Syria, Turkey and the Arab revolt
30 december 2011 18:24
Why we oppose Turkish intervention but do not deem it to be imperialist
by Wilhelm Langthaler
While the Syrian popular revolt is being massacred by Assad and for the
time being seems to be not strong enough to topple his regime, a battle
within the global anti-imperialist movement is raging over whether or not
to support the democratic revolution. Some still believe that Assad is
defending the banner of anti-imperialism against his people, even more as
the Syrian National Council is appealing more and more for outside help.
While direct military imperialist intervention remains unlikely, mainly
Turkey is projecting power onto Syria. Also military means can no longer
be excluded within a medium term range. Turkish intervention is, however,
limited by the political constraint to appear in line with the Arab
spring, for which Ankara wants to serve as a model and take the lead.
The Arab revolt comes in the context and is an expression of the crisis of
the US-centred imperialist system, which is both an economic and political
crisis. The new and decisive factor is the popular mass movement, which
scattered the imperialist ancien regime in the region. Thus the US needs
to re-organise their order. They essentially try to do so by embracing
sections of the movement and by co-opting these sections into the US
system. But conditions for imperialism are substantially worse than before
as the imperialists will not be able to meet the social demands of the
masses.
This is valid also for Syria, whose regime was part of the old order, even
though Damascus did not completely succumb to imperialism as the others
did. Weighing the factors, the popular mass movement is by far outdoing
the anti-imperialist remnants of the regime. The movement and its social
revolutionary forces need to be supported. Its victory in Syria would give
a decisive push to the continuation of the Arab popular democratic
revolution.
Intro: Syria, Turkey and the Arab revolt
www.antiimperialista.org/syria-turkey
Part I: Geo-politics versus revolution
www.antiimperialista.org/syria-turkeyI
Part II: State of the Arab democratic revolt
http://www.antiimperialista.org/syria-turkeyII
The Arab ancien regime
Here come the Arab popular masses
New role for Islamism?
American embrace
The Libyan case
Part III: Syria – who is anti-imperialist?
http://www.antiimperialista.org/syria-turkeyIII
First stage: peaceful and anti-interventionist
Western hesitation
Turkey as a model and main player
The Assad regime
Second stage: descent into civil war
The opposition and the Syrian National Council (SNC)
Traitors?
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