Greece - October 4th, 2017
From the United States, the Anti-War Committee in Solidarity with the Struggle of Peoples
for their Self-determination calls for:
October 14: Day of Rage for Syria!
Assad, Putin: Stop bombing civilians and hospitals!
From the Syrian newspaper, The Truth of the Oppressed, we take as our own the appeal from the United States that has been launched by the Anti-War Committee in solidarity with the struggle of our massacred and martyred people. We call for all the workers and anti-imperialist fighters in the world to take it. We do it from our cities reduced to rubble and from the last trenches of resistance.
We call for an international day of struggle on October 14th in all the cities of the world, organizing demonstrations, protests, rallies in the embassies of the genocidal Bashar, Putin and all the imperialist powers that support them.
The operation final massacre of the Syrian people has begun.
The United States, Russia and Turkey have met the Astana (Kazakhstan) Conference -who had been meeting regularly for 6 years- with a single objective: centralize political and military operations to crush the Syrian revolution.
For years they had argued "how a transition to democracy in Syria should be guaranteed" and that they could not agree on whether it was with or without Al Assad. It was a smoke screen. Every one of these Summits gained time and organized the bail-out of Al Assad so he can crush our revolution. It was a vile deceit to cover up one of the greatest genocides ever known.
Dog Bashar came to do the dirty work on behalf of all the imperialist powers to crush the chain of revolutions that, from Tunisia and Egypt to Yemen and Damascus, threatened to reach the occupied Palestine.
When Bashar was besieged in Damascus and he could not crush the revolution in 2013/2014, Putin, the Iranian guard and Hezbollah came to reinforce him... and Turkey came with the FSA generals to betray the revolution from within. They also particpate today at the Astana conference.
Meanwhile ISIS, the "perfect enemy" -which gives good excuses for massacring the Syrian people- landed in Raqa and Deirez Zor to crush those two rebel provinces, acting as true guardians of the oil pipelines and oil wells of the imperialist oil companies. Now, when ISIS’s work is done, the US removes it from those areas in air-conditioned busses, while it attacks with its centurions and its planes directly, keeping under its command the YPGs and the PKK, who have submitted the struggle for the independence of the Kurdish people to their executioners: the imperialist pirates of West Point.
Yesterday since the Geneva-Astana Summit, the siege, massacre and surrender of Aleppo, the capital of the resistance, was conspired and created. From the Astana conference today, the "safe areas", which were said to be "bomb-free", have been decreed in Hama, Idlib, in sectors of the province of Aleppo, in neighborhoods of Damascus, where resistance has not been surrendered... Again a brutal deception.
The conferences of the oppressors and executioners of revolutionary Syria are written with the "D" of Death and the "B" of Blood. In these "safe zones", the only "security" is receiving bombs, missiles, explosive barrels, etc. The Astana conference covered up and concealed the operation final massacre, to finish defeating and exterminating the rebellious masses in the last trenches of the Syrian revolution.
The Russian planes that attack Idlib and demolish their cities, depart from Turkey and use its airspace; while the United States guarantees the open sky for a nation to drop the highest numbers of missiles and bombs seen since the Second World War. This defeats all the fallacies of those who said that the Third World War between the United States and Russia was brewing in Syria.
The US first with Obama and then with Trump clearly was part of the theatre of counterrevolutionary operations in Syria and the entire Middle East. The US could no longer attack directly, like it did in Iraq, from where it had to withdraw in 2008-2011.
The Pentagon organized, coordinated, and served as arbitrator many times against all counterrevolutionary forces that attacked the Syrian revolution. It even sent the old Sunni generals of Al Assad's army to "change" to the side of the revolution when it began and the rank and file soldiers passed the side of the people. Those generals, now leaders of the FSA who are at the Astana conference, went to disarm the masses and prevent them from taking their revolution into their hands. They are allowed in Astana, since they have won the final prize for the surrender of Aleppo, where they had weapons and food to withstand for more than 2 years.
After 6 years of massacre, we must break the siege and stop the martyrdom of the Syrian people!
In Syria it was where “the 1%” of parasites and their imperialist governments concentrated their forces to give a warning to the exploited ones of the world that "dared" to rise against their power. For this, they had other great allies, who speaking in the name of the working class and the oppressed peoples serve their executioners.
The so-called World Social Forum and the parties of the self-proclaimed "New Left" around the world ended up openly supporting the massacre of genocidal al-Assad. Some did so by saying that what was under way was an imperialist coup against Bashar. A lie that already collapses like a house of cards. Except for some missiles on a deserted base of Al Assad, the US never attacked any of the counterrevolutionary forces that were massacring the Syrian people. The US imperialists are who command the operation “final massacre” in Syria.
All these currents of the left, from the central countries and around the world are which allowed Putin, Trump and the imperialist butchers of London, Paris, etc. to build a "counter-terrorist front" with the excuse of ISIS and expanding racist Islamophobia; justified the massacres in Syria and the worst of the attacks on workers in their own countries, such as in Belgium, Spain, France, the United States , Germany and so on...
Stop the final extermination of the Resistance and the Syrian people! Ever since this last Astana conference began, in 5 or 6 spots where the revolution still lives, 350 children and civilian women are murdered per week. Buildings, homes, schools, hospitals, mosques, power plants and drinking water are destroyed ... the cities of Idlib increasingly resemble demolished Aleppo, Homs, Daraya.
Al Assad's finance minister has called all major construction companies operating in the region to a meeting in the central bank of Damascus. There they began to share the business of rebuilding bloodied Syria, whose cities were demolished by more than 80%, with more than 11 million refugees and IDPs. The multinationals that plunder the oil and wealth of the whole region already count their future profits; while they have already filled their pockets with the business of war.
Enough is enough!
The oppressed workers and peoples of the world must stand up!
From the last trenches of the Syrian revolution we make ours the appeal of the Anti-War Committee of the USA in Solidarity with the Struggle of Peoples for Self-Determination! We call for all the workers' and oppressed organizations of the planet to take it into their hands.
To stop the massacre, we must regroup the forces of the Resistance, together with the solidarity of all the workers and oppressed peoples of the world! Damascus must be under siege again by the people and the head of the serpent al-Assad, who has filled the Syrian nation with blood, has to roll down!
To do this, the Astana conference must be disavowed!
Out with the United States, Putin, Turkey, Hezbollah, Iran! We must win the streets around the world to stop the war machine of all the invading troops that support al-Assad and invade and distribute Syria!
The Kurdish people cannot remain one day more under the USA and NATO command or the counter-revolutionary pact between the PKK and al-Assad.
In the plebiscite of northern Iraq, it has been able to verify that its wishes for independence clashed with a wall of those which used it as cannon fodder to invade Iraq, plunder its wealth and occupy that country, and to surround Aleppo. The Kurdish people have no solution to their oppression with US imperialist troops in Iraq or Syria. This submission to imperialism prevents it from fighting against its executioner Erdogan. No people who help to oppress another can free themselves.
The weapons in the hands of the Kurdish people must turn against the American general and the fascist al-Assad. This is the only way to defeat ISIS, which attacks and systematically harasses it.
Out of the Resistance the FSA generals-without-battles, who negotiate and surrender the revolution in Geneva-Astana! They have sold out Aleppo, Homs, Daraya...! THEY DO NOT REPRESENT US! As thousands of revolutionary fighters are already shouting and craving for it ... The “second Syrian revolution", must begin which group the forces of those who really want victory, and leaves behind those who sell the fight!
So that the last trenches of the revolution do not fall: The revolution must return to the people. Open the way to the coordinating committees! We must recover the weapons and bring them under the control of the organizations of struggle of the Syrian oppressed people!
While the people die from the bombs and starvation, a handful of businessmen make lucrative profits from hoarding, rising prices and paying miserable wages to Syrian workers, which only afford 3 days a month. The same does al-Assad in the zones he controls. From the checkpoints these businessmen do business with al-Assad’s generals and bourgeois.
The only safe areas worth of that name would be where the workers and poor people earn a living wage and have bread. All goods and resources in rebel Syria must be for the people to eat, with decent wages and food prices’ control by supply committees!
To recover Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor, to march to Damascus, to fight again in the streets of Homs, to recover Aleppo, the war cry must be: To recover the banks, oil wells, power plants and the richest lands in Syria, which today are in the hands of a gang of assassins and thieves from the village of Assad and his family, and put them in the hands of the Syrian poor and workers! Only then will the "second Syrian revolution" begin, which really can win.
At the borders of Syria and in the countryside, there are millions of refugees living in tents in the middle of nowhere. With this perspective of dignified life, they will be the battalions that the resistance needs to re-encircle Damascus and end with the dictator.
This October 14th, we have to win the streets all over the world!
In Syria, though the massacres in the Maghreb and Middle East, the attack on the Palestinian masses by Zionism, a lesson is being given to all the workers of the world. As soon as the final massacre began in Syria, the governments of Brazil, France and Germany launched a fierce attack of labor flexibilization in order to wrest all the conquests from the workers of those countries.
In the Spanish State, the Civil Guard under the command of the Bourbons who attacked Iraq alongside the USA yesterday, brutally repressed the Catalan people fighting for their independence.
White racist and white supremacist forces attack immigrants, blacks and Muslims in the United States.
Today the Syrian massacre strikes all over the planet. The fight to stop the genocide, to rescue the remaining prisoners after thousands were tortured, mutilated and murdered in the prisons of Al Assad, the struggle to know where our missing people are, already knocks the doors of Mexico or Argentina. In these countries, young fighters against hunger, discrimination, and brutal systems of exploitation and surrender, are missing: Santiago Maldonado in Argentina and the 43 Mexican teaching school students.
We want to pull our prisoners out of prisons! This struggle is the same as for the freedom of the Palestinian prisoners, the children in particular, held hostage by Zionism, or the more than 40,000 who are in the prisons of the modern Pharaohs of Egypt.
They made Syria a hell, now we have to take the hell out of them like we did in Hamburg against the G20! Let's win the streets around the world!
Let us make ours the appeal of the Anti-War Committee of the United States in Solidarity with the Peoples’ Struggle for their Self-Determination! On next October 14th, may all our voices be in the Federal Plaza of Chicago, in the heart of the imperialist beast, to stop the massacre of the Syrian people!
May the workers of the world condemn Al Assad and his fascist representatives in all their embassies! We mainly call the Greek youth who rescued our brothers who came to the old continent escaping the massacre in Syria; to the European workers who, by millions, went out to receive the refugees; the rebellious youth who set hell fire in the streets of Hamburg; the Italian and French youth and workers struggling alongside the immigrants and refugees, who in Europe are treated by the Maastricht governments in the same way as in Syria by the genocidal Assad and are confined in concentration camps, jails, without any right or paper, or deported.
May workers' organizations, HHRR, anti-imperialist struggle organizations, make their voices heard! Let’s surround the last trenches of the Syrian revolution with solidarity! They cannot fall. Because tomorrow Syria will be your country, your city, your neighborhood, your home.
Honor all martyrs of the Syrian revolution!
Editorial Committee of “The Truth of the Oppressed” in Syria
Correspondents from the last trenches of the Syrian revolution
Leon Sedov Brigade