Proletarian and oppressed peoples of the whole world,
united!
Statement of the, on the
present situation in Syria
DOWN THE IMPERIALIST
ALLOTMENT IN SYRIA!
LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE’S WAR OF THE PEOPLES IN ALL
COUNTRIES!
“The combat to imperialism and reaction without the
inseparable combat to opportunism is nothing but empty phraseology”. Lenin: “Imperialism and the splitting of
socialism”.
The
nation of Syria has been suffering a bloody imperialist plundering war in the
shape of a civil war. Assad’s armed forces and the so-called free army of Syria
are the contestants
of this inter-imperialist dispute for the Syrian territory. Syria has
been converted into a new treachery for the anti-imperialist world resistance
and the newest enclave of the inter-imperialist
struggles.
At the present
conditions of this struggle development any result will not bring any advance
for the Syrian people and nation; it will only deepen the imperialist dominance
over the country and oppression on the people since until now an independent and
organized intervention of the armed masses has lacked of a proletarian vanguard
even very little constituted.
The March 2011 revolt
was a spontaneous mass uprising against a fascist regime led by Bashar al Assad
and it is part of an overwhelming wave of people’s rebellions that happened all
over the North of Africa and Middle East. The mass rebellions awakened in those
countries, despite being developed in an unconscious form and not having a
proletarian leadership, have the same root: they are antifascist, anti-feudal
and anti-imperialist ones.
The revolt is a just
rebellion against a bureaucratic comprador regime at the service of imperialism
mostly Russian that has been controlled for decades by the Assad
dynasty.
The Yankee imperialism
has taken advantage from the situation, as for instance in all Arabic countries
rebellions, manipulating the mass struggle, deviating them from the
revolutionary path, to guarantee their interests in the region. The
intelligentsia services for the imperialist coalition forces have formed and
armed a mercenary army self-named Syria’s Free Army –SFA, directed commanded by
their agents with the aim of changing the Syrian regime. Thus the USA wants to
change the Russian control over Syria, breaking with the relationship with
Hezbollah, surround and isolate Iran and prepare the grounds to attack
it.
All this complex plan
in the Middle East and North of Africa is part of a new war of imperialist
plundering and allotment against the peoples. The Yankee imperialism, still
being an unique and hegemonic superpower in the world, has declared its
objective to create a map of a “New Middle East”, that is, a Middle East totally
controlled by the USA, without the influence and interference of other
imperialist powers and mostly without the people’s armed resistance of the
masses.
The Yankee
imperialism, amidst a deep and protracted crises, hit by the people of the
world, mostly in the main front of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and by the
people’s wars in India, the Philippines, Turkey and Peru, with its hegemony
questioned by the inter-imperialist struggle, is more and more at the verge of
an unprecedented war.
In this context, the
events in Syria are firstly and mostly part of the contradiction between
oppressed peoples/countries and imperialist powers; secondly, the
inter-imperialist contradiction that could convert into the principal
contradiction. This one happens through the dispute for the control of colonies
and semi-colonies accumulating and being able to develop into a direct confront
in the form of a new world imperialist war.
Assad: a fascist
and lackey regime to imperialism
Assad and his regime
have been praised by part of the opportunist and revisionist ‘left’ which has
characterized them as a nationalist force, champions of anti-imperialism and
democracy, opposed to the reactionary monarchies of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and
Jordania. Those revisionists are in accordance with the role played by the
Syrian revisionists who in majority compose Assad’s regime through the so-called
“Progressive Nationalist Front”.
The nature of the
Syrian State and regime is not different from the other Middle East States
(including the reactionary monarchies of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Jordania). All
of them are semi-colonial and semi-feudal countries dominated by imperialism and
its puppets, by the local big comprador-bureaucratic bourgeoisie and by the
landownership. The differences between them are the form of government (
“democratic-liberal” regimes or definitely fascist ones) and submitted to the
imperialism of Russia or the USA, therefore, not having any essential
differences among them.
The Assad dynasty
regime does not represent either the rise of the forces of the national
bourgeoisie ( middle bourgeoisie). Bashar al Assad, like Muamar Kadafi from
Lybia, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from Iran, represents the big local bourgeoisie,
mostly its bureaucratic, lackey fraction and totally submitted to
imperialism.
The Assad dynasty
regime has its origin in the rise of the Baath party to power in 1963 and mostly
with the coup d’État, in 1970, led by Hafez al Assad, Bashar’s father. Those
events are inserted in the political context of the Third World movement and the
Pan-Arabism led by David Gamal Nassar, from Egypt. Such a movement happened at
the moment of the rise of the armed struggles for the national liberation in
Africa, Asia and Latin America in 1950, 1960, 1970.
At that time, while
the social-imperialist USSR and the USA disputed the rest of the world in their
areas of dominance and influence, when they united to fight against revolution
with the thesis on transition and peaceful coexistence, the socialist China
motivated and supported the revolutionary forces all over the world. This
situation created space so that the national classes forces could be risen and
promoted a series of measures with a national-democratic
character.
In general, those
processes, for not having a proletarian leadership, were soon hegemonized by the
big bureaucratic-comprador bourgeoisie, linked to the semi-feudal landownership,
lackey to imperialism, betraying the democratic revolutionary demands of the
masses and urging the bureaucratic capitalism’s reactionary bureaucratic road.
After the liberation from the colonial dominance of the European powers they
would pass to the semi-colonial dominance of the social-imperialist USSR that
would grant them the false label of ‘socialist’, ‘popular’ or
‘anti-imperialist’, supported by the big bureaucratic-comprador bourgeoisie in
alliance with the landownership.
The Hafez al Assad
regime was only established after Nasser’s death with which it had disrupted
years before besides getting rid of the left forces inside the Syrian Baath
party. Such a change has meant the defeat of the national bourgeoisie stances
and the supremacy of the right wing led by the big bureaucratic bourgeoisie
already submitted to the Soviet social-imperialism
interests.
To achieve prestige
within the people, in 1968, just before the coup d’État, Hafez al Assad tried to
show that the Baath Party was Marxist and supported the Palestinian people.
However, Hafez was a general and a Defence Minister when Israel occupied the
Golan Hills, in Syria, in 1967, and suspended all aid to the Palestinians. By
the time of the Palestinian massacre in Jordania, the 1970 Black September, the
Syrian Army watched passively the genocide against the Palestinian people. One
month later, Hafez al Assad led a coup against the State and arrested all the
leaders of the so-called Baath Party left-wing.
The Syrian Armed
reactionary Forces, after the 1970 coup d’État, started playing a central role
in the so-called ‘national construction’ for the new regime. The armed forces
were the fundamental component for urging the bureaucratic capitalism. Unlike
settling down sovereign and democratic regimes, a bureaucratic feudal fascist
rule was established.
This process is the
root of the ancient regimes in Libya under Kadafi, under Sadan Hussein in Iraq
and under the Assad family, among others. Those processes did not destroy the
landownership, did not confiscate the big bourgeoisie capital liberating those
countries from the imperialist dominance; they just placed the big local
bourgeoisie in the centre of the State apparatus power under the hegemony of one
of its fractions, mostly the bureaucratic fraction ( the fraction more linked to
the industry and the State apparatus) and always in alliance with the
landownership, substituting the former European colonial dominance by the new
semi-colonial dominance, mostly the social-imperialist USSR.
With the end of the
social-imperialist USSR at the beginning of the 1990s, the inter-imperialist
dispute has increased in Syria through the struggle within the big bourgeoisie.
The Hafez al Assad regime initially approaches France and then the USA
negotiating its interests through agreements with the new Yankee imperialist
bosses that, with the end of the USSR, changed into the only hegemonic
superpower. When there was the Iraq’s invasion by USA in the Gulf’s War,1991,
during Bush (father) government that proclaimed the New World War, Hafez al
Assad supported the Yankee invasion with Syrian troops.
Syria
had converted at the time into a key point of the political stability in the
region, since it served to imperialism as a way for controlling Lebanon occupied
since 1974. And also for controlling the Palestinian resistance in the south of
Lebanon (a region controlled by Hesbollah after the expulsion of the Zionists in
2000) where Syria played a double game as the south of Lebanon has never become
a Palestinian resistance base.
With Bashar al Assad
taking over the power in 2000, the comprador fraction of the big bourgeoisie
strengthens itself and becomes hegemonic in the State management. Two years ago
Bashar liberated the banking system and permitted other foreign banks to invest
in Syria as well as the foreign enterprises to invest through the
banks.
The new partition of Syria: a new
chapter of the imperialist war
After
the September 11th event the Yankee
imperialism started a new counterrevolutionary offensive of general character
under the name of “War to Terror”. Among its objectives, as part of the
partition and repartition of the world, is the idea of building a “new map of
the Middle East”. Yankee imperialism has needed for a long time a new order in
the region under their complete hegemony so that they could deepen and enlarge
the plundering against the world peoples. For that it was necessary to remove
the whole order of things in the region. Iraq’s invasion in 1991 and the Soviet
revisionism action led by Gorbatchev turned out into the end of the
social-imperialist USSR and marked the beginning of a counterrevolutionary
offensive under a general character and convergent to imperialism and
revisionism. An ideological anticommunist offensive was unleashed, the “End of
Communism” and the “End of History” decreed, the armed revisionism taken through
Latin America as a consequence of the capitulation of the “Peace Agreements” and
heavy blows done to the revolution in Peru.
However, all this reactionary and counterrevolutionary tide was not
enough for liquidating the imperialist condition in Russia that recovered in a
relatively fast way. At the first decade of 2000 Russia reorganised itself
economically and politically under its condition of a nuclear superpower and its
petrol reserves. Russia resumed the active role played in the defence of its
influence zones in the European East and Middle East and passed to the open
retaliation of the Yankee hegemony in the world. Social-imperialist China
penetrates in the huge areas of the Yankee influence in the Pacific, dominating
commercially and economically, rivalling seriously with the USA in different
parts of the planet. Thence, the need for the USA to unleash a new offensive and
the “September 11th” event was the pretext
for Iraq’s new invasion, throwing down Sadan regime, invading and occupying
Afghanistan and declaring the “Endless War” to prepare the grounds for
destabilizing the regimes out of their dominance.
According to the general NATO ex-commander, the North-American Wesley
Clark, in November, 2001, an officer of the high command of the Army Forces,
USA, informed that the aggression plans to Iraq had been discussed “
as part of a five year campaign plan and there was a total of
seven countries involved, starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Iran,
Somalia and Sudan”.
Thus, two axes of
inter-imperialist confront have been shaping: one, considering Russia, China,
Iran, Syria, North Korea, Venezuela and others, partially organised under the
Organization for Cooperation in Xangai; the other, USA, England, and other NATO
countries.
In the Middle East,
region where the dispute is happening in the battle field, Russian imperialism
with the tacit agreement of China, and taking advantage of the complex
contradictions in the area, has led a block with Iran, Syria, Hezbollah
(Lebanon) and later Hamas to face the Yankee offensive in the
region.
In the game of
imperialist interests, Turkey has placed itself as a “Troy horse” playing, in
the last years, a planned distance from Israel and working as an interlocutor
for the Yankee imperialists in the area. This role has been crystal clear in the
Syrian conflict. France has acted every time more actively with the Yankee
imperialism not to be left out of the plundering.
Bashar al Assad has tried to establish secret channels with Israel,
USA and Turkey. Assad wanted to betray Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah in exchange for
support and stability. This was clear in Assad’s statement when “September
11th “ event occurred, mentioning that for him it
created “a good opportunity; the need to cooperate was clear and of our
interest. Besides a wonderful way to improve the
relationship”. The USA used the same tactics with Kadafi, Libya, and
did it frequently and largely with the Syrian dungeons for torturing prisoners
in its “war to terror”.
The
murder of the Lebanon Prime Minister, Hafik Hariri, was a water divisor for the
plans of the Yankee intervention in Syria/Lebanon, no matter who was the
murderer who favourished the imperialism plans. After Hariri’s death, Bush
affirmed that Syria was out of the progress of the “new big Middle
East”.
Assad tried to
negotiate with the USA at all means. In accordance with information from the
imperialist intelligence groups it was Assad who had given Kaddafi’s local to
the intelligence services in France ( the satellite mobile phone Kaddafi used to
communicate to Assad) that permitted his capture, torture and murder. Assad had
done that in order to guarantee Syria’s stability for a while. He wants to
negotiate everything and everybody to stay in power but his permanency does not
interest the USA anymore that was confronted not by Assad and his regime but for
the Russian influence in the region.
Vladimir Putin said,
referring, during the celebrations of the victory over Nazi-fascism, in 2011, to
the possibility of a new world imperialist war, this time against the USA, that
Russia should be ready to accept a new sacrifice. The Russian president, Dimitri
Medvedev, said that the Russians were not in the mood for a “Libyan solution” in
Syria.
The farce of the
“Free Army of Syria”
The intervention in
Syria, similar to Libya, is inserted in the new model of the “asymmetric wars”
in the concept of “Low Intensity War”. The USA, confronting a wave of peoples’s
rebellions, could see an opportunity through a complex management of low
intensity war and launch more smoke-screen and ‘legitimate’it as a mask for
defence of democracy and human rights, one more aggression against the peoples,
establishing new puppet regimes by justifying the nations’ domination and
occupation.
Such
a thing has been already happening in Syria through the false ‘Free Syrian
Army’, commanded by Saudi Arabia officers ( in fact CIA agents) and financed by
Qatar. The FSA receives weapons from different places from the NATO, in Adana,
Turkey. All CIA intelligentsia and English M25 information are transmitted to the military Turkish
command that repasses them to the FSA officers as the combat
orders.
The
preparation for a direct intervention has been done by a large training field
organised in Jordania. The Eager Eagle Operation 2012 involves more than 12000
troops from 18 countries under the command of a general of the US Especial
Forces (US Defence News, May 15th ,2012).
Those forces have the double objective to encourage the intern
opposition forces and announce to the other powers the real possibility for a
direct intervention.
The conclusion about
the situation in Syria will be crucial for the domination plans of the Yankee
imperialism. The USA has been planning the following: either Russia accepts to
reduce its influence in the country or it will be without no one. Although a
tendency for Russia to surrender to the Yankee offensive could prevail, such
events would be inserted in the large context for the accumulation for the III
World imperialist War.
Defeat the
imperialist war with the People’s War
Amidst the deep and
protracted imperialist crises and the new plundering wars, the Yankees, mostly,
lead the world to an unprecedented militarization. The imperialists in a
desperate tentative to overcome it cannot but deepen the fundamental
contradiction of the period, the contradiction between nations-oppressed peoples
and imperialist powers, the contradiction between the different imperialist
countries and the contradiction between proletariat and bourgeoisie, being the
first one the principal.
Chairman Mao said: “The imperialism law
means to provoke disturbances and fail, again to provoke disturbances and again
fail, and to provoke disturbances until the final overthrow. The people’s law
for its turn is to fight and fail, fight again and fail and fight again until
the final triumph”.
And the question of the struggle against
imperialism creates two crucial problems for its consequent accomplishment and
mostly for its victory. The first one is related to its leadership, its class
character necessarily proletarian, as chairman Mao has presented: “Every
revolution history proves that with no leadership of the working class the
revolution will fail and with the leadership of the working class the revolution
will triumph. At the imperialism time no other class in any country could lead
the real revolution to victory. It proves it the fact that all the various
revolutions led by the petty-bourgeoisie and national bourgeoisie have failed.”
(About the people’s democratic dictatorship). The second problem is related to
how to educate the people’s masses through the revolutionary path, the fight
against opportunism. The history of the revolutions all over the world, theirs
victories and defeats show clearly Lenin’s statement that to combat imperialism
and reaction without combat inseparably opportunism is nothing but empty
phraseology.
Although the people’s rebellions in Africa and Middle East lack a
proletarian leadership, those struggles are part of the class struggle fire and
create a favourable atmosphere so that their revolutionary vanguards come up and
are forged. It is necessary that the revolutionaries of the whole world have as
their duty to unmask the management of the
opportunism/populism (among so many governments like: Assad, Kadafi, PLO,
Cristina Kishner, Chávez, Morales, Correa, Dilma/Lula,etc. To rise the
anti-imperialist struggle and strengthen the worker-peasant alliance, combating
imperialism and all reaction as well as their managers, being from the declared
right, being either the ‘left’ façade, ‘socialist’ or ‘people’s’ and the whole
opportunism.
The experience of the
recent Arabic people’s revolts, as well as the regimes of Sadam, Kadafi and
Assad, have proved the truth that without fighting revisionism and opportunism,
the struggle against imperialism and their lackeys is just a mere game that
cannot forge the real revolutionary mass movement, transforming those revolts in
easy preys for the reaction manipulation. The experience of the recent Arabic
people’s rebellions have proved the truth that without destroying the old State
machinery, mostly the armed forces, and building up a new State for New
Democracy through the organized armed masses into a people’s guerrilla army and
supported by the large mass mobilization in a revolutionary unique front, that
will reunite the revolutionary classes which shape the huge majority of the
nation – it is impossible to settle any change.
That means: without a
revolutionary proletarian vanguard to lead all that process, any mass movement,
the more radical and violent it can be, will be inclined to capitulate its
leadership and doomed to failure. This is the main point and without it no
revolutionary process can advance.
And for that it is
necessary to constitute and/or reconstitute Marxist-Leninist-Maoist communist
parties, militarized, developing a people’s guerrilla army, supported by a
unique front of workers, peasants, small and middle bourgeoisie, to wage the
protracted People’s War for defeating the power of landownership, the big
bourgeoisie and imperialism, founding in the whole country a People’s Republic
for a New Democracy, going to socialism by successive proletarian cultural
revolutions and towards the bright communism.
“Either the
revolution conjures the imperialist war or the imperialist war conjures the
revolution”! Chairman Mao Tsetung
Down the
revisionism and all opportunism!
Long live
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!
Imperialism and all
reactionaries are paper tigers!
Down the
imperialist war!
Long Live the
People’s War!
Revolutionary Front
for Defence of Peoples’ Rights
Brasil, January
2013
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