24/10/2016

Shot by the bullets of the fascist Al Assad and the murderer Putin,
Defending the southern front in Aleppo, the capital of the resistance,

Abu al Baraa, socialist leader of the rebel militias of Syria, has fallen

Thousands of militiamen, workers and women from the resistance pay tribute to him
Abu al Baraa… worker, writer, director of the paper The Truth of the Oppressed of the Revolutionary Coordination Committees in Syria… he is also a martyr of the world working class

Defending the southern front of the besieged Aleppo, killed by the bullets of the fascist Al Assad and Putin the hitman of imperialism, Abu al Baraa has fallen. He was a young worker, leader of the rebel masses in Aleppo.
He was co-author of the book Syria Under Fire, which was issued in 2014together with Abu Muad and Carlos Munzer. He was an important leader for the International Socialist movement. He was the organizer of the forces of the 4th International in Maghreb and Middle East.
He fell in combat in southern suburbs of Aleppo, the capital city of the resistance, fighting to break the siege of Bashar, Putin and their chief Obama on the disposed starving masses of that city.

Abu al Baara was a leader of the Collective for the Refoundation of the 4th International. He was attacked in the first line of the Syrian revolution and the world one. That’s where there are no more words, where it is needed to choose trenches: either with the executioners and the killers of the Syrian masses that only clash between them to dispute the loot of the oppressed; or with the working class and the poor people fighting to take the revolution that they were the ones who led it in 2011-2012 to victory.

Abu al Baara was a revolutionary who head the fight and intervention of the working youth and exploited of Syria against the oppressors. This is a harsh war where the fascist al Assad does the dirty work of all the imperialist powers. He was the revolutionary socialist most bold and the bravest from our international current.

He was at the head of the demonstrations of thousands of workers and youth to the arsenals and headquarters of the bourgeois generals of FSA and Al Nusra to demand weapons, so the masses could self-organize and decide the path of their revolution and fight. Each time this was going to happen, Bashar realized that he was in a very unstable position. That was the way of liberating Aleppo and the whole Syria.
He fought for direct democracy, for the mass self organized committees, for the militia men who came from the deep places of the exploited ones could chose their leadership with direct democracy.
He dreamt and fought with the Palestinian resistance, because he knew very well that Al Assad backed Zionism. He sent letter to his Syrian brothers, immigrants and refugees who were looking to escape from the slaughter, war and hunger in Europe. The Revolutionary Marxist of Syria launched the slogan in Europe, USA and Middle East: the same class, the same enemy.
Together with hundreds of Syrian revolutionaries, he led the fight for the freedom of the political prisoners in the world, as the Palestinian resistance, the Basque prisoners, Alfon (in jail in the Spanish State), the oil workers convicted to life sentences in Las Heras (Argentina), and the anarchists in jail in Greece.
The workers and vanguard youth of the Syrian revolution understand due to their own experience that in Syria imperialism is chastising the world working class, and Al Assad can impose this genocide because of the treacherous leaderships of the world working class who support him, so Assad can kill the Syrian youth and workers. 

With the generals of the FSA running away to the north of Syrian and Turkey in useless battles, with politicians and businessmen of Al Nusra hidden in Idlib, the revolutionary Aleppo was definitively surrounded by the forces of Al Assad, the constant bombardment of Putin and pro-US forces of YPG.
It was clear that the state of emergency in Turkey served to repress the working class of that country and to shield the borders with Syria, to discipline more than 4 million refugees who are there, so that the resistance does not organize itself or regroup.
We must tell the truth! The left currents, agents of big capital, throw poison in the minds of the workers. Obama and Putin coordinate themselves for their planes not to crash in Syrian airspace. USA, with the Kurdish bourgeoisie and ISIS, and Turkey control the north of the country. The forces of all the capitalist gangs have concentrated on slaughtering Aleppo, as they did yesterday in Homs, Qsair and Daraya. They know that the open dispute over the loot will be after smashing the last bastion of the revolution of workers and peasants which was in 2011 across the Maghreb and Middle East, from Tunis to Cairo, from Aleppo to Jerusalem.
Under these conditions, today the counterrevolution sets its goal: to attack in order to smash tens of thousands of fighters and rebels of the masses who resist in Syria.

Abu al Baara was at the head of the fight of the workers of Aleppo (together with his father Mustafa Abu Juma, who also fell in combat) for the expropriation of the capitalists, the businessmen that in Syria don't have a banner or ideology. They only defend their wealth, getting huge profits from war, negotiating with every band, while they starve the tormented of Syria for wages of 12 dollars a month as the bosses from Turkey, Jordan or Lebanon in the borders of the tormented Syria.

The rage against them came fast. The factories that were occupied by the revolutionary workers were destroyed by Putin's bombings. The generals of the FSA took the weaponry far away... north, at the border with turkey, because they knew that the weapons in the hands of the self organized masses could have meant the return of the combats that yesterday ended up breaking the siege of Aleppo.
The dog Bashar was hitting the revolutionary socialist left wing of the rebel militias of Syria. Some weeks ago, it blew headquarter of the Brigade Leon Sedov, with Russian the latest technology planes. This time it was in Rashdin, on the outskirts of Aleppo, where Bashar’s mercenaries could end with the life of Abu al Baraa, who was the head of the defense in the south front of Aleppo.

Comrade Abu al Baraa had an urgent surgery in a campaign hospital in Syria. He did not resist the post-operation period. If he had been a bourgeois general of the FSA or Al Nusra, he would have been alive today in the best hospitals in Turkey.
His comrades, thousands of workers today in the resistance of Aleppo, are angry and chewing rage. They know that this is so. A 24-year-old, a socialist revolutionary, leader of the Brigade Leon Sedov part of the "Revolutionaries of the Levant" was very clear that the snake is killed when its head is cut off, and this head is in Damascus, in Jerusalem and in Wall Street.

Comrade Abu al Baraa fell in the right trench, fighting against the fascist Al Assad, backed by Putin and under the protective cover of UN and USA. He fought with a Kalashnikov rifle, taken by the masses from Assad's army. There are no US M16 or US SAM (surface-to-air) missiles over there. There is a population of workers and peasants slaughtered, with the worst silence of the world left ... or worse, with Stalinism and its counter-revolutionary forces openly supporting Putin and Assad.
Today, the real scene –the tragedy of the Syrian masses- is seen. The same counterrevolutionary coalition that fences Syria under the orders of USA, today attacks Iraq, in Mosul. USA attacked Iraq again. He will go there to end the task that ISIS can no longer do: to finish the crushing of the revolutionary uprisings of the Iraqi masses that broke out in 2014. The true owners return for what is theirs.
The reformist left and the Stalinists will be rubbing their hands. They will look us indifferently. They will turn their eye blind about the fall of a socialist revolutionary leader of the masses in Maghreb and Middle East; a bold young revolutionary who took the revolutionary Marxism in 2011-2012 when the revolution began.
He embraced the banners of the Fourth International at a very young age and most of his conscious life was fighting for the Syrian revolution and to set up the party of socialist revolution throughout Middle East and the world. He and his family lived as workers, with the miserable 12 dollars a month wage paid by the bosses (no matter which banner they raise) in the entire partitioned Syria.

As a socialist, Abu al Baraa completed his revolutionary preparation studying (in the trenches, with his comrades, or in neighbouring countries) the books of Trotskyism that are translated into Arabic, among them The Transitional Program, which was the most important one and the one he was more passionate about.
The death of our comrade also shows a fact of reality that can’t be questioned: the leaders of the reformist left are in the bourgeois parliaments turning their back on this heroic revolution or they are as miserable sold out to the capital supporting Al Assad, the Syrian “Franco”. Meanwhile, the revolutionary cadres die and fight in the most advanced of the class struggle together with the exploited of Syria.

Weeks before, the generals of Al Nusra in Idlib have called the leaders of rebel militias in Aleppo to obey their military discipline. Comrade Abu al Baraa said that the only thing to obey was the rank and file assemblies of the militias, the coordination committees, the ones that really fight in the front and in the first place the masses in besieged Aleppo.
That’s why from the besieged Aleppo the starving masses searched him and his comrades to speak for them. Some days ago we have published this denounces of the oppressed in Aleppo against the bourgeois generals of the FSA that abandoned the struggle.

Comrade Abu al Baraa fell in moments when we were finishing together the second book Syria Under Fire, titled 2015-2016 “Syria: Operation Massacre”.
Together as a team, we were preparing the issue of the Arabic newspaper “The Truth of the Oppressed”, speaker of the Revolutionary Coordination Committees and Leon Sedov Brigade. He was the editorial director of the paper.
We were organizing the revolutionary internationalist fraction of the workers and vanguard militias in Syria and Middle East around a digital printed paper. Trotskyism is speaking again in Arabic, the language of the socialist revolution.
This harsh blow fills us with distress and hatred on the exploiters. But it won’t stop us from finishing these militant tasks. This time, we will have to do it without him, but we will. We have the forces for that and they have flourished in the civil war trenches.

We are confident. We know that there are thousands like him who are standing up and will stand up to fight for the socialist revolution.
Capitalism has shown no mercy with the workers and revolutionary youth in the world. They are the ones leading the fights of the world working class. For that reason, the 43 students missing in Mexico, the murder of Michael Brown and other young blacks in US, the Greek or Basque youth, the youth of the Spanish State and Palestinian are in the dungeon of capitalist regimes and governments.
Abu al Baraa was the flesh and blood of that rebellious youth, but conscious of his historical task of setting up a party for the international socialist revolution.
This struggle has not been in vain. Trotskyism is a living force, implanted in the vanguard of the Syrian resistance. We, as revolutionaries, have that honor that the ones that speak about socialism only on holidays while every day they ran away and betray the revolution made by the masses of the world don’t have. Further, they put themselves furthest away from these revolutions.

From FLTI, we are in a tough fight against the wretched left, which supports the bankrupt capitalism as nurses or rules on behalf of the Bankers such as Syriza or Podemos. We have nothing to do with those impostors of socialism that isolate and besiege the revolutions and revolutionaries. We have nothing to do with those reformist and cynic counterrevolutionaries that set up international “brigades” and “militias” not to go to fight for the revolution but to stab in the back the revolutionaries, as the Stalinist parties did in Europe. They sent militias and brigades to Donbass to kill as militiamen who were submitted to the Minsk counterrevolutionary agreement of Obama and Putin.
It is already clear that between revolutionary Marxism and Stalinism there is a blood river. There are the "Communist youth" of Italy, Ukraine and Russia going to greet the murderer Al Assad in Damascus, bringing solidarity to the fascist forces who slaughter in Syria. On the other side, on the barricades of the rebel Aleppo, there are the Trotskyists who fight and died.
On one side the workers of Russian Donbass, who have not got paid for a year and launched a revolutionary strike; and on the other side, the unions led by the Stalinist sellers out of the October Revolution supporting the murderer Putin and the new counter-revolutionary autocracy of Moscow.
From the International Leninist Trotskyist Fraction (FLTI) we will finish, continue and deepen the fight that we were giving with him. We will fight for the newspaper of Syria and the Middle East, "The Truth of the Oppressed" to become a revolutionary internationalist workers movement from one of the region most attacked by imperialism on the planet. This newspaper in Arabic will concentrate the fighting lessons of many years. It states that in order to win the war against the fascist Al Assad, we must end with the generals from FSA and Al Nusra, it is necessary to expropriate the capitalists and bankers, it is necessary to open the borders so millions of refugees, can arm themselves and self organize. Many refugees are seeking to return to their home land to smash the dog Assad, his partner Putin, and the imperialist powers that conspire in the back rooms and from UN so that the fascist Assad can do the dirty work.

Today the FLTI says goodbye to one of its young leaders, to one of its most valuable revolutionaries. Trotskyists spread our blood through the battlefield. Millions of us will emerge from these battles and will take to victory the ideas that Abu al Baraa gave his life for. The reformists live in the peace of the cemeteries of the world working class, in their parliament seats or in the high layers of labour aristocracy.

Our comrade decided along with other young internationalists to name his brigade Leon Sedov, Trotsky's son killed by Stalinism. Today, we can say that comrade Abu al Baraa, as a symbol of the revolutionary youth, will be also a banner of the fight of Leon Sedov Brigade, the working class and the oppressed in Syria.
Abu al Baraa is a martyr of the Syrian and world working class, a banner of the fight of all the socialist revolutionary currents that support the fair cause of the Syrian revolution against the fascist Bashar the dog.
Before his fall, comrade Abu al Baraa, together with hundreds of Syrian fighters, saluted the resolutions of the congress of La Paz Factory Workers and the International Congress called by the education workers of Mexico (CNTE) that issued a statement in support of the Syrian masses. Both statements are translated into Arabic and will be issued in the paper The Truth of the Oppressed.

These comrades transcribed and took the statements from the Rail wokers of Brazil, who support the Syrian revolution. They were part of the International Network for the freedom of the world political prisoners. In Aleppo trenches, it was seen as part of the same fight the fate of the 43 education students missing in Mexico and they wrote solidarity letters with the teachers from Tierra del Fuego (Argentina).
From the anarchists who are in the Greek prisons, send solidarity letters and support to the fight. They could recognize who were their allies in the Syrian revolution.
The Syrian revolutionaries were happy to know that around the world there were public meetings on October 1st called Rage Day in support of the Syrian revolution.
The Syrian rebels need –and feel it in their own flesh- the support of the workers and the oppressed ones to their right cause. Today, when the bourgeois generals of FSA and Al Nursa who claimed to represent them, they have abandoned the rebels in the battle field.
Abu al Baraa is a real militant of all the fights of the world working class. He should be a heritage and banner of all the ones who are really fighting for the revolution and we are giving our lives to prevail.

On our side, we reaffirm our commitment which is to break the siege to the Syrian revolution. In this way, we will break the siege which prevents the world working class to defeat imperialism, its regimes and governments.

From Damascus to Tunis, from Aleppo to Jerusalem ... a single socialist revolution!
Open the path to the worker’s youth!
Long live a revolutionary workers and peasants Syria!
Comrade Abu al Baraa ... Until the victory of the international socialist revolution!

International Coordination Secretariat of the FLTI