August 22nd: With hundreds of youth, workers and intellectuals and with more than 17 international delegations

The book "Syria Under Fire" was presented in the National Library

The presentation of the book "Syria Under Fire" happens at the same time with this fact that is shaking the entire world. The massacre of the Syrian masses can no longer be hidden. Those who speak on behalf of socialism and silence this genocide imposed by the dog Bashar Al Assad on the Syrian workers and peasants are their accomplices.
Those so-called "Bolivarians", who today sell out Cuba to imperialism and starve the people in Latin America like in Venezuela, Ecuador on behalf of Wall Street bankers, are the ones who supported the Iranian Ayatollahs and the murderer Putin, who held Bashar Al Assad's saber to kill the Syrian people. They all did the "dirty work" of the imperialist powers to chastise the revolutionary masses of Maghreb and Middle East, which since 2011 initiated a huge revolution that shook the world.
With the Syrian genocide, imperialism wants to punish all the workers of the world who fight for their fair demands. The imperialist counterrevolution didn't stop with the Syrian massacre. It made a bloodbath in Tahrir Square and today, with the Saudi and Emirati troops, there's the invasion on Yemen, where the workers and peasants masses unified in a great revolution...

The fight isn't over. Syria, the massacred revolution is reaching to Europe. The tragedy is that it is not being done by the revolutionary path, but with a migration of starving people and persecuted who are escaping from the massacre.
The world working class cannot stay any longer watching the sufferings of their class brothers and sisters of the world. Break the siege that the treacherous leaderships and the left parties impose on the masses for them not to fight together with their Syrian brothers and sisters against imperialism and for their demands!
If the counterrevolution is settled in Syria, the danger of the future of the world working class and the Palestinian masses in particular is in danger. We have to take to the streets in the entire world, to surround the Syrian embassies! In Europe, the enemy is at home!
The European imperialist powers, that today turn a blind eye, are the ones that supported Bashar's hands and today roughly attack on the migrant workers, such as the "iron lady" Merkel does, the speaker of the German Transnational Companies.

With the presentation of the book "Syria Under Fire", an international current is expressing, which in 2011 arrived at the battlefield of the revolutionary masses in Maghreb and the Middle East, and it won't ever leave this heoric resistance that fights in Aleppo, Idlib, Yemen and the Palestinian intifada.

When the presentation of the book was opened, Walter Montoya, director of the Editorial, had told it took 2 years in conquering this book, which was elaborated from the very ground of the developments. Comrade Hofstadter, as a journalist, was detained in Tunisia. And there were impostures and fallacious charges on comrade Carlos Munzer, when he returned from Japan after fighting with the workers of the Pacific to break the fence on the Syrian revolution, pressed by DAs and fascist judges that ordered the police to break into an office of Rudolph Klement Publishing House, accusing him of being part of an "illegal association", under the orders of the fascist judge Melazo and the judge of SIDE in La Plata, Maria Victoria Huergo. But it is clear that the only "illegal association" is that of these judges, advised by the intelligence services, who support the Iranian bourgeoisie and Bashar the dog, who under Obama's command kill the Syrian masses. The book which was presented has a tribute on the antiimperialist fighters that fought on the streets of Libya and Syria. A tribute to the heroic Palestinian resistance was paid, with its banner at the head of the presentation of the book and demanding the release of all the Palestinian prisoners tortured by Mossad.

Walter Montoya, director of the Editorial, opens the presentation of the book

Comrade James with the reporters of the Editorial Pamela Parson and Leandro Hofstadter

In the presentation of the book, together with the authors Abu Muad and Carlos Munzer, Leandro Hofstadter, correspondent in the Maghreb and Middle East and comrade James, textile worker of Zimbabwe and member of the Workers International League (WIL) were there. James brought with him the salutations of the fighting committee of the workers of Marikana and the fighters for socialism in Zimbabwe. see full salute Also, there were comrades who saluted the presentation of the book. Those comrades were a main part of this book because of their fight for the Syrian masses. They were David Soria, representing the dismissed workers of Paty and Claudia Pafundi, from the Commission of Condemned Workers, Families and Friends of Las Heras. Also, comrade Jacobo of the LCT of Venezuela also spoke, denouncing the Bolivarian governments as accomplices of the massacre on the Syrian masses, and, supported by the entire left parties, they were guised as atiimperialist fighters and hid the counterrevolution in the Middle East, because they are prepared to play the role of Al Assad and Khadafy against their own people, attacking and starving the masses, repressing them hardly using the accusation on them of "being useful for the right-wing or imperialism". As we see, this happens today with Maduro, shooting bullets on the starving masses of Venezuela, while paying the fraudulent foreign debt who was acquired by the Venezuelan right-wing during the '80s and the '90s.

Comrade Jacobo denounced that the same ones who supported the "holy crusade" of the "fight against terrorism in Middle East" are the ones that supported the guns of the killers in Iran, who supported the killer Bashar, handled by the USA and their counterrevolutionary pacts against the masses of the region. We are seeing also the Castro brothers selling out Cuba to imperialism while, enthusiastically, applaud the massacres that Khadafy did yesterday and Al Assad now against the Libyan and Syrian people.

Carlos Munzer presenting the book "Syria Under Fire"

Carlos Munzer, author of the book presented, posed the events that shook the world of the Maghreb and the Middle East did not begin in 2011 nor ended in 2015, and that Syria remains under fire. These events, he said,  "... began with the US invasion to Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003, when genocide was done in that country at or higher level than that of Syria today. It started two wars of slaughter of the Zionist state against the Palestinian people in 2002 and 2008, and a war of Zionist aggression in southern Lebanon in 2006. What we saw there were the counterrevolutionary wars for oil, on which was mounted the American war industry. US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, invested the same amount of money during the second world war. And, since control of the oil routes, they rose up the price per barrel to $140, so their imperialist oil companies do juicy business.”

He added that "The mass uprising did not begin in Tunisia in 2011, but it had already begun with a fierce and tough resistance from the Iraqi masses, in 2007/2008 made Spain, England and the US and other powers imperialists to leave Iraq and then Afghanistan. A huge anti-imperialist mass movement rose up in US and Europe against imperialist oil wars. In US, with the million movement of workers against the war, and Spain shouting 'you make war, we put the dead'. a Vietnam-type scenario was opened in the US.

In those weaken conditions of the imperialist control devises in the region, huge revolutions rose up in 2011, from Tunisia to the tormented Syria today which shook the world.”

 “They want to show us “the end of the movie”; i.e. the face of counterrevolution to impose fear over the world masses. And in Syria imperialism concentrated all its forces to impose that fear, which needed to create it because there was a big revolution there, which is what they want to hide.”

“If the conditions are of resistance today and counterrevolutionary offensive of imperialism is not due to the exploiters’ armies bravery or the hitmen of imperialism; but because the revolutions of Maghreb and Middle East were fenced; because they were submitted to the “democratic bourgeoisies” and the frauds of “Constituent Assembly”.
The world left movements who talked about “Arab springs” and “democratic revolutions”… There they have the “Arab springs and democratic revolutions”… the worst massacres against the masses of Syria, Maghreb and Middle East.
When USA running away from Iraq and the uprising in Tunisia, the conditions to a huge masses uprising were there; they also found imperialism, since 2008, in a world bankruptcy.
Imperialism could not intervene directly and revolution was threatening with entering to Europe and USA, like we saw it with in Greece, Spain, the general strike of Belgium, occupations of factories in France, the fights of Guadalupe and Martinique, revolution in Madagascar. In 2009 the Bolivian working class rebelled against the retrenchment sent by Morales. It was posed a generalized mass uprising as the one seen in '68-'74."

“In Syria all these contradictions met. There was the definition whether the imposition of this punishment of a generalized process all over the planet may open. That is why so much anger, so much massacre.
After all this massacres, Syria was the starting point, where imperialism concentrated its forces, of a fierce international counteroffensive. It has already started in Egypt, Bahreim, Morocco… and they were preparing Zionism to attack wildly the Palestine nation.

The comrade Leandro Hofstardter, reporter of Maghreb and Middle East stated that “The massacre in Syria and the defeats we are suffering today in Maghreb and Middle East are due to this historical tragedy: that on behalf of the left and ‘socialism’, a bunch of supporters of capital and its rotten bankrupted regimens are meeting to tell the masses that socialism is no longer possible. That socialism is a ‘leap to the void’, as Altamira said in Argentina; that Cuba is no longer necessary; further more that Cuba is not possible any more not even in Cuba.
Saying this when world capitalist system is entering into the mess of the hurricane called world economic crisis, when its center in China and the Pacific area, it does not only mean going against the tendencies of history, but it really means telling the masses that they have to prepare for barbarism… because it is what we are living in Maghreb and Middle East, and it is what is coming for the entire civilization.

Towards the end of the presentation, several companions voiced their salutation to the event, such as James, textile labor leader and member of the Workers ' International League (WIL) Zimbabwe, or Cheo Navarro, member of the Morenoite Simon Bolívar Brigade that went to fight alongside the Nicaraguan masses against Somoza bloodthirsty dictatorship in 1979, Then, the authors of the book drew the latest conclusions of the presentation.

Carlos Múnzer insisted that: "this is the truth that we come here to say: that the limits that had these mass uprisings were the limits imposed on them by the corrupt leaderships of the world proletariat while it was fighting." We come here to say that the massacre and Syrian genocide are to give a warning to the world working class. We come here to say that the masses presented battle and fenced imperialism, beat it in huge defeats, threatened the Citadel of power. We come here to say that it was not by the strength of the imperialist armies that this counter-revolutionary offensive was conquered, but due to the cowardice of the treacherous leaderships that abandoned the masses to their fate. The revolutionary uprisings that shook the region of Tunisia to Palestine put to the order of the day the seizure of power by the exploited. And that's what everyone wants to hide.

That’s why so much silence, that left dog Bashar’s hands free to massacre the masses. Nobody now remembers the hundreds of thousands who filled Cairo's Tahrir square. Already the “leftists of democracy”arenot in it anymore taking fashionable snapshots. They are now in the streets of Athens, taking photos there and giving lectures on how to organize electoral fronts of a left coming from betraying the peoplestraightforwardly, such as Syriza and all its sycophants in the world.
And while they prattle and advise the Greek left on how best betraying the working class, the European beaches and borders are filled with corpses of Syrian immigrants, in their desperate attempt to reach the continent to escape the massacre of Bashar Al-Assad, which these same leftists held.
But the betrayal and the siege to the Syrian revolution prevented millions of workers and oppressed peoples of the world to do for Syrians exploited, even 10% of what they did in favor of the Palestinian masses, which would have paralyzed the genocide by Al - Assad. This world masses upheaval did not happen because the “lefts” marked the rebel masses in the region as 'barbarian tribes', as 'backward peoples', as 'agents of imperialism', and they also made the torturers pass as allies of the world working class.
"Of this we acknowledge them: they have left dog Bashar hands-free for that under the command of the US 7th Navy Fleet in the Mediterranean, he could make a war of extermination against the exploited, who are still threatening to defeat him in Damascus."

Then, Abu Muad intervened saying that: "Before this presentation an extensive interview was made to us the authors of the book, whose answers I prepared, in a common development, with our comrades in Syria. From there came the name of ' 2015, Syria remains under fire '. There we pose that the path of counter-revolution today is the partition of Syria, Libya, Iraq (...) We denounce the perfidious anti-worker and anti-Marxist policy of introducing the uprisings of the masses of the Maghreb and the Middle East as “clashes between religions, tribes and clans”, “of 'Sunni' against 'Shia' “ (...) that are nothing more than a smokescreen and a lie to hide that in this society there are classes, that today collide violently throughout the region in dispute against hunger and the imperialist plundering from one of the planet's regions the richest in black gold. The fact is that the masses do not support any more to live in extreme poverty with so many riches under their feet that (imperialism and the native bourgeoisies) have looted and continue robbing from them."

"Upon my arrival in Argentina, I have witnessed an election campaign by the shameful FIT, where they have silenced the massacre of Syria, Egypt, the Palestinian masses, the militarization of Tunisia. It's like if in the ' 70s or ' 80, left organizations which allege to be 'Socialists' in the world, silenced the massacres of Videla and Pinochet. They will tell me that in their 'digital daily' or internal newspapers, which nobodyreads, they ever took any report. That is a fallacy. It is a double deception. They have silenced before the wide masses the massacre of the exploited of Syria, as well as the sellout of Cuba to imperialism.

 “My contribution, as that of the comrades in Syria, in this book, is to collaborate in taking lessons to prepare the conditions for victory. The conditions to succeed were abundant. What was missed is a revolutionary leadership. Under these conditions of disaster, revolution and counter-revolution, we will set it up.

“ I believe that in Syria the conclusions raised by Trotsky can be drawn on the relationship between the huge battles of the masses and the lack of a revolutionary leadership in the processes that were developed. In the preface to the history of the Russian Revolution, Comrade Trotsky posed:
 ‘Only studying political processes on the own massesit can be achieved an understanding of the role of the parties and the chiefs, who in any way we want to deny. They are an item, but independent, very important in this process. Without an official organization, the energy of the masses would dissipate, assteamdissipates if not contained by a boiler. But either way, what drives the movement is not the boiler or piston, but steam.' In Syria and in the revolutions of the Maghreb and the Middle East, there was more than enough steam. But there was also an overabundance of treacherous leaderships that fenced internationally and isolated these heroic revolutions in the region."

Writers of the book "Syria Under Fire"

Documentary of the presentation of the book "Syria Under Fire"

From the Socialist Publisher Rudolph Klement, we salute this brave presentation of the authors of a book written from the same events. We know about the attacks, slander, persecutions that we have received and continue to receive by the bandits, imposters, and members of this "Holy Alliance" that has joined together to crush the revolutionary masses of Syria and the world. We do not fear them! Already lots of blood were left on the way. Martyrs have already returned to fill the core of the world working class.

Here it's about the unprecedented suffering from the masses. When hundreds of thousands of Syrian workers arrive in Europe, we can only call the workers of that continent and around the world not only to receive them and to treat them as members of honor of European and global working-class, requiring to them all rights - like legal stay documents, living wage, jobs for all - but also we call to organize from European capitals, from the United States and the world, mass actions to stop the massacre by Bashar the dog, and all genocidal and murderous dictatorships of the Maghreb and the Middle East, that massacre their people in account of the imperialist oil companies and MNCs.

Editorial Board