August 2nd, 2017

Dear comrades gathered together in the 55th Antiwar Assembly

We send you our warmest revolutionary greetings from the bloodied Syria. We salute you, revolutionary workers and youth of the Pacific that took to the streets to stop the massacre on our revolution and you are always willing to stop every imperialist war and aggression!

We are writing from the last trenches of the Syrian resistance. From here, we have released the third issue of our newspaper, The Truth of the Oppressed, the spokesperson of the Syrian revolutionaries that keep on fighting for the victory of the revolution and the fall of Al Assad, of those that are in the tents in the borders and in the few areas still remaining without Bashar's presence such as Idlib, of the refugees in concentration camps in Greece or in Madrid that want to show the truth about Syria.
In our paper we humbly want for all the voices that effectively support the Syrian revolution, all those who truly fight for the downfall of the regime and the victory in Damascus against Bashar, Putin and imperialism to be expressed. We also reflect the struggle of all the comrades that in different parts of the world stand in solidarity with our revolution.

Comrades, as you know our revolution was slaughtered, partitioned and bloodied by the genocidal regime of Bashar and his allies Putin, Nasrallah and Khamenei... all of them on account of Obama yesteday and today Trump, the bosses of the counterrevolution. Our revolution was bloodied from inside by the generals of the Sunnite bourgeoisie that allowed the fall of Alepo, which had become the capital of the resistance. All of them are gathered together in Astana conference, from where they want to impose "the peace of the cemeteries" in Syria.
We have more than 600,000 killed, destroyed cities, millions displaced, refugees, people living in tents in the middle of nowhere, without any kind of shelter against climate… not to stand the unbearable heat of the summer or the hard and snowy winter that always takes the life of Syrian exploited. Misery is unstandable… starvation, lack of food, appearance of diseases are part of ordinary life.

We, revolutionary socialists of Syria, also left our martyrs behind. Our leaders fell in the most advanced of the battlefield. Mustafa Abu Jumaa is known as the first martyr of the battle to break the siege to Alepo. Abu al Baraa, who fell almost a year ago in the battlefield against Bashar, gave his life under the banners of revolutionary socialism, fighting for its program in order to achieve victory. Leon Sedov Brigade has tens of martyrs, of revolutionary workers and youth that fell fighting for the victory of the socialist revolution.

But nobody gave up! The Syrian socialists keep on fighting to regroup the resistance. We fight against the Astana conference and its "safe zone" plans that want to secure our rendition and partition of Syria. We keep on fighting for the downfall of the regime and to reach Damascus and defeat Bashar and the genocidal forces. We fight to expel all the invader troops.
For this, to win the war, we know we have to expropriate the entire bourgeoisie, their assets, factories and banks to have funds to be able to eat. Thus we can count with all the available resources to win the war. We can call all the refugees and internal displaced to fight together to recover our houses over the basis of defeating Bashar.
Only by surpassing the businessmen of the Sunnite bourgeoisie we can succeed in our revolution. It is precisely because the Syrian revolution was manipulated by the bourgeoisie, it was sold out and Bashar al Assad remains in Damascus. Syria shows that without breaking with the bourgeoisie, victory cannot be achieved. We have to recover the weapons for the exploited and to set up again the coordination committees to work with direct democracy.

But comrades, we need to break the siege and isolation upon us. Stalinists, the renegades of Trotskyism, leftist parties, trade union bureaucracies... Most of them supported Assad; those who didn't, supported the FSA... both ends of the same rope of Astana Conference that strangles our revolution. All of them claimed that the worst evil was ISIS and they hid the genocide... they are all responsible to the isolation of our revolution. Thanks to them, Syria was bloodied as well as our region and it was a chastise on the whole world working class.
Today we see that imperialism wants to generalize its victory in Syria to the whole working class in the Pacific and the world.

Revolutionary comrades of Japan! Bravely, you fight to expel and dismantle the imperialist military bases of Japan and USA in the Pacific. You take to the streets paralyzing the imperialist war machine. You are the advanced of our struggle, since you hit directly the imperialist beasts such as Japan and USA that command the genocide in Syria. We are part of a single fight across the oceans and borders!

Let's break the sieges that isolate the revolutionaries country by country! Let's confront these butchers together! The blood of our martyrs will be avenged! We will win in Syria and in the struggle of the world working class!

Leon Sedov Brigade