December 29th, 2015 Voices from the Syrian resistance in the rebel Aleppo While the cold hits, starvation strikes, the counterrevolution advances... but the flame for revolution still lives in the trenches In Aleppo suburbs, outside the second most important city of the country, we are heated by a fire inside a steel bucket, made out some few branches we could found around. This way we can, for a little time, push away the bone-breking cold of one of the coldest winters we lived. We were listening to the radio with the rest of the batteries we had, while we kept our positions in one of the trenches that are still resisting in our territory. The radio program announced a meeting in Saudi Arabia that will be attended by the representatives of the Syrian National Council (recognized by the governments of Qatar and Turkey), the generals of the FSA, and the generals of the islamic wings of the FSA... al of them in our name. On the other hand, we heard that there was a meeting between the three fractions of the Kurdish YPG, members of the democratic alliance that is openly and directly funded, at plain sight, by US imperialism. While the representatives of the bourgeoisie that are in "opposition" to Bashar's regime" were heading to enjoy the luxurious 6 stars hotels in Ryad, our brothers and sisters in Douma and Ghouta resist against the attacks of the Russian planes. The heroes starved in the town of Al Waer (the last neighbourhood in the hands of the resistance, located in Homs, capital city of our revolution) refused to lower their guards facing the fierce siege of Bashar's troops that has been ongoing for 2 years. In the town of Al Bab, Aleppo suburbs (a town completely dominated by the Islamic State), the US planes killed our workers brothers that want to get rid of ISIS, that bourgeios army-party. While in Raqqa and Deir ez Zor (also a territory dominated by ISIS), the French and British planes, with fuel provided by air by the German planes, were dropping their bombs over the heads of unarmed civillians, youth, women, elders and childen. As always, for this they used the excuse of "confronting the Islamic State". Meanwhile, the army of mercenaries of Bashar, integrated by Lebanese of Hezbollah, paramilitary Shiite troops of Iraq, the Iranian guard with Iranian commanders and mercenaries from Afghanistan and Pakistani, with snipers from Kazakhstan brought by Russia, among others (the real ground troops of the "big coalition" that is invading Syria today) advanced in fencing the city of Aleppo in the south west, supported by NATO bombs. The hard winter that goes through our clothes up to the core of the bone is no better with our brothers that have survived the great death crossing in the Mediterranean Sea when thy tried to get to Europe. Because they are stuck in Greece, in the border with Macedonia, having to make a camp there with the illusion that the routes to the old world will open once again. While Turkey agrees with Germany the contention of our class brothers and sisters refugees, the Macedonian government reinforces its borders and the "leftist" government of Greece has received 4 billion euros from EU to keep in there for some time and then deport all the refugees that it can, while being locked in true jails or roofless ghetos. "...Once again, with our guns on our shoulders and our hands heating to our improvised fire, we saw the world to forget about us, about our revolution..." After a couple of days we could get some fuel to start the electricity generator. When we turned on the TV we found out that the non-legitimate meeting that was taking place in the Saudi capital city "has failed", according to the bourgeois media. The excuse they said is that the commanders of an islamic brigade of the FSA called Ahrar al Sham (the free of the Levant) withdrew from the meeting accusing the people there that they didn't represent the interests of the Syrian people. They said that the presence of their brigade in the war zone was underestimated and they called the fighters to fight for the nation, religion and revolution. But in our experience this was just another shade of that smoke screen that covers up a counterrevolutionary pact of selling out the revolution, made by those that attended to the meeting, including Ahrar al Sham. Because if they were against that meeting, why did they go in the first place? The only condition that meeting establishes is to make a new government "without Bashar". But they accept to make a pact with Bashar's murderous generals. Why didn't they call to a meeting of all the fighters, with representatives elected from the trenches where we resist? Why they went to Saudi Arabia and not here, in the grounds where we fight against Bashar? Ultimately, they agree in dissolving the revolution. We could see in a Qatari bourgeois media that announced news about Yemen. They said that the counterrevolutionary coalition led by Saudi Arabia and UAE tried to impose a ceasefire so then they can negotiate behind our rebel class brothers and sisters workers and peasants of Yemen a "diplomatic" way out. We have also seen the kisses and hugs of different fractions of the Libyan bourgeiosie, integrated by Tobruk MPs and sennators of the National Libyan Congress based in Tripoli, after they signed a national unity agreement to be able to unify their officers caste and finish the slaughtering of our brothers of the Libyan resistance, always with the excuse of "confronting ISIS terrorism". This is evidence that this is the final operation to rebuild and reinforce the new Gaddafist regime. Being tired of bad news, we decided to turn off the TV and save some fuel to be able to have some light in the middle of the mist of these freezing nights. However, that very same day, through our comrades, we heard one of the worst news we've ever listened. The FSA has sold out Homs, the city of Al Waer, submitting our brothers to rendition with pure lies, telling them to withdraw, that there was no more reason to fight there, that it was the only way for UN goods to enter to the population. It was a trap very similar to that they staged in 2014 when they sold out a lot of Homs province. Rage is flowingh through our breath that becomes steam... We grab stronger our guns and the few magazines that we have left. On 18/12 a meeting took place in New York. It was attended by the same rubbish that met in Vienna and unanimously voted for an "ordered and democratic" plan and a way out, proposing an agreement of national unity and a call to elections. As usual, the smoke screen of a discussion about "with our without Bashar" was still the main point of discussion. But that was not the true reason for that pantomime. Warned by shootings, we prepared ourselves to resist. Mercenary troops advanced from north west Aleppo heading south. The traitors of the leaders of YPG an the Kurdish bourgeoisie of Afrin (an "autonomous" Kurdish city located east of Azaz in the border with Turkey) have given some territory to the mercenary troops of Bashar who were coming with Russian planes and fom there launched their counteroffensive to finish in putting a fence around the resistance in Aleppo. We turned on our walkie talkies and we could clearly listen to the leaders of the FSA saying "we don't want any of our Syrian brothers coming closer... the enemy is very powerful... if you want to collaborate, send the bullets you have..." Being divided and nearly disarmed, we decided to take the extreme measure of make a trench of our homes. We went there with our guns and our ammo, to protect the only thing that is left from us, among the rubbles, inside 4 walls with wholes, a broken roof and our family. The morning of the 24th we found out that another agent of imperialism, ISIS, just as the FSA, sold out the resistance in the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk (when they entered to eliminate the best of the Palestinian vanguard that was fighting against Bashar Al Assad) and the town Hajar Al Asswad, located just a few kilometers away from the camp. On the other hand, ISIS trades with Bilal Erdogan (son to Recep Tayip Erdogan, the Turkish president killer of the Kurdish masses in Turkey) the oil that belongs to us, that is in our land, extracted with the sweat and blood of our brothers. The next day we heard about the killing of Zahran Alloush, general of an islamic brigade of the FSA directly funded by the Saudi Kingdom, which, according to them controlled 20 thousand well trained soldiers in Ghouta, a few km away from the Syrian capital city. Apparently it was some sort of a chastise launched by imperialism and its agents to discipline everyone who wants to ask more than it deserves to agree the renditin. This way they made sure that the plan of selling out and submission goes as agreed in several meetings that took place these last months.
They, not only sell out cities that the regime besieged and isolated, as Zabadani (located nar the Lebanese border), but also the siege of our brother Syrian fighters on towns that were inhabited by paramilitary troops of the Syrian regime. The facts speak for themselves. The meetings in Vienna, Ryad and New York had as a plan to deffinitively liquidate the last vestiges of the struggle organs and direct democracy that we set up at the begining of our revolution.
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