The overwhelming majority of Syrians suffer from severe economic and living conditions in which the crisis continues unabated, from electricity to gas and fuel oil to exchange rate disruptions, the rapid deterioration of public services and transport crises, as well as the crisis of constant increases prices, including the prices of the basic necessities for survival.
The few weeks following the US declaration of withdrawal from Syria proved the truth of what we went to and summarized in two key points:
The turning that are being made by a group of Arab countries, in its deep essence, reflects a number of key facts, which can be summed up as follows:
In the morning of the 30th of December, 2018, a press release was issued on behalf of the Information Office of the Syrian Negotiation Commission (SNC), protesting against the return of relations with Syria by some Arab countries, calling on those countries to review their positions and asking for their support to stand with the SNC.
Trump's announcement of the withdrawal of US troops from Syria a few days ago, continues to be the main event, not only on the Syrian level, but also throughout the region, if not throughout the world.
The US decision to withdraw from Syria was an important indicator of the clear shift of the new international balance against Western interests in general and the US in particular. It is a withdrawal that would have taken place sooner or later, but the Americans chose a time aiming at two goals:
French protests have entered their fifth week in a row, and despite the large media fraud of the real numbers of protesters, their numbers are still in the range of tens of thousands, and despite the partial concessions made by the French government, the movement is still continuing...
In the past week, some media outlets have been talking about the expenses of the Syrian Negotiation Commission and about monthly salaries or monetary remuneration paid to its members.
French protests and demonstrations – which continue for the fourth week in a row, and reached a new peak on Saturday (December 9th), extending to nearly 400 cities and involving more than 127,000 (according to confessions of the French Ministry of Interior), and joined by workers and students of universities and secondary schools – confirm what our documents said early in this century: «the masses will return to the street, and the revolutionary parties should return to the masses in order to come back with them to the street», and that this will not be limited to a single country or a specific region, but will be a global phenomenon in general, derived from the deep and comprehensive capitalist crisis.
A delegation from the «SNC» concluded its meetings, on Tuesday (December 4th), with the so-called Small Group in Washington. The tweets of the president of the delegation and his interviews, also the press release of the Commission, has shown the continuation of its leadership in its policy of identification with the Western powers, and with USA in particular, which is manifested in the following main issues:
