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back to the index of the Northern Africa revolution March 3th, 2012 By slandering and fencing the revolutionary masses, the ex-trotskyists legitimized the action of the Fifth Column at the service of the massacre against the exploited in Syria The renegades of Trotskyism from time to time have to talk about in the name of Trotsky to mask their collaborationist policy but since a long time ago they have “crossed the Rubicon” abandoning the revolutionary Marxism and the Fourth International. They are a “third batch” of Mensheviks after the social democracy and Stalinism. It is about a new “split of socialism”. In the name of “socialism” the extrotskyists propel “democratic fronts” in the semi-colonies to submit the working class to the native bourgeoisies that subjugating the proletariat keep the “pacific coexistence” with imperialism to guarantee the looting on the part of transnationals. The renegades of Trotskyism are continuers of the “pacific coexistence” of the Moscow Bureaucracy at the end of the Second World War. These shameless reformists have been proclaiming the “democratic revolution” of the “Peoples’ Springs” for the North of Africa and Middle East. They passed the fake constituent Assemblies as triumphs for masses in Tunisia and Egypt, and have submitted the working class and exploited to the “democratic” diverts of the “transitional governments” expropriators of the worker and socialist revolution. In Libya, where the working class and the exploited have conquered the dual power they have situated in the opposite barricade together with the pro imperialist government of the NTC or even “crying” the Khadafy’s fallen.
The renegades of Trotskyism keep crying for Khadafy and cover the back of Assad and his “land NATO troops” in Syria Facing the revolution and counterrevolution’s process that shakes the North of Africa and Middle East, the English SWP, POR-Lora from Bolivia, LBI from Brazil and PTS from Argentina are part of the wing of ex-trotskyists that don’t doubt on repeating the arguments of the world Stalinist parties and “bolivarians” from Latin America. These currents have slandered against the militias of the Libyan exploited naming them “land NATO troops” so that their example not to be taken by the rest of the working class of the region and world. Or the SWP claiming that from the moment on the NATO intervened in Libya; all the process became “counterrevolutionary”. Now, they are in charge of present Al Assad as “independent from imperialism” before the world proletariat. Even, there are shameless people saying that he would be “socialist and anti-imperialist” as Khadafy. In his articles in February, the SWP embellishes Al Assad-the true enemy of the Syrian working class and exploited- saying that “Syria is not client of the West”, that it was Al Assad who introduced “many political freedoms” and the only problem was that “failed” in introducing reforms. The PTS from Argentina repeats like parrots this fallacy stating that the regime of Al Assad “is not a direct agent of imperialism” and that “there are important frictions with the West” (“Siria hacia jornadas decisivas”, PTS, 2-2). Lies! It was Assad-father, son, and his entire family- who sustained the fascist zionist State of Israel during all along these years by collaborating with the massacre and oppression of the tormented Palestinian masses. It was Assad who got enriched during the ‘90s in partnership with the imperialist transnationals in the telecommunication business. And it is the Assad dynasty and his “Arab republic” a true counterrevolutionary device of control in the region as guard of “Peace” of the frontiers of the Zionist fascist state of Israel.
The NPA from France in the Watan coalition demands the surrender of the Syrian masses The French New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) follows as a shadow the liberal parties “opponents” of Al Assad. These state “Out Al Assad!” and “No more massacre on the Syrian People” but always leading the exploited at the feet of the “democratic opponents” of the bourgeoisies. The NPA, (“The Syrian revolution in its 9th month” 2-4) regrets that the Syrian National Council ( SNC) lost credibility before the masses “for not having a clear strategy, for his purely media presence abroad and its endless congresses in five start hotels and permanent internal conflicts”, when what the SNC seeks is to create among masses resisting the consciousness that a “foreign intervention would save them” and call on the cave of imperialist pirates of UN to intervene. The NPA is seeking a “De Gaulle”, a “democratic” general but the furthest possible from Syria as De Gaulle was from France when the fascist “republic of Vichy” had been imposed. Facing the lost of prestige of the SNC; the NPA seeking some “opponent” bourgeoisie to support, on February 22 publishes a statement from the Watan Coalition, a grouping of bourgeois democratic-liberal, petty bourgeois currents and left currents like the Revolutionary Left Current to which the NPA publishes their statements without making a critic. Such statement states that facing the repression “we hold the regime totally responsible for the risk of foreign military intervention…”. Thus, they separate the imperialism from Al Assad. As if the bandits of UN and its lackeys of the Arab League would not be who cover up Al Assad! Watan means “nation” in French, and this term emerged in the Bourgeois revolution in 1789 and its program. Reformism uses this language to affirm that in Syria a democratic revolution is taking place, against the corruption, etc. Thus, they mask the class collaboration policy, the policy of popular front, of burying the proletariat revolution. Watan and the NPA call to a fight for the “democracy” by a “pacific revolution”, when Al Assad is carrying on a bloodshed on the Syrian working class. How cynic they are! From a Café in Paris they are asking the Syrian workers and exploited to sign the surrender and to submit to the “opponent bourgeoisie”. The only nation that can defend entirely and effectively the Syrian exploited’s interests is the nation as part of a Federation of Socialist Republics of the North of Africa and Middle East! Stop covering up the counterrevolutionary offensive of the occupation troops of Al Assad! The morenoist LIT: “The Syrian dictatorship became an unsustainable piece. Al-Assad currently is an element of destabilization. Imperialism is worried about it.” (“The civil war began in Syria” February 15th). That is, for LIT Al Assad is no longer useful for imperialism and thus, imperialism opposes Al Assad. But the “intervention” is not because the Assad’s generals –those coward gurkas of imperialism and Zionism- get deep the bloodshed smashing cities like Homs, and now going to Idleb, Deraa, and other cities where masses resist. PO from Argentina follows this line too: “…the intervention of imperialism in Syria is linked to the preparation of an attack against Iran” (“Siria en la encrucijada” February 16th). But those “intervening” in Syria at the head of the fifth column to be side by side the Al Assad’s troops are the Iranian Ayatollahs that send their “guards of revolution” to smash the revolutionary masses. For LIT, and the speakers of the Watan Coalition of NPA, and for PO too, the caste of the genocide officers of Al Assad are not the ones doing “the dirty work” for the sake of imperialism. The ex trotskyists through this policy operates like the left of the Fifth International that tells the world workers that “the Syrian masses are their enemies”. Far far away from the fights of Homs and Deraa, the ex trotskyists agitate “Nato is coming”, “The foreign intervention is coming”, and in that way they isolate the Syrian masses who are been massacred by the occupation troops of Al Assad-armed to the teeth by Hu Jintao and Putin- that behaved for the sake of and under the command of Obama, Merkel, and Sarkozy. What they hide from the world working class, as the “left” leg of the fence against the Syria masses is that Obama, Merkel, and other imperialist butchers want to smash the Syrian masses to stop the revolution in the North of Africa and Middle East, and to punish the world proletariat for workers to accept to pay for the costs of the world economic crisis.
The left of the world Social Forum sustains and legitimizes the action of the counterrevolutionary forces of the Fifth Column and the V International Chavez, Castro and their V International present the Syrian masses as “enemies at the service of the West”. The Iranian Ayatollahs have mobilized their “guards of the revolution” towards Syria and Hezbollah send their agents together with the Assad’s troops to smash the working class and exploited. The ex-trotskyists are enemies of calling on the working class and exploited to win the streets all around the world to defeat the counterrevolutionary offensive of imperialism today concentrated in Syria with the Al Assad troops massacring the heroic Syrian workers and exploited. They refused to be continuers of the actions the exploited started to organize by marching towards the Syrian embassy in support of their class brothers like the youth and worker vanguard in Madrid in December, in London in February, and the revolutionary mobilization in Cairo crying out “North America, NATO, Assad, and Hezbollah are the ones guarding the frontiers for zionism” and “Assad, Assad, you will end like Muammar (Qadafy)". On February 27, the morenoist UIT-CI, the Communist Worker Party from Tunisia (PCOT), and Lucha Internacionalista from the Spain State issued a statement titled “to the Syrian People that fight against the tyranny”. But unfortunately, this statement did not call (and does not call) to any concrete action. The leaders who adhere to such statement sign in an “individual way”. What prevent that the organizations they lead or have influence on can enter the struggle? From those organizations it is possible to organize demonstrations, public meetings, strikes, international worker brigades and win the streets in the world for them to go to aid the tormented Syrian masses. Orlando Chirino, leader of the Venezuelan UNT, who signed the statement, must be at the head of the actions to support the Syrian working class confronting the reactionary demonstrations of Chavez in support of Al Assad. The maoist PCOT from Tunisia that is in the Central Union, UGTT, has kept in silent when the massacre in Homs has got sharp at the beginning of February. Meanwhile they sustain the fake constituent Assembly in Tunisia. By tying up the hands of thousands of militant workers in the world they lead or have influence on, they prevent the internationalist solidarity among the world working class. Why Ayatollahs and Hezbollah can organize counterrevolutionary brigades to go to help Al Assad and those who speak in the name of “trotskyism” don’t organize any single internationalist action in favour of Syrian masses? Why don’t call on the Europen unions to set up international worker brigades to take medicine, food, and weapons for the Syrian resistance, like the worker organizations did in 1930 for the Spanish militias? It is regrettable that in Syria, the imperialist press has a lot of correspondents and none international left’s paper with its own correspondent to tell the truth of the events from the very battlefield. In Argentina “the International Committee in defence of the masses in Lybia and their fighting organizations” must be set up again. It cannot succumb to the pressures from the bourgeois sectors of the “Syrian Lebanon community”. This commission was the only place of action set up to fight side by side the exploited in Libya and against the fence in Syria. There is no time to lose! It must gather again immediately! The fence against the Syrian masses already is getting broken from Libya. There, a Revolutionary Movement of the Militias and the Committee of Internationalist Volunteers have already launched an international appeal and has been set up from the heart of the working class to organize the solidarity with the Syrian resistance. FLTI greets and supports this movement and their appealing and get determined to fight for such call to reach all the workers fighting organizations of the world proletariat.
The “21st Century Socialism” of the Bolivarians, Hu Jintao and the Kaddafist: massacres, superexploitation and starvation for the masses, and superprofits for transnationals. All the currents of reformism have something in common: they complain because the masses in Northern Africa and Middle East don’t have “socialist consciousness”. These shameless don’t say anything and cover the fact that in behalf of “socialism” in Northern Africa and Middle East the working class and exploited peoples suffered the worst crimes and outrages. The Libyan dock workers have shown this problem. In Kaddafy’s “socialist” company in the dock there were only one fridge and bathroom for 1,800 workers and their wage was 12 dollars. Holding the Communist Manifesto in his hand, Hu Jintao and the new red bourgeois of the Chinese CP slaughter the working class to give cheap labor force to the imperialist transnationals, which have transformed China into a maquila (sweat-shop). Castro Brothers are trying to complete the capitalist restoration in Cuba by dismising one million workers on behalf of “socialism”, accusing them of being lazy. They show Evo Morales as the example of “socialism” when he saved capitalists’ properties from the heroic revolution of 2003-2005, and now he increases taxes, launches plans of adjusts and kills the peasants of TIPNIS. Or the socialist Chavez who sells all the oil to USA and says that Al-Assad is “socialist”. This is the “21st Century Socialism” of the 5th International which is being proved in Libya, Bolivia, Cuba, etc! Massacres, maquilas, layoffs, starvation and “socialist” Sirs who complain about the consciousness of the working class! It is a tragedy for the world working class that parties who speak on behalf of “Trotskyism” and “Revolution” support and legitimize the 5th International of Hu Jintao, Castro and Chavez. The “socialist Sirs”, former Trotskyists, already have their party called 5th International. They think that the working youth in Tottenham and the cités of Paris are “vandals and declassed”; form them the workers and popular militias of Libya are “land troops of NATO”; the peasants of TIPNIS in Bolivia are “agents of the CIA”. When workers and exploited people enter in revolutionary maneuvers as in Northern Africa and Middle East, the “socialists” call to vote in elections and Constituent Assemblies. For them, in Europe it is only necessary to put pressure on governments to “moderate” the attack they were launching, and in USA the “democratic” Obama must be supported against the “fascist” Tea Party. Enough! Against all these leaderships of the world working class, from the trench of the Syrian masses and from Libya, we, the Trotskyists of the International Leninist Trotskyist Fraction, fight for refounding the 4th International of 1938 and call to set up an International Conference of the principled Trotskyism and revolutionary workers organanizations. Emilio Guereca and Aníbal Vera |