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Imperialism is blackening Syria

Marie Lynam
21st February 2012 at 21:10
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Hello comrades of the LRC
22.2.12

I write to warn against the imperialist-inspired campaign against Syria. The press and the sectors accommodated with the war preparations of imperialism are once again on the rampage to denounce Syria. Of course, what they mean is Iran .. and Russia. But in their typical cowardliness, they attack peripheries, and move, wolf-like, towards the centre of what they wish to devour.

The conclusions of Libya have not been drawn, as far as I can see, in the LRC as an organisation. Contradictory positions were taken, mostly to justify regime change, as well as condemning NATO and the National Transitional Council (of Libya), just. But what has not been clarified is, if Gadafi was the greatest devil, what were NATO and the NTC to do, other than what they did?

The silence about Syria in the LRC comes from a discomfort in front of the Libyan question being posed again, and the same contradictions raising their heads again, begging for consistent socialist analysis and conclusions.

I note that Shalom (and an organisation called Avaaz) launches today, 22.2.2012, the cry that “With each passing day, Syria’s crackdown on democracy protesters reaches new levels of horror”.
This position is in line with the hysteria of the imperialist radio, press and TV all over the Western world. It repeats the hysteria over Libya, and the same methods, rumours and calls for ‘intervention’ as over Libya. ‘Intervention’ by the West, let us be clear. The shyness when it comes to naming who must ‘intervene’ betrays the intellectual cowardice of the warmongers.

But the Western world intervenes in line with its agenda, eh? I am sure I do not need to teach this to the comrades. It acts of behalf of Western interests, as it does in Greece, without troubling in any way whatsoever about the need to ‘protect the Greek population’. Why should this be different in Syria?? The present Western interests in Syria are to advance against Iran, and later, against Russia, all the time watching how many socialists, nationalists or misguided people it can still rely on. Like the foreign minister of Brazil for instance.
The Western press is a weapon. The weapon of the present wars, and of the coming war. Its anti-Syria campaign is the same as its anti-Libya one. It consists in taking as news and facts all the rumours and reports coming from its mercenaries, turn-coats, and would be bourgeois in the Syrian “democracy movement”.

There will be no more bourgeois revolutions. Capitalism is moribund, and ripe for overthrow. The ‘democracy movements’ in the Arab world will never make a bourgeois revolution. Same in Iran. They come too late on the scene of history. All they have left, to express their bourgeois aspirations, is their friend, imperialism, that itself wants them - dead.

Once again, the word ‘democracy’ is being used. And once again, the LRC is presented with the task of defining it. There is no ‘democratic deficit’ in the West. There is simply the dictatorship of capital, in various disguises. Very naked in Greece!

Democracy is not an aim. It is a means. It is the way to advance the right of expression. Ah, but the right of expression to say what? For what aim? The banker wants the democratic right to demand a bonus, and the Greek workers wants the democratic right to bring down the power of the bankers.

I note that some Arab League countries (please note, rulers of, not representatives of) are to sit at the table of the Syrian Democracy Movement in 4 days time (in tunis I think), “to deliver” (according to the Shalom site) “a clear mandate for strong action”. Oh yes … ‘Strong action’ by whom? For what purpose? Why the shyness? I am sure this is not referring to the ‘strong action’ of Assad, but to ‘strong action’ against Assad. By all accounts, it was not Assad that started the ‘strong action’ movement that killed thousands of Syrian soldiers and police. Who are those who started the turmoil “for democracy” in Syria? What programme have they, apart from “democracy”? Who started in Libya, a country with no unemployment, with free education and health? The most developed country in Africa, apart from Sth Africa perhaps?

I appeal to the LRC comrades not to sign the Avaaz petition – the said petition that is “to be delivered directly to the delegates in that meeting (in 4 days time)”. I expect the servants of the despots of S. Arabia, Qatar and the Emirates to be those delegates. Plus Mubarakists and Ben Ali’ists, and many other partisans of ‘strong action’. I do not see any programme being proposed for the meeting in 4 days time, except ‘strong action’.

The comrades of the LRC need to take a position regarding these matters. The building of socialism passes through intermediate phases, like Revolutionary States, Workers States, and even stages like that which has led to ALBA in Latin America, that draws Argentina (for instance) closer and closer to the Revolutionary State.
Socialism does not come down ready-made from the sky.
And Socialism is necessary in Britain as everywhere; and it will come, never fear. Now is the time to learn.

I appeal to the LRC comrades to investigate the situation in South Yemen, and Bahrain, where the situation of the comrades who want democracy (for the progress of their countries and not for a few self-seekers), is more than dire - although you would not know this from the Western media.

Look at the situation in Somalia, the poverty, the outrages committed by imperialism there, to keep control over that part of the world, for the sake of the overall strategic interests of imperialism. All the way to exterminations and famines. Doesn’t that deserve coverage and denunciation? Why Syria? The abjectness of the crushing of Haiti is beyond words, and yet, so very little is said. Why Syria? How many people die of exposure and disease in Haiti? No one is counting. Same goes for those who die of exposure and cold in Afghanistan.

Let us not look at the world through the imperialist spectacles.

The campaign against Syria is part of the war that US and EU imperialism are preparing against Iran and Russia. And against China too, when/if they feel they cannot corrupt the Chinese leadership any more than they have done already.

It is not true that “students and mothers lead peaceful marches for freedom in Syria”. But what is true is that such persons lead marches in support of Assad. And that such persons are every day doing so in Bahrain and Yemen.

The Arab league is presently led by the direct agents of world imperialism. There are progressive forces in the Arab world, but they find it very hard just now. See how Mubarakists have taken over from Mubarak and keep killing the Egyptian workers and democrats. The new Mubarakists have been prepared long ago, in the US and the EU, some of them in the exclusive universities, like the LSC, (noiselessly), in readiness for their counter-revolutionary role today, back in their countries. They are now paying the West back for all the (taxpayer) monies spent in grooming them over the years. The ‘International Community’ is only a few countries, the same that prepare for world war against the Revolutionary States and the Workers States of the world. Iran is a Revolutionary State, and so is Syria.

The international community looks high and low for turn-coats and traitors in every progressive country. But this will be its downfall, because such people have no programme for the development of anything but themselves.
The international community acts in this way through desperation, feeling that the days of capitalism are counted.

Today’s events in Homs are being used to call on the West to start intervening, right now, regardless of any obstacle.

Forward to the unification of the British masses with the Greek ones, with direct and consistent links. Forward to British campaigns on behalf of the Greek workers and people. Only the British workers movement can do this. The LRC is best placed to animate something like this, making campaigns towards the International Trade Unions, for instance. The bourgeois press will never do this, and all the comrades know this! It is not Syria, but Greece, that must concern us.

Down with the silent crushing of Greece, the most outrageous scandal going on today, and so little talked about - whilst all our eyes are supposed to be fixed on a handful of mercenaries and self-seekers in Syria!

comradely greetings, Marie Lynam