Invasions, wars and genocide by imperialism and its governments

Sudan, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia…
For bread and dignity…
THE MASSES RETURN
TO THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE

Ten years have passed since the revolution broke out from Tunisia, expanding throughout the Maghreb and the Middle East, and we have suffered bitter defeats, such as the genocide of the Syrian revolution, the siege, massacre and invasion of  rebellious Yemen, the counterrevolutionary dictatorship of Al Sisi crushing the Egyptian masses, the partition of Libya, the Palestinian masses locked in ghettos, massacred and imprisoned in their thousands by Zionism, just to name a few examples.

If these defeats occurred, it is not because the masses did not fight. They conducted heroic revolutions, leaving hundreds of thousands dead. They could not succeed because of the betrayal of the working class leaderships at the international level. The fence imposed by the left in Syria had consequences; the Syrians were separated from the world working class, especially in the imperialist countries, so that al-Assad, Putin and the Iranian ayatollahs would have a free rein to massacre. Neither went out unpunished that they supported the PKK, i.e., Kurdish Stalinism, which made a pact with al-Assad and US imperialist, using the YPG as part of the siege around revolutionary Aleppo and as US "gurkhas". There has been also a dire consequence for the left calling to support the "democratic process" in Egypt, which was a detour for the return of the dictatorship with Al Sisi... or in Tunisia, as the left integrated the "democratic" deception regime after the fall of Ben Ali to save all its politicians, judges, officials and repressive forces. It did not happen without a punishment that these reformist parties had dressed the Iranian ayatollahs, who crushed the masses of Iran and massacred them in Syria and Iraq, as anti-imperialist. Neither was it inconsequential so much slander against the masses of the Middle East calling them "backward tribes", "Muslim fanatics", "terrorists"... and that they affirm, as the World Social Forum did, in its meetings in Tunis in 2013 and 2015, that "the enemy is ISIS” and thus it felt justified to support or silver the worst counterrevolutionary actions against the masses.

Imperialist counterrevolution is the one imposing this barbarism
That is why the revolution did not succeed, while the counterrevolution advanced. The consequence is being suffered by the exploited: hunger, unemployment, unprecedented misery... The situation for the masses is today catastrophic and desperate.
On the other hand, imperialism and its oil companies continue to plunder the region. Their lavish businesses are run by gangs of local businessmen, as are all governments and regimes. Now, with Biden, US imperialists are preparing to lift the embargo on Iran and enter to keep for themselves all this nation's businesses directly, such as the renovation of the industrial park and investments in the petrochemical and hydrocarbon pole, but not before disciplining the ayatollahs, and for that they have begun to use Zionism for heavily bombing their positions in Syria to get them out of there.
We even see split nations, like Syria, Iraq, Yemen or Libya, where the exploited have been subjected to the different bourgeois sectors that administer "their" part of the territory and businesses. Libya is a country divided in two, with two governments, one of Heftar in Bengazi and another of Serraj in Tripoli, which guarantee the looting of oil and the slave trade as Gaddafi did. Syria is also divided, with Turkey remaining in areas of Northern Syrian that limit its borders and even Idlib together with the HTS; al-Assad -under Putin's control- in Damascus; while the US occupies the provinces of Hasaka, Raqqa and Deir ezz Zor with more than 10 military bases, and the oil is stolen from there directly. Two governments also function in Yemen, the Shiite Houthi in Sanaa and the pro-Saudi Sunnis in Aden. That is to say, nations cannot even be keptas they were drawn on the map in the aftermath of the Second World War.

New uprisings for bread shake the region
In these already unprecedented conditions, workers are starting to carry out huge uprisings again. In Tunisia they returned to combat with strikes, pickets, huge mobilizations and barricades against the police, confronting the bourgeois government supported by the UGTT and the colonialist left parties imposed upon the fall of Ben Ali. In Sudan, in a similar development, massive mobilizations once again shake that country against the CP government, the bourgeoisie and the military. In Iran, the working class is challenging starving and repressive ayatollahs. In Iraq, the exploited do not leave the streets. In Lebanon the mass uprising is still open. In Egypt, workers in resistance are performing harsh strikes against the dictatorship of Al Sisi. The Syrian resistance fights in Idlib, marching against HTS, and facing the genocidal al-Assad in Daraa and in Damascus itself. The fight is for bread, work, land... For a decent life!

Only the working class succeeding in its revolution can stop the barbarism that imperialism spreads. By fighting for the expropriation of the oil companies and all the imperialist transnational companies that loot the region and its banks, without compensation, it will be possible to stop the theft of the nation's wealth and guarantee that there are sufficient funds to have a decent life.

The lackey governments and regimes must be defeated! THE PEOPLE WANT THE FALL OF THE REGIME! The working class needs to set up their self-determination bodies to take the resolution of the crisis into their own hands, form their self-defense bodies and workers' and popular militias.

We must break the international isolation imposed by the reformist left and unify the workers' ranks!

The defeat in Syria was a lesson imposed by imperialism on workers around the world, and in the Middle East in particular. The new uprisings, despite facing fierce repressions, do not arm themselves to defend themselves as happened in Syria or Libya. That's because they fear that if they dare arm themselves they will be ruthlessly massacred like the Syrian masses. Imperialism was able to concentrate its forces to give this lesson because was concede a free hand thanks to the betrayal of the leaderships of the working class, as we said above.

These leaderships stated that the socialist revolution could not be carried out, that the only thing that could be done was "to fight for more democracy" and they submitted the working class to the bourgeoisie. In consequence, as we saw above, what came was the terror of fascism and hell for the masses. It has already become clear that bread, freedom, breaking with imperialism and democratic freedoms can only be won with the seizure of power by the working class as the leader of the exploited nation and the victory of revolution. That is why we are fighting to set up a revolutionary leadership that can establish the conditions for victory, which for us is a revolutionary party of the Fourth International, of the workers of the Maghreb and Middle East countries, which will be set upbreaking the submission to every bourgeois variant and drawing these revolutionary lessons.