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In 2011, a historical moment began, a wave of protests emerged around the planet.
Each one had its own characteristics, but there was something in common:
the desire for self-determination and every person's need to develop.
I started to follow bloggers and artists from Syria.
A strong artistic movement was born and spread through the Internet.
I saw in them the kind of honesty, beauty and sensibility that made me believe in their revolution.
Behind the images of destruction and violence that tell us about a senseless war,
there was a hidden story of activists who started
a revolution unique in history.
“I scream that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd
but I cannot doubt my scream and I need, at least,
to believe in my protest”
In the cities that border Turkey, a few kilometers from the Syrian border,
many activists that started the revolution get together.
There, in exile, they continue their activism, waiting for an opportunity
to go back home and be able to keep on with the projects
that expressed the spirit of autonomy and self-determination.
The activists spread the revolutionary scream of a people
silenced by prejudices and by the interests on the area.
With the idea of getting to know these projects,
I traveled to Turkey hoping to go inside Syria.
Depending on the level of clashes, the Syrian borders are closed or opened.
The people want to overthrow the regime
In 2011, rejecting four decades of authoritarian government,
the Syrian people took to the streets demanding freedom,
dignity and social justice. A Revolution had been born.
The absence of dignity is the driving force of any revolution
that devotes itself to the desire of acquiring
a life worthy of being precisely lived.
Somebody came out to demand all of what we have always dreamt about
It was surprising to me that there was a revolution in Syria
The beginning of the dream begins to become true all the youth was there, inside the movement.
People from all sects and beliefs, all the population was in the street.
The grassroots work done by the activists
was the great driving force of the revolution.
It was those honest voices coming from the heart that we could learn from.
They might not be the voices that are heard the most
And they might not be the strongest actors
but I see in them something that identified
with a struggle I share
The whole media has silenced the Syrian revolution
that started in March of 2011.
It was a revolution that broke with the allowed blueprints.
A revolution that didn't want power because it had no leaders.
A revolution born from the grassroots, from autonomy, solidarity and mutual support.
A revolution that we could learn from to get rid of our own regimes.
I belong to this revolution that surpasses national borders.
I love all revolutions
I love the revolutionaries that understand
its meaning, its morals, its aspirations and its vision
After the revolution in Tunisia, there were calls for the mobilization of the Syrian youth.
to demand freedom, take down the emergency laws and put an end to the situation of control by the security apparatuses.
We started like the rest of young people: with our dream of a free Syria in the future, a better Syria.
Our collective participated in many activities, we had field hospitals from the beginning, where we offered help to the wounded.
We did marches, demonstrations, we distributed leaflets to raise awareness.
After that we agreed on doing these activities at neighborhood level, for example.
The people themselves, we called for marches or distributed leaflets
At the first stage we started by raising people’s awareness about why the revolution and why freedom
and why we had to do something now
For example, at night we went to the houses to give out leaflets door to door and after that we made graffiti on the walls, about the revolution
The different groups started to know each other, building the Aleppo Youth Coordinating Group
Not understanding the popular uprising in Syria drives us
away from creating an effective international solidarity network,
leaving the Syrian people in the hands of the geo-strategy
of international agendas in the area.
We created local councils for each neighborhood in Aleppo.
The goal of the local councils was to administrate each neighborhood
For example, a group of young people that fix the electricity system damaged during the bombardment,
fixing the potable water supply system and the communication networks
There were other tasks in the hands of the local council, as the humanitarian aid, statistics…
Its way is democratic, but of course it’s not complete
but we are doing as much as possible for the civil institutions to play their role.
I think it’s one of the projects that was successful and now it’s very necessary. It was a direct consequence of the revolution.
The kind of change that allows you to build a state governed by the rule of law is one of the most important goals of the revolution
we were fed up of being ruled by the military, the tyrants.
tired of the judicial, legislative and executive powers being mixed up.
We will continue until the liberation of all Syria from the regime of Bashar al Assad
The different collectives and autonomous groups would get together and coordinate
regardless of the ideology, political or the social vision they might have
we didn’t exclude any group that would participate with us
there are Kurdish, Arab people, there are Alawi, Shia
There was no political party behind the protest
there was no ideology.
There was something tactical from the people
that simply had slogans of dignity and freedom
against the regime and they wanted them to be implemented.
So tactical structures were built
and they became the coordinating groups,
they mobilized the protests and later
in the areas where the state's structure had more or less disappeared,
and I mean, the State's structure, even the services provided by the State,
they started to work to make up for the needs of the people,
creating some kind of autonomous entity in that city that could,
more or less, keep it going. Or even,
in the areas where the regime was still present,
these people tried to break ties,
so as to stop needing the regime to get bread, medicine, etc.
Intellectuals like Yassin al Hajj Saleh,
who spent more than 15 years in prison,
and like the Syrian anarchist Omar Aziz,
influenced the birth of the local committees across Syria.
The Syrian revolution is organized under a new paradigm
that the classic left is not used to, it has grown obsolete.
it hasn’t done any self criticism,
not about the way they approach, nor their theories
or the fundaments of their thought
they still believe that the revolution needs a leader
a leadership and a specific ideology to be a revolution
to them, forces of a specific color are necessary
to lead the revolutionary process and to mobilize the public opinion
But… a revolution with no leader,
not being under the direction of a revolutionary party?
I believe their idea crashed a long time ago.
Every Syrian turned into an activist.
They had done everything they could for the revolution.
There was a recurring feeling that they could do more.
One could sleep even less hours, build more collectives, keep fighting
Hundreds of projects based on solidarity and mutual support were built across Syria.
One of the biggest achievements of the revolution
was the creation of the local committees and the local councils.
A forum where every village or neighborhood organized horizontally,
non-hierarchically and independently,
based on mutual support and solidarity,
with the goal of stimulating the social revolution.
Educational, humanitarian and independent media projects were created.
It is here where the social revolution takes place
place along with the radical transformation of the people's values. ll
The most beautiful thing is being besides them,
seeing how they lived together,
how they cared for each other, how they loved each other.
Always together in a living room, 5 or 6 people,
working with their computers until the late night hours.
It was a whole communal living,
and despite the hard news coming from Syria,
there was always a smile in their faces, a hug, a joke.
If the world had lost its humanity,
here in every apartment the activists
activists would make a more human world grow.
There was no hijab back then and I could go out with my hair loose between the Majahaidin
I will show you those from Daesh (Islamic State)
Show me one of the deserters
What deserters?
From Daesh
I don’t have them, I lost it
Hundreds of citizen reporters took to the streets
streets to film and document what was going on.
The beauty and honesty of their images
were their weapons against the big mass media
that only dealt with geopolitical subjects,
the militarization, Islamism and sectarianism,
forgetting the people's struggle for freedom, dignity and self-determination.
Look, look at the ashes
It has chemical and poison products, when it explotes, a smell comes out of the rocket and it kills you
This town suffers a lot from the family of al Assad
The regime, that presented itself as democratic and socialist,
was aware of the danger of revealing its true face,
as repressive, controlling and sadist.
It hunted down the activists from the beginning.
Many were detained, tortured and murdered.
For me the revolution has changed my life
I had an IT store in the Asrafia neighborhood
when the revolution started I set up a media center
for the activists to come and upload videos and publish them on the internet
The regime attacked my store and detained 4 activists
the idea of the revolution has influenced me a lot
When my store was destroyed, I didn’t care
despite being the result of 7 years of hard work
I didn’t have a problem with that because I believed in the revolution and its goals
On a personal level, the revolution had changed me so much
I used to live a normal life, I had finished my studies a year ago
I used to go everyday to work at my store and come back home, I had friends…
We didn’t think about our rights as citizens, as we do now.
Of course we knew that the regime was not democratic
But we didn’t feel the need to change or that we had to tell him “No”
If our parents had survived these circumstances their sons would too
The revolution has taught us to say enough is enough to all our mistakes, all dictatorships.
to say no to all forms of extremism. A deeper relationship between the people was built
The camera became my life
it was my only link to the people, the only way to show the reality
and make the people watch the TV
or the contrary: that the people watching TV would move into Syria and watch what was happening there
The goal was not only to get rid of Bashar al Assad and let another one come. No.
We looked for something more important, the public liberties
that the people knew their rights and duties
we have many rights prohibited in Syria,
like the freedom of thought, of belief
religion, the freedom to be whoever you are, all of that was forbidden
I remember that in one of the posters we demanded “a state under the rule of law”
with no other attribute (secular, civil, islamic, etc.)
we needed a “state under the rule of law”, a state of justice…
I was detained the next day… I used to be into theatre and I had an audition that day,
when the political brigade of the military security broke into and detained me at the theatre…
I was approximately 8 days in solitary confinement
and of course, the psychological pain is uglier than the physical.
I walked out carrying in my memory the darkness
I saw inside and the amount of injustice…
Well, this film can explain why the revolution got armed…
I am a pacifist person and I’m against the use of weapons,
but this doesn’t erase the fact that many people
took up on arms the right way
because of the number of massacres committed by the regime
that goes beyond all human endurance…
The regime wasn’t only attacking armed groups,
but the activities that were purely civil and pacific
he could fight the armed groups in battles and sometimes win
but the civil movement, he didn’t know how to stop it
He was not able to face it… so the solution was to bomb it…
So this short documentary “Morter”, was the film
that allowed me to express a simple idea, despite its short duration
Freedom, freedom, we want freedom Despite you Bashar
I’m nostalgic of freedom The people are not safe in their houses
- did you get hurt? - I’m ok, are you ok?
Can we talk about a category of life
when the conditions of such lived life
have more in common with the conditions of death?
We would have to define again
what we call life and what is death
death when betting for death is precisely a vindication
of the life that could not be lived.
For 8 months, the demonstrations went on peacefully.
Meanwhile, the State carried on a wild war against the people.
Dignity works as the incentive of a conscience
that would rather die in dignity than live as a slave
deprived of any possible kind of dignity.
The international powers have never wanted to take part in Syria
They'd rather have a dictator with whom they can keep a good relationship
and that guarantees stability in the area.
Showing how power, in its body of nations,
be they the US, Russia, Qatar, Iran or Europe,
it's an alliance that imposes its authority over the planet and its peoples.
I used to move deserters with false documents
from Damascus to Daara and after that Jordan, in my car
I made a lot of trips and in the last one
I got detained
at the check point with five young men
I was taken to the military base of Sandmen, Daraa
I was in solitary confinement. With nothing
Three days with no water, food, nothing to cover myself
I was interrogated four times
The four times I was beaten so much
I was in solitary confinement. Couldn’t even go to the toilet
They used all kinds of tortures.
We were beaten with an electric wire.
Also with a big green stick
They called it “The Brahimi green” (El Brahimi is the director of the UN mission in Syria)
I was like that for 25 days
They used a technique, a hook on the ceiling
they hanged your hands down
and your feet won’t touch the ground
they also tortured with a technique called the wheel.
they threw cold water on me and then electricity, with little clothing on.
We were about 3 months like this every day and every night.
Constant interrogatories, and they beat us, but less than at the beginning.
1963. A military regime is imposed on Syria;
Hafez al Assad is in charge of the army
The state of emergency is declared in the country.
Arbitrary detentions, political trials in military courts, and prosecution of opponents
a regime of terror and security is set up.
1970. Hafez al Assad arrives to power.
1976. The Syrian army occupies the north of Lebanon
after the invasion of the south of Lebanon by Israel.
Along with Israel and the Christian phalanges of Lebanon
they collaborate in the siege and the slaughter of more than 3000 Palestinians
in the refugee camp of Tel al Zaatar.
1980. His brother is in charge of suffocating a popular uprising in Hama
murdering around 40,000 people.
2000. Hafez al Assad dies and his son Bashar al Assad takes power
putting an end to the calls for reforms and opening measures in the politics of the country.
Through intelligence and security services he imposes a neoliberal regime,
with privatizations and deregulation, Soviet Union breakdown style.
In his particular case, he concentrated business and wealth
in his cousin Rami Makhlouf, who controlled 60% of the country's economy,
while the poverty line reached 33% of the population
government and more than 40 years of Assad family dictatorship.
We had the feeling that the people had to reach a limit and rebel
because of injustice, poverty. The people who were born poor,
the political call to an economic opening being implemented by the regime
this policy had increased the poverty rates of the dominated class
increasing the death of those who were already rich
So I felt that all those opressed classes one day would rise up
but at the same time I also had the thought that it was impossible for this society to rise
because the regime had such a strong security structure
that comprised all institutions
with no kind of participation of the people
All the workers’ unions, all the political parties and every civil society organization
was monitored by the regime security apparatuses.
So, how could people rise up! It was impossible.
The entities that should have represented their true interests
were dominated by the regime
I suffered because of the regime and its injustice.
For example, when I finished the Friday speeches at the mosques,
someone called Abu Hassan, from the military security, would come
and tell me “you didn’t send prayers for the president today”
I would apologize and tell him “I’m sorry, I forgot”.
In Syria before, we could not show solidarity with any cause,
we would only comment amongst friends
this or that happened in Serbia, or Somalia or Ethiopia
or any other place where massacres were being committed
places where there were conflicts or natural disasters
we were not even allowed to show solidarity for Palestine
This regime, considered anti-imperialist
at world level (as all its empty slogans)
repressed the demonstration we organized
to support Palestinians during the second intifada
and prohibited a massive sit-in to be held in the University of Aleppo
This regime prevented us from going out to protest against the US occupation of Iraq
despite selling itself internationally as anti-occupation
even its TV won the price for “resistance media”.
The regime was like a fake screen that prevented any kind of communication.
we knew everything was a lie,
we were against the American occupation in Iraq,
and at the same time against the dictator Saddam Hussein…
we don’t support any dictator in the world…
But after all, after the 15th of March, we saw and lived the solidarity
you couldn’t find anyone who would not see
that Saddam was a dictator and that the Americans occupied Iraq
and that Bashar al Assad was not anti-Israeli
but that he defended its presence in the Golan Heights.
There is a type of complicity between all big powers in the world.
Their vision of our area is funded on the concept of stability.
There sources of stability, geo-strategic sources related to oil,
to the international political interests, that push for this stability to be a priority.
Stability meaning that all the peoples of our area are put inside brackets
which means it doesn’t matter what happens as long as everything is stable and calmed.
And regarding what may happen to the Syrians, the Palestinians or the Egyptians, their importance is of second degree.
The international powers accommodate with those political structures they choose
these societies have not produced these political structures that rule over them,
and the international powers, clearly treat this societies in a colonial way,
as the French have treated us when they occupied.
Truth is the Assadist regime have treated Syrians worse that those French colonialists at every level.
Not only regarding the number of murders, deaths or spilled blood, also in terms of the creation of a sectarian division.
Syrians and Palestinians are not visible for the international dominant powers in the world.
We Syrians are a source of problems to the regime and also to the forces that lead the world system.
It’s not surprising that the regime has done this to Syrians and Palestinians.
The regime has clear antecedents. “Tal Al Zatar” was a Palestinian camp in Lebanon
that was assaulted after 70 days of siege, leaving hundreds of dead Palestinians.
it shouldn’t surprise us that who kills with scud missiles also uses hunger and siege as a way to kill.
The strongest, clearest, most vigorous and deepest intervention is the Russian one:
weapons, money and political support,
and Iran, that sends weapons, men, it sends militias
to fight with the Syrian regime.
This is already public knowledge and they are proud of it
with an extremely dangerous sectarian language.
They want to adulterate what goes on in Syria,
reducing a popular uprising against a terrible tyranny to a sectarian war
where there are only bad guys.
Rusia, Iran and the Syrian regime profit from this framing,
but also the US and Europe.
There is no more moral duty to protect the civil population from the tyrant,
but a civil war in which any political solution must be sought.
simply the war must end, What war? Yes, there is a war in Syria.
The war of a tyrant against the people, not a civil war between two factions.
This is very clear to those who want to see.
The problem is there are political, moral and cultural barriers.
For many people, who simply do not want to see,
it's more comfortable to read it the other way and they'd rather keep that thought,
instead of taking a position more determined, clear and,
in my opinion, more moral.
As a form of self-defense, the Free Syrian Army is created,
to protect the people against the violence of the State.
“A living man can be enslaved and reduced
to the historical condition of an object.
But if he dies refusing to be enslaved,
he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature,
that refuses to be classified as an object”.
After my arrest, it was the beginning of what we can call the militarization of the movement in Syria.
The nucleus built from the army’s desertion was being born.
I was one of the first detainees, which made me fear that the authorities would arrest me again.
This made me come closer to the first units of the Free Syrian Army that were being built.
We are here in the city with the guy who launches the rockets. Hello, how are you?
Good, all good
- Did you bring down any plane today?
- Today we couldn’t because no low flying planes have passed today, only some flying high.
- ah, that’s why you are sad
- yes
- and yesterday, did you bring down any?
- yes, yesterday we brought down two
At the beginning we went out in peaceful demonstrations, 10-15minutes and then we run away.
Overtime we wanted to stay longer, until we reached 30min of demonstration
you kept counting because you knew at the end of that half an hour, security and police would come for you
two or three people started to carry their hunting weapons, sometimes a rifle.
They will stand at the crossroads around the protests to protect them.
The security forces stopped coming to the protests but they’d detain us at the checkpoints.
At the checkpoints the regime humiliated everybody, even kids, women and old people
for a matter of dignity and self defense the checkpoints started being attacked.
Also buses filled with security forces coming to assault the towns were attacked.
So step by step we defended ourselves from the security forces and the police, we would take their weapons, so we gradually had more weapons.
It remained like that until we had positions, until we started to free towns.
that’s when the regime started to use aerial force and bomb us.
Those planes come out of the military bases. For example, you are in a town and the regime is bombing you from the military base next to it.
Civilian lives are at risk, your close relatives and friends.
so, what do you do as a free army? either you leave the city or you attack that base.
People would gather and they were not units or brigades yet in its broader sense
but just different groups of people who would gather and set targets.
For example, we decided to attack that checkpoint, we set up a date. Every person with access to weapons, they should bring them.
This one has a riffle, that one tommy gun, that one a gun… we put them all together and we make a plan.
Many times we were not successful, but it was something. We would bother them and make them know they can’t do anything they want.
God is great, here is brigade 5, here are your weapons Bashar
We were divided in specialities. One for example: the Office of movement, the legal office.
This is when everyone knew what his responsibilities were.
This is when we where in the stage of preparation, each group, the people from the committee, the revolutionaries on the ground.
We were trying to prepare something we later called the Free Syrian Army.
The military committee got together in Menbij and they were all under civil management.
It is the revolutionary committee thats under the rule of a civilian, an engineer, a teacher, a civilian.
Everything was organized, no decisions were made about any battle, any fight, without the order of a revolutionary committee.
But suddenly a lot of brigades were formed, militias and groups. This is when the revolutionary committee started to loose power.
The good ones weakened while the bad ones rose up and floated when they could freely belong and participate in the activities of other militias
extremists, both islamist or those of theifs or gangs, and they grew stronger than the revolutionaries.
and we have 2.500.000 people in hard access areas like Al Ghouta, without food neither basic resources
and this hunger is politically fabricated by the regime.
and this is one of the weapons of war that the regime uses against Syrians.
we are truly under very harsh conditions not very easily found in history
in a process of massive and systematic destruction carried out by
a nucleus of tyrannic power with no other view of the country,
and no other goal than to retain power until the end.
And they are ready to do anything for this goal.
This people from the regime have been very clear,
they have always been ready to do anything for this goal
“Al Assad or we burn the country” “Al Assad or nothing” “Al Assad or no country”,
different ways to express what ends up being the same thing.
All of these affected me,
I was scared most of the time,
I had fear of losing something,
something precious that I thought obvious: humanity.
I didn't want to be tougher, I was afraid of being stronger,
“being human is all I have”.
I told myself: “I cannot be human if I continue living this way”.
The FSA is created, the Free Syrian Army,
from deserters of the regime's army who refused to shoot the people,
and from civilians who supported the revolution.
The Free Army began to liberate cities, especially in the north,
leaving the management of these in the hands of civilians.
Clashes between the Free Army and the regime's army are continuous.
In the areas with a Kurdish majority, they are the ones who take power,
varying their politics from total support of the revolution
to collaboration with the regime.
During 2013, ISIS appears as one of the strongest counter-revolutionary groups,
attacking the Free Army from the rearguard
and avoiding as much as possible clashing against the regime's army.
It takes control of some of the liberated areas,
imposing a new dictatorship of the “Islamic Caliphate”.
Reactionary and extremist groups appear in Syria searching the power
With the intention of impose their puritan vision of Islam
In January 2014 starts a second revolution against the powers of Daesh
Islamic state of Iraq and Syria, also know as ISIS.
The define themselves as a excision from AlQuaeda
but their origin is unknown
For the Syrian revolutionaries the Islamic state is
a contra revolutionary power
That never confronts in battles with the Syrian regime,
the same way the regime never bombs the bases of the Islamic state
Isis constantly kidnaps and kill activist inside the free areas
From the begging of the revolution, until october 2011
the syrian regime let out from their prisons lot of islamist prisoners,
wile thousand of activist rest in prison.
There is numerous testimonies of how islamist groups
like ISIS and jabhat Al Nusra are infiltrated
by inteligency agents from Syria and Iran
The bloodthirsty Syrian regime use the existence of the Islamic state
to present him us the minor of the problems
in the fight of occident against the extremist islamist terrorism
We have stages, the first one after the Syrian revolution, it’s not a democratic country
nor secular nor any of that we dreamt of, never! because revolutions come in stages,
first the dictatorial regime falls, then maybe a national bourgeoisie
it can be semi dictatorial or maybe semi islamist and those are Daesh and the moderate islamists,
and all of those the people are going to reject them, because of their extremism and dictatorship, which will made those forces to moderate
- and who could think that Ahrar al Sham would fight ISIS?
Those, just like Liwa al-Tawhid and the rest of big units, do you think we are proud if they defeat Daesh?
Are you represented by Liwa al-Tawhid? are you represented by these units?
- Of course, if they defeat ISIS.
- why?
- Because we don’t have any other alternative
- That’s it, this is what have destroyed the Syrian revolution, thinking this is the only alternative.
- But what’s wrong with Liwa al-Tawhid?
- That they have turned into extremists, they have declared themselves as the Mother Theresa of the revolution
And they are exactly the same, the regime and Daesh are the same thing with a different name.
Daesh is a dictatorship and Bashar al Assad is a dictatorship.
Assad is unfair and Daesh is unfair
There’s no difference but their clothing and their ideological basis.
Assad is sectarian and pushes for a sectarian slaughter, and also Daesh is sectarian and pushes for a sectarian slaughter.
The real revolutionary, that went out against the police, against the regime’s apparatus of control
that would stand in front of a tank, in front of the gun and the bullets, he will always have the loudest voice
It cannot be silenced, not with Daesh, Bashar or anybody else
The same happened in Menbij, every now and then we would go out to protest against the Islamic State and we had no fear
We walked past their headquarters, although once they shot in the air to scare us away and shut us up.
The last protest we did against them, they came hooded and armed.
They were supposed to scare us. but when they saw we had no fear,
they joined the demonstration and they were clapping!
We found them murdered like that, ISIS did this. - An Islamic State does this?
Killing people shooting in the head?
Syrian Palestinians living in Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus
have been victims of a brutal siege that has caused severe starvation.
The Palestinian refugees in Syria are more than 500.000
and they are directly affected by the current situation
The’ve paid a high price for being in the middle of the situation.
There are a lot of Palestinian refugee camps in Syria,
more than twelve, the biggest one is called Yarmouk.
It’s been under siege for more than 12 months,
since December the 8th, 2012, by the Syrian regime,
its army and militias, with the help of Hezbollah
the first goal of the siege is to get people to accept their conditions.
Under the campaign either you surrender or you die.
What it’s happening today is one of the greatest
slaughters in the history of human kind.
It’s very embarrassing that the world is watching
so many human rights violations happening today
The problem of the Palestinian refugees
can only be solved when the problem of Syria is solved.
and this can only happens if the international society
reacts and support the Syrian people
until they get their freedom, when the Syrian people gets free from Al Assad.
This catastrophe won’t end until the Palestinian get their rights,
like the right of return to the place
from which they have been exiled since 1948.
The Israelis have the great responsibility of this situation we have reached.
Since the beginning of the revolution more than 2.5 million refugees
have left the country and 6.5 million are internally displaced.
The world has abandoned the revolutionary peoples of Syria.
But the revolutionaries still have hopes in the future.
“Every time a human in the world is chained,
we are chained with him. Freedom must be for all or none.”
extract from Abd Hakawati
Then, our revolution is similar to the changes
that took place in Latin America or in Eastern Europe but in a different way.
They were not submitted to this theory of revolutions
that our comrades of the left want to submit us.
I think that those are still clinging to an old blueprint
of the revolutions, of the political organization and ideology.
The Soviet Union fell 25 years ago already,
and still we haven’t seen renewal of the left thinking.
You cannot make a comeback without a new generation
of concepts, without a new conceptualization.
Also according to the basics of Marxism-Leninism,
but with new ideas and concept.
But under these current parameters,
I don’t think they can make a comeback,
because they are always focused on power,
they need a new understanding about the cities
being able to change their destinies,
new experiences about work, organization and sensibility
and we can’t find this in the left at all.
and those classic leftists, even before going against the Syrian revolution,
they had turned into forces from the past, reactionaries,
in the sense that they don’t embrace the new avant-gardes
that are emerging or the new ideas at the intelectual level,
as well as sensitive, emotional, life experiences and new areas.
This classic left had trouble with its views and its practices before the Syrian revolution
and the Syrian revolution came to prove this weakness.
Clearly the Syrian revolution was born out of these blueprints because it was not organized inside them.
We were alienated young people, inactive, there truly was a real desire inside of us of being able to do something,
of getting rid of this horrible reality in which we lived, and we have started.
Obviously, the regional circumstances, as well as the international, have been bigger than us.
The game was very obvious, specially because of Syria’s position.
The most important thing we can do now is taking back our civil voices that have been absent in this last phase,
so that we can go on with the change we truly want.
The most important thing is that we can say: we had a victory,
all the martyrs and the fallen ones have not been in vain.
that destruction of the economic infrastructure has not been in vain.
The most important thing is that we take back the civil
With respect for all the liberties, respect for all the people,
them being islamists, worshipers
or people who believe in laicism or in a secular state.
I'm satisfied Assad, I'm satisfied to see the woman I have become
thanks to the revolution and its space.
Thanks to those revolutionaries who are mainly patriarchal
but willing to work, to respect me, to love me as I am.
In the deep of winter finally a learn
that inside me lives a invincible summer Subtitles End: mo.dbxdb.com