Syrian Communists denounce regime's mass repression and violence

Syrian regime forces heading into action during the recent fighting -- image via news video screenshot

The Syrian Communist Party is denouncing the recent violent repressions committed by the new regime in the country.

In a statement issued March 10, 2025, the Central Committee of the party called it "an authoritarian regime" whose "campaigns of persecution against Syrian citizens have escalated."

The statement says that most regions of the country have witnessed successive incidents of kidnapping, looting, and assassination, which were initially described by the new authorities and their mouthpieces as individual and isolated acts, but have instead assumed a systematic nature.

"This was accompanied by the dismissal of thousands of state and public sector workers, cutting off their livelihoods and increasing their miserable living conditions. Although these arbitrary acts have spread to most areas of the country, in one form or another, they have taken on a heinous character on the Syrian coast and in some parts of Homs and Hama governorates, where they have become a daily occurrence."

Deeming the new regime's views as obscurantist and Croesus-like, they say that the recent unrest began as "peaceful demonstrations, sit-ins, and protests demanding the restoration of social rights and an end to daily violence and abuse". However, the killings carried out by government forces in a working-class suburb of Latakia and what the party describes as "their rampage" in the Jableh countryside led to the more intense fighting against armed groups from the coast. According to the statement, while the "authorities and their mouthpieces are attempting to attribute these actions to the former regime and certain regional powers, a claim also embraced by most Gulf regime satellite channels"..."the reality indicates that these combat operations were merely a reaction to unjust acts, regardless of the validity of their form or the precision of their timing."

The regime then "exploited these fighting operations, which primarily took place on March 6, 2025, by mobilizing terrorist factions of all colors and guises, from all over the country, from Idlib to Quneitra, and dispatching them to the Syrian coast. These savage hordes committed heinous acts against peaceful residents along the entire Syrian coast. Unarmed civilians, including women, children, and the elderly, were killed by the hundreds. This was in addition to widespread looting and the burning of homes. The further the areas were from sight, the more brutal the practices became. In some villages, most of the population was exterminated. What the Syrian coast has witnessed in recent days is genocidal acts similar to those carried out by fascists and their collaborators during World War II. What further compounds this similarity is the clear and visible involvement of foreign mercenaries, from Uyghurs to Chechens, and other criminal killers wanted for justice in their countries, who have competed in committing atrocities with their counterparts from Idlib and other Syrian regions."

They continue that "The genocidal acts witnessed on the Syrian coast demonstrate that the hopes for a "dawn of freedom" and an "era of justice" that some harbored after December 8, 2024, are nothing but illusions. The mask has fallen off the mercenary authoritarian regime, revealing its brutal face. Yes, there is a savage grin directed at the Syrian people, while on the other hand, there is the tenderness of a docile lamb toward the Zionists and other colonial powers."

Saying that Syria faces a dangerous situation they are calling for the "unity of all national forces" in confronting the regime and its colonial backers to achieve "national independence, full national sovereignty, consolidate the unity of the national territory, and sweep away all occupiers, whether Israeli, American, or Turkish."

"This is the main task facing the patriots of the country. Freedom and a decent life for the people can only be achieved by ending the occupation and colonial hegemony.

Down with colonialism and the rule of its agents!

Shame on the crimes of the obscurantists and their sponsors!

Long live the unity of the homeland and its pillars, the toiling masses of the people!

Patriots in all corners of beloved Syria, we will struggle together, shoulder to shoulder, for a free homeland and a happy people!"