was destroyed by the bombings of al-Assad and Russia and there is still no reconstruction plan.

To all this situation is added that last year the "Caesar law" of the United States came into force, which is nothing more than a siege to Syria like the one they maintain on Iran, that is, sanctions and market closure to any foreign investment. This, added to the fact that al-Assad lost a large part of his tax income (since he does not control much of the country and the economic activity fell), has reduced the coffers of Damascus.
This means that al-Assad, who did not hesitate to commit genocide on his own people for the sake of staying in power, has become a pawn of imperialist looting, in the head of occupation troops on behalf of the United States, in alliance with Putin and the Iranian ayatollahs. Of course, the al-Assad clan is still a den of murderous billionaires. They discharge every economic crisis on the masses, just as their partners in the Iranian theocracy do on the workers of that country.
That is why in Syria there is a shortage of basic resources, such as fuel or flour for bread, and where it is most evident is in Damascus. In the north, such as Idlib or areas occupied by Turkey, the local economy is driven by farms, small industrial workshops and what is brought from Turkey and by NGOs and what the UN sends for the refugees that enters through there. Of course nothing is free, everything that comes in is then sold in local stores, except for a few rations that do reach some refugees, which officials use to blackmail-rape women.

The situation of the workers

In this scenario, the living situation of the exploited is desperate. In Damascus, the aforementioned shortage of basic products is painfully felt, and even water is scarce! We must also take into account how the coronavirus has hit, especially in the regime zone, and how the second wave is hitting very hard now in northern Syria, in Idlib and the refugee camps.
Most of those who work throughout Syria do it 12-hour days and are paid only the days they have effectively worked, and with a salary that is barely enough to buy some food (between 2 and 3 dollars a day). With that salary you cannot buy anything extra (neither car, nor motorcycle), nor save, nor even pay a rent (which costs an average of 50 dollars). All that in addition to job instability, that is, today you can have a job and tomorrow not, as well as nothing at all.
Those who do not get a job inside Syria, have to take it abroad, in a neighboring country, especially Turkey, but they are also in Lebanon and Jordan. Only the refugees who live in those countries, or who live on the border and have a work permission card, are the ones who can cross. If any refugee wants to go search for work in Turkey, they have to risk crossing the border unofficially, where the Turkish gendarmerie patrols and has the green light to assassinate whoever it finds attempting this crossing. It has been known about Syrians shot to death while trying to cross and others who died under torture when arrested.
The ones that come to Turkey or another country and get work, or they work in border areas from refugee camps, send funds to their families in Syria. This plus any odd job that someone gets, and/or what is obtained from an NGO, etc. It is what allows them to survive in the worst of miseries.

The business that the different sectors of the Syrian bourgeoisie take advantage of in this situation

The Syrian cities and especially the refugee camps are sources of slave labor that is already being used, either within Syria in workshops and businesses, or outside Syria in all kinds of jobs and not only by the Turkish or Jordanian bourgeoisie but also by the same Syrian bourgeoisie that has investments in Turkey, including factories owned by the Syrian Sunni bourgeoisie where the slaves of the refugee camps work.
In Lebanon, the investment made by Syrian businessmen has been mainly in banks and particularly in the Assadist sector of the bourgeoisie. For this reason, this sector was caught in the crisis in Lebanon.

On the other hand Syria is an important part of the Middle East oil-gas routes. At the end of the last century and at the beginning of this, the Arab Gas Pipeline  that carries Egyptian gas to Jordan and from there it goes up through Syria was built to then go from its port to the Mediterranean, and to Lebanon. Parts of this gas pipeline are not finished, for example the part that leads to Lebanon. In addition, Turkey has a project that, from the Syrian north, it goes to its own territory and connects with other its own gas pipelines in order for it to be the transporter to Europe.
The AGP was made by the Egyptian state gas companies (that is, the generals, directly linked to the Pentagon), the Syrian state company, a division of the American Braun and Gazprom. Germany, England and Canada have also made investments.
It should be noted that AGP has not been operating in any of its sections for at least 10 years. There is a project that, as soon as they finish crushing the masses in Syria, it would be repaired, put into operation, and the construction of the sections that are needed would be started.
There are also pipelines that carry oil from Iraq and Saudi Arabia, but they are neither finished nor operational.
And 2 projects are rumored: a gas pipeline for gas from Qatar, which goes through the same route as the AGP; and a gas pipeline from southern Iran (South Pars) that follows the route through Iraq and then to Syria, such as the oil pipeline. These two projects are told in rumors that became known to justify why Qatar and Iran intervene in Syria. But they are not projects that have been made known by any company. I mean, for now they are just rumors, nothing concrete about it.

After the battle of Daraa

The city of Daraa, where a huge resistance battle against the regime took place in the last two and a half months, is located on the route of the AGP gas pipeline. This city is at the south of Damascus, almost reaching the border with Jordan. For  al-Assad it was a key issue to be able to take it and secure the AGP route  on the one hand, and on the other to settle in Damascus and crush and disarm that resistance that constantly rises up in his own rear.
After 70 days of siege, massacre and four attempts by the Sunni bourgeoisie of Daraa to surrender the fight, a handover agreement was imposed. The resistance did not accept it and very few surrendered their weapons, but they fell back and Russia entered to control the city. In 9 days, the agreement progressed, town by town, zone by zone, neighborhood by neighborhood. There is already a joint patrol by al-Assad, Russia and the local Daraa committees, and the resistance has withdrawn, although it continues in arms and from time to time they carry out actions against Assadist officers.
During the 79 days, HTS dedicated itself to isolating Daraa, what generated marches and movements within Idlib denouncing them for this betrayal. The resistance in Daraa pushed the refugees to march in Idlib to open the fronts to defeat the regime and thus take back their homes. With the withdrawal in Daraa, coupled with the second wave of coronaviurs and the fact that Russia began indiscriminately bombing refugee camps (including some that were inside Turkey), this movement entered an ebb in action, but not so in the conclusions about the betrayals. It is a fundamental moment to regroup the resistance in the north to break with and surpass the Sunni bourgeoisie, and unify with the resistance that has retreated in Daraa, in one and the same combat.

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