النظام الرأسمالي يترنّح: الأزمة والتداعيات

The capitalist system is reeling: crisis and repercussions

The world is living through a raging era of a complex crisis of the global economic, geostrategic and environmental system.
Their interdependence and mutual influence have led to a deterioration in the standard of living of the majority of the planet’s population. And wars between imperialists by proxy are also taking place in Ukraine. And the terrifying rise of fascism, racism and populism in the most industrialized countries; Europe and the United States.

The United States itself, as the economically and militarily dominant country in the world, is suffering, in addition to the deterioration of its economic capabilities and the decline of its military dominance, from the rot of its political system, which was recently manifested by a senile old man competing with a thunderous populist billionaire for its presidency.

The crisis capitalist system is rapidly entering humanity into a dark tunnel unless the forces of liberation and the exploited and crushed classes rise up to move the social revolution to prevent this crazy train of a dying capitalism from driving humanity to annihilation.

Gaza is a brutal expression of a deep crisis

This brutal madness of the capitalist and imperialist regime finds its rude expression in the war of extermination waged by the Zionist entity against the Palestinian people, especially in Gaza, with disgusting military, political and diplomatic support from the West, headed by the United States, and suspicious silence and even open cooperation by the Arab regimes terrified of the uprisings of their peoples.

In this bloody scene of the Zionist and imperialist attack on the valiant Palestinian resistance to destroy the remaining spirit of popular resistance in our region after the defeat of the revolutions of the so-called “Arab Spring”. Standing with the resistance in Palestine and the region against Zionism, imperialism and tyrannical regimes is a cornerstone and a binding determinant of any serious democratic socialist movement.

Syria and the paths of absurdity

On the Syrian level, the imperialists and the regional states intervening in Syria have redrawn their policies in the light of the repercussions of the complex crisis of the global capitalist system.

The existing regimes and the aforementioned countries need to restore the stability of the regional system more than before, which is necessary due to their need to be saved in one way or another from the political and military forces that they previously supported or used.

On this ground, in addition to the feverish Turkish obsession to crush the Kurdish people’s aspiration for liberation, normalization between the Turkish and Syrian regimes is proceeding at a steady pace.

In this normalization framework, Turkey is taming its mercenaries from the Syrians: militarily by preparing them to join the junta regime; and for those who do not want to do so by sending them to fight as mercenaries in other countries. At the political level, the coalition and the negotiating body are preparing for the fate of their inclusion in this normalization path.

As a result, this path, once crowned, means the implementation of Resolution 2254.

Here lies the turmoil of political groupings, especially liberal ones, which have not found, or no longer have, a place in the body of negotiation, constitutionalism and coalition. It is she who, and is still buzzing our ears with Resolution 2254, as the only way out of the solution in Syria, will find herself contributing to the reproduction of the regime she claims to oppose. In any case, it will be out of the game of Resolution 2254 as it is being implemented, which it has long sought to engage in. It is an opposition that serves, to a large extent, as a model of political absurdity.

Dialogue and solution: Syrian-Syrian

These transformations pose great challenges to the autonomous administration in northern and eastern Syria, including the need for greater attention to socio – economic policies in favor of the popular classes; and expanding the circle of participation and political and Popular Mobilization, first within the autonomous administration areas, and at the national, regional and global levels.

In this regard, it is necessary to build and strengthen effective solidarity networks with liberation movements everywhere. At this time, protecting and defending the autonomous administration means defending the last arena where Syrians have won their freedom and worked to build a distinctive liberal and democratic project despite the destruction, siege and war.

Urgent tasks

And now, we repeat here what we have already announced repeatedly, that the current catastrophic Syrian situation forces us to work on the following tasks:

Solving humanitarian issues : peace, cessation of war, return of refugees and displaced persons to their homes, release of detainees and abductees, evacuation of the fate of the missing.

The reunification of the divided country through a path of radical democratic change aimed at establishing a decentralized democratic system that includes self-administration.

Of course, this path cannot be through the normalization policy between the Turkish and Syrian regimes, because this normalization constitutes the current practical application of Resolution 2254. Rather, the Democratic Change in question is being carried out through negotiations between the Syrian parties, foremost of which is the autonomous administration, accompanied by a supportive popular movement.

The new democratic regime must implement social justice policies in which Syrians regain their dignity.

This requires us to be more active both at the party level and at the level of building united fronts on the mentioned issues. The Syrian masses need to reorganize themselves and their activity to get the country out of this terrible quagmire and prepare to continue the struggle in the inevitably coming revolutions of radical social change.

Revolutionary Left current
July 2024