SYRIA - June 17th, 2016
I, you, he, we, you, they
I am Syrian. One day, I decided to come out and claim for a decent life, for bread, work and freedom. They replied with bullets. I am still Syrian, but now I weild a gun in a trench to defend my family and the few things I have left.
You are European. You live to work, you work to survive. Hardly, you can make it until the end of the month. You live with so much wealth around you, but your pocket smells poverty. You work extra time so your family can "decently" survive. You are Greek. You decided that this life of misery has to change. You came out to claim for it and you received sticks and teargas. Today, you feel betrayed.
He is a rich man. Despite he was born in this or that country, he is not identified with that place. He is rather identified with the rich that are the same as he in all the parts of the world. His wealth comes from my sweat and your sweat, from my blood and your blood, from my suffering and yours as well. He wants to see me fall. He wants to see you in silence. He buys off your comrades and mine, turning them into traitors, they turn them against you, and against me. He is not like me, and he's not like you.
We have been sumerged in a revolution that started for bread and freedom for 5 years. For more than 5 years we have been resisting in the trenches of the attacks of US and European imperialisms, the bombs of Bashar Al Assad, Putin the hitmen, the mercenaries of the Iranian guard and Hezbollah. We fight in the trenches, in the workers neighbourhoods, in our factories, in the miserable refugee camps, in the jails. Armed with what we have, with what we find, with what we get. Among so much misery and dispair that we live in Maghreb and the Middle East, many of us (and when I say "us" this time I mean Syrian, Iraqi, Afghan, and so on) decided to go on a deadly trip (in which we died drown in the Mediterranean sea, like Aylan and so many other children), to other continents, looking for what they have taken from us with bombs only because we demanded a simple decent life and in peace. After surviving this trip, we met you.
You are European. Seeing us marching by thousands and clashing in the borders and cities against those in uniform that also repress you, in a solidarity action, you joined our struggle to survive. You stood shoulder to shoulder. You gave us the little you had, and more... and you still do that... we started to stop being ME AND YOU to become "ALL OF US".
THEY are powerful. They rule, repress and oppress. They are the same ones that bom us, kill us, plunder us. They are the ones paying the traitors so they can talk about a decent life, a social economy, general welbeing, and end up leading us to defeat. This is how they survive, thanks to betrayals and slanders. They fill their pockets when there are misery, wars, starvation and we are the ones suffering them. They are the ones dressing in revolution, to bring us involution and barbarism. They started a war against us... against you. For them, it's a matter of life or death that you and me... we and you... not to be one... united until the end, because we suffer the same miseries, we do the same slave works, we produce wealth and They steal it.
Today, I Syrian, resisting in a trench, I Iraqi, expelled throughout the borders into military concentration camps that are like ghettos, I Afghani with my children, I Moroccan with my brothers and sisters, I Algerian with my wife, babies and grandparents entering in Athens, running away from barbarism in my country and found the closed borders of your country, when I was running away from repression and massacre. Today, all of us and all of you must be more united than ever. Help us, protect us, let's start being one, because this is the only way we can stop the attack that THEY STARTED!!
Austerity in Greece, laws that remove the gains of our brother French workers, Palestinian brothers and sisters refugees for long years or outcasts in ghettos in their own land occupied by Zionism. Realize. They feel strong. Because the more they kill and plunder in our countries, they will feel stronger to attack and plunder in their countries. Because they are united against all of us, against all of you.
Today, you and us, we are all French, Greek, Yemeni, Palestinian workers... and refugees in Athens and slave immigrants in the whole Europe. Let's feel part of what we really are, a single class, a single struggle against a single enemy. And from now on, let's show them that even if I am Syrian and YOU are Greek, even if I am an "illegal refugee" and you are a "legal citizen", even if I resist bullets and bombs and you resist teargas and sticks, WE are the oppressed, TOGETHER, against ALL OF THEM, the powerful, those who repress us, rob us and torture us. Forging the unity between us it will be the way to have a decent life for all of us. Let's follow the example of our brothers and sisters of France.
Revolutionary Coordination Committee, from the trenches of the Syrian revolution
Leon Sedov Brigade