Middle East - September 24th, 2020
With infamous pacts of the Arab bourgeoisie and Zionism, and settling the genocide in Syria
Imperialism launches a new offensive to defeat the rebellious masses of the Maghreb and the Middle East
Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, and now Egypt...
With new revolutionary uprisings, the masses fight back
The Middle East is on fire again today. On the one hand, new revolutionary uprisings are taking place in Lebanon, Iraq, now Egypt, while the Iranian working class have started huge days of struggle against the ayatollahs. But also, the exploited have suffered bitter defeats of the revolutions that broke out in 2011 from Tunisia to Syria, from Libya to Egypt, from Bahrain to Iraq... like the crushing with blood and fire for more than 9 years of the Syrianrevolution, the massacre in Yemen, the Saudi invasion of Bahrain, the partition of Libya, among others. These revolutions had overthrown autocracies such as those of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and had questioned the very borders of Zionism, who could not fire a single shot at the risk of unifying the entire region in the same struggle for its destruction. But the leaderships of the workers' organizations on the planet acted. In Tunisia and Egypt they supported "democratic solutions" that were nothing but a detour to return to fascism and dictatorial regimes. In Syria they supported the genocidal Al Assad. From the World Social Forum they launched the cry "the enemy is ISIS" and slandered the masses calling them "terrorists" and "jihadists" and imposed a siege on the Middle East revolutions. These actions isolated the masses from the world working class and left hands free to all counterrevolutionary agents to crush the masses with blood and fire.
Thanks to these leaderships, the aforementioned defeats of the revolutionary processes were imposed and on them imperialism and its oil companies want to advance in imposing a strategic triumph in the region, generalizing the Geneva pact and establishing its Zionist gendarme and giving it back the firepower that had lost in 2011. Their lives are going on to defeat the current processes in order to finish establishing the counterrevolution. For this, it is making progress in establishing agreements with the Sunni bourgeoisie in the region in order to expand the recognition of the state of Israel, in addition to the existing ones with Jordan and Egypt. Thus, the governments of the UAE and Bahrain have already signed these pacts, while imperialism announces that there are others that will be finalized and made known in the coming days with 13 more governments in the region, including Saudi Arabia, Morocco and also Sudan.
In the latter country there is not only a government of Sunni bourgeois, but also the Communist Party of that country is a key supporting factorcontrolling the unions and the fighting organizations, and as such they have entered as true ministers without portfolio of the same. That is why this pact to support Zionism not only includes the governments of the region, but also the Communist Party, the same ones that founded Israel with Stalin in 1947 from the UN.
The defeat of the Syrian revolution meant the strengthening of Zionism
Already in 1979, the so-called Camp David Pact was signed, a peace agreement between Israel and the bourgeoisies and governments of the region, headed by Egypt, to support Zionism, occupying Palestine. Today, we are witnessing a plan to impose a "generalized Camp David Pact" in the entire region, of recognition and support of the Zionist State so that it finishes establishing itself as the occupier of the Palestinian nation and as a key gendarme of imperialism in the Middle East. It has not been imposed yet. It will depend on whether the revolutionary processes opened in Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt are crushed... in order to prevail.
When the revolutionary processes broke out in 2011, the Palestinian bourgeoisie asked its people to be neutral in order to win the support of both peoples and the rulers. Stalinism stated the same in Palestine, as the PFLP and the DFLP. They insisted, like the entire world left, in separating the Palestinian masses from the Syrian masses, even though in the Yarmouk camp in Damascus the Palestinians were also mobilizing for the fall of the regime and Al Assad ruthlessly massacred them. Actually, the more the Syrian revolution was crushed the more Zionism was strengthened, because the masses and their revolutionary uprisings are the true enemy of that counterrevolutionary enclave, and not those governments that guard its borders.
Today we can see the result of isolating the Syrian people from the Palestinians: the genocide and partition of Syria and the strengthening of Zionism. Today we see the "support" that the bourgeoisie of the region give to the Palestinian people by signing the pacts of recognition of Zionism. Trump declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel and the Arab bourgeoisies are lining up to sign the pacts.
The Palestinian bourgeoisie of the PLO, shown in the international media as opposed to the UAE's agreements with Zionism, has been collaborating closely with the occupier, even filling its prisons with prisoners who want to confront Zionism. Gaza and the West Bank became bantustans and this bourgeoisie calls it the "Palestinian state."
Here is the result of the New Left policy of supporting Al Assad, encircling the Syrian revolution... and even being at the feet of the "two states". They are also a leg that supports Zionism.
The Geneva-Sochi pact of imperialism and its counterrevolutionary agents spreads around the region
This is how imperialism has remained in the region, in the first place it has increased its looting of the oppressed peoples and now it seeks pacts with the Sunni bourgeoisie to support its Zionist gendarme, while evaluating getting rid of the Shiite bourgeoisie after using it to do his dirty job by slaughtering. Israel must once again be its strategic gendarme in the region and regain its full firepower, which it does not have today.
Imperialism advances from the Syrian genocide. With the Geneva-Sochi pact, they split Syria. The US has taken the oil directly and its oil companies take it, without leaving a drop not even in Damascus, leaving this city in a crisis of fuel shortage. Syria is already a protectorate. It has been occupied and business is being divided among all the occupants based on the Syrian cemetery, where, we insist, the fundamental thing is that US imperialism controls the oil, Russia continues to be a hit man and Turkey controls the northern border of the country and gotIdlib. With the generals of the FSA (and also of HTS) they maintain control of that province, to impose surrender on the masses there and establish the "cemetery pax". They were the ones who closed the fronts, dissolved the coordination committees, disarmed the masses and agreed on common business with Al Assad. In other words, Turkey, like the generals of the FSA and HTS, are part of the Geneva agreement, they are partners with Al Assad.
Turkey is part not only of the partition of Syria, but also of the partition of Libya and the bleeding of that looted nation. The Geneva pact is not only for Syria, but for the entire region, and its members are already counterrevolutionary devices that intervene at the regional level.
The new uprisings that hit the Middle East today are the best allies to defeat this infamous Geneva pact and all the counterrevolutionary forces. They are the forces to, together with the Syrian resistance and the struggle of the Palestinian people, defeat imperialism and Zionism.
New revolutionary uprisings powered by hunger
Even with such counterrevolutionary devices, with so many defeats, despite the betrayal imposed on the revolutions that have rocked the Middle East since 2011, the masses continue to fight. As we have not succeeded, imperialism has imposed worse hardships on us. But in these conditions of hunger, massacre, defeat and harsh betrayals, the working class stands up again in fierce revolutionary actions driven by hunger.The revolution in Lebanon in recent days has taken enormous leaps forward that do not allow exploiters to sleep in peace. The forces that hold the key to the triumph of the Palestinian people stand there, on the working class that defeated Zionism in 2006, on the working class that has in their hands the fight against the Hezbollah butchers who come to slaughter with their Gurkastroops in Syria. In Iraq, since October the streets have been taken in the fight against the US protectorate regime because they do not accept being the third largest oil exporter in OPEC and having neither electricity nor drinking water, nor work, nor bread.
In Iran, the workers who do not even collect their wages have come out to face the starving ayatollahs with a wave of strikes and mobilizations. They make workers pay the full cost of the US siege while they have filled their pockets in fabulous businesses with Europe and in fraudulent privatizations.
In Egypt, the exploited again are marching by hundreds and hundreds of thousands in all cities, clashing hard against Al Sisi’smurderous dictatorship’spolice. A new uprising runs through Egypt crying out for bread, dignity and housing, since this dictatorship has begun to demolish the houses of the workers to do fabulous business with the construction of buildings, shopping centers, hotels, etc. instead, without even paying compensation. If they advance in these revolutionary actions, dissolving the murderous police, setting up factory committees and self-defense committees of the masses to conquer bread, the pact of Camp David will be seriously at risk and that would be a severe blow to the imperialist offensive. Egypt is a key combat against the imperialist offensive and Zionism.
This new revolutionary onslaught of the oppressed in the Maghreb and the Middle East needs a certain course to succeed, and for this the revolutionary lessons of the 2011 processes are necessary. We overthrew governments and executed our executioners such as Khadafy in Libya and Saleh in Yemen. But it was necessary to expropriate the capitalists and put the banks, factories and oil wells of the region under workers’ control and at the service of all the exploited. They subjected us to the local bourgeoisie who only negotiate deals over the blood and misery of the oppressed, when what we needed was to advance towards workers'and peasants' governments. They prevented us from a unified combat with the working class of the imperialist countries, without whom we cannot succeed. The leaderships of the world working class were in charge of preventing all this and that the exploited were subjected to the different bourgeois sectors, and at the mercy of the massacres. Under the program and strategy of the Fourth International that will stand among the best revolutionary fighters of the heroic Arab and world proletariat that stands up against the ignominies of this rotten system.
The allies of the Middle Eastern masses have stood up in the revolutionary uprising in Belarus, which faces the murderous government of Lukachenko, an ally of the dog Putin.
But above all, our allies are in the imperialist countries. They can strike from within the heads of the counterrevolutionary governments of the Middle East. Our siblings march in the streets of Greece and Germany in defense of our brothers and sisterswho endured the fire in the Moria refugee camps, on the Greek island of Lesvos. Our revolution lives in the struggles of the black people and the working class that is taking to the streets of Portland, New York and all the rebellious cities in the US, together with the uprisings in Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and the struggle of the Iranian working class, we will defeat the imperialist offensive and this time have a triumphant 2011.
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