The
Defeat of the Aggressive Policies of the Western Imperialists, Headed by the
U.S. and Allies in Syria
The imported foreign
mercenaries to Syria, with the support of the western imperialists, have been destroying Syria and killing its people for five
years. These mercenaries plant bombs in the centers of big cities such as
Damascus and Aleppo and destroy the livelihood of the citizens. The western
intelligence organizations have mobilized these mercenaries through
Saudi-Arabia and Qatar and have imported them to Syria. Their identities have
been revealed to be a mixture of Al-Qaida, the Moslem Brotherhood, and the Salafist Movement. They are mobilized from Libya,
Saudi-Arabia, Qatar, Dubai, Afghanistan, Jordon, Tunisia, Egypt, Chechnya,
Lebanon, China, and so on. There are reports that members of the Organization
of Mujahedin of Iran are involved in the West’s imperialist intervention in
Syria. The role of Turkey in the financial and spiritual support of Daesh (IS-ISIS) and the Syrian reactionary opposition are
not hidden from open eyes. The situation is so anarchical and messy that even
some imperialist countries fear to send military weapons to this opposition
because they do not know precisely who will be receiving the weapons nor to
what use those weapons might be put.
The so-called opposition tries to seize areas inside of Syria
with the hope of establishing a “free zone” and declaring itself as “the
legitimate government of Syria” in order to become a haven for destruction and
criminal actions in the region. Turkey and Jordan attempted unsuccessfully to
assist the “opposition” in achieving these goals. The situation has become so
backward that even some reactionary and puppet regimes of the region have
recognized the sellouts and have discredited the opposition’s self-proclaimed
“legitimate government” as a king without crown or throne.
The “Free Syrian Army” has been dealt a heavy blow in all
the areas under its control. The Syrian government has brought about the ruin
of foreign mercenaries by mobilizing the people and organizing people’s
militias. The situation increasingly favors the despotic regime of Syria.
Assad’s government is defending the principle of national independence,
territorial integrity, and national sovereignty of Syria. This defense is
legitimate and is recognized by revolutionary and democratic forces. Foreign imperialist
forces and their allies have no right to install a government in Syria, or in
any other nation for that matter.
The imperialists were caught up in the false assumption
that they could overthrow the government of Syria overnight by creating an
atmosphere of fear and terror and by using their agents to generate chaos to
enable a velvet revolution. The imperialists thought that they could topple
Assad as quickly as they toppled Saddam Hussein who governed by authoritarian means
through the Iraqi Baath Party. Imperialists and Zionists have invaded so many
states of the region that they thought they would be able to carry out a
military invasion of other states too. The policies of the imperialists and
their allies faced disgraceful defeat in Syria.
Assad’s resistance to the criminal activities of the
“opposition” continued, and the Syrian administration and army, despite the
presence of spies and infiltrators in the government, remained firm. The Syrian
administration feared neither threats, or terror, or spies, nor sellout agents.
The government of Bashar Assad did not disintegrate
as the imperialists and their reactionary and criminal “opposition” had hoped. The
administration gained in strength and confidence as the jihadists continued
their terrorist activities; at the same time, the sellout opposition became
apprehensive and disunited.
The recent Russian attacks, performed at the request of
the Syrian government on the terrorist bases of the cannibalistic Islamic State
of Caliphate, have played a positive role in preserving the existence and
territorial integrity of the Syrian state. These attacks neutralized the
sinister western imperialists’ plot to topple Assad’s regime and to strengthen
reactionary regimes of Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Turkey. The Western media’s
false propaganda about Russian airstrikes “targeting and killing innocent
people” are greeted with well-deserved scorn in the progressive communities and
further denounce U.S. and other Western administrations as the so-called “defenders”
of human rights. The Russian airstrikes in Syria have exposed the U.S.
imperialists and their allies who have pretended to oppose terrorism in Syria.
Before the beginning of the Russian airstrikes in Syria, the U.S. authorities repeatedly
announced that the war against Daesh (IS - ISIS) would
occupy up to thirty years!
The
Western imperialists are not motivated by a fight against terror, nor are they
interested in eradicating the medieval and cannibalistic Daesh;
rather, their goal is to overthrow, for their own self-interest, the secular
and independent government of Syria. The Russian airstrikes have targeted the
training bases of all terrorist forces regardless of their names or masks. We cannot divide terrorism into “good” and
“bad” factions. The U.S.
imperialists use the “good” terrorists as catalysts and
give them military training in the CIA camps in
western Syria and then send them to big cities to join the “freedom” fighters. This scheme was broken up by Russian airstrikes on the
terrorist-producing regions.
We must mention that some sections of the Syrian
national opposition have drawn a political line between themselves and the
foreign mercenaries whose aims have been to create terror and chaos in the
country. This democratic and progressive opposition correctly recognizes that
the defense of national independence is of utmost importance and outshines the
other social contradictions. The clock is ticking against the old colonial West. The task of the
progressive forces is to direct the fight against ISIS terrorists, to curtail
the imperialist military aggression of the West, and to defend Syria’s national
sovereignty and its territorial integrity. Under these circumstances, the
communists of Syria can help to resolve their country’s internal class
contradictions – not by resorting to reactionary measures or by engaging in a
Trotskyite fight against Assad and Isis – but by rallying around the flag of
anti-intervention and by repelling imperial-backed terrorists. By learning from
the disastrous situations in Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan, a catastrophe
against the Syrian people can be averted, and the Syrian working class can be
prepared for and directed towards a socialist revolution.
It is worth mentioning that a section of Iranian
opposition follows this Trotskyite line of a “fight against two poles.” This
promotes the formation of a “broad front to overthrow the regime” if and when Iran
is attacked or invaded by the U.S., Israel, or NATO. The sellouts following
this strategy side with the imperialists against the Islamic Republic. It is
necessary and important that people know about and expose these pro-imperialist
organizations.
Hands off Syria !
The Party of Labour
of Iran (Toufan)
October 2015