North-East students hold candle-light march against America's proposed intervention in Syria

New Delhi, 9th September 2013:

North-East students and Delhi University community hold candle-light march against America's proposed intervention in Syria.
NEFIS and other organizations extend solidarity to Syria's struggling people.

Today a large number of students from different communities of the North-East and concerned individuals held a candle-light march across DU's north campus against US imperialism and America's proposed intervention in the civil-war waging in Syria. This protest was organized by NEFIS (North-East Forum for International Solidarity) and also saw the participation of other progressive organizations like Krantikari Yuva Sangathan (KYS) and Centre for Struggling Women (CSW). Many DU teachers also joined the candle-light march which began in Arts Faculty and culminated at the University Metro Station.

Addressing the gathering, student activists from NEFIS highlighted how the international media was wrongly pushing through a propaganda campaign that aimed at preparing "public opinion" for direct military intervention on the part of US imperialism and its other partners in Syria's civil war. Arguing that America's proposed intervention has nothing to do with humanitarian considerations, and that the Syrian masses are just pawns in a larger cynical chess game of the imperialist powers, the concerned students sloganeered against military action and occupation by America.

The protest was, hence, envisaged as part of an elementary duty for revolutionary youth across the world to unmask the real interests of imperialism and to oppose such intervention. The slogans and speeches during the candle-light march clearly showed that the North-East students and other members of the DU community realized that imperialism has nothing to offer to the Syrian people and the masses in the Middle East. Over the last three years, millions took to the streets demanding decent living conditions, work, bread, dignity, an end to corruption and brutal repressive regimes.

The revolutionary forces have succeeded in overthrowing some of these hated regimes, but have failed so far in overthrowing the system which created such regimes and the ruling classes which have been benefiting from them. In some cases, as in Libya and Syria, this failure has been paid for with civil war and bloody reaction, and we have seen that even the most basic aspirations of the masses can never be met within the system of capitalism.

NEFIS and other present participants read out an appeal that was addressed to the Syrian youth and impoverished working class. The appeal read that regardless of religious and ethnic divisions, the Syrian youth should not trust the imperialists, neither trust Assad or the reactionary opposition, but to prepare and join their brothers and sisters and the masses of the Middle East in the common struggle against capitalism and imperialist oppression. It was also stated that more revolutionary upsurges are in the process of breaking out throughout the whole region and it is here that the path lies for the liberation of the masses in the Arab world.

Chinglen Khumukcham
North-East Forum for International Solidarity (NEFIS)
Email: nefis(dot)delhi(at)gmail(dot)com

Subhash
Krantikari Yuva Sangathan (KYS)