Editor, Redress Information & Analysis
Al-Jazeerah, CCUN, August 6, 2012
The UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly
denounced the Syrian regime's crackdown on the people's revolution.
The resolution, passed today by 133 in favour, with 12 against and
31 abstentions, says "the first step in the cessation of violence has to
be made by the Syrian authorities".
Before the vote, UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reminded the assembly of the fresh
violence in the city of Aleppo and drew comparisons between the failure
to act in Syria and past genocide in Srebrenica and Rwanda.
"The
acts of brutality that are being reported may constitute crimes against
humanity or war crimes," he said of the Aleppo fighting. "Such acts must
be investigated and the perpetrators held to account."
Meanwhile,
a tiny but vociferous group of ultra-reactionaries and racists
masquerading as "leftists" and "anti-imperialists" continues to poison
and disinform on behalf of the doomed sectarian regime of Bashar Assad.
Obsessed with imaginary conspiracies, ridden with empty slogans and
determined to fight their armchair pseudo-ideological battles until the
last drop of Syrian and other Arab blood, these pretenders are now
completely at one with the sectarian Alawite clique that has sold the
Syrian Golan Heights to its soulmates in Israel.
In 1967 Bashar
Assad's father, Hafez – the butcher of Hama and Tal al-Zaatar –
abandoned the Golan Heights to the Israelis without a fight. Now Bashar
– the butcher of Homs, Hama, Aleppo and all of Syria – has told the
Israelis they can keep the Golan in return for convincing the Americans
that his regime is the best guarantor of Israel's security on the
northern border.
But no more. The Assad regime is doomed. Just as
the light of day is sure to follow the darkness of night, it will fall
and with it the self-styled "leftist" and "anti-imperialist" pretenders
will be exposed for the ultra-reactionary fascists that they are.
The Arab people has erupted and there is no rolling back of their
intifada.
But freedom and justice have never been cheap.
Along our path to liberation there will be many rivers of blood to cross
and mountains of propaganda, disinformation and lies to demolish – the
fossilized scum of the ultra-reactionay pretenders and their Russian,
Chinese and regional sectarian godfathers.
Soon Aleppo, Homs,
Hama and all of Syria will be liberated.
The Syrian people will
be free – free to exrcise their inalienable civil and political rights
and free at last to liberate the Golan Heights from the terrorists and
colonists of the Zionist entity.
And beyond Syria, progressive
forces all over the world will be free to build genuine grassroots
movements with justice and democracy at their core, unshackled and
cleansed from the Stalinists, reactionaries and fascists.
For
more information, see:
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Henry Lowi, "Storming the Bastille in Syria"
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Phan Binh, "Libya and Syria: when anti-imperialism goes wrong"
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Nureddin Sabir, "Cynicism and black propaganda: the left's reactions to the Libyan and Syrian revolutions"
