"adopt" a syrian revolutionary committee

[Sasha]

yes pax christi is a religious NGO but i have worked often with them in anti-war situations and they ar more than decent very well meaning people that dont push their religion on anyone. their only fault is their principled pacifism but in the mess that is syria at the moment that might even be a smart tactical choice.
anyway, just thought i shared, do or ignore as you wish:

https://www.adoptarevolution.nl/english/

[R_P_A_S]

Interesting. I would like to hear what others have to comment.

[dodger]

With weapons pouring across borders into Syria to arm the opposition to Assad, the stage is being set for sectarian violence and invasion...

Syria: stop the intervention!

WORKERS, MAR 2012 ISSUE

Anyone who has any connection with Syria would have known since November 2011 that the offensive to retake three neighbourhoods controlled by armed Jihadi groups in the city of Homs, in the province of Idlib and in Dara’a would begin in the New Year.

It is mischievous for those at the UN to argue that this offensive is the result of the failed UN Security Council resolution. Everyone has been making preparations for it. That is exactly why in Britain, for example, the Northern Region of the TUC, which has strong links with Palestinian refugee youth in camps in Syria, issued an appeal from its Regional Council in January for affiliated unions to raise funds to provide generators to Palestinian refugee camps in Syria.


Lebanese army on streets of Beirut as tension rises over intervention in Syria
Photo: Workers
Because of EU/US sanctions, there is a shortage of fuel to generate electricity, plunging the country into darkness for long periods of time, particularly in areas of conflict. There is also a shortage of petrol and diesel, food and medicines and the Syrian pound has collapsed making everything more expensive. So far, as a result of the Northern TUC’s appeal, one generator is providing electricity to the Palestinian refugee camp at Homs and another is being sought for the camp at Dara’a. Palestinian refugees in Syria broadly take the view that the conflict is an internal Syrian affair and as guests in the country, it is not for them to get involved, despite attempts by some Islamists to draw them in.

What they and we know is that weapons are pouring across the Lebanese, Turkish and Iraqi borders for the armed Islamist groups. We also learn interesting snippets from British journalists, like the photographer who crossed the Lebanese border at night in a truck full of rocket launchers on its way to Homs, or the story from Robert Fisk that the Islamists are slaughtering their Alawite neighbours in Homs, and that one of the armed groups in Homs is named the Al Farooq Brigade after the “adviser” to the prophet Mohammed.

We know that unsurprisingly al Qaeda has pronounced against the Syrian government and for the Islamists – bringing them into an unholy alliance, not for the first time, with the US and EU. After all, it was the US who created al Qaeda in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets and the Afghan government, and the US, Britain and France who armed the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and put them in power in Libya.

Control

We should not be surprised at such contradictions because capitalism will ally itself with anyone and will perform contradictory acts to try to extend its control over markets. Witness the UN General Assembly resolution calling on Syrian President Assad to go. This was sponsored by the US puppet military junta in Egypt to give cover for US/EU intervention in Syria despite the fact that every year the US ignores a more overwhelmingly supported General Assembly resolution calling on the US to end the blockade of Cuba. The US has no problem with backward, repressive Islamic regimes, whether it’s Saudi Arabia, Bahrain or Qatar. They provide reliable allies and good markets for their weaponry

What is happening in Syria has implications for all neighbouring countries, which is why Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan are ignoring the Arab League’s call for sanctions, as are other Arab countries who have suffered from Islamic armed violence. But it’s also creating tension in neighbouring countries and there have already been outbreaks of violence between Sunnis and Shias in northern Lebanon, reflecting the sectarian nature of the conflict in Syria. The army is now on the streets of Beirut as a consequence. Syria also hosts over one million Iraqi refugees, themselves victims of sectarian violence in their home country.

But perhaps this is all part of the creeping war on Iran. Assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists, crippling US/EU sanctions on Iran’s central bank and oil, and a bellicose Israel threatening to bomb Iran. We can expect more sabotage in the wake of elections to be held in Iran in April. One thing is clear. We must demand our government does not take us to war again, whether it’s against Syria or Iran. We stand for peace while the US/NATO/EU stand for war.

http://www.workers.org.uk/features/feat_0312/syria.html



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[ckaihatsu]

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[In] purely humanitarian terms, the SNC is seen as being seriously at fault. It has been receiving millions of dollars in donations, but it has failed to even provide humanitarian support to the refugees in neighboring countries, to the families of victims inside the country, or to the fighters of the FSA on the ground.




http://www.marxist.com/in-defence-of-the-syrian-revolution-the-marxist-perspective.htm

[R_P_A_S]

With weapons pouring across borders into Syria to arm the opposition to Assad, the stage is being set for sectarian violence and invasion...

Syria: stop the intervention!

WORKERS, MAR 2012 ISSUE

Anyone who has any connection with Syria would have known since November 2011 that the offensive to retake three neighbourhoods controlled by armed Jihadi groups in the city of Homs, in the province of Idlib and in Dara’a would begin in the New Year.

It is mischievous for those at the UN to argue that this offensive is the result of the failed UN Security Council resolution. Everyone has been making preparations for it. That is exactly why in Britain, for example, the Northern Region of the TUC, which has strong links with Palestinian refugee youth in camps in Syria, issued an appeal from its Regional Council in January for affiliated unions to raise funds to provide generators to Palestinian refugee camps in Syria.


Lebanese army on streets of Beirut as tension rises over intervention in Syria
Photo: Workers
Because of EU/US sanctions, there is a shortage of fuel to generate electricity, plunging the country into darkness for long periods of time, particularly in areas of conflict. There is also a shortage of petrol and diesel, food and medicines and the Syrian pound has collapsed making everything more expensive. So far, as a result of the Northern TUC’s appeal, one generator is providing electricity to the Palestinian refugee camp at Homs and another is being sought for the camp at Dara’a. Palestinian refugees in Syria broadly take the view that the conflict is an internal Syrian affair and as guests in the country, it is not for them to get involved, despite attempts by some Islamists to draw them in.

What they and we know is that weapons are pouring across the Lebanese, Turkish and Iraqi borders for the armed Islamist groups. We also learn interesting snippets from British journalists, like the photographer who crossed the Lebanese border at night in a truck full of rocket launchers on its way to Homs, or the story from Robert Fisk that the Islamists are slaughtering their Alawite neighbours in Homs, and that one of the armed groups in Homs is named the Al Farooq Brigade after the “adviser” to the prophet Mohammed.

We know that unsurprisingly al Qaeda has pronounced against the Syrian government and for the Islamists – bringing them into an unholy alliance, not for the first time, with the US and EU. After all, it was the US who created al Qaeda in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets and the Afghan government, and the US, Britain and France who armed the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and put them in power in Libya.

Control

We should not be surprised at such contradictions because capitalism will ally itself with anyone and will perform contradictory acts to try to extend its control over markets. Witness the UN General Assembly resolution calling on Syrian President Assad to go. This was sponsored by the US puppet military junta in Egypt to give cover for US/EU intervention in Syria despite the fact that every year the US ignores a more overwhelmingly supported General Assembly resolution calling on the US to end the blockade of Cuba. The US has no problem with backward, repressive Islamic regimes, whether it’s Saudi Arabia, Bahrain or Qatar. They provide reliable allies and good markets for their weaponry

What is happening in Syria has implications for all neighbouring countries, which is why Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan are ignoring the Arab League’s call for sanctions, as are other Arab countries who have suffered from Islamic armed violence. But it’s also creating tension in neighbouring countries and there have already been outbreaks of violence between Sunnis and Shias in northern Lebanon, reflecting the sectarian nature of the conflict in Syria. The army is now on the streets of Beirut as a consequence. Syria also hosts over one million Iraqi refugees, themselves victims of sectarian violence in their home country.

But perhaps this is all part of the creeping war on Iran. Assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists, crippling US/EU sanctions on Iran’s central bank and oil, and a bellicose Israel threatening to bomb Iran. We can expect more sabotage in the wake of elections to be held in Iran in April. One thing is clear. We must demand our government does not take us to war again, whether it’s against Syria or Iran. We stand for peace while the US/NATO/EU stand for war.

link to this?

[R_P_A_S]

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this is possibly the best piece I've read on Syria.. wow.. I wish there was more info on the so call "“local co-ordination committees”....

[R_P_A_S]

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I just found their website...

http://www.lccsyria.org/about

are you kidding me? Why hasn't the main stream media ever mention these people??? Why do we only hear about the Syria National Council????

[dodger]

The propaganda by Britain and USA, WW1, had been so discredited that when news of Nazi death camps reached us 1945, people laughed. More exaggeration it was supposed.
Even in the factory fodder school I attended, teachers who had served in armed forces were keen for us to take in all the tricks government get up to, I was grateful to them. I wonder if they still do?

By far, the most powerful assortment of atrocity stories produced during the war was The Report of the Committee on Alleged German Outrages, better known as “The Bryce Report” (named after James Bryce, the head of the committee). Contained within the pages of this officially sanctioned report were records of nearly every atrocity that it was possible for a German soldier to commit against the populace of Belgium. The most shocking accounts were those that described the killing or torture of women and children. While it is certain that such atrocities occurred during the war, the tendency of the report to dwell on the more sensational eyewitness accounts let to its eventually being discredited. Translated into 30 languages by 1915, the Bryce Report stoked the righteous indignation of the allied populace and dramatically increased recruitment for the cause of defeating Germany.

Eventually, as the war neared its conclusion, British and German propaganda was overshadowed by the enormous amount generated by the United States. Yet, the damage had been done. The emergence of propaganda in World War One set the standard for wars to follow, and sanctioned the deception of civilians and the demonization of the enemy. In the end, the point is not really the differences between German and British propaganda, but in their similarities. Both nations were driven by a philosophy that marked an important moment in cultural history: the opening of a vast gap between the “official truth” and the undisclosed reality of war.

http://www.google.com.ph/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCommitt ee_on_Alleged_German_Outrages&ei=bA91T9ezO-_XiQLa46mnDg&usg=AFQjCNHHXWkWbXzj3gNr47JKfwf2-qZB0Q

http://www.google.com.ph/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CDYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBritish _propaganda_during_World_War_I&ei=gBJ1T6PmKMGZiQLKi7mnDg&usg=AFQjCNG09zP5M3EhMR2JOdtrMAEHmokLlA


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[Thirsty Crow]

I don't think that a military intervention is likely in the case of Syria, as the recent Arab League resolution showed. The interets and possible inter-imperialist tensions, especially those concerning Russia, are simply too high, and I think that we might be witnessing the end of the unilateral military domination of one of the great powers (the US). It may very well turn out that this will have significant implications for the inter-imperialist relations in the future.