Lebanon - October 24, 2019

The exploited Lebanese Shiites, Sunnis and Christians along with the Syrian and Palestinian refugees, millions of them revolt and take to the streets for a decent life

Down with the government of the Sunni and Christian bourgeois and the Hezbollah billionaires!
They live like kings while the people live as a beggars

Stop the crackdown and massacre of Hezbollah against the Syrian and Lebanese masses, on behalf of imperialism and to guard the borders to Zionism!

To succeed,

Expropriate the banks and Transnationals that plunder the nation!

From Lebanon to the resistance of the masses in Idlib, the uprising in Iraq, the uprising in Egypt, the Palestinian masses of Gaza that don't give up ..

One single intifada!
For the destruction of the Zionist-fascist state of Israel!
Out with imperialism and all its lackeys of Maghreb and the Middle East!

 

Since last Thursday, October 17, the masses took to the streets of Lebanon again. There are huge demonstrations, the biggest that country has seen in years, on consecutive days. From north to south, from the sea to Syrian border, in each Lebanese city the masses are taking to the streets, squares and public places. The demonstrations began immediately after the government’s announcement that he would establish a new tax of 20 cents of US dollar on Whats App calls, one of the main mean of communication people use in that country.
Although the government withdrew that tax, the demonstrations continue. Moreover, although the Parliament voted for new economic measures, including a reduction in the budgets of the ministries and the cut in the allowances of each MP and official by half, while promising subsidies against poverty and cheap loan plans to have access to housing... the masses did not leave the streets. They know that there is no solution with these mere reforms, because it is not just a tax, but a whole government of corrupt millionaires who have stolen everything to pay their imperialist senior partners the foreign debt and leave the masses without the possibility of a decent life.
We are facing a generalized uprising of the Sunni masses as in Tripoli, the Shiites of the south, Christians throughout the country and all together in Beirut, together with the Syrian and Palestinian refugees marching against that government of national unity composed of all the bourgeois factions: the Sunni bourgeoisie -headed by Prime Minister Hariri, allied with the Maronite Lebanese Phalanx-, the Christian bourgeoisie of President Aoun and the Shiite bourgeoisie of the richest businessmen in Lebanon, Hezbollah.

Actually, the uprising of the exploited in Lebanon has been underway for a few months now. The Palestinian and Syrian refugees revolted in their camps in July when the government denied them work permits and persecuted those who hired them without those permits. Even Syrian refugees were deported, and many committed suicide seeing themselves in that situation, since they preferred that horrible fate rather than having Al Assad's fascist boot trampling them, imprisoning them, torturing them or forcing them to do military service and integrate them to the army. Also, in the heat of the fighting in Egypt and Iraq last month, there were demonstrations that shook Beirut to the cry of "the people want the fall of the regime." The tax on the Whats App was the last drop that filled a glass that was already very full and overflowing in several places, and ended up unleashing the general rage of the masses.
The workers and the people can't stand this situation anymore. For some time now taxes have been increasing extremely. The high cost of living increases too. The infrastructure is so destroyed that there are permanent power cuts and garbage collection is carried out intermittently what produced massive protests in 2015. Unemployment is very high, wages are dropping...
The country's economy is in recession. The indebtedness hit a huge leap in recent years, today reaching 86 billion dollars, which represents 150% of GDP, the third most indebted country in the world in relation to its production. Now, imperialism wants that debt to be paid, at the cost of greater suffering for the masses.

But the masses responded. As in the chain of revolutions that shook all Maghreb and Middle East in 2011, the masses of Lebanon raise the slogan "for a decent life!", "Out with the corrupt government!", "Revolution!". They have the same protest songs that the Syrian masses raised in the beginning of the revolution. "The people want the fall of the regime!" continues resonating.
The masses know that there are funds. Lebanese banks are full of them ... actually Lebanon is known as "the Switzerland of the Middle East". Government billionaires do fabulous businesses as intermediaries in the Middle East trade, in agricultural production and guardians of the main financial plaza in the region. Hezbollah, which is also part of the ruling elite, runs the entire construction business. Not to mention the huge super profits of international banks and imperialist Transnationals! As the Iranian masses said denouncing the Ayatollahs: they live as kings while the people live as beggars!
That is what the "axis of resistance" of Hezbollah, the Iranian clergy and Al Assad is about... starving the people, being servants of the imperialism that plunders the region, junior partners in their businesses, filling their pockets at the expense of the worst misery for the masses and when they rebel, massacre them. This is what all of them have been doing in Syria, in a genocide of more than 8 years, with 600,000 killed, entire cities devastated that forced 15 million to live as refugees. They do so in Iran, imprisoning the workers vanguard that fights for their rights, torturing it in prison, condemning it to death. And so they do also in Lebanon, using Hezbollah's guard to shoot the masses who go out to win the streets, as they did on October 24 in the southern city of Nabatiyah, one of the strongholds of Hezbollah.
They are "brave" to suppress, imprison and massacre the masses, but cowards to confront Zionism, and never shot a single bullet against it, when the Palestinian people of Gaza do not surrender and march to the border and Zionism continues slaughtering and filling their prisons with Palestinian fighters. They are, together with the dictator Al Sisi of Egypt and with King Abdullah II of Jordan, the guardians of the borders of the Zionist-fascist state of Israel, occupant of Palestinian nation.

Those exploited in Lebanon,  whether Shiites, Sunnis, Christians; whether Lebanese or Syrian or Palestinian refugees, they are all together fighting against the Shiite, Sunnite and Christian bourgeois government of billionaires, agents of imperialism. In the combats in Lebanon, as in Iraq, it is clear what Maghreb and Middle East revolutions are about... they are the workers and the oppressed people against imperialism and its lackey governments.
Down with the National Unity Government! Out the billionaires of the Sunni, Christian and Hezbollah bourgeoisie! Out with the imperialism that looted the nation! Down with all his plans to attack the masses! Don’t pay the foreign debt! Expropriate all the banks that keep all the stolen wealth from the people and the Transnationals that plunder the nation! There are the funds for a decent life, to have decent work for everyone, including refugees, access to housing and getting out of poverty. Full rights for all refugees!
For Committees of the workers and the exploited that take to the streets of Lebanon every day! They know each other in each city, each neighborhood, each town... they march together. They must be coordinated at local, regional and national level!
This huge uprising is in danger of ending up in a bloodbath. The army is already in the streets. Hezbollah brought out his paramilitary guard to repress directly. They have to protect at all costs the border of Zionism and Al Assad, so that the Lebanese revolution does not rekindle Syrian revolution’s flames and the masses rebel in the rearguard of Al Assad joining the resistance in Idlib. Stop the repression of Hezbollah, counterrevolutionary guards at the service of imperialism and Zionism to slaughter the Syrian and Lebanese masses! We must disarm Hezbollah guards and the Lebanese police who repress the mobilizations and to arm the people! Self-defense committees must be set up!

In Lebanon, one more trench of the masses that resist in Idlib has been set up, facing Hezbollah, one of its executioners together with Al Assad, the Iranian Ayatollahs and Putin who have massacred Syrian people. In Lebanon, the allies of the uprisings of the masses in Egypt, Iraq, Sudan and Algeria, who have entered the combat and do not leave the streets, stand up. A stronghold of the Palestinian masses that fight against the Zionist occupier rises in Lebanon, where in 2006 the Zionists suffered one of their greatest defeats. As the revolutions breaking out in Lebanon and Egypt, the Syrian resistance and the masses of Gaza masses that do not give up, the liberation of the Palestinian masses from the Zionist occupation is placed once again in the agenda. For the destruction of the Zionist-fascist state of Israel!
In the entire Maghreb and Middle East, one single intifada!