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Comrade Eli, While I oppose imperialist intervention in Syria, that some mistaken leftists are giving support to and I agreemore with the recent ISO position stated on their Socialist Worker site, in recognizing imperialism as a danger, I just received more PSL statements that clearly gives back handed if not frontal support to Bashar al-Assadstaying in power - and not giving any support to any Syrians opposing Bashar al-Assad. So your statement below could be confusing - since Marxists certainly do care about the local situation of repressionand it is not clear when you state the current Syrian government has aided resistance movements. I have found noevidence that the Bashar al-Assad government aided the rebel uprising in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen orto efforts in even Malaysia with thatr local rebel upsurge as part of the Arab Awakening? Perhaps you were referring to SOME past events in Lebanon, but certainly not the current situation there with themain Hezbollah formations distancing themselves from Bashar al-Assad as well? Do you welcome the removal of Bashar al-Assad from power and a workers government being established?Do you support those Syrians trying to do just that? Or - do you really give uncritical support to Bashar al-Assad and his cronies - because the United States government wants him also replacedand you actually favor doing nothing against the current government attacks on free speech and organizing - and just let the current situtationcontinue for years - until Bashar al-Assad's child can then be the new supreme ruler -and the U. S. government then officially supports that newdictator? > Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:16:00 -0700 > From: elishasteph...@hotmail.com > Subject: Re: [Marxism] North Star shows the way to imperialist intervention > > > Louis: "the PSL--unlike the ISO--is actually pro-Assad" > > From a recent article: > http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/letters/readers-thoughts-on-syria-tayfu > n-gol.html > > "The Syrian government is bourgeois nationalist, and in recent years in > particular has adopted social and economic policies that have increased the > hardship on poor and working people, especially young workers. As in all > capitalist societies, it deploys forces of repression like the police to > protect this unequal order. Syria carries out a contradictory, but > independent, foreign policy, assisting resistance movements on the one hand, > but at other times aligning with the imperialists based on its own narrow > interests." > > Eli Stephens > Left I on the News > http://lefti.blogspot.com > > > > ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
