02 March, 2016

Voices from Syrian resistance: "The cease-fire,day-to-day"

Correspondent from Aleppo

Twenty days ago the army dog Bashar went on along the road linking the second largest city of Syria, Aleppo, with the border town of Azaz, road which served inter alia to supply resistance in working-class neighborhoods located in the heart of the city. With this offensive led forward by mercenaries of Hezbollah and Iran, Iraqi paramilitary forces and Russianaircraft, supported by ISIS’s artillery and Gurkha-like infantry of the Kurdish bourgeoisie armed by US imperialiststhe encirclement was closed on our brothers stationed in the heart of Aleppo, capital of resistance.
This happened in the middle of Geneva 3 Convention, where all representatives of the different bourgeoisies that today in Syria agree to crush our organs of self-organization and our revolutionary passion aroused in March 2011by hunger and the need for a dignified life.
After the siege to Aleppo the massacre continued, while they began to speak of a ceasefire.
The advance of the mercenary troops of Bashar emboldened the Kurdish bourgeoisie, which ended up taking a few villages close to Azaz and one of the road crossing the border there. This path is used by ISIS to sell oil with the son of Erdogan in Turkey. Erdogan response was swift, and his aircraft began to bombard the Kurdish bourgeoisie immediately.
Erdogan even opened the border linking the province of Idlib to the Northwest so many of our boys come out and again entering Syrian territory from the North by Azaz, to fight against "the Kurds", a lethal trap full of poison that had intended to run the lynchpin of our Kalashnikov to genocidal Bashar and his mercenaries and in turn our brothers would be used as cannon-fodder for the interests of Turkey, amember of NATOimperialist country. We openly opposed to this maneuver that hid even one much more perfidiousside. And we even denounced that if we put our forces and FSA opened their arsenals of Idlib we could break to the Westthe siege imposed on our brothers in the heart of Aleppo.
With the passing of the days Obama and Putin put date for this so-called "ceasefire" which literally is a condemnation to death for us;it would  start on February 27.

A fierce offensive is launched against us. The famous "Democratic front" of the Kurdish bourgeoisie supported by US aircraft and weapons and Iranian and Afghan mercenaries advanced over the suburbs of Aleppo, taking several towns in the outskirts. We resisted what we could, as many of the boys had fallen into the trap of Turkey and were in the North.
It was an attack of great magnitude: 400 bombs dropped by US and Russian aircraft; Bashar’s helicopters that came in groups of 4 and threw the barrel bombs; artillery of long and medium range as mortars rained constantly. It exposed the agreement between Turkey and the Kurdish bourgeoisiehad been a disastrous, as Turkey was only interested in assuring that nobody would touch its corridor through which ISIS markets oil.
On 26 February afternoon we could keep them at bay. In the middle of the night the "ceasefire" began.
February 27 dawned in calm. A calm that concern us, the calm that precedes the storm... a couple of blasts were heard. But no planes or helicopters.
February 28: In the evening Dog Bashar helicopters burst into the sky that pulled 5 explosive barrels in our positions, claiming that we were from the Islamic State. We responded as we could, but helicopters went unscathed.
February 29: a tense calm; but we heard in the radio that the army of the dog was progressing in the suburbs of Damascus.
Today March 1: Bashar army began to advance by land with its tanks; to prevent it, we opened fire. The tanks responded and wounded one of us in his leg. The worst thing is that some of FSAgenerals-without-battle appeared with their armed thugs to say that we had fired first, and as they stated verbatim "we now come here to tell you that it is strictly forbidden to open fire unless we give you the order". An order! We will never receive orders from a general-without-battles, as what all those generalsdo is caring for the property of the rich in Syria. They are complicit in this cease-fire, as they were always, since the beginning of the revolution; they were and are sent by imperialismfor trying to get across our committees andbrigades to control them on account of the bourgeois opposition.
This Pact among Obama, Putin, Bashar, the YPGs, the generals of the FSA is holding this cease-fire which only serves to hand out defenseless to the canons of Bashar. Their aim is to hand out whoever refuses to be enslaved, whoever refuses to surrender and goes on fighting and demanding a decent life and food for living, as people shouted in the beginnings of our revolution.
Here there is no ceasefire, rather it is a way to refine the aim, to open fire on us, as we have not surrendered... and never will!

Brigade Leon Sedov