May Day: The U.S. Workers Action Program – Fight Fascist Reaction with Class Struggle!

 

Fascism is the means of last resort used by the capitalist ruling class to destroy the working class when it poses a revolutionary threat. We have shown how the objective situation of U.S. capitalism in a terminal crisis cannot restore profits when it has largely destroyed the conditions for its existence. It cannot compete in the production of value with the rise of China and the BRICS which will soon monopolize all inputs – critical raw materials, cheap labor, advanced technology etc – without going to war on its rivals which means in practice the working people of the world. 

Trump’s tariff plan is to make trading partners pay to uplift the declining U.S. hegemony which is rapidly  being eclipsed by  China.  The so called “Mar-a-Lago accords” goals summarized by Stephen Miran (Trump’s economic advisor and senior strategist at Hudson Bay Capital)  pressures foreign states to concede to trade beneficial to the U.S. including buying more U.S. products, transferring production to U.S. soil, buying U.S. made weapons, and buying long term treasuries at a loss. This pipedream ignores both  the complex production chains which have transitioned the most complex manufacturing equipment and developed a massive highly skilled workforce to China. 

In short the Trump/Miran plan is a flop from the start and has crashed financial markets. The nations which bend a knee are not the productive powerhouses or sources of value creation capable of meeting its demands and China has doubled down in its defiance. Trade war is quickly escalating towards hot war. Who will blink first? Will the competing imperialist powers set off WWIII or will the working class lay its hands on the levers of history and remake the world with a rational socialist plan where worker’s control of trade is democratically decided in the interest of our species survival?    

Trump’s tariffs are ultimately a regressive tax targeting the working masses whose purchasing power is quickly dwindling. In addition they were implemented as a con and a gift to big finance/speculative capitalist hedge funds and corrupt insiders to short the market. They know the ultimate result will be inflation! As a gift to small government demagogues, Musk’s DOGE has failed at cutting government spending while hacking government agencies to pieces.

Trump demagogically plays to industrial union workers with the false promise of manufacturing returning.  The red meat for his reactionary base is protectionist “Buy American” chauvinism, a nativist political weapon against international capitalist rivals and dependent nations alike. Tariffs and protectionism divides and pits workers internationally against each other when what is needed is international class unity in action. His plan is for U.S. imperialism to wrest control of all trading partners and the global south, in particular trade from China and the BRICS free trade alliance.

The tariffs will not bring manufacturing back to the USA. The only way they will bring back manufacturing is when they drive down your wages equivalent to what they pay in Bangladesh, Vietnam and Burma! To do that the capitalist ruling class must terrorize immigrant labor and crush the unions! The attack on federal workers and immigrant labor is the first step!

To resolve the objective situation of the terminal crisis as capital destroys nature, driven by the contradiction between class society and nature in favour of the imperialist ruling class, Trump must resort to fascism to smash the subjective intervention of the working masses who produce the wealth, defending nature from total destruction, and who are the only class with the potential power to overthrow the ruling class and capable of building a new objective reality – the socialist future.  

The rights and freedoms currently under attack cannot be sustained or regained within the confines of constitutional, legislative, or electoral means. The Rubicon has been crossed although the consciousness of the masses lags behind the objective situation. It is the task of the revolutionary vanguard workers to show that only a class independent workers’ government can regain and extend the rights under attack by fascist regimes at home and internationally. 

The cross class politics of the Popular Front promoted by Stalinism and social democracy still dominate the trade union movement and the movements of the oppressed.  The failed reformist dream that socialism would emerge as the logical extension of democratic rights has exploded as fascist reaction and in one genocidal war against the masses after another from Syria, to Gaza, Congo and Ukraine. 

It follows that only organized labor, united globally, and led by a new world party of socialist revolution, can meet the challenge of overthrowing decaying capitalism and building a socialist world where society lives in harmony with nature. In the U.S. working people must wake up to the immediate threat the fascist coup poses to their own survival and that of humanity. 

We must organize in our millions to resist this coup, revive the unions, create a fighting Workers/Labor Party, build councils and militias to expropriate the robber barons, bring down the Trump regime, installing a Workers’ Government’ with the power to set up a Workers’ state ruling in the interests of the working people. A Socialist United States would cease its domination of the world by its genocidal wars and create an example for workers everywhere to build a world federation of socialist states.

Our fighting Action Program embraces every democratic demand the masses are taking to the streets and fighting for including: 

The separation of church and state,  freedom of free speech, thought  and the press, right to assemble, to be secure in  one’s papers (phones) and domicile, due process, equal justice, habeas corpus, rights of migration, control of one’s body, right to self defense, right to jobs with living wages, education, medical care and to be free from discrimination and oppression. Free all political and class war prisoners. Bring the deportee’s home!

Build Labor and Community Self Defense committees and networks

The bosses seek to drive a wedge between immigrant workers and the unions!  We must organize and mobilize to defend immigrants from deportation with mass mobilization of the labor movement. We need class struggle actions to stop the deportations while organizing immigrant labor into existing and new unions.

The ruling class wages attacks on immigrants to divide the working class and blind workers to our mutual class interests. Karl Marx wrote of chattel slavery “Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.”  This quote could be applied to immigrant labor as well as to Black oppression today. The attacks on DEI and “Woke” is racism and misogyny in 21st century rightist spin. Don’t buy it!

Our fight is not only to protect the immigrant workers doing the most dangerous and unhealthy work,  but to take hold of the economy and run all jobs under workers control in a safe and healthy manner with living wages, benefits, vacations, medical insurance and pensions!

Today Trump, Musk and MAGA are going after the legal right to unionize. To protect our lives and livelihoods workers need to organize the unorganized coast to coast and bring all immigrant workers into the trade union movement! 

To counter the life crushing inflation and right to fire that the ruling class is unleashing through Trump and Musk, we need to reinvigorate the workers movement with politically independent class struggle methods. 

We need to take our unions back from do-nothing leaders who tie our movement to the capitalist Democratic and Republican Parties and refuse to challenge anti-labor laws with mass strikes and general strikes!

To rebuild our labor movement we must start by defending and embracing immigrant labor and their families! Everyone in the  USA is an immigrant except the Indigenous, and now MAGA wants to deny their citizenship rights! We Demand Full Citizenship Rights for all workers and Indigenous people! We Fight for the Same Contract for the Same Work through international struggle on both sides of the borders! This is how we prevent the bosses from driving wages down at home! This discourages Capital flight.

For the Indefinite General Strike: To win even the most basic demands labor must take the lead to escalate the ongoing mass mobilizations to workplace occupations and General Strikes organizing mass strike committees in every city, town based on factory and workplace action committees that pose the question of which class should rule! 

The self conscious working class movement must launch the  General Strike to take power and establish a Worker’s Government.  The Worker’s Government must be based on worker’s councils  that expropriate the capitalist class and reorganize production under workers’ self-management and control! 

Trump flim-flammed the masses with his opportunist claim that he would end the inflation of the prices of the necessities of life. He has done nothing but spur on price hikes while causing layoffs with his trade collapsing policy! 

Against high prices we need worker/community wage and price committees across the whole country and in every neighborhood to refuse inflation. These should be backed by union-led workers’ militias, which will be the organized power of the workers’ state..In the same way, layoffs and plant closings must be met with factory occupations and sit-down strikes industry-wide! 

The capitalist class and their dying system has brought living things to the brink of extinction by climate catastrophe and war. The workers movement can only win if it offers an alternative program and builds a mass party of labor that mobilizes the masses around its program.

The workers movement and its fighting Workers/Labor party must:

Build class struggle caucuses in our unions and community organizations of struggle which displace leaderships who accommodate the bosses and promote class peace.

Organize and mobilize to defend immigrant labor from deportation with mass mobilization of the labor movement, with actions to stop the deportations while organizing immigrant labor into existing and new unions.

Defend Black, Brown, Asian, Indigenous and immigrant communities with union led self-defense guards built up in workplace and factory committees, united and mobilized in district and regional workers assemblies. The workers’ organizations must welcome, defend and advance the equal rights of women and all specially oppressed people. Hands off foreign students! Hands off Palestine solidarity activists! Smash the fascist bands in embryo! 

Demand: Jobs for all with living wages and automatic COLA’s to counter inflation. To close the widening gap between productivity and stagnant wages, to share necessary work among all capable hands we demand to shorten the workweek with no reduction in pay! The automation coming to industry via technology must be made to benefit the working class. 24 hours work for 40 hours pay is long overdue!

Demand: Trillions of dollars in public works programs to build and provide free quality housing, education and healthcare for all, upgrade public transit, re-forest the wilderness, eliminate toxic infrastructure and make a transition to clean energy. 

Expose Business Secrets and fight for Workers Control: the workers party will show what the savings are. The  bosses say we are unreasonable. We demand: Open the books of the finance and monopoly capitalists, the corrupt politicians, the back room deals, the hidden offshore accounts, to identify where the money is. Such will show that the billionaires and big shareholders hoard, speculate for personal gain rather than investing to produce for public need.

When the capitalist class and bosses say profit is their right and wars are in the national interest, we demand an end to speculation, hoarding and military profiteering. Stop funding the Military Industrial Complex. Not one person, not one penny for imperialist war!

The bosses hired Trump to bring Genocide home! We say: End the genocides! Stop funding the Ukraine proxy war! For dual defeatism in all inter-imperialist conflicts! Dependent nations have the right to expel occupiers! Defend Gaza! Free Palestine! Imperialists hands off the Syrian Revolution!

Demand NO IMPERIALIST WARS! CLOSE THE 900 overseas bases! Troops! Build a “Come Home Now Movement” and an enlisted persons international union. 

When the bosses try to stop our strikes with Police, National Guard and their private armies, the workers movement must appeal to the soldiers to organize enlisted unions which support the workers movement to arm the workers militia to defend the Mass Strikes, factory and workplace occupations and the seizure of the capitalists’ hoarded and stolen social wealth.

Defend Panama! Hands off Greenland!  Workers need an international program! Build a working class anti-imperialist United Front to stop inter-imperialist wars! For a New Zimmerwald and a New Workers International! 

The workers movement and Workers Party will mobilize with class struggle methods of the Mass Strike (general and political) to implement a Workers Government which will nationalize the commanding heights of industry, finance and monopoly capital without indemnification, run under worker’s self management and democratic workers central planning.

Communist Workers Group (CWG-USA), 04/26/2025

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Self-determination and the Waka vision

 The combined Waka and Kanak vision of self determination is a blast from the past that can project us into the future uniting all Pacific peoples to fight for self-determination

Treaty debates are futile and miss the point that Māori need self-determination now to save both Aotearoa and the planet. Te Tiriti will be locked up in the colonial state apparatus for decades while various interpretations are fought over, and meanwhile the climate catastrophe makes the planet uninhabitable and humans face extinction.

Naturally, Māori did not wait for Hobson to turn up to stake their claims to sovereignty. The Treaty was always a fraud because it pretended to grant Māori sovereignty when they already had the real thing, that is, the use of the land and the ocean, based on their customary occupation of both. This actually existing sovereignty was then backed by the 1835 Declaration of Independence of the Northern Tribes which was recognized as a valid claim to political sovereignty by the British Crown.

The Treaty is an artificial encumbrance devised by the British Crown. The settlements under it fall far short of what Māori must have – that is, their land rights as the basis for their social and economic organization to meet their unmet needs. It was no more than an agreement by the chiefs of the Northern Tribal chiefs and the ‘governor’ to allow the British to control the settlers without repudiating the 1835 Declaration. This was the fraud!

Fortunately some farsighted Māori have a vision to rectify the accumulated destruction of two centuries of colonial settlement by transcending the Treaty debate and staking a claim to cultural guardianship of the sunken continent of Zealandia from which Aotearoa emerges and which extends as far as Kanaky (New Caledonia) on its northern edge.

This is a revolutionary vision because it unifies Māori self-determination with the post-colonial self-determination of Aotearoa for all who live in her, by restoring land and sea resources to common ownership.

Existing private property rights would be dealt with as a key part of the process of self-determination. Those who treat these rights as sacrosanct need to face the truth of history, that humanity began and in many places continues on the basis of the common use of land. Its privatization over many millenia led to the destruction of nature and now risks human extinction. It is time to return land to nature and live with it in harmony making the right to use land contingent on the needs of all humans and of other species.

It is easy to see this revolutionary vision expressed in Waka Developments which along with the FLNKS in New Caledonia has staked a claim for the use-value of Zealandia as a resource base that must be protected and utilized in the common interests of all those who live on her and off her. We can get a rough idea of what that vision is by referring to the joint letter signed by Waka and the FLNKS recently stating their basic objectives. We reprint it from the news platform Scoop.

    “Indigenous groups in New Zealand (Māori) and New Caledonia (Kanaky) have joined forces to protect the 8th continent of the world Zealandia (Te Riu-a-Māui). Both indigenous groups are concerned about the exploitation of Zealandia’s vast natural resources in minerals, gas, oil and fisheries by French and New Zealand politicians.

Kanaky and Waka leaders Christian Tein and Haydn Solomon respectively say –

‘’Who will speak up for Zealandia if not the indigenous people of Zealandia (Te Riu-a-Māui)’’ Kanaky leader Christian Tein (FLNKS – Kanaky and Socialist National Front) is fighting for independence of New Caledonia from France. Waka Chair and spokesperson, Haydn Solomon is concerned the New Zealand government is colluding with big business interests offshore like Black Rock to extinguish Māori customary rights to mine the continent of Zealandia.

Both the Kanaky and Māori are indigenous peoples currently being oppressed in their own countries by colonial derived governments from France and England respectively. Riots in New Caledonia earlier this year were a reminder of the ongoing struggle and fight for independence from France by the Kanaky people. While in New Zealand, its current government is hell bent on marginalizing Māori by removing the Treaty of Waitangi, Māori Wards and Māori language and by committing the largest land grab in New Zealand’s history by amending the Foreshore and Seabed legislation because it doesn’t suit them.

“We are not just fighting for independence for New Caledonia by joining forces with Waka, we are fighting for independence for Zealandia too. Freedom from capitalist greed and the oppression of indigenous people.” says Kanaky leader Christian Tein.

Waka leader Haydn Solomon states “Once again the Government is putting profit before people and the planet. However, Waka is a vehicle for all New Zealanders (not just Iwi) who care about people and the planet. Waka is focused on building a society in harmony and an economy of abundance where laws are in balance and our environment is thriving.”

Waka Pacific and the FLNKS assert their guardianship on behalf of their people. They want to put ‘people before profit’. This concept is not some free floating liberal notion coming out of the European Enlightenment, rather it is rooted in the culture of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific. While the Enlightenment made much of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, these values were for bourgeois private property owning individuals only and were not intended to apply to wage workers let alone non-European peoples in pre-capitalist societies.

Thomas Piketty shows how unequal capitalist society is, and how difficult it is to overcome inequality when one class owns the means of production as private property and the other has to sell its labour power to subsist and make profits for the bosses! His advice is that disgruntled workers should build mass parties and take their ‘fair share’. But this has proved a mirage. The end game for late stage capitalism is that global corporates like Black Rock will own everything – land, oceans and space, and super-exploit the labour-power of landless workers to make mega profits. This leads inevitably to the massive deaths and the destruction of the ‘people’. Capitalism offers no survival off ramp for those who work to produce wealth.

For the indigenous peoples of the Pacific however, who lived or still live in societies rooted in kinship modes of production, society was organized along egalitarian lines. Land was for use, not for private profit, work was shared and governance was collective. Even when kinship modes got subordinated to tributary modes, where a chiefly class lived off the ‘tribute’ of commoners, the chiefs were obligated to ensure the wellbeing of the commoners or face a revolt against their rule!

So when the leaders of Waka and the FLNKS today speak of the ‘people’ they mean those who share equitably the land, the fruits of their labour, and the benefits provided by nature including their own work. Since such egalitarian or communal societies have existed for 100,000s of years, they cannot be relegated to a ‘dead’ past. That past is very much alive in the present. Both Māori and Kanak societies are examples of kinship modes that survive relatively intact despite the impact of colonisation.

The Waka vision then, draws upon age-old wisdom to inform the present. If humanity is to survive the collapse of capitalism, nuclear wars, and climate disaster, we need to create a form of communal society based on the principles of past and present societies that lived and continue to live as part of nature.

As Marxists we argue that the current attack on the Treaty by the National led coalition is a racist diversion to divide the country. The ruling class in Aotearoa still defends the history of white colonial settlement because it enshrines their land rights – private property. It wants to remove every last barrier to the rip, shit and bust of whatever land, foreshore and seabed remains, to exhaust nature’s resources to feed their accumulated profits and power.

Opposition to the Treaty Principles Bill needs to shift its focus from legal arguments in the parliamentary theatre and go to the heart of the problem – how to mobilize the commoners to occupy and manage the land and oceans to protect them and improve the chances of the survival of Māori and non-Māori alike. Sidestep the legal swamp around the fraudulent Treaty, return to the Declaration of Independence and campaign for the Waka vision fused with the Kanaky struggle for independence and grasp the future!

The combined Waka and Kanak vision of self determination is a blast from the past that can project us into the future uniting all Pacific peoples to fight for self-determination which puts the material needs of humans in harmony with nature first, against the destructive impact of the rule of the capital bent on burning up the planet and its people in genocidal wars and a climate catastrophe.

Update on the Syrian Revolution after the fall of Assad

 

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The fall of Assad on December 8 was a victory for the Syrian Revolution and shows the limits of the bourgeois democratic revolution and the need to overcome the crisis of workers' leadership. Syria shows that these limits will only be tested and overcome by workers' and peasants' revolutions that take the leadership of the resistance from national revolution to permanent revolution. Thus, the reopening of the Arab Spring in Syria pushes the balance of forces in this direction.

The Syrian Revolution has collapsed the structures of the bourgeois state with 13 years of civil war. The leader of HTS, Ahmed Al Shara (Al Jolani) has stated and demonstrated that his main concern is to keep the state institutions functioning, to this end the priority is the reconstruction of institutions and even the maintenance of remaining Assadist structures. HTS seeks viability and stability to govern. To this end, Ahmed Al Shara knows that he needs to rebuild the country and provide conditions for the return of refugees. The Syrian people want to return to their homes and find only rubble and destruction, and they cannot return.

HTS is a bourgeois leadership and Al Shara is trying to contain the Permanent Revolution by making it look like democracy. It needs to rebuild the bourgeois state, its regime, whether dictatorship or democracy, makes no difference. In the imperialist era, democratic tasks can only be achieved with a workers’ state and the petty bourgeois imperialist social left fails to see that the collapse of the state was caused by a revolution and that it is the absence of revolutionary leadership that prevents the advancement of the bourgeois democratic revolution into a permanent revolution. A leadership that does not rebuild the bourgeois state, but destroys it completely and builds the workers’ state.

Assad’s fall was not a blow to Russia or Iran, nor to the axis of resistance as a whole, but it does highlight the limits that exist under both Islamist and secular dictatorships. The Houthis, for all their effectiveness, represent those limits. This is the same old “weak Russia” line from the neocons to cover up another US defeat. Russia and Iran have lined up behind Turkey to resolve the main barrier to its BRICS membership by removing US/Israeli support for the Kurds to permanently destabilize, divide, and rule Syria. Turkey will now join the BRICS as the mentor of a sovereign Syria, whatever the color of its regime, and the further isolation of US/Israeli power in West Asia will continue until its demise.

Israel wanted a weak Assad so that it could divide Syria and expand in the long term into Hama, which it sees as part of Greater Israel. October 7 changed that and reopened the Syrian Revolution. A weak Assad allowed the US to control the northwest, supporting the Kurds, and the south, supporting Druze separatist groups.

The alliance between HTS and Turkey, with Russia and Iran, puts Turkey on a definitive path towards the BRICS. The truce between HTS and Hezbollah agreed between Erdogan and Putin is an operation by the BRICS members to arrange Syria to triangulate with Turkey and Iran and facilitate the exit of the US from the north and expel Israel from the south by realigning Syria with the axis of resistance.

HTS is trying to bring all bourgeois sectors into the government, including the old regime, which has sparked a lot of criticism from the population. The workers and the Syrian people should not stop their struggle with the promise of democracy because they cannot deliver it. People want to go home and only find destruction and the government is trying to disarm the militias. Reconstruction needs meetings of provisional committees to organize, the committees must be armed. The movement to collect the weapons of the militias is an agreement with imperialism and the Arab national bourgeoisies. They are trying to avoid any resistance that is out of step with the bourgeois leaders of the resistance axis.

 The military drive of the HTS ranks is still there, we have to defend the people's militia. The fall of Assad has shown what the internal limits to development set by these bourgeois regimes and sometimes imperialist interests to block the revolution mean, which can now create a more explosive situation than under Assad.

The fundamental shift of the masses in the global South against the normalization of genocide, with the masses in West Asia drawn to the fighters on the ground such as HTS, Hezbollah and Iraqi militias as a bloc fighting against genocide. How will the contradiction in HTS develop? Will it become bogged down in the imperialist character of BRICS, or will the axis of resistance shift to resistance from below?

The only force that can resolve this contradiction in the interests of permanent revolution is the armed intervention of the masses. We must immediately give military support to the unity of Palestinian and Syrian fighters to form a front against the Zionists’ plan to expand into the West Bank and southern Syria as part of a Greater Israel. We must also give military support to Hezbollah to defeat the Zionist invasion of Lebanon.

The world left needs a United Front for the struggle in defense of the workers and the masses in struggle, against the war and genocide in Gaza, which tests the program of the organizations in the struggle and builds an International Workers' Leadership for the Victory of the Permanent Revolution against the Permanent Counterrevolution that leads us to World War II and the destruction of the planet.

International Leninist Trotskyist Tendency

The victory of the Syrian revolution over Assad and the resurgence of the Arab Spring

 

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After 13 years, the Arab Spring is reawakening with the Syrian Revolution overthrowing Bashar Al Assad. October 7th changed the chapter of the struggle in the Middle East, canceling the agreements of imperialism and the bourgeoisie that maintained a permanent counterrevolution against the permanent revolution. To what extent will the example of the Syrian revolution be recognized by the masses? How can we build a United Front in support of the Palestinian and Syrian Revolutions to recognize the quantitative and qualitative changes that are taking place?

The external and internal situation in Syria has opened up a possibility that HTS (Hayat Tahir Al-Sham – Committee for the Liberation of the Levant), the opposition force leading the offensive against the Assad regime, could not let pass! The US and Israel are weakened by the war in Gaza. The regime’s allies, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, are involved in their own wars, leaving Syria in the background. The Assad regime was unsustainable: absurd inflation, rationing for everything, energy only a few hours a day and totally dependent on foreign powers.

HTS was the most isolated and relatively independent opposition force. HTS was seeing Turkey negotiating with Russia for a conciliation with Assad, which would be its end. The other major opposition forces are the SNA (Syrian National Army), led by former ministers and generals of Assad who are puppets of Turkey and fight the Kurds, and the other force is the Kurdish PKK (SDF- Syrian Democratic Forces), totally dependent on the US that has never fought against the regime.

HTS is considered a terrorist organization by the US, EU and UN, as well as by Russia. It is a jihadist, petty bourgeois organization that broke with Al Qaeda and has been governing Idlib for several years. Idlib is the region of Syria that had the least economic importance and is predominantly rural, where many revolutionaries went after Assad took over several cities such as Aleppo and the outskirts of Damascus. HTS faced a lot of popular opposition in Idlib due to its authoritarianism and attempted imposition of Sharia. It was in this context that it changed its policy to a more moderate one.

In an interview with CNN, HTS leader Al-Jolani said that the most important thing he learned was that institutions need to exist and that they need to function. With the lessons learned from governing Idlib and the time it had to build up its military forces, HTS was the strongest force and led the offensive against Assad and toppled the half-century regime on December 8. With each city that has been liberated, we are seeing this policy being put into practice in a very pragmatic way. In Damascus, HTS put Assad’s own prime minister on national television to announce the transition of power and the maintenance of institutions, and was kept as part of the transition process. Armed rebels are prohibited from entering civilian institutions and from any hostility towards religious minorities, and they are clearly disciplined to follow these guidelines.

HTS has already made statements saying that its fight is against Assad and that it is not against Russia and Iran or other external and internal actors. The external actors, the US, Israel, Turkey, Russia, Iran, all view HTS with great distrust. HTS has enough power to negotiate. It has very strong popular support at the moment and will have to take this into account. The imperialist forces, whether from the US or Russia, will not be able to attack HTS without having to bomb a large part of Syria, which will not be as easy as in 2015.

Much of what comes next will depend on the conversations that HTS will have from now on with all these internal and external agents. Russia/BRICS are coming out of the situation demoralized. Will it sell out the revolution to make deals with one of the imperialist blocs? Will it be pressured to maintain its popular support and deny deals that betray the revolution? Some discontent with the amnesty granted to agents of the deposed government is already emerging, demanding the punishment of the Assadists. Will the SNA and Turkey seek their share of Syria or the government? Will the US maintain its control of the part it occupies together with the Kurdish PKK? This alliance puts the US on the opposite side of Turkey. The actors involved in the Palestinian resistance, Hezbollah and Iran, are already changing their position in relation to HTS. What will this relationship be like from now on? Will Hezbollah, without its imperialist ally Russia, turn to the forces on the ground?

After the fall of the regime, Israel has carried out numerous bombings in Syria, especially on ammunition and weapons depots and strategic military points to prevent them from falling into the hands of the rebels. In addition, it has advanced deeper into Syrian territory. This shows that the fall of Assad is not an easy victory for the US/Israel, but rather a movement by the axis of resistance in Palestine towards a more popular base.

The counter-revolution is already underway to divide Syria with Turkey in the North and Israel in the South by intervening militarily. They want to turn it into another war on terror against ISIS that all the imperialists and their proxies have been fighting since 9/11 and the imperialist social left is providing them with more ammunition. We have to convey the urgency to the grassroots of the anti-Zionist movement to unite behind HTS with our program for permanent resolution. It is the vanguard of the Arab revolution while the Zionists are the vanguard of the Islamophobic counter-revolution.

We will continue to analyze the actions of the numerous agents involved in the process that has caused so much general confusion when it comes to Syria, from the perspective of a revolutionary solution, with the tactics of military support and support in situations that serve to advance the revolution, without any illusions in the bourgeois leadership and maintaining independence in the face of the imperialist powers in dispute.

As Leninist-Trotskyists, we have no illusions about the petty bourgeois leadership of HTS. We give military support, but not political support. The policy to advance the Syrian Revolution must be a government based on popular councils and a planned economy that expropriates the bourgeoisie. Bourgeois institutions must be replaced by workers’ institutions. The Syrian Revolution must advance in support of the Palestinian Revolution and in solidarity with the struggle of workers throughout the region. The Arab Spring was the great uprising of the masses against failed neoliberalism and the great global crisis of capitalism. Only the socialist revolution can put an end to the misery and wars in which the world is plunged.

The failure of the left to have a revolutionary program to present to the masses in struggle, especially a program of independence from the imperialist blocs that have dragged the world towards a third world war, is the main factor in the defeat of the masses and the working class that tries to resist misery and capitalist tyranny. The left that defends Russian/Chinese imperialism and supported the infamous Assad regime is demoralized. The social imperialist left has succumbed to Islamophobia and the “war on terror”. Unfortunately, a good part of the left that supports the Syrian Revolution is part of the “democratic” pro-imperialist left of the US/EU and supports them in the inter-imperialist war in Ukraine.  

The lack of revolutionary leadership is the crisis of the working class. We advocate a United Front of the working class that builds a program in the struggle with class independence in the face of the intensification of the inter-imperialist dispute between the US and China/Russia blocs. It is necessary to build a Socialist World Party that builds parties throughout the world.

To move forward, the Syrian Revolution needs class solidarity with the Palestinian Revolution.

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