Syria- August 20th, 2018
On July 30th and 31th the Astana conference met:
A new conspiracy to finish crushing the last trenches of the revolution
An infamous pact where Erdogan besieges Idlib with checkpoints while Putin and Al Assad bomb massively
While the Syrian resistance doesn’t surrender
In Maghreb and Middle East, new fronts of the fight against imperialism and its lackey regimes are opened!
* General strike in Jordan against the IMF
* The masses in Gaza fight for recovering their land against Zionism
* The exploited in south Iraq rise against the Shiite bourgeoisie, lackey of the US
* The Iranian masses: a new battalion of the revolutionary fight of the region
On July 30th and 31th Russia, Iran, Al Assad and Turkey met in the city of Sochi, under the supervision of the UN, at a coordination meeting of the so-called "Astana conference". This conference is an extension of the Geneva conference, which has been running since 2013 under the auspices of the UN. It is no more than an operation table where all the counterrevolutionary forces coordinate their different roles to crush the Syrian revolution: Al Assad and Putin massacre the masses, while Turkey commands the FSA generals, who sell them out from within.
The aforementioned meeting was held after the FSA generals, over the basis of the massacre of Al Assad and Putin, handed over Daraa to the dog Bashar, gave him their heavy weaponry and returned to the place where they left, that is to say, to be part again of the Assadist army and police. On this basis, they met to assess the situation of how they are massacring and crushing the Syrian revolution and to coordinate how they continue to do so. They also resolved to have a new meeting of this conference in November.
What this meeting defined is that it is still necessary to finish crushing the revolution, because there are still trenches of the resistance still standing, like Idlib, and to meet again four months later.
The Astana conference defined the next steps of the counterrevolution:
Take over Idlib and finish the reconstitution of the bourgeois state with a single army of the generals of Al Assad and the FSA in the entire territory of Syria under the command of imperialism
The last meeting of the Astana conference resolved then that they have to continue massacring Idlib. Again, the conferences of Astana and Geneva are written with "D" of death. This is happening with the planes of Al Assad and Putin bombing massively, killing tens of new martyrs every day.
While this is happening, Erdogan has already encircled Idlib with 12 checkpoints, and has closed the borders for the refugees (including shooting to kill anyone who tries to cross the border) and commands the Sunni bourgeois generals to sell out from within, At the same time, it intends to return the 3 million refugees who live there to the areas under the boot of the fascist Al Assad.
This is how they act from that infamous pact of the Astana conference, because what it is about is to crush the rebel masses of Idlib, those who were resisting until the last moment in Aleppo, Homs, Daraa, Ghouta, Daraya and all the rebel cities. They are the masses that rose up in the revolution of 2011 and to this day they do not let Al Assad return to Idlib. That’s why from Astana they want to defeat them and finish massacring and disarming until the last rebel militia.
They have to advance in Idlib and reconstitute the bourgeois state there, which means re-unifying the officer caste and having a single army, which will be under the command of imperialism. That is to say, they come to form a common army of Al Assad and the FSA generals in the entire territory of Syria.
For this, while Erdogan commands the bourgeois generals of the FSA who had handed out the rebel cities one by one, Putin is not only the hit man who bombs, but at the same time he is the guarantor that these generals join the army and police of Al Assad, as it happened recently in Ghouta or Daraa; whereas, the Iranian Islamic guard reinforces the dog Bashar in Damascus and his army to massacre the masses.
But in Idlib, the FSA generals cannot simply sell out everything and go to Al Assad's army just like that. In Idlib there are the best resistance fighters who are still standing; those who do not accept to be reconciled with the regime. That is why they seek new deceptions to make Turkey pass as a friend, to end up disarming and submitting to Erdogan, who in a pact with Putin and Trump, will finish rebuilding the bourgeois state.
That is why the last meeting of the Astana conference decided to meet again in November. They have now four months to finish crushing Idlib in order to guarantee that the US imperialism will start the reconstruction business. USA is the one that will distribute the businesses, but before that, Idlib must fall. That is why Trump lets Erdogan, Putin and Al Assad continue with this plan until they finish defeating the Syrian revolution, and if anyone dares to keep a piece larger than what imperialism has appointed to them, he immediately disciplines it. Thus, it keeps 300 billion dollars from the Russian oligarchy under embargo. In turn, Trump has doubled tariffs on Turkish exports to the North American market, deepening the Turkish trade deficit and causing a sharp devaluation of its currency. With the trade war, he disciplines his junior partner in the region. He lets his partners in the Geneva conference finish doing the dirty work, while focusing all of his strength now on re-blocking Iran and to take for himself the largest oil reserve on the planet which is in that country. He already disciplined all his competitors from the Europe of Maastricht with the Iranian embargo... This is how he pays to his lackeys of the Iranian theocracy for the services of massacring the Syrian people.
The plans of this counterrevolutionary general staff have to be put into practice, in life itself. In the heat of the hard blows to the Syrian revolution and the massacre in Yemen, imperialism unloads all its crisis and offensive in the region. There is no doubt that the Middle East is for the big oil "7 sisters". They seek to regain control of the region and get all the loot.
In the offensive of their governments and regimes, together with the massacres, the brutal cost of living doesn’t cease to increase, as well as unemployment and hunger. The Palestinian masses from Gaza, seeking to recover their land, account that they cannot eat more in that besieged strip. Hunger pushes them to fight to recover their lands from the Zionist invader.
The devaluations of the currencies push to leaps in the cost of living like in Jordan, Iran and in the very Syria and Egypt. Hunger is once again the engine, this time, of a fierce mass resistance.
While the Sunni bourgeois generals of the FSA sold out the fronts of the masses in Syria and Al Assad and Putin massacred without mercy, the masses of Gaza, Jordan, Iran and southern Iraq opened new fronts of the revolutionary combat in the region
The bourgeois generals of the FSA, while the dog Bashar and the hit man Putin massacred, had handed over the rebel cities to Al Assad and prevented in Syria to take place the program that the masses built up in the streets of Idlib when fighting for a untied struggle of all the rebel areas against Al Assad: "Open the fronts!" But this program has been carried out by the exploited in Gaza, Jordan, Iran and southern Iraq.
The unbearable 50°C heat in southern Iraq is hitting cities like Basra, which lies in the middle of two large rivers (Tigris and Euphrates) and which has huge oil reserves under its feet, while the exploited there have neither drinkable water nor electricity. This is due to the plundering of the imperialist oil companies and their local managers of the Iraqi government. Facing these conditions, the exploited have revolted and do not leave the streets despite the fierce repression and all the promises of public works, which have been promised for years and today there is nothing.
In Jordan, the workers and the exploited have carried out general strikes with clashes against the police against the IMF's attack plans. They have forced King Abdullah II to change the government and to retreat from the announced adjustment of price increases, fees and taxes.
In Gaza, the Palestinian masses fight against the Zionist-fascist state of Israel to recover their lands and expel the occupier.
In Iran, the exploited have been staging a huge uprising since the beginning of the year denouncing the ayatollahs who live as kings while they die of hunger as beggars.
These are new fronts that are opened up in the same revolution in the Maghreb and the Middle East, but they do not end up overthrowing governments and regimes, as these combats do not take place in 2011, but today, when the counterrevolution has already advanced throughout the region.
In Egypt there is a brutal counterrevolutionary dictatorship that holds more than 40,000 fighters of the revolution in prison and supports the Zionist state of Israel with the Camp David pact. In Yemen, the Saudi monarchy slaughters and has taken that nation to the stone age, but it still cannot finish defeating it. In Syria they have carried out a genocide of more than 600,000 dead and more than 15 million massacred, and more than 100,000 were arrested by Al Assad, locked in their prisons and tortured there to death. Thousands and thousands still continue in those hell-torture chambers.
Over the basis of this counterrevolutionary advance, Zionism begins to recover fire power and massacre the Palestinian masses.
This is the result of the Geneva and Astana conferences.
The islamophobic social-imperialist left of the world has supported and supports the counterrevolutionary forces that are centralized in Geneva and Astana
A sector of the reformist left at the international level besieged the Syrian revolution, stating that there was a war between Al Assad and Putin on the one hand against Turkey and the FSA. The Astana conference, especially in this last meeting, shows that this was a lie. Their resolutions leave no room for doubt: "The parties discussed the current situation on the ground, took stock of the recent developments and agreed to continue trilateral coordination in light of their agreements." (Final statement by Iran, Russia and Turkey on the International Meeting on Syria, July 30 and 31, 2018, Sochi, bold of ours). Those same resolutions state: "The parties reaffirmed their determination to fight against terrorism in Syria in order to ultimately eliminate DAESH/ISIL, Nusra Front and all other individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with Al-Qaeda or DAESH/ISIL as designated. by the UN Security Council." (Idem). That is to say that there was a common counterrevolutionary coordination table to crush the Syrian revolution, under the pretext of "facing terrorism", that is to say, the revolutionary masses.
But the entire reformist left worldwide claimed that the enemy in Syria was ISIS (and not Al Assad), when ISIS was no more than the Islamic guardian of the oil wells that US imperialism sent to protect them when the masses had insurrected in those oil areas of Iraq and Syria. It was only one more of the agents that imperialism centralized in the Geneva conference. With their claim that in Syria the problem was terrorism, they ended up providing basis to the massacre and counterrevolutionary actions of imperialism and its agents in Syria.
This left affirmed that there was a revolution in Rojava, when the PKK sealed the tragic fate of the Kurdish people by signing a pact with Al Assad and the US, tying their fate to that of the counterrevolution in Syria.
This ended with a Rojava occupied by more than 10 US bases, with Turkey in Afrin and with the PKK putting the YPG as the cannon fodder of imperialism and turning its weapons against the Syrian rebel masses, as happened in Aleppo.
This reformist left internationally did nothing but besiege the Syrian revolution and leave Al Assad and Putin their hands free to massacre.
Out with Al Assad! One single revolution throughout the Maghreb and Middle East!
Down with the Geneva conference! Open the fronts of the world working class to stop the massacre in Syria!
The revolution of Maghreb and the Middle East has not been defeated yet. The battles of Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Jordan are ongoing. Yemen does not give up. The Syrian revolution resists in its last trenches, like Idlib, although it is now in the worst conditions to confront Al Assad, after the sellout of Homs, Daraa, Ghouta made by the FSA generals...
Out with Al Assad! Out with all the invader troops of Syria! Disarm and expel every FSA general who is in Geneva selling out the masses from the resistance! They have been declared enemies of the Syrian revolution, who hand over the rebel areas to Al Assad, the armament and today wear the uniform of the Basharist army.
Defend Idlib! Unify the battles of the resistance and launch a counter-offensive to reach Damascus! Let the weapons return to the people! Let the coordination committees return! Every factory, bank, change office, workshop, etc. should be expropriated under workers control to put all available resources to defend Idlib, defeat Al Assad and solve the problem of bread and housing!
The refugees, who are crowded by millions in tents in the middle of nowhere, without drinking water and deprived of all basic resources to survive, desire to return and recover their homes, but not under the jackboot of Al Assad. Therefore, they need to set up their committees and recover their weapons to fight against Assad and recover their homes and a decent life.
Freedom to all the prisoners that Al Assad has in his dungeons, under the worst tortures!
The Syrian revolution has already opened new combat fronts in the Middle East. Now, we need to open the fronts of the world working class!
Break the siege of the Syrian revolution imposed by the world reformist left! The way out is in a unified combat with the workers of the world, mainly from the imperialist countries, which is already suffering attacks to their conquests by their imperialist governments, today strengthened after the counterrevolutionary victories they have obtained in the Middle East.
Down with the conference in Geneva and Astana! Against them, let's set up an international conference to stop the massacre in Syria and carry out an international struggle to defeat these counterrevolutionary forces!