• The Lebanese Left Fails in Syria
    http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/1786/the-lebanese-left-fails-in-syria

    The position of the Communist Party on what is happening in Syria is a failure on both the ethical and political levels. Here, [failure with respect to] the sense that policy [is supposed to] truly serve the interests of the oppressed classes, [and this] makes the party one with a rightwing leadership. It practically rejects the change demanded by the toiling class and the workers in Syria, as well as adopts the regime’s “external conspiracy” narrative. All that remains for the comrades of the political bureau is to participate in the propaganda against the protesters, calling them “conspirators” or “armed gangs.” This is especially [the case] since [the Communist Party’s] Secretary General Khalid Hadada confirmed once again the centrality of “the conspiracy against Syria” in an article of his in al-Safir newspaper (May 28th, 2011). If he rejects the security solution in Syria, he also repudiates “attempted bullying by the outside.”

    Traduction de l’article publié dans Al-Akhbar :
    http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/13895

    • assez similaire à la tension en Afrique du Sud sur la question du Zimbabwe, entre les partis qui soutiennent Mugabe (contre l’"ingérence britannique") et les syndicats qui soutiennent les opposants (contre la brutalité du régime)