https://www.leftvoice.org/declaration-an-internationalist-position-on-the-fall-of-assad-and-the-crisis-in-syria/
Faced with the intensification of the clash between powers and the escalation of crises, the vast majority of the Left at the international level tends to take “campist” positions, subordinate to different capitalist and imperialist sectors. In the face of the war in Ukraine, reformist sectors such as Die Linke, or even much smaller organizations such as the the International Workers League — Fourth International (LIT-CI) or the International Workers Unity — Fourth International (UIT-CI), aligned themselves with the NATO camp and Zelensky’s army. Similarly, some today present the fall of Assad at the hands of jihadist and pro-Turkish militias, with the approval of the United States and Israel, as the result of a “triumphant democratic revolution,” as if the emancipation of the Syrian masses could somehow be ushered in with the help of imperialism and reactionary military militias. At the opposite end of the spectrum, sectors of the populist or neo-Stalinist Left lament the fall of the Assad dictatorship. They present it — along with the rest of the “Axis of Resistance” led by the reactionary Iranian regime — as a progressive and anti-imperialist alternative. Some argue that the enemies of our enemy should be our allies, because they challenge “Western hegemony.” This completely ignores the class character of these powers. Rather than supporting the Palestinian cause or that of other oppressed people, these forces seek to oppose the reordering of the region for the further benefit of Israel and the United States because that would push them to the margins; at the same time they reconcile themselves with the pro-imperialist monarchies of the Gulf. For our part, from the Trotskyist Fraction — Fourth International (FT-CI), we have maintained an internationalist, anti-imperialist, and class-independent position in the face of major events in the world situation.... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34085): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34085 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/110146372/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
