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Rojava must be saved! Defend Rojava!
The following statement in defence of the Rojava region of north-east Syria is currently being signed by affiliates of the International Coordination of Revolutionary parties and Organisations (ICOR). Our Party has signed the statement. We urge any people able to attend today's rally outside Parliament House, Canberra, to do so - eds.
Immediate stop to the attacks by the jihadist-fascist HTS!
Imperialists, fascists, and Zionists, get out of Syria!
Democracy and freedom for the peoples of Syria!
In the wake of imperialist aggression in Venezuela, the ongoing genocide in Palestine, and recent developments in Iran, a genocide by the imperialist henchmen HTS against the Kurdish population in the districts of Şêxmeqsûd and Eşrefiyê began in the Syrian city of Aleppo. 120,000 people were displaced and hundreds were killed while putting up a self-sacrificing resistance. Let us remember that Hayat Tharir al-Sham (HTS) is a reactionary Islamist organization that was close to al-Qaeda for a time and has been in power in Syria since Bashar al-Assad fled, and has been removed from the list of terrorist organizations by Western imperialists. Meanwhile, the Zionist occupying power is putting its expansionist megalomania for a Greater Israel in Syria into practice, having already taken the Golan Heights.
Military aggression is spreading. The Golani regime and Ankara advanced in a coordinated manner in the affected areas with over 40,000 jihadists, hundreds of tanks, and modern military equipment. The jihadist gangs of the so-called Syrian army are bombing Dair Hafir and the strategic Tişrîn dam, among other places, with simultaneous Turkish drone attacks in the region. The attacks were extended to the rest of Rojava, including the provinces of Deir-e-Zor and Raqqa.
These attacks are taking place against the backdrop of the fascist Turkish state's colonial occupation efforts in northern and eastern Syria, its hostility toward the Kurdish people, the imperialist-Zionist intervention in Syria, and the security negotiations between HTS and Israel in Paris.
They are a continuation of HTS's aggression against the peoples of Syria, beginning with massacres against the Alawites, Druze, Palestinian refugees and resistance forces, and especially women. They are directed above all against the revolutionary and democratic achievements in North and East Syria, such as the groundbreaking position of women in society, the council organizations with national and religious equality, and the legitimate self-defense of the peoples. According to their commander Mazlum Abdi, the Syrian Democratic Forces have withdrawn to avoid civil war and further bloodshed. The agreed peace process was torpedoed by the Islamist-fascist Syrian government.
HTS is a force that has been deliberately promoted and controlled by the British and US secret services and forms a coalition of deeply reactionary, misanthropic gangs, most of whom are not Syrian and are successors to ISIS. They are the enemies of Syria, who will bring neither democracy nor stability to Syria, but immeasurable suffering and oppression. The fact that they attack infrastructure, kill civilians, and throw people out of their homes illustrates their character. They have close ties to Saudi Arabia and Turkey, serve imperialist and Zionist interests, and allow important parts of Syria to be occupied in order to redraw the region.
As the International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations (ICOR), we stand in full solidarity with the revolutionary forces in northern and eastern Syria and the broad masses of Syria who yearn for democracy and freedom.
We stand alongside the struggles of the peoples of Syria for their own liberation from imperialist, colonial intervention and occupation by Turkey, Israel, and US imperialism.
We stand with the Kurdish people and behind their legitimate demands for self-determination and a free life in dignity.
Only the peoples themselves will be able to liberate themselves. But they need the international solidarity of the workers and peoples of the world. That is why we call for Solidarity with the peoples of northern and eastern Syria against the current and future attacks that are being prepared. You are not alone!
Fight the fascist HTS, henchmen of imperialism!
Stop the Turkish occupation of Syria!
Stop imperialist and Zionist intervention in Syria!
For a united democratic republic of Syria and the right of self-determination for the Kurds and all other ethnic groups!
Status of the signatories 20.01.2026. Further signatures possible. Current list of signatories at www.icor.info
1.ORC Organisation Révolutionnaire du Congo (Revolutionary Organization of Congo), Democratic Republic of the Congo
2.PPDS Parti Patriotique Démocratique Socialiste (Patriotic Democratic Socialist Party), Tunisia
3.NCP (Mashal) Nepal Communist Party (Mashal)
4.RUFN Revolutionary United Front of Nepal
5.CPA/ML Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
6.Krasnyj Klin Аб'яднання беларускіх камуністаў «Чырвоны Клін» (Association of Belarusian Communists «Red Wedge»), Belarus
7.БКП Българска Комунистическа Партия (Bulgarian Communist Party)
8.PR-ByH Partija Rada - ByH (Party of Labor - Bosnia and Herzegovina)
9.MLPD Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany)
10.UPML Union Prolétarienne Marxiste-Léniniste (Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Union), France
11.KOL Kommunistische Organisation Luxemburg (Communist Organization of Luxemburg)
