That NZ Socialist/Communist outfit Fightback supports the Syrian Revolution isn’t a surprise, considering they’re actively their platform to raise funds for PFLP, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
As it’s NZ socialist policy to oppose all forms of Christian family structure, women are only to birth more workers for the global corporates, it’s no surprise none of their material mentions that current genocide of Syrian Christians. This was the same mentality that we witnessed in Albert Park in Auckland when the various socialist enterprises mobilised together against old school feminism.
This from their website:
Fightback supports the Syrian Revolution, and we are thrilled to see the toppling of Bashar al-Assad, after 13 long years of struggle. The coming days will see challenges stemming from the various factions of the revolution, some of which are more supportable than others, and from the necessary militarisation of the revolution. The victorious Syrian Revolution is a popular revolution. Now the struggle begins to ensure that – unlike what happened in Iran in 1979 – it becomes a democratic revolution.
Yet if we can support Palestinian liberation despite Hamas, we say the same for Free Syria. The following articles address these questions in details (it’s worth noting that some may be factually dated due to the rapidly changing situation):
Liberation, Robin Yassin-Kassab
The Syrian revolution returns with a bang: Extraordinary collapse of the genocidal regime, Michael Karadjis
The Syrian Civil War Resumes, translation of a statement from the Cantine Syrienne de Montreuil
Fightback’s perspectives on the revolution were developed through the following articles:
Against campism: What makes some leftists support Putin, Daphne Lawless (2015)
Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War, Ani White reviews a book by Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami (2016)
The Impossible Revolution – Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy, Ani White review a book by Yassin al-Haj Saleh
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It is our opinion that both/all sides need to be de-funded by the West, because the only people suffering are the Christians stuck in the middle, who have been there the longest!
