[OccupyCU] Defend Raqqa – Drive U.S./NATO Imperialists Out of Syria and Iraq!

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Imperialist Offensive Threatens Slaughter
Defend Raqqa – Drive U.S./NATO Imperialists Out of Syria and Iraq!

http://www.internationalist.org/defendraqqadriveoutimperialists1605.html

A new stage has opened in the fighting in Syria and Iraq with the
launching of offensives against the Islamic State (I.S.) by U.S.
imperialism and its allies. On May 24 the Syrian Democratic Forces
(SDF), a military front dominated by the Kurdish People’s Protection
Units (YPG), announced the beginning of a drive on the de facto capital
of the I.S. in Raqqa. They are participating in a military operation
under direct U.S. command. Already U.S. commandos have been sighted
carrying out operational activities at the front. Moreover, three days
before the offensive was announced, the head of the U.S. Central
Command, Gen. Joseph Votel, flew secretly to the area for an on-site
inspection of preparations. Dropping leaflets calling on the population
to flee the city, the imperialists are preparing a slaughter. Amid the
all-sided communalist/sectarian civil war raging in Syria,
internationalist communists (Trotskyists) call to defend Raqqa against
the U.S.-led attack and the Kurdish and Arab forces serving as ground
troops for the imperialists. In Iraq, the Shiite sectarian regime has
launched an attack on the I.S. stronghold of Falluja, while U.S. and
Kurdish forces threaten Mosul. We call to drive the imperialists out of
the region and to defeat them by international workers action.