Imperialists, fascists, and Zionists, get out of Syria! – Democracy and freedom for the peoples of Syria! – Immediate stop to the HTS and Turkish attacks on Rojava!
In the wake of imperialist aggression in Venezuela, the ongoing genocide in Palestine, the war in Sudan, and recent developments in Iran, a genocide by the imperialist henchmen HTS against the Kurdish population in the districts of Şêxmeqsûd and Eşrefiyê began in the Syrian city of Aleppo. 120,000 people were displaced and hundreds were killed while putting up a self-sacrificing resistance. Let us remember that Hayat Tharir al-Sham (HTS) is a reactionary Islamist organization that was close to al-Qaeda for a time and has been in power in Syria since Bashar al-Assad fled, and has been removed from the list of terrorist organizations by Western imperialists. Meanwhile, the Zionist occupying power is putting its expansionist megalomania for a Greater Israel in Syria into practice, having already taken the Golan Heights.
Military aggression is spreading. The Golani regime and Ankara advanced in a coordinated manner in the affected areas with an over 40,000-strong army, hundreds of tanks, and modern military equipment. The Islamist gangs of the so-called Syrian army are bombing Dair Hafir and the strategic Tişrîn dam, among other places, with simultaneous Turkish drone attacks in the region. The attacks were extended to the rest of Rojava, including the provinces of Deir-e-Zor and Raqqa.
These attacks are taking place against the backdrop of the fascist Turkish state's colonial occupation efforts in northern and eastern Syria, its hostility toward the Kurdish people, the imperialist-Zionist intervention in Syria, and the security negotiations between HTS and Israel in Paris.
They are a continuation of HTS's aggression against the peoples of Syria, beginning with massacres against the Alawites, Druze, Palestinian refugees and resistance forces, and especially women. They are directed above all against the revolutionary and democratic achievements in North and East Syria, such as the groundbreaking position of women in society, the council organizations with national and religious equality, and the legitimate self-defense of the peoples. According to their commander Mazlum Abdi, the Syrian Democratic Forces have withdrawn to avoid civil war and further bloodshed. The agreed peace process was torpedoed by the Syrian government. The disarming of any resistance is an essential part of its plan.
HTS is a force that has been deliberately promoted and controlled by the British and US secret services and forms a coalition of deeply reactionary, misanthropic gangs. They are the enemies of Syria, who will bring neither democracy nor stability to Syria, but immeasurable suffering and oppression. The fact that they attack infrastructure, kill civilians, and throw people out of their homes illustrates their character. They have close ties to Saudi Arabia and Turkey, serve imperialist and Zionist interests, and allow important parts of Syria to be occupied in order to redraw the region and chop up Syria to serve these powers’ respective interests.
As the International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations (ICOR) we welcome the peoples’ revolutionary resistance against the fascist attacks and attempts at occupation by Turkey and Israel. We stand in full solidarity with the democratic and revolutionary forces in northern and eastern Syria and the broad masses of Syria who yearn for democracy and freedom. We stand against media manipulation and psychological warfare that aim at dividing people.
We stand alongside the struggles of the peoples of Syria for their own liberation from imperialist, colonial intervention and occupation by Turkey, Israel, and US imperialism.
We stand with the Kurdish people and behind their legitimate demands for self-determination and a free life in dignity. Rojava and in particular Kôbane are the beacons of the past victory over the IS – and must remain so. Now the danger threatens of the destruction of the democratic self-administration and especially of women’s rights. Hundreds of thousands are taking to the streets worldwide in justified protest against this.
Only the peoples themselves will be able to liberate themselves. But they need the international solidarity of the workers and peoples of the world. That is why we call for solidarity with the peoples of northern and eastern Syria against the current and future attacks that are being prepared. You are not alone!
Fight the fascist HTS, henchmen of imperialism!
Stop the Turkish occupation of Syria!
Stop imperialist and Zionist intervention in Syria!
Hands off Rojava!
For a united democratic republic of Syria and the right of self-determination for the Kurds and all other nationalities!
From Palestine to Kurdistan – freedom and dignity for the peoples of the region!
Present signatories, further signatures possible.
1. PCPCI Parti Communiste Proletarien de Côte d'Ivoire (Proletarian Communist Party of Ivory Coast)
2. ORC Organisation Révolutionnaire du Congo (Revolutionary Organization of Congo), Democratic Republic of the Congo
3. UPC-Manidem Union des Populations du Cameroun - Manifeste National pour l’Instauration de la Démocratie (Union of Populations of Cameroon - National Manifesto for the Establishment of Democracy)
4. CPSA (ML) Communist Party of South Africa (Marxist-Leninist)
5. PCT Parti Comuniste du Togo (Communist Party of Togo)
6. PPDS Parti Patriotique Démocratique Socialiste (Patriotic Democratic Socialist Party), Tunisia
7. SPB(M) Socialist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist)
8. NCP (Mashal) Nepal Communist Party (Mashal)
9. RUFN Revolutionary United Front of Nepal
10. CPA/ML Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
11. Krasnyj Klin Аб'яднання беларускіх камуністаў «Чырвоны Клін» (Association of Belarusian Communists «Red Wedge»), Belarus
12. БКП Българска Комунистическа Партия (Bulgarian Communist Party)
13. PR-ByH Partija Rada - ByH (Party of Labor - Bosnia and Herzegovina)
14. MLPD Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany)
15. UPML Union Prolétarienne Marxiste-Léniniste (Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Union), France
16. BP (NK-T) Bolşevik Parti (Kuzey Kürdistan-Türkiye) (Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan-Turkey))
17. KOL Kommunistische Organisation Luxemburg (Communist Organization of Luxemburg)
18. RM Rode Morgen (Red Dawn), Netherlands
19. UMLP União Marxista-Leninista Portuguesa (Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Union)
20. RMP Российская маоистская партия (Rossijskaya maoistskaya partiya) (Russian Maoist Party)
21. MLGS Marxistisch-Leninistische Gruppe Schweiz (Marxist-Leninist Group of Switzerland)
22. TKP-ML Türkiye Komünist Partisi – Marksist-Leninist (Communist Party of Turkey – Marxist-Leninist)
23. MLKP Marksist Leninist Komünist Parti Türkiye / Kürdistan (Marxist Leninist Communist Party Turkey / Kurdistan)
24. KSRD Koordinazionnyj Sowjet Rabotschewo Dvizhenija (Coordination Council of the Workers Class Movement), Ukraine
25. PCC-M Partido Comunista de Colombia – Maoista (Communist Party of Colombia - Maoist)
26. PCP (independiente) Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente) (Paraguayan Communist Party (independent))
27. PC (ML) Partido Comunista (Marxista Leninista) (Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)), Dominican Republic
28. PCR-U Partido Comunista Revolucionario del Uruguay (Revolutionary Communist Party of Uruguay)
29. CPPDM Chinese People's Party for the Defense of Mao Zedong
30. Chinese Communists (MLM) Chinese Communists (Marxist Leninist Maoist)
31. SUCI (C) Socialist Unity Center of India (Communist)