On Sunday, December 8, at dawn, the world woke up to the news of the fall of the Syrian regime and the flight of Bashar al-Assad "to an unknown destination." At the same time, the entry of the forces of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham and the National Army, bloody terrorist groups supported by Turkey, America and Zionism, into Damascus was announced. Indeed, on November 27, 2024, that is, the very day that the cessation of war was signed between the Zionist entity and the Lebanese resistance, a large-scale attack was launched from the northwestern border with Turkey, passing through the most important cities of Syria: Aleppo, then Hama, then Homs, to Damascus.

The attack was carried out and the cities were penetrated one after the other without significant resistance, as the Syrian army continued to withdraw each time under the pretext of “redeployment” or “concern for sparing blood” until it completely evaporated along with the security services. Subsequently, it was confirmed that the matter was linked to previous arrangements that had apparently been approved at the Doha meeting that brought together Russia, Iran and Turkey, and that Bashar al-Assad was abandoned. The green light was reportedly given to his government and his army, security, parliament and all the institutions of his regime to hand over power “peacefully” to the new invaders in exchange for special Turkish guarantees to Russia, stipulating that some of its vital interests would not be harmed.

The Tunisian Workers' Party, while renewing its bias towards the brotherly Syrian people who have suffered the most serious injustices under the Assad family regime for more than half a century, and reiterating its support for their just and legitimate democratic aspirations:

- calls on the Syrian people to be wary of the new invaders, because they are not liberators, but rather creations of the colonial powers, the Zionist entity and Erdogan's Turkey, and servants of their project to tear apart the unity of Syria, and to divide the areas of influence within it and in the region, particularly targeting the resistance in order to bury the Palestinian cause. It is not enough to get rid of the tyrannical regime of the Assad family to achieve salvation. Rather, we must think about who will replace it so that Syria does not fall into the clutches of a new tyrannical regime in the hands of the new invaders, perhaps even more odious than the previous one.

- also calls on the brotherly Syrian people and their democratic forces (parties, organizations and unions) to unite around a national rescue program that realizes freedom, democracy and social justice, and establishes national sovereignty by driving out all invaders from the country. This must include rejecting the American, Turkish and Russian military bases, and liberating the occupied Syrian territories and confronting the Zionist aggression that has been spreading since the arrival of terrorist groups in Damascus, and supporting the Palestinian cause and resistance in Palestine and Lebanon.

- affirms its conviction that Syria needs a regime that will put an end to tyranny and dictatorship and open the way to freedom and equality within the framework of full and effective citizenship guaranteeing a democratic solution to the Kurdish question which, for centuries, has served as a blackmail card in the hands of colonialism and reactionary regimes in the region.

- calls on all the forces of freedom and progress in the region to realize the seriousness of the repercussions of what is happening in Syria on our countries and peoples, which obliges them to stand firmly with the Syrian people in these critical moments and to stay away from narrow calculations. The revolutionary and progressive forces of Turkey are called upon to confront the expansionist ambitions of their Sultan Erdogan and to pressure him to withdraw from Syria, respect the sovereignty of his lands, stop supporting terrorist groups and cooperating with the usurping and fascist Zionist entity.

- calls on the Arab peoples and their revolutionary, progressive and patriotic forces to realize the danger of the current situation for the Palestinian people, their cause and their resistance, as well as for the Lebanese people and their resistance. All the plots, coups and attacks that are taking place are aimed at the Palestinian issue, which is destined to be buried and ended in order to open a “new era” based on normalization with the usurper entity within the framework of the “Deal of the Century” and Donald Trump’s “Abraham Accords”.

- calls on the Arab peoples to learn the great lesson of the fall of the authoritarian regime of the Assad family. Tyrants do not build nations and do not advance peoples. On the contrary, they tear them apart, destroy them, humiliate them, condemn them to backwardness and afflict them with a weakness that allows foreign colonial powers to infiltrate and dominate them. The Arab peoples must, here and now, take their destiny in hand and progress towards achieving their liberation and unity on solid democratic and popular bases. Our peoples deserve liberation, independence, democracy, progress and social justice, and this is a mission that is theirs and that cannot be accomplished in their place either by foreign powers or by their local lackeys.

- claims that the apparent stability that the regimes of exploitation and treason “enjoy” in our Arab region, especially in the Gulf, are the result of particular circumstances and not of the integrity of their political, economic, social or cultural systems. These regimes are the most backward, the most brutal, the most tyrannical and the most violators of the rights of individuals, women and minorities in the world. Today, they are thriving because of their treason, their enormous wealth that allows them to buy external protection, but also because of the delay in political awareness in these societies, which will not last. The winds of liberation will sooner or later sweep them away, as well as their protectors, the colonial and Zionist forces.

- urges all revolutionary and progressive democratic forces in the world that are hostile to imperialism, colonialism and Zionism to stand with the Syrian people and support them in realizing their dream of building a national, democratic and popular regime and expelling all foreign powers, armies, mercenaries and military bases from their lands. It also calls on them to be aware of the threat to world peace in the form of a catastrophic world war resulting from the tensions in the region that are constantly fueled and fanned by US imperialism.

- It also calls on the Tunisian people and its progressive forces to be more vigilant and prepared for the political and security repercussions of what is happening in Syria and the entire region, which requires supporting the brotherly Syrian people and redoubling efforts in supporting the Palestinian cause so that the enemy camp does not take advantage of the opportunity to liquidate the Palestinian cause once and for all. It is also called upon to learn from the experience of the tyrannical regime in Syria, which collapsed in a few days due to the lack of real popular support, despite the high percentages of the simulated elections and the scale of the apparatuses of repression and enslavement.

Tunisian Workers' Party
Tunis, December 10, 2024

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