United Communists of Europe

In recent days, Syria has undergone major transformations with the fall of the Assad regime. The United Communists of Europe is closely monitoring the situation and gathering information in order to produce an analysis of the situation. This is a short statement that expresses our general orientation towards the situation in the Middle East. After being in power for more than twenty three years, Bashar al-Assad has been forcibly removed from power by Islamist militants of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). What began in Aleppo, resulted in a rapid fall of the long-standing Ba'athist regime and the ousting from power of Bashar al-Assad. It should be noted that Assad's party, the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, ruled through a coalition called the National Progressive Front, which included a number of Nasserite groups and two communist parties. Ba'athism is an ideology that fuses Arab nationalism with elements of socialism. In its different forms, both in Iraq and Syria, Ba...

  Last week, we published a short programmatic piece on our website, The Road to Transgender Liberation . We shared the article with our friends and comrades, and received some helpful feedback. In this short article, we would like to discuss some of the feedback concerning trans healthcare and provide a response. Our hope is that this significantly improves the first article and helps us achieve greater programmatic unity.  x In the original article, we pointed to the importance of raising the transgender movement to a greater level by demanding unity on the basis of class. Although trans workers have their own specific needs and face a very particular type of oppression, they can find great strength by uniting with non-trans workers and fighting the bourgeoisie together. Our attitude to the existing trans movement is to defend trans organisations, but raise this class demand in order to place their struggle on a more advanced level.  One of our comrades noted that the f...