Syria – December 22 2015
Pacts about Libya and Yemen, and agreements by the FSA generals in Saudi Arabia:
Three stabs-in-the-backs to Maghreb and Middle East mass revolution to defeat it from the inside and impose surrender
Despite such massacre and genocide suffered by the masses in Syria and the entire Maghreb and Middle East, they remain standing. The revolution has not been defeated, but imperialism and all the local bourgeois fractions go on conspiring to achieve their defeat. On weekend 12 and 13 December some Conferences were held in which a "national unity Government" has been agreed as in Libya, or predispositions to negotiate the same outcome as in Yemen. Meanwhile in Saudi Arabia the "Syrian opposition" (the generals of the FSA) gathered with genocidal Al-Assad to negotiate a common government and a single army... hiding behind the excuse that their task would be to "face ISIS". They have already declared their intentions to negotiate their business above a mountain of corpses and oceans of blood of the exploited who fought for bread and dignity in the revolution of Maghreb and Middle East. But they have not yet imposed their will.
All 3 conferences are between the bourgeois fractions that massacred the masses and those which posed as their friends for controlling and defeating their fighting from the inside
We are not just facing conferences between mere "different countries or groups involved" in the revolutions in Maghreb and Middle East. They are conferences where the bourgeois fractions that have been inside the revolutionary struggle of the masses as "Trojan horses" to seek to control them and deliver them from the inside, are declaring that they will agree on a pact - or as in the case of Libya, have already agreed - with other bourgeois fractions that have been slaughtering the masses they say to represent.
Thus, at the Conference which took place in Saudi Arabia were present more than 30 groups of various brigades - some "moderate Muslim" profile- from FSA, which are the devices mounted above the popular resistance that is facing Dog Bashar. So that these generals, whom in Syria no one voted or decided in any Assembly or organization to give a mandate to -went to Saudi Arabia to agree on joining the Government of Bashar Al-Assad in a meeting in January 2016 to establish a "transition" new Government— that can even be without Al-Assad - within 6 months and call for elections within18 months. These people place themselves as “leadership of the masses” in order to give in the latter’s fight at a negotiating table together with those who are slaughtering the same masses, in exchange for what they think is convenient for themselves. Hiding behind the "danger" of "confronting ISIS terrorism ", they discussed uniting in a single army with those who have massacred 400,000 Syrian exploited... and this genocidal army will be which complete sweep the bourgeois fractions that did not enter in this Pact, and first and foremost the armed masses that revolt against it.
On the other hand, Libya Conference joined, on the one hand, the bourgeois gang of Gaddafist general Hafter, which last year under the command of the CIA tried to quash the revolutionary masses and their militias in a coup d’état. But rebel militias, which had defeated Gaddafi in 2011 when they rose for bread and freedom, resisted this counter-revolutionary coup attempt, and forced this general Hafter and the Parliament that he had established to replace the former Libyan Government to take refuge in Tobruk, a city far away in Eastern Libya.
The masses, still armed, were submitted to the dealings of this former Libyan Government, called General national Congress (GNC), dominated by the fraction of the Libyan bourgeoisie from Misratah. The latter is the other party that joined the Gaddafist fraction of Heftar at the Conference of Libya to establish a "common government" with a common Parliament, a common army and a common central bank, where both divide the posts among their men. This sharing of the central bank and oil businesses that remain in Libya after handing it out to imperialism already was signed in this agreement. And of course the common army arranged is supposedly meant to "end the problem of ISIS terrorism ". Again they return to consider anyone that do not disarm or submit to this "new single army" to be a “terrorist” from (the usual catch-call) "ISIS". That means that once more they are advancing a plan for the disarmament of the masses.
Meanwhile in the Yemen Conference, came together the Houthis on one hand -a bourgeois fraction originating in the Yemeni North which mounted above a great worker and peasant uprising that took the capital and drove out the previous Government and its armed forces; and on the other, Saudi Arabia, who heads a coalition of 9 armies that are invading and massacring Yemen to crush the masses and restore the previous government, a lackey of US imperialism. At the Conference, they declared that they would seek a cease-fire to restore a new government in Yemen involving both parties.
They are then conferences where the bourgeois fractions disguised as friends of the masses and working to the inside of their struggle, are placed above them claiming for control to agree common business with genocidal counter-revolutionaries Governments that are lackeys of imperialism. They have stabbed in the back the struggle of the masses, since they seek to give them out to their tormentors in exchange for a slice of the businesses that are divided among those bourgeoisies.
We have here covenants with which the local bourgeoisies and imperialism are seeking to restore the bourgeois state, stabilize their businesses after sharing them, and impose the peace of cemeteries upon the masses
These three Conferences are the extension of the Vienna Conference among Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia and the rest under the command of the imperialist U.S. and France powers. There, imperialism arranged a "Grand Coalition" together with all of its agents and hitmen to finally crush and defeat the revolutions of Maghreb and Middle East. They declare that their objective is to "end the war" and "to impose peace". But they are coming to impose the “peace of the graveyards”. So are these three conferences for. They are pacts that the bourgeois fractions agree on for setting up a common government and unifying the bourgeois state institutions, its army in the first place, to restore a regime of domination by which the masses are disarmed and return to be submitted, so to ensure the looting of oil by imperialism and no revolutionary crisis nor gaps among the exploiters are open through which the masses can sneak and raise their alternative power.
And it is necessary that the bourgeoisie of Misratah in Libya, the Houthi bourgeoisie of Yemen and the Syrian FSA Generals Syria are present in these conferences because they are who have mounted to the head of the revolutionary masses. They are who guarantee the defeat of their fighting from the inside.
They are signing a surrender before the murderous armies of Bashar Al-Assad, Putin, the Iranian theocracy, Libyan general Hafter sent by the CIA and the kinglets of Saudi Arabia, though they have not been able to defeat the rebel masses. Neither Bashar Al-Assad with all his allies in Syria, nor the coalition of nine armies led by Saudi Arabia which are invading Yemen, or Hafter’s forces had not been able yet to finish with the exploited in Maghreb and Middle East. A firm resistance still stands in the Syrian cities of Aleppo, Idlib, Dera'a, Swaidiya... The Libyan masses resisted armed and forced this Gaddafist general and his counter-revolutionary forces to retreat. The Saudi invasion broke the teeth against a great Yemeni worker and peasant alliance. Without being defeated from inside, without "Trojan horses" of imperialism inside, without these bourgeois who posed as friends of the masses and then go to control and surrender their fight from the inside, it is impossible consummating the defeat of revolution in Maghreb and Middle East.
The last word has not yet been said
This will be defined in the class struggle
But this is all to be seen yet. Because at the same time they make their covenants, that doesn’t mean that they may impose them. It is not the first time that plans by imperialism and its agents fail.
In Libya after Muammar Gadhafi had been defeated at the hands of the revolutionary masses, imperialism and the Libyan bourgeoisie put in place a new Parliament that occupied the government, attempting to expropriate the revolution. But this could never disarm the masses... and they ended up taking the Parliament and forcing it to vote laws imposed by the masses, such as that prohibiting the participation in the new Libyan State of all personalities who had served under Gadhafi. Also, Libyan oil workers took the wells and ports, and even came to marketing the oil... while Libya is the fifth exporter country in OPEC. That’s why Hafter wanted to crush them by means of a counterrevolutionary coup... and could not.
In Yemen, as the workers and poor peasants were advancing to the capital (Sanaa), the Houthi bourgeoisie agreed with the Government of that time (Hadi) on a Government of national unity. It signed pacts on 2 occasions, in September 2014 and January 2015... and both times, the masses rejected them and occupied the capital, spreading from the North to the South of the country, and expelling Hadi, who had to flee and take refuge in Saudi Arabia.
In Syria, even having to endure a massacre that has claimed the lives of 400,000 workers and peasants and left more than half of the population of that country away from home, living as refugees in tents in the middle of nowhere or in other countries, resistance is still standing and struggling to get to Damascus and defeating Dog Bashar Al-Assad. Even though all the bourgeois fractions in Syria got together in January 2014 in the Geneva II Conference under the command of imperialism (to stay each with a portion of the territory where it controlled the masses) -the starving exploited masses knew to wreck this plan by advancing and arriving at the gates of Damascus and of one the most important military bases of Dog Bashar in Latakia .
This situation, where the Syrian masses had escaped the control of the General of the ESL and advancing against Bashar Al-Assad, caused imperialism to convene the Vienna Conference; now the plan starts to definitely end with the revolution. The first resolution of this Conference was to send Putin immediately with his planes and 6000 soldiers to massacre the masses. They had to crush the exploited Syrians in the South of Aleppo, the capital of the resistance. They had to retake the insurgent neighborhoods of Hama and Homs -as Al Wa'ar. Putin had to defend the Citadel of power in Damascus so it did not fall into the hands of the masses, and also hold its military base of Latakia for it to remain intact. But none of this could have been possible if not for the flight and surrender of FSA generals whose commanders like the Turkish Government were seated at the table of negotiation in Vienna along with Obama and Putin.
They agree on their businesses because they're bourgeois. They are of a same class, making business among them. Sometimes they have differences in how crushing and control the masses, or how much each party gets. But the interests between all these fractions are not irreconcilable. Instead, they have proved once more that they are able to negotiate their interests in a common agreement. In Libya, they arrived at a sharing agreement of the governmental posts, the central bank and the slice of the oil income that will be allotted to each in exchange for guaranteeing the sacking of the 'black gold' to imperialism. That is why in Yemen they had already agreed two times on a Government of national unity and are currently discussing the same thing. In Syria they are willing to go to a unity Government and a single army.
The only thing that has not allowed these agreements to work on previous occasions was the struggle of the masses. The latter’s interests are irreconcilable with those of the bosses. Therefore, fighting for their demands, they made fail the plans of imperialism and the servile bourgeoisies. They are not represented in any conference or Covenant. They are not willing to let so much blood of martyrs in vain. The fight for a dignified life does not fall within the peace agreements of the cemeteries signed by these local bourgeois fractions under the command of imperialism.
The masses have not given up in Maghreb and Middle East! And they demonstrate it in Yemen not abiding by the ceasefire signed by the Houthis; they are still fighting against the troops of the Saudi Arabian invaders and their allies. In Libya, despite the agreement, the masses have not yet disarmed.
As evidenced in Syria, they are also resisting against a ferocious massacre and counterrevolutionary war by the combined efforts of Al-Assad, Putin and the Iranian ayatollahs, seeking to coordinate between the various resistance groups outside the ESL. That is why fractions of the Syrian bourgeoisie who have been out of business, have denounced the Covenants, trying stay more to the left to contain this sector of the exploited. But without a doubt what they will seek, if they manage to impose their control, is entering the Conference to agree on their share of business.
Once again, the fate of the revolution is defined in the class struggle. And the masses have not said their last word.
The Syrian resistance is still standing! The masses in Maghreb and Middle East don't give up!
The blood of the martyrs will not be in vain!
Down with Saudi Arabia, Libya and Yemen conferences!
Down with the Vienna Conference and its plan for peace of the graveyards!
Long live the revolution in Maghreb and Middle East!
