Re: [Marxism] Chelsea Manning to Be Released Early as Obama Commutes Sentence

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We'll take it.

The next job is to prepare a serious political fight to defend Snowden and
Assange . . . and, I mean a fight like our lives and liberties depend on it
. . . because, ultimately, they might.

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Re: [Marxism] Chelsea Manning to Be Released Early as Obama Commutes Sentence

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I agree Mark.  We will take it. & I give the miserable b.d a few
brownie points for it.  I think Assange and Snowden remain in great danger.

comradely

Gary

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[Marxism] New interview with Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Syrian Communist

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Interview with Yassin al Haj Saleh, long-time Syrian dissident 
Communist, jailed for 16 years under Assad senior, including time in 
Tadmour, which he describes as a concentration camp. Worth reading right 
through, as always, but a few relevant extracts here - particularly 
relevant from someone whose brother was kidnapped by Daesh, and hose 
wife, Samira Khalil, another revolutionary, was kidnapped along with 
three other revolutionaries in Douma in late 2013, most suspect by the 
Islamist group Jaysh al-Islam.


Interview with Yassin al-Haj Saleh, translated from Flemish into English 
by: Jorn Decock.

http://aljumhuriya.net/en/syrian-refugees/interview-with-yassin-al-haj-saleh

...

DS: You know many people there. Do they still long for freedom? Or do 
they mainly hope that the war would finish now?


YHS: Do they have to chose? They long for the end of this war and they 
long for freedom.


DS: You don’t think there are Syrians who would accept Assad again, as 
long as the bombs will stop falling?


YHS: No, a large majority of Syrians wants him out. Even the people who 
ostensibly are loyal to Assad, do not respect him. They, too, want 
political change. And that change is only possible if the Assad dynasty 
disappears. One needs to bear in mind that Syria had a very special form 
of dictatorship: the Assad clan didn’t rule the country, they owned it. 
We, the citizens, were their slaves. Their strategy for Syria is clear: 
Assad, or no-one. If Assad can’t cling to his power, then the whole 
country – which they have been plundering for decades already – should 
disappear from the map.


...

DS: Your wife and brother were abducted by radical Islamists. Did you 
see that danger coming?
YHS: In May 2012 I wrote a long essay in which I warned for the rise of, 
what I called at the time, ‘’militant nihilism’’. At first, the 
revolution in Syria was largely non-violent. But because the regime 
responded so violently and because international help didn’t 
materialise, the model of the jihadists gained ground. The more dead 
bodies appeared in the streets – once in Douma in 2013 I saw 26 bodies 
in the same day – the more attractive an ever more militant Islamism 
became. Especially in a country like Syria, where the Sunni religious 
majority had already been repressed for years.
That’s how we ended up in an escalation of fear and violence. Syrians 
got ever more angry, frustrated, desperate. The salafists provided an 
answer to a desire to destruct. Destruct the regime, and the whole 
world. And the self. Salafi jihadi organizations are self destruction 
manifestations in our contemporary societies. Suicide bombers are the 
embodiment of this tendency.


...

DS: Do you think that the ‘War on Terror’, now defined as the fight 
against Islamic State, has become too much of a priority for the West?


YHS: It’s a post-democratic war. There’s no clear beginning, no clearly 
defined enemy, no clear end game. It’s a war that leads to a perpetual 
state of emergency. Western democracies are already suffering greatly 
from this. And it’s very dangerous.
At the same time, the man who between March 2011 and August 2013 had 
over ten thousand people tortured to death, is allowed to proceed. Why 
is the war against IS so much more important than the fight against 
Bashar al-Assad? In fact, the message the West sends to the people of 
Syria is very clear: we think our lives are far more important than 
yours.


DS: Do you feel like the West sacrifices you?

YHS: No, worse, we have been sacrificed and dismissed as irrelevant. In 
August 2013, Assad committed mass murder against his own population, 
with chemical weapons. Afterwards the United States and Russia concluded 
a cowardly deal. The perpetrator was allowed to go free in exchange for 
the destruction of his chemical weapons. Both sides saved face, but the 
very people who lost 1.466 lives just weeks before, were let down. It 
got worse: the regime got a laissez-passer to continue its massacre with 
other weapons. That’s exactly what Assad did: he dropped massive amounts 
of barrel bombs and bunker busters. He even continued to use chemical 
weapons, because somehow he managed never to hand them over completely.
In my view, the reaction to that poison gas attack is the worst 
international crime of the past decades. It was a gigantic attack on the 
truth. Nobody can say they didn’t know. It happened right before the 
eyes of the international community.


DS: Western critics often argue that the Syrian opposition didn’t get 
the necessary support because Assad’s opponents were hopelessly divided 
amongst themselves. Do you understand that 

[Marxism] 2 Years, 31 Dead Construction Workers. New York Can Do Better.

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NY Times Op-Ed, Jan. 17 2017
2 Years, 31 Dead Construction Workers. New York Can Do Better.
By DOMINIQUE BRAVO

On Dec. 23, on the Upper East Side of New York City, yet another 
construction worker died. His name has not yet been released, but he was 
the 31st to die on the job in the city in the past two years. He was 
working on a nonunion work site, as were 28 of the 30 others. Fabian 
Para, who worked nearby, explained that “he was on the third floor, and 
he was wearing a harness but wasn’t hooked to a cable, and when he fell, 
he just went down.”


Just three weeks earlier, Wilfredo Enriques fell to his death at the old 
Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn. Deaths 27 and 28 occurred on Nov. 22, 
when a steel beam fell four stories at a Queens job site, crushing 
George Smith and Elizandro Enriquez Ramos. Mayor Bill de Blasio said 
that the workers’ deaths were a “tragedy” and that “we need to know, of 
course, right away whether it was mechanical, or was it human error? We 
don’t know yet.”


Actually, we do know; it is abundantly clear: We are in the midst of a 
public health epidemic brought on by inadequate safety regulations and 
public inattention. Construction-safety lapses happen because it pays 
for companies to run the risk of letting them happen. When the dead are 
largely foreign born and, in many cases, undocumented, no one much cares.


Spending in the construction industry is at a record high. And yet many 
contractors can’t be bothered to pay for training programs and safety 
measures, even those required by law, such as installing “fall 
protection” systems like nets and railings. The federal agency tasked 
with enforcing such safety protocols, the Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration, is severely understaffed. Between 2011 and 2014, the 
number of building permits issued in New York City jumped by more than 
18 percent, but the number of OSHA inspectors for all of New York State 
dropped by more than 13 percent (as of 2014, there were only 71 left in 
the state).


Because there are so few inspectors, only a small fraction of 
construction sites are ever inspected. When sites are inspected, not 
surprisingly, OSHA finds a high level of violations. And even when 
sporadic inspections lead to fines for violations, the fines are too 
small to deter misconduct. According to records kept by the New York 
Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, a nonprofit group that 
lobbies for worker safety, of the city contractors that were inspected 
from 2009 to 2014, 73 percent had at least one “serious” OSHA violation, 
mostly of “fall protection” standards — precisely the violation 
responsible for the most deaths.


Predictably, the number of construction injuries and fatalities has 
soared. The Department of Buildings recorded a 250 percent increase in 
construction injuries from 2011 through 2015, with construction 
fatalities increasing each year as well.


It is not a coincidence that a vast majority of preventable accidents 
occur at nonunion work sites. Nonunion contractors make up 90 percent of 
the construction companies listed in OSHA’s “Severe Violator Enforcement 
Program” for New York, a list of recalcitrant employers that have 
endangered workers with “indifference to their occupational safety and 
health obligations through willful, repeat or failure-to-abate violations.”


Union workers are safer because they are better trained and know they 
will be protected if they refuse to work under dangerous conditions. 
Building trade unions have apprenticeship programs that teach workers 
the required and recommended safety protocols. Further, every union work 
site has a shop steward who serves as an advocate for workers with 
questions or concerns about their safety. If a contractor or foreperson 
tries to cut corners, the workers can, and will, refuse to put 
themselves in jeopardy.


New York City can do better. Real egalitarianism is not just about 
declaring your city to be a “sanctuary” and blandly committing to 
staying true to liberal values, as our mayor has done. It is about 
making the hard economic and political choices needed to create a 
society that acts on its claims of valuing all life — even if that means 
missing out on the generous political contributions of the real estate 
industry.


As many New Yorkers brace themselves for the incoming administration of 
Donald J. Trump and bemoan the racism and indifference to facts that 
they blame as factors in his victory, we ought to spare time for some 
soul searching about what is happening right in front of us. Poor 
immigrant workers are falling off our buildings and being crushed to 
death in 

[Marxism] FYI - looks fake to me

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Received this morning.

ken h


Former Newspaper Editor Who Exposed CIA Found Dead

Former editor of largest newspaper in Germany revealed the CIA pays journalists 
in Germany, France, Britain, Australia and New Zealand to plant fake stories. 
Among the stories Ulfkotte says he was ordered by the CIA to plant in his 
newspaper was a fake story that Libyan President Moammar Gaddafi was building 
poison gas factories in 2011.

Posted on January 15, 2017 by Baxter Dmitry in News, World // 26 Comments



Dr. Udo Ulfkotte, the former German newspaper editor whose bestselling book 
exposed how the CIA controls German media, has been found dead. He was 56.


  
Ulfkotte was an editor at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the largest 
newspapers in Germany, when he published Bought Journalists, the bestselling 
book that cost him his job and perhaps his life.

German media, who were banned from reporting on his work in recent years, are 
reporting he died of “heart failure”.

Acknowledging that his life was under threat, Ulfkotte explained that he was in 
a better position than most journalists to expose the truth because he didn’t 
have any children who could be threatened.

Speaking to the Russian newspaper Russian Insider, Ulkfotte said: “When I told 
the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Ulfkotte’s newspaper) that I would publish 
the book, their lawyers sent me a letter threatening with all legal 
consequences if I would publish any names or secrets – but I don’t mind. You 
see, I don’t have children to take care of.“

His fears for a war in Europe, lead him to his decision to tell the truth about 
corporate media being controlled by intelligence services on behalf of the 
financial class.

“I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years, and I’ve been educated to lie, to 
betray, and not to tell the truth to the public,” Ulfkotte told Russia Today. 
“I was supported by the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA. Why? Because I am 
pro-American.”


“The German and American media tries to bring war to the people in Europe, to 
bring war to Russia. This is a point of no return, and I am going to stand up 
and say… it is not right what I have done in the past, to manipulate people, to 
make propaganda against Russia.”

Ulfkotte said most corporate media journalists in the United States and Europe 
are “so-called non-official cover,” meaning that they work for an intelligence 
agency. “I think it is especially the case with British journalists, because 
they have a much closer relationship. It is especially the case with Israeli 
journalists. Of course with French journalists. … It is the case for 
Australians, [with] journalists from New Zealand, from Taiwan, well, there is 
many countries,” he said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp-Wh77wt1o


Ulfkotte’s book Bought Journalists became a bestseller in Germany but, in a 
bizarre twist which Ulfkotte says characterizes the disconnect caused by CIA 
control of the western media, the book cannot be reported on by the German 
press.

Ulfkotte said: “No German mainstream journalist is allowed to report about [my] 
book. Otherwise he or she will be sacked. So we have a bestseller now that no 
German journalist is allowed to write or talk about.”

Among the stories Ulfkotte says he was ordered by the CIA to plant in his 
newspaper was a fake story that Libyan President Moammar Gaddafi was building 
poison gas factories in 2011.

“The German and American media tries to bring war to the people in Europe, to 
bring war to Russia,” he told RT.

“This is a point of no return, and I am going to stand up and say … it is not 
right what I have done in the past, to manipulate people, to make propaganda 
against Russia, and it is not right what my colleagues do, and have done in the 
past, because they are bribed to betray the people not only in Germany, all 
over Europe. … I am very fearful of a new war in Europe, and I don’t like to 
have this situation again, because war is never coming from itself, there is 
always people who push for war, and this is not only politicians, it is 
journalists too. … We have betrayed our readers, just to push for war. … I 
don’t want this anymore; I’m fed up with this propaganda. We live in a banana 
republic, and not in a democratic country where we have press freedom.”
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Re: [Marxism] FYI - looks fake to me

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If I were the mischievous type I would post this without comment on the
UFPJ list. I'm sure within a week it would be cited and defended by several
tankies as the gospel truth, and then passed on to other tankie-infested
lists and sites.
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Sunshine Makers; The Modern Jungle | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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As I sat watching the terrific documentary “The Sunshine Makers” that 
opens on Friday at the Village East in New York, the phrase “Breaking 
Good” kept running through my mind since the film was about two men who 
became LSD manufacturers in the 1960s only to change the world rather 
than make money. Since scientists today have rediscovered the benefits 
of LSD, including its ability to reduce anxiety in terminal cancer 
patients, the two–Nick Sands and Tim Scully–were certainly on to something.


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[Marxism] After 36 years, US finally frees Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera

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https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/after-36-years-us-finally-frees-puerto-rican-political-prisoner-oscar-lopez-rivera
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Re: [Marxism] Operation Condor: Condemned to Life!

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>Rome Court Concludes 3-Year Trial on Multinational Repression in Latin
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>National Security Archive Provided Declassified Evidence to Tribunal, Hails
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[Marxism] Women's March January 21

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Is anyone aware of efforts to bring the issue of Palestine to these actions?
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[Marxism] Chelsea Manning's "crime"

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THIS was Chelsea Manning's "crime" - letting the world see the mass murder
of unarmed, civilian Iraqis at the hands of the US military. And Obama
refused for eight years to prosecute any of those responsible, thus
establishing a precedent for Trump!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1fXc6_56Xo
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[Marxism] Hot Air: Why increasing taxes for LNG corporations probably won’t work to create a better society.

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http://withsobersenses.wordpress.com/2017/01/17/hot-air-why-increasing-taxes-for-lng-corporations-probably-wont-work-to-create-a-better-society/

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[Marxism] Fwd: The dark rigidity of fundamentalist rural America: a view from the inside

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I grew up in rural, Christian, white America. You’d be hard-pressed to 
find an area in the country that has a higher percentage of Christians 
or whites. I spent most of the first 24 years of my life deeply embedded 
in this culture. I religiously (pun intended) attended their Christian 
services. I worked off and on, on their rural farms. I dated their 
calico skirted daughters. I camped, hunted, and fished with their sons. 
I listened to their political rants at the local diner and truck stop. I 
winced at their racist/bigoted jokes and epithets that were said more 
out of ignorance than animosity. I have also watched the town I grew up 
in go from a robust economy with well-kept homes and infrastructure turn 
into a struggling economy with shuttered businesses, dilapidated homes, 
and a broken down infrastructure over the past 30 years. The problem 
isn’t that I don’t understand these people. The problem is they don’t 
understand themselves, the reasons for their anger/frustrations, and 
don’t seem to care to know why.


In deep-red white America, the white Christian God is king, figuratively 
and literally. Religious fundamentalism is what has shaped most of their 
belief systems. Systems built on a fundamentalist framework are not 
conducive to introspection, questioning, learning, change. When you have 
a belief system that is built on fundamentalism, it isn’t open to 
outside criticism, especially by anyone not a member of your tribe and 
in a position of power. The problem isn’t “coastal elites don’t 
understand rural Americans.” The problem is rural America doesn’t 
understand itself and will NEVER listen to anyone outside their bubble. 
It doesn’t matter how “understanding” you are, how well you listen, what 
language you use…if you are viewed as an outsider, your views are 
automatically discounted. I’ve had hundreds of discussions with rural 
white Americans and whenever I present them any information that 
contradicts their entrenched beliefs, no matter how sound, how 
unquestionable, how obvious, they WILL NOT even entertain the 
possibility it might be true. Their refusal is a result of the nature of 
their fundamentalist belief system and the fact I’m the enemy because 
I’m an educated liberal.



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[Marxism] Chelsea Manning to Be Released Early as Obama Commutes Sentence

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NY Times, Jan. 17 2017
Chelsea Manning to Be Released Early as Obama Commutes Sentence
By CHARLIE SAVAGE

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday commuted all but four months of 
the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the army intelligence 
analyst convicted of a 2010 leak that revealed American military and 
diplomatic activities across the world, disrupted his administration and 
brought global prominence to WikiLeaks, the recipient of those disclosures.


The decision by Mr. Obama rescued Ms. Manning, who twice tried to kill 
herself last year, from an uncertain future as a transgender woman 
incarcerated at the men’s military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. She 
has been jailed for nearly seven years, and her 35-year sentence was by 
far the longest punishment ever imposed in the United States for a leak 
conviction.


At the same time that Mr. Obama commuted the sentence of Ms. Manning, a 
low-ranking enlisted soldier at the time of her leaks, he also pardoned 
Gen. James E. Cartwright, the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs 
of Staff who pleaded guilty to lying about his conversations with 
reporters to F.B.I. agents investigating a leak of classified 
information about cyberattacks on Iran’s nuclear program.


The two acts of clemency amounted to a remarkable final step for a 
president whose administration carried out an unprecedented criminal 
crackdown on leaks of government secrets. Depending on how they are 
counted, the Obama administration has prosecuted either nine or 10 such 
cases, more than were charged under all previous presidencies combined.


In addition, Mr. Obama on Tuesday commuted the sentence of Oscar Lopez 
Rivera, who was part of a Puerto Rican nationalist group that carried 
out a string of bombings in the late 1970s and early 1980s; the other 
members of that group had long since been freed. Mr. Obama also granted 
63 other pardons and 207 other commutations — mostly of drug offenders.


Under the terms of Mr. Obama’s commutation announced by the White House 
on Tuesday, Ms. Manning is set to be freed on May 17 of this year rather 
than in 2045. A senior administration official said the 120-day delay 
was part of a standard transition period for commutations to time 
served, and was designed to allow for such steps as finding a place to 
live after her release.


The commutation also relieved the Department of Defense of the difficult 
responsibility of Ms. Manning’s incarceration as she pushes for 
treatment for her gender dysphoria, including sex reassignment surgery, 
that the military has no experience providing.


But the move was sharply criticized by several prominent Republicans, 
including the chairmen of the House and Senate armed services 
committees, Representative Mac Thornberry of Texas and Senator John 
McCain of Arizona, who called her leaks “espionage” and said they had 
put American troops and the country at risk.


Speaker Paul D. Ryan called it “outrageous.” “President Obama now leaves 
in place a dangerous precedent that those who compromise our national 
security won’t be held accountable for their crimes,” he said in a 
statement.


But in a joint statement, Nancy Hollander and Vince Ward, two lawyers 
who have been representing Ms. Manning’s appeal of her conviction and 
sentence, and who filed the commutation application, praised the decision.


“Ms. Manning is the longest serving whistleblower in the history of the 
United States,” they said. “Her 35-year sentence for disclosing 
information that served the public interest and never caused harm to the 
United States was always excessive, and we’re delighted that justice is 
being served in the form of this commutation.”


In recent days, the White House had signaled that Mr. Obama was 
seriously considering granting Ms. Manning’s commutation application, in 
contrast to a pardon application submitted on behalf of the other 
large-scale leaker of the era, Edward J. Snowden, the former 
intelligence contractor who disclosed archives of top-secret 
surveillance files and is living as a fugitive in Russia.


Asked about the two clemency applications on Friday, the White House 
spokesman, Josh Earnest, discussed the “pretty stark difference” between 
Ms. Manning’s case for mercy and Mr. Snowden’s. While their offenses 
were similar, he said, there were “some important differences.”


“Chelsea Manning is somebody who went through the military criminal 
justice process, was exposed to due process, was found guilty, was 
sentenced for her crimes, and she acknowledged wrongdoing,” he said. 
“Mr. Snowden fled into the arms of an adversary and has sought refuge in 
a country 

[Marxism] Operation Condor: Condemned to Life!

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Rome Court Concludes 3-Year Trial on Multinational Repression in Latin
America


National Security Archive Provided Declassified Evidence to Tribunal, Hails
Historic Ruling


http://sarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB577-Operation-Condor-Condemned-to-Life/
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[Marxism] Yassamine Mather

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She a member of the CPGB which produces the left scandal sheet, the Weekly 
Worker, a publication of left wing provocateurs, which although very small it 
has a degree of popularity because it has detailed discussions of the policies 
of the various far-left groups in the UK. Currently, since the election of 
Corbyn, it supports the Labour Party. More seriously she is an academic 
currently at the University of Oxford and is the editor of the socialist 
journal Critique.

She is an Iranian exile. This article gives a flavour of her background. 

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Re: [Marxism] Yassamine Mather

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thanks Michael.
Critique is/was Ticktin's journal?

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[Marxism] Syria: Our starting point must be solidarity: Mark Boothroyd

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Excellent article by long-term supporter of Syrian Revolution, Mark 
Boothroyd, from Syria Solidarity UK, in Links:


Syria: Our starting point must be solidarity
By Mark Boothroyd

http://links.org.au/syrian-revolution-solidarity-anti-war-russia

January 17, 2017 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal – 
While I welcome David Bush’s attempt to debate Syria productively, his 
article reproduces many common mistakes made by socialist activists who 
have not consistently engaged with the Syrian revolution, and offers 
little to those on the ground struggling against both the Assad regime, 
and the various imperialist powers intervening in the country.


It fails to show solidarity with the democratic struggle of Syrians, 
that lives on through the protests and the local councils, which despite 
the regime's constant aerial bombardment, continue their attempts to 
construct a new, democratic society in parts of Syria liberated from the 
regime's control. The lack of support from left-wing activists for these 
grassroots democratic initiatives – persisting despite unimaginable 
violence – will be eternally regretted unless altered.


Full: http://links.org.au/syrian-revolution-solidarity-anti-war-russia

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