Correspondance from Syria: Aleppo a fierce combat against the occupation army of Al Assad

August 4, 2012

Comrades, first and foremost, on behalf of the internationalist combatants and the Internationalist Volunteer Workers Committee receive a warm greeting. At the time of writing these words, firing into the air rumble in a clear demonstration of revolutionary solidarity and affection.

Here, one feels and lives the heroism of the exploited masses. The same situation we lived in Hama and Homs. In Aleppo youth is who heads the combat. Foreign journalists do not cease to express their astonishment to sample as much courage focused on men and women in such a young age. What they do not understand, is that infinite suffering imposed by the dictator accelerated political maturation of thousands of young people. That’s why so much hate, so much anger, so much subversive spirit. Therefore people fight up to with empty hands, when the munitions were exhausted or there is no money to buy bullets and weapons (because the armament has to be expropriated from the enemy or bought on the black market at high prices, but fails; here there is nobody that "guarantees or refuels," as is said by many liars, agents of Al-Assad and the Governments of powerful countries).

In Aleppo, nobody steps backwards. It is precisely this fearsome combat morale which radiates terror to the counter-revolutionary murderous troops. These occupation troops which, when are closer than expected and at close combat melee, escape in a cowardly manner.

However this enormous strength has within it a great weakness, because the masses who offered their lives enter combat spontaneously, and there is no proletarian organization centralized or unified of the civil war. We are fighting in the worst conditions, isolated from the West. We only have the unconditional support of the thousands of internationalist militiamen who voluntarily and spontaneously are coming throughout the Middle East and North Africa.

The hyenas of the SNC and the FSA here know that they do not command any column of militia or inter-Committee coordination or the foot soldiers who have gone with their weapons to fight alongside the masses. They are true hyenas that are preparing to steal the Syrian revolution from the shadows and the distance, as they want to finish doing it in Libya with the TNC, in Egypt with the Muslim Brotherhood and in Tunisia with the fraud of the constituent Assembly.
The strength of these hyenas comes from the support they have of a fraction of the local business chambers, of US and EU imperialists, and also of the Trade Union bureaucracies in several countries.

It is a slander that there is help from USA or Europe. They, like their servants of Russia and China, support the assassin Al-Assad. The difference between these vultures is that some blatantly support Bashar -as Putin and Hu Jintao do. While the others do it more carefully, leaving Assad to continue slaughtering the exploited.
However, despite all intrigues shouted by fearful and invalid politicians who never arrived to the battlefield, the area of Aleppo has become the heart of the battle between workers and capitalists. Here everything is shared and put at the disposal of the civil war. The masses know that they must succeed or die, because if they triumph they will have bread and something else; otherwise there will be a thousand times greater hell than that supported so far. "Win or die trying", so this Aleppo of the exploited insurgents beats, vibrates and thinks.
We sleep in anywhere, in shifts and counting on the support of the entire population. Internationalist militants are received and cared for very especially by everyone here. When they ask us why we fight like them? We respond "because you are facing the same enemies and murderers as we do, bosses, and their Governments, who defend with shots a system that is sinking the masses of the world into absolute misery".
The situation is as difficult that occurs in a harsh civil war as we are going through in Syria. The economy has been paralyzed long time ago. The regime bombards us from airplanes and helicopters, and that destroys everything. That is the strategy of Al-Assad and also that of the Pentagon, because you know that in melee combat, in the urban insurrection regular troops are lost and break.
That’s why in the battle front, we are fighting so that in the geographical areas where we are defeating the enemy, all the great properties of the capitalists, enterprises, factories and banks are expropriated and jobs run under the control of the workers and the people. As a first step to ensure urgently service provision to militias and the families and the purchase of equipment. In that regard, many bakeries and flour tanks are under the control of the fighters, so they stocked bread not only to militias, but the exploited people as a whole which is being punished by hunger and misery.

While we are faced with the troops of Al-Assad, we strive for all militias and individual organizations of workers and the masses in fighting as the coordinating committees and the committees of foot soldiers, to unite in a single organism based on direct democracy, and that this is the true body that leads the civil war and prepares to govern, against any attempt of expropriation by the CNS and other gangs of the dominant powers.

Comrades, this brief report reaches you from the very civil war in Aleppo. We hope that we can soon return to send you our news and that they are more encouraging.
Long live the struggle of the Syrian masses and the thousands who have crossed borders to lift the gun and combat against Al Assad and his bloodthirsty army!

A revolutionary hug to all of you.

Together and United in the same struggle... 

Internationalist Volunteer Workers Committee.