The World Anti-Imperialist Platform
This year marks the centenary of the founding of the Syrian-Lebanese Communist Party. The Syrian-Lebanese Communist Party, founded in 1924 under the colonial rule of French imperialism, has, from its very beginnings, educated the people, organized them and mobilized them in the struggle. It is committed to opposing imperialism and achieving independence and socialism, in the face of the West Asian hegemonic strategies of American imperialism and Israeli Zionism, following in the footsteps of French imperialism. The Syrian-Lebanese Communist Party, the oldest party in the Levant, along with the Palestinian Communist Party, has remained faithful to its mission and revolutionary obligations from yesterday to today, and continues to move forward.
Over the last century, the Syrian Communist Party and the Lebanese Communist Party have enjoyed a glorious history of struggle for the revolutionary development of Western Asia, overcoming all kinds of trials and difficulties. They strengthened and developed the parties through all kinds of adverse conditions such as illegalization, civil wars and internal repression. Even after the split, rooted in a common origin, they strengthened their unity as comrades and played a key role as the revolutionary vanguard in their respective countries and as the leading forces of West Asian liberation. It also achieved brilliant successes in its internationalist activities. In particular, the anti-imperialist actions carried out jointly with the World Anti-imperialist Platform in Caracas, Venezuela, in March last year, and in Gwangju, “Republic of Korea (ROK)”, in May this year, are living examples of the internationalist spirit that leads oppressed and exploited peoples suffering imperialist aggression, massacres, domination and exploitation on the road to liberation and emancipation.
The war in Western Asia explodes in the imperialist camp. The genocide of Palestinians by Israeli Zionist forces, the assassination of leading anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist figures such as the Secretary General of Hezbollah and the head of the political bureau of Hamas, as well as the bombing of Beirut in Lebanon, Damascus in Syria and Teheran in Iran, are heinous atrocities committed by the imperialist camp in order to explode the war in West Asia and intensify the Third World War into a full-scale military confrontation. The vicious provocations of the imperialist camp, inciting a war to the death against the “axis of resistance” and Islamic forces, clearly demonstrate who is responsible for World War 3 and the war in West Asia. The anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist strategy for the liberation of West Asia of the Syrian Communist Party and the Lebanese Communist Party once again proves its scientific and revolutionary nature in the critical situation of World War 3 and the war in West Asia, and illustrates the way forward for the Arab nation.
All the anti-imperialist forces of the world must unite on a single front, an anti-imperialist front, and rise up in the anti-imperialist struggle. Western Asia is one of the three theaters of the Third World War, and the expansion of the war in Western Asia is closely linked to the expansion of the war in Eastern Europe and the outbreak of war in the Western Pacific. This is why revolutionary parties the world over must lead the peoples of the world in common anti-imperialist action. The World Anti-Imperialist Platform is convinced that the Syrian Communist Party and the Lebanese Communist Party will continue to fight for the liberation of the peoples of West Asia, as they have done to date. Bearing the banners “People of the world, unite!” and “The people, united, will never be defeated”, the World Anti-Imperialist Platform will continue to stand in solidarity with the communist, anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist forces in West Asia, and advance towards the realization of global independence and genuine peace.
October 26, 2024, Dakar, Republic of Senegal
