Against the Increase in Electricity Prices… For Social Justice and the Right to a Dignified Life

Once again, the Tarmidoriya authority chooses to make the working and toiling classes pay the price for its failed policies, through the decision to raise electricity prices, which exacerbates the suffering of the people and deepens poverty. In a country where millions of working men and women live on the brink of subsistence, this decision becomes a new form of systematic plunder of the pockets of the poor for the benefit of the networks of power and capital.

Electricity is not a luxury commodity, but a fundamental right for a dignified life, work, education, and healthcare. Raising its prices means more darkness in homes, more paralysis in small workshops, and more misery in the lives of the women and men who produce everything in this country yet own nothing.

The Revolutionary Left Current in Syria condemns and rejects this unjust decision and stands alongside all the popular initiatives that have emerged on social media in rejection of it. We also appreciate the efforts calling for protest action in defense of the rights of the oppressed and the toilers, including the call by the Independent Syrian Workers Union.

We affirm that organized and responsible demonstration is a legitimate right and tool for defending common interests in the face of policies of starvation, and we consider this action a necessary step in a broader path of social resistance against neoliberal policies that are destroying what remains of the people’s livelihood infrastructure.

We call upon all workers in the public and private sectors, male and female workers in factories and workshops, employees in institutions, as well as students, teachers, service, agricultural, and transport workers, and all those who live by their daily effort and everyone who rejects this harsh reality, to participate in the popular movements that express our collective will for a life worthy of human dignity and for a fair distribution of wealth and resources.

For electricity, bread, water, education, and healthcare are not privileges to be granted, but rights to be wrested through struggle.

Nothing will change unless the voices of the working men and women, the toilers, and all the marginalized and crushed segments unite, and they organize together in defense of their common interests against all forms of plunder, exploitation, and oppression.

Together for social justice and the right to a dignified life.
Together against the policies of starvation and price hikes.
All power and wealth to the people.