بيان: عاش انتصار الشعب السوري

Statement

Long Live the Victory of the Syrian People

Dear Great Syrian People,

The Syrian masses have defeated the Assad regime, which quickly collapsed, and the reckless dictator who brought the country and its people to an unbearable catastrophic state has fled. Thus, on December 8th, the Syrian people were liberated. They emerged from despair to freedom, deciding with their own hands to build a free and dignified future.

Our proud people have faced this bloody regime that has oppressed us since the seventies, and several generations of Our youth have made the ultimate sacrifices in confronting it. The uprising against it erupted in March 2004. Despite the might and brutality of the fallen regime, the Syrian masses rose in the greatest revolution in our country’s history in March 2011. They shook the foundations of the Assad regime and dismantled its pillars, despite the enormous sacrifices made for their liberation from the clutches of a savage regime that committed crimes against its people.

Dear masses of our people,

Our party, the Revolutionary Left Current, was founded in the midst of the 2011 revolution, emerging from the Syrian Uprising Support Committee formed on March 17, 2011. The Revolutionary Left Current was officially announced in mid-October 2011. Our party has never ceased its struggle for the liberation of our people from the Assad regime. Our comrades participated in all forms of popular struggle, from demonstrations and coordination committees to relief efforts and more. Our party paid a heavy price in its revolutionary struggle against the regime, losing a bouquet of its best fighters and revolutionaries, with others wounded, arrested, and displaced. However, our party, for more than a decade, has never abandoned its commitment to revolutionary struggle among the people for their salvation and liberation. Our party has adapted highly to changing conditions of struggle, always standing with the masses and for their freedom, avoiding conferences and elitist activities that proved ineffective.

Dear Great Syrian People,

Congratulations to us all on this historic moment of our liberation and salvation from a regime that killed us, impoverished us, displaced us, and tore our country apart, making it a playground for foreign armies and militias. It also divided Syrians on sectarian, ethnic, tribal, and regional bases to monopolize power. The fall of the Assad regime and our liberation from it is a victory for all of us. It marks the end of a dark phase but the beginning of Another phase, that we strive to make one of liberation from tyranny and reconstruction. It is an opportunity for the entire Syrian people, regardless of their religious or ethnic affiliation, to build a new free Syria on the ruins of the murderous dictatorship. We must mobilize all energies to ensure that tyranny does not return in another form, and that the country does not fall back into a new cycle of violence and destruction.

Dear masses of the Syrian people,

In the midst of the joy of victory and freedom we are experiencing in this transitional phase, we must focus our efforts on emerging from it as quickly as possible and under the best conditions to build a liberated, independent, equal, democratic, and socially just Syria. This requires reactivating political work, enhancing the freedom of parties, political pluralism, freedom of opinion and expression, freedom to form parties, unions, and associations, and freedom of the press, assembly, and peaceful demonstration.

We believe that the safest way out of this transitional period requires forming an inclusive transitional government that represents all political and social sensitivities, provides security, freedom, pluralism, and the happiness and safety of Syrian territories, and restructures the army and security apparatuses. This government will have two tasks: first, to provide the climate and necessary conditions as soon as possible to hold free and fair elections based on proportional representation, with Syria as one constituency, for a constituent assembly that will approve a secular constitution for the new Syria. Based on this, the transitional government will undertake the second task: providing all necessary conditions to hold free and fair parliamentary elections.

In this way, the Syrian people themselves will build the foundations of a free and democratic Syria that includes all its sons and daughters on an equal footing, and constitutionally recognizes the rights of Kurdish, Assyrian, and Turkmen nationalities as essential components, in addition to the Arab component, of the ancient Syrian people.

We call on all national, democratic, and leftist forces to coordinate efforts to push the transitional process towards building a non-sectarian democratic system that serves the interests of the entire Syrian people. We also call on supporters of liberation and social justice to join our party and participate in its public activities.

For the Syrian people to fully regain their rights and sovereignty, all foreign armies and militias must leave our country, and the ongoing Zionist aggression against Syria must be condemned, with the goal of reclaiming our occupied lands, especially the occupied Golan Heights. The recent Israeli bombardment of our country, which destroyed its military capabilities, confirms that the Israeli occupation remains a looming threat to our people and homeland. Here, we renew our support for all peoples resisting colonizers, especially our Palestinian brothers.

In the midst of this liberating phase full of opportunities and challenges, we address the peoples of the region and the world, especially their leftist and democratic forces, to tell them that the masses of the Syrian people and their liberatory political forces need more vigilance and practical solidarity from you to transition our country from an era of tyranny to an era of freedom and dignity, which was carried by its great popular revolution in March 2011.

Glory to the martyrs Long live the March 2011 revolution Long live the day of the fall of the Assad regime on December 8, 2024 All power and wealth to the people December 12, 2024 Revolutionary Left Current in Syria