FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
	International Communist Workers Party
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The war in Syria has created the worst refugee crisis in recent history. Millions of people have had to flee for their lives. Two thousand refugees have died in the Mediterranean this year, many of them from Syria—more than seven hundred in the past week alone.
They are fleeing from a civil war, which, after four and a half years, has killed hundreds of thousands and destroyed the lives of millions more. Most of them are Syrian working-class families. It seems there is no end to it anytime soon. The war started as a protest against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime over the arrest and torture of teenagers who wrote revolutionary slogans on  school walls. It escalated to full-blown civil war in a matter of months, releasing the anger of the Syrian people that had been building up over decades of oppression by the regime.       
The US imperialists encouraged this rebellion because they wanted to topple pro-Russian Assad, not because they care about the Syrian people.
 Similar situations happened in Libya, Egypt and other parts of the world. Workers are realizing that to end not just dictatorships but the entire capitalist system they must make a revolution. It is necessary that this revolution have the correct ideology. That is, the understanding of communist ideas. We must mobilize the masses, capable of destroying capitalism and all its evil, to create a communist society. Communism, by doing away with money and the whole profit system, will destroy the imperialist incentive for war.
While most casualties of the war have been the result of  Assad’s military and other pro-government militias, countries like the US and Russia have also killed thousands more with their murderous bombing campaigns.  Many others have died at the hands of various armed groups as well, like the Islamic State.
With various factions fighting over territory, ethnicity and ideology, Syria has turned into a deadly mess that only communism can resolve. Right now, imperialists like the US and Russia are taking this opportunity to influence and manipulate these kinds of wars for their own interests.
It is clear that this war to liberate Syria from the Assad dictatorship has turned into a proxy war between the US and Russia. This is part of the sharpening inter-imperialist rivalry between the US and Russia which will inevitably lead to World War III. With Russia becoming more powerful militarily and ambitious to become the next world power, it must support a dictator like Bashar al-Assad.  Russia provides weapons and military support to the regime to protect its interests.
For example, it keeps a naval base in Tartus, a city on the Mediterranean coast of Syria, strategically important to expand its control in the area. Russia’s alliance with Assad makes their maintenance of that base possible, and increases Russia’s ability to threaten US attempts to control the region.
 Imperialist countries that have economic, geographical and military interests are as guilty as the Assad regime and ISIS for all the casualties of the war.
In these wars, soldiers play a very important role in determining the outcome of the war. Soldiers are the main instruments the capitalists and imperialists in any country use to attain their objectives. The bosses’ main mistake is to underestimate the ability of soldiers to think and realize that they are fighting their class brothers and sisters. Soldiers armed with communist ideas can join them and turn the guns around to end imperialist wars everywhere.
The wars between imperialists for control and profits are inevitable as capitalist crises sharpen. But the working class, along with soldiers, together have the power to change this. We must learn that the bosses’ greed for power is endless.  Whatever imperialist power controls the world,  the working class will always lose. We don’t need a system where one class represses, kills and exploits another class for profit. We need a classless society where everything is based on meeting the workers’ need, not profit. Let’s fight for a communist society.

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