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Houmam al-Sayed (Syria), Namle, 2012. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. One of the most stunning events of the past few months has been the fall of Damascus. This fall had initially been expected over a decade ago, when rebel armies funded by Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the United States crowded around the edges of Syria and threatened then President Bashar al-Assad’s government. These armies, backed by rich and powerful countries, were comprised of a range of actors, including: swaths of people who were angered by the economic distress caused by the opening up of the economy and the subsequent devastation of small manufacturing businesses, which were suffering in the face of the emerging might of Turkish manufacturing...

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La Marx International The workers and peoples of the world celebrate and salute the fall of one of the most terrible dictatorships, one of the most horrific fascist regimes of our time. The armed struggle of Syrian militias on December 8, 2024 overthrew the dictatorship of Bashar Al Assad after 13 years of fighting. The armed revolution overthrew a regime that had been oppressing the people for 53 years since 1971 with the dictatorship of Hafed Al Assad, and then with the succession of his son Bashar Al Assad from the year 2000. This regime murdered more than half a million people, caused the forced exile of more than 5 million, and filled the prisons with thousands of political prisoners. The revolution freed thousands of political prisoners, liberated the cities and towns of Syria ...