No more than one week ago the Government army launched an offensive against the resistance still standing in Aleppo;Bashar Al Assad had avowed to take it completely. This pro-imperialist garbage of Hezbollah announced that it would send reinforcements to help Bashar the dog in this offensive.
From the areas that it controls, the murderous army of Bashar began to advance on the outskirts to the North of Aleppo, and finally, some few days ago itended to disruptCastello route, only way that unites the East and South of the city with its suburbs located to the West, who are rebel areas ranging up to Bab-el-Hawa, the border passageway to Turkey.
Thus they were imposing a siege on the "liberated areas" within the city, and the masses started to suffer it with the passing of the hours. Food began to run out. The exploited saw themselves in the mirror of Madaya and Zabadani, where killer Bashar not only massacred them to bombings but also let them die of starvation.
Misery and hunger were already lashing Aleppo, and the siege intensified them per thousand. During Sunday July10 youth and workers began to win the streets to protest against the siege.
And then, in the early hours of Monday 11 young people and workers in suburbs East and South of the city, members of different fractions of the FSA (and its Islamist versions as well as those of Jabhat - al - Nusra) were unified in spite of and against their leaderships and launched a coordinated attack to retake the hills located at each side of the Kastello route to break the siege. It was from those hills that Bashar the Dog, with his Russian war machinery handled by Afghan, Iranian, Hezbollah’s Lebanese or Shiite Iraqi’smercenaries, were shooting to whoevermarched along the route. The militiamen came back as they got out of the control of the generals-without-battle.
Young people and workers launched an offensive on Al Assad’s siege machinery... with 7 missiles they managed to make burst 4 siege weapons, leaving only a kornet (gross gauge siege weapon) base. Young fighters warred by the route allowing also some trucks enter carrying provisions to relieve the miseries of 200 thousand exploited that resist today in the heart of the city. With great courage, these fighters began to advance toward the neighborhoods and districts that were under the control of Al Assad’s occupation forces until that day.
When learning that the fighters had broken the fence and entered the city the masses who live in areas controlled by the regime of Bashar the Dog in Aleppo, who are enduring massacres by these mercenary troops, stood up in a phenomenal intifada defeating and driving Al-Assad’s forces out of there, grabbing their weapons and taking the barracks where these filthy mercenaries coordinated massacres to the population.
In this way they released Aleppo neighborhoods:Saif al Dawlah, Bstan al Qssr, Haleb al Qdima, Ramussah, al Aamaria, Salah Ad-Din completely, and also Al Karajat, Al Qssr al balady, and Funduq al Amir.
At the same time the masses were pushing to take the four most important banks of the city, i.e.Syrian Central Bank-Aleppo Branch, Agricultural Investment Bank, Industrial Investment Bank and the Trade Bank. Some embassies were also taken and people shot their way to parts of these suburbs where the bourgeoisie inhabit.
It was a day of glory for the workers, poor peasants and coordinating committees whichcame back to stand up incipiently, to break away from the chain of command of the bourgeois generals of the FSA, who never wanted to go that far. No central command called this battleor planned it. They were the masses who took the task in their hands, armed themselves and revolted.
Generals-without-battle of FSA were going to each front to try to convince the masses of no more going forward; they wanted the masses to retreat. They said: "it is necessary to retreat; if we move to that area, we cannot ensure your safety", when the troops of to the Assad had been already expelled and their barracks taken by the rebel exploited and militiamen.
Panic spread among the generalship of the FSA, as they feared the insurrected, armed exploited were to expropriate the entire bourgeoisie, including them.
Finally, the treacherous politics of the FSA was imposed once more and the militiamen ended up falling back. It is a tragedy, because this left in the hands of Al Assad’s mercenaries all those exploited who had insurrected in the heart of the neighborhoods of Aleppo controlled by Bashar the Dog, and several of them were executed to blood cold by the pro-Assad scoundrels.
After the withdrawal of vanguard combatants, the troops of the Dog returned to set weapons of siege by the side of the “Al-Kastello" road, further strengthening the total siege to the capital city of the resistance. However many have attained escape using the route during the night and very quietly.
The exploited begin to rise up in areas controlled by Al Assad, and join the militiamen when the latter enter despite and against the generals of the FSA
It must be saidand highlighted that these events show the masses are beginning to take the direction of the fight in their hands in order to have bread, expropriating the bourgeoisie and their banks which is where the funds are for eating. Little less than a month ago they had taken factories under workers control, and also marched to the arsenals of the generals of the FSA to look for weapons in rebel areas of Aleppo province.
The conditions of unprecedented misery and total shortages of food and basic resources –plus the fact that they already face a situation that either they win the war or die massacred or starved-, push them to break with the controls that FSA and Jabhat - al - Nusra have been imposing them in rebel areas. For this reason, already the bourgeoisie has begun to be expropriated and all available put to win the war. That’s the way!
But what the intifada in Aleppo also shows is that the masses living under areas controlled by Bashar the Dog are suffering from unprecedented hunger, pains and misery. They crave to get rid of the oppressing boot of Al-Assad, who cannot govern there except by means of his forces of mercenaries at gunpoint. His government gives nothing to the masses, except for repression, imprisonment and death. That’s why they have insurrected, and in doing so they allowed the advance of the militiamen who came from the East of Aleppo, and joined them.
Misery, massacre, hunger are worsening, and the masses need a solution, which won’t come in the hands of the FSA or Jabhat - al - Nusra or any of their variants, which came to control them anywhere the former had defeated the forces of Al-Assad. Those bourgeois army-parties–by distributing some alms and using "combative" or "anti-imperialist" phraseology and demagoguery - were there to grab and control weapons, dissolve bodies of direct democracy which the masses had set on foot as the coordination committees, and replaced them by their own institutions, such as the checkpoints; thus they replaced the insurrection methods of struggle of the masses for the bourgeois war of positions where a territory is controlled, and negotiate the movement of goods that pass through it.
Due to these conditions of almost barbarism, starting from their experience and breaking with the bourgeois armed parties already the masses are beginning to return to their methods of fight of local insurrections and to arise again the coordination committees. Once again the militia organizes independently. And this is not only in Aleppo. It is process opened all over Syria since the battle in Khantoman (southern suburbs of Aleppo) in early May, where the masses already fought with their methods, taking weapons and combatting against Al-Assad by their own, escaping the control of FSA, Jabhat - Al - Nusra, Ahrar-el-Sham, etc. and looking for taking in their hands the road to victory against Bashar the Dog.
So we saw the exploited in Daraya, a suburb of Damascus, breaking through and joining with their brothers and sisters of Moadamiya. Al-Assad’s forces launched a massive raid to impose this siege again, and once the selling-out by the FSA is made felt, since they have abandoned Daraya, in spite of the FSA having huge weapon deposits and even tanks a few kilometers from there, at Dera'a.
FSAtopechelons seal an agreement with Bashar
The bourgeois generals of the FSA are selling-out and isolating all fights consciously. They were negotiating in Geneva with Al Assad over an ordered transition out of the war, a Government of national unity and a reconstitution of the army in common. But both parties could not impose an agreement because the masses do not accept anyone to go to an agreement with the forces that cause so much devastation and genocide.
The agreement could not be imposed and the conditions in which the masses are living –and dying made them to come out to fight, even breaking with the containment wall of the FSA. And so we could see how Assad and Putin had to multiply the massacre and download all type of weapons of massive destruction (even cluster-bombs). They want to stop the drive of the masses.
For this made an agreement. They gathered together to deal with this situation, as expression of the agreement sealed two weeks ago between their allies Putin and Erdogan to re-establish all ties and common business, included an apology from Turkey for having shot down a Russian plane at November 2015. Obama, who is their boss, took them to close the gaps.
So the FSA today has called to respect Al-Assad’s zones; it makes every effort so that the masses do not move, it gets to their head when they do -so their offensive will fail, and if they succeed in their drive, the FSA calls for their withdrawal. We could see that in Aleppo, in Dera'a, in Daraya... everywhere. The fact is already the masses are insurrecting in Assad-controlled area. That is the new situation seen since the insurrection in Aleppo on July 11. The conditions are to march on Damascus; the conditions are for Assad´s fall. Already his Government is practically one of occupation forces, without a social base.
Though if the masses have not been able to unify and finally defeat Bashar the Dog in Damascus, it is because the FSA generals have prevented it. The truth must be said:it is the bourgeois FSA generals who are assisting Al-Assad so he does not fall in Damascus, because they know that the victory of the masses would occur by expropriating the entire bourgeoisie, their banks, oil wells, and thereby, also the bourgeois of the FSA and the Syrian "opposition".
For their part, both Jabhat-al-Nusra and Ahrar-el-Sham have come to denounce the FSA publicly, to try to contain the masses from left, but also, to divide;because they have used this complaint to rest stationed in the areas they control, as Idlib, separating themselves from Aleppo; because they are not interested in getting to Damascus or winning the war. They only trade their slice of the businesses from the areas they control.
The reformist left goes on encircling the Syrian revolution
If up to now there has been a successful containment of the masses and Al-Assad has not fallen, we must also look at the leadership of the international working class. The reformist leaderships have encircled the Syrian revolution. For them, nothing exists in Syria, not even the genocide by Al-Assad. They are only speaking about Syria to condemn ISIS, which they call to defeat, and sometimes to support Stalinist PKK (which has sealed an arrangement of no-aggression with Al-Assad). And what about the rest of Syria? There are "backward Muslim tribes and barbarian masses"...
They have supported Al-Assad either openly or stealthily (some directly, as the Stalinism), saying that is "a Government against imperialism", except perhaps by some friends of the FSA that support openly those bourgeois generals-without-battle that today are saving Bashar the Dog.
Take off your mask, Messrs.! All world reformist left currents, one way or another, support Bashar to massacre the masses! They are all pawns of Obama, the head of the agreement between Turkey and Russia, and between the FSA and Bashar Al-Assad so that, as Geneva is in crisis, the masses do not escape and achieve the victory of the revolution!
Why Al-Assad has been able to massacre with such impunity without any reaction from the world? Why Al-Assad is supported by Russia, Iran, Lebanese militias and a wide range of mercenaries, receiving also funds and weapons from other countries, while the masses are alone? Why so much both handling and control by so many bourgeois army parties, without having a worker mass current disputing them the proletarian leadership of the war? The left reformists have encircled the Syrian masses; they werewhich allowed all this. They should be accountable!
Let's go to Damascus and defeat Bashar Al-Assad!
Only the masses, returning to set up their organisms of dual power, can unify the exploited in the common combat for defeating Bashar the Dog. They do not have any business in common with the Dog, as the bourgeois generals of the FSA have with the agreements between his and their checkpoints, collecting taxes and their share of the business of the circulation of goods throughout the Syrian market. We must bring back the workers, militiamen and poor peasants’coordination committees!
Let's retrieve weapons from the hands of generals-without-battle of the FSA and Jabhat - al - Nusra!
We must expropriate the bourgeoisie, their banks and oil wells and put all available to solve the problem of bread, reach Damascus and win the war!
For the defeat of genocidal Al-Assad and his friends who defend him as Putin, the Iranian ayatollahs and Hezbollah!
Palestine, Syria, Yemen... The new mass uprisings in Baghdad against the Government of US protectorate that are calling to unify all exploited irrespective of their being Shia or Sunni: All these are struggles in whichwe exploited defend our life, and fight against the exploiters that only bid to make it more miserable. From Aleppo to Jerusalem to Tunisia to Baghdad, a same intifada!
The Syrian vanguard feels part of the battles of the black working class against the fascist police inUS imperialist beast. The Syrian masses have their fate tied to the victory of the fights of Greek youth and workers (together with the refugees in that country), and the French workers, who suffer an attack to their conquests -as the loss of the 35 hours work-week-and also today the militarization of and repression in France after the last self-attack in Nice.
Leon Sedov Brigade
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