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This is an article by Yassamine Mather in the latest Against the
Current. Mather is a regular contributor to the CPGB newspaper The
Weakly Worker and her article unfortunately betrays the weakness of the
group's understanding of what has been going on in Syria. You can read
the article itself, which has some useful background on Sykes-Picot, etc.:
http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/4288
But it is laced with false assertions such as this unfortunately:
"It is ironic to think that only a year ago the debate was about U.S.
military intervention on the side of Syrian opposition forces — even
then dominated by the very jihadists who later chose the name “Daesh”
(in Arabic), or ISIS."
You would think she would make even a token effort to acknowledge the de
facto alliance between the Baathists and ISIS until it broke down
recently. ISIS was in now way part of the Syrian opposition forces.
Instead it directed its fire against the FSA primarily and other
opposition forces that stood in the way of its caliphate ambitions. All
this should be familiar to Marxmail subscribers who have been kept
apprised of these developments by Michael Karadjis. It is most
unfortunate that Mather sweeps them under the rug.
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