Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 24.04.2025
While from the very beginning of the Syrian revolution we have stood with the revolution regardless who is in the leadership. At the same time, we have never given political support to the petit Bourgeoisie/Bourgeois religious or secular. The roots of giving military, but not political support is Lenin as the leader of the Bolsheviks when Kornilov prepared his attack on Kerenski government Lenin wrote:
“The Kornilov revolt is a most unexpected (unexpected at such a moment and in such a form) and downright unbelievably sharp turn in events.
Like every sharp turn, it calls for a revision and change of tactics. And as with every revision, we must be extra-cautious not to become unprincipled.
It is my conviction that those who become unprincipled are people who (like Volodarsky) slide into defencism or (like other Bolsheviks) into a bloc with the S.R.s, into supporting the Provisional Government. Their attitude is absolutely wrong and unprincipled. We shall become defencists only after the transfer of power to the proletariat, after a peace offer, after the secret treaties and ties with the banks have been broken—only afterwards. Neither the capture of Riga nor the capture of Petrograd will make us defencists. (I should very much like Volodarsky to read this.) Until then we stand for a proletarian revolution, we are against the war, and we are no defencists.
Even now we must not support Kerensky’s government. This is unprincipled. We may be asked: aren’t we going to fight against Kornilov? Of course we must! But this is not the same thing; there is a dividing Line here, which is being stepped over by some Bolsheviks who fall into compromise and allow themselves to be carried away by the course of events.
We shall fight, we are fighting against Kornilov, just as Kerensky’s troops do, but we do not support Kerensky. On the contrary, we expose his weakness. There is the difference. It is rather a subtle difference, but it is highly essential.and must not be forgotten. What, then, constitutes our change of tactics after the Kornilov revolt?
We are changing the form of our struggle against Kerensky. Without in the least relaxing our hostility towards him, without taking back a single word said against him, without renouncing the task of overthrowing him, we say that we must take into account the present situation. We shall not overthrow Kerensky right now. We shall approach the task of fighting against him in a different way, namely, we shall point out to the people (who are fighting against Kornilov) Kerensky’s weakness and vacillation. That has been done in the past as well. Now, however, it has become the all-important thing and this constitutes the change.”[i]
This is relevant as today the Jerusalem Post writes: “Syria is willing to join the Abraham Accords under the correct conditions, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa told US Representative Cory Mills in a meeting on Saturday.
In a Thursday Bloomberg article, the US Republican representative from Florida said he held talks with the former leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham regarding economic sanctions and peace between Damascus and Jerusalem.
He told Bloomberg that he would deliver a letter from al-Sharaa to US President Donald Trump, adding that he planned to brief him on his conversation when he returned to Washington” [ii]
If this is true then al-Sharaa is a traitor to the heroic struggle of the Gazans.
Complete the revolution in Syria!
For the Arab revolution!
Endnotes:
[i] V. I. Lenin To the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.
Written on August 30 (September 12), 1917
[ii] https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-851366