Letter from a militant to the Syria Solidarity Committee
The ILTT members in the US have supported the Syrian Revolution against Al Assad, Russian Imperialism and US intervention since 2011. We participated in the Syria Solidarity Committee (SSC) over the last decade applying the method of the united front to defend the Syrian revolution. Today the SSC is considering a lash up with the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign below is the text of our NO VOTE for the lash up and the reasons why.
Letter from a militant to the Syria Solidarity Committee.
As members know, I (Dan C.) have participated in the work of this committee for over a decade as a representative of the CWG-US and the International Leninist Trotskyist Tendency. With this letter we cast our vote to reject the fusion of the Syria Solidarity Committee (SSC) with the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign (USSC.)
The USSC is composed of State Department Socialists who side with US imperialism in the inter-imperialist proxy war between the US/NATO and imperialist Russia over Ukraine. They have called for the west to supply the Zelensky regime with anti-personnel fragmentation bombs and longer range missiles. Not for a minute did they fight for an independent working class program against imperialist war; they did not defend the Odessa Trade Unionists against the fascists by calling for the prosecution of the murders as they made their political bloc with the new regime. They rejected the call for a New Zimmerwald, fraternization across the front lines and dual defeatism. They identify only one imperialist party involved in this conflict. They deny the role of the West as it surrounded Russia, breaking the long-term understanding that NATO would not move eastwards.
It is predictable that the fusion of SSC and USSC will find its way to side with the US in the struggle over Taiwan with China. Their method is to deny the agency of the working class and the oppressed masses of the global south against both imperialism and fascism and this is demonstrated by their members as they advocate the working class side with the Democrats against the Republicans in the US elections, with Lula against Bolsonaro in Brazil, and Western imperialism against Russian imperialism in Ukraine and Syria.
In Palestine the Oakland Socialist component of USSC leadership criticizes the nationalist Hezbollah which cannot resolve the crisis while after October 7th the SSC email list was up in arms against Hamas for overstepping the October 6th status quo of continuous Nakba. They screamed bloody murder about dead concert goers until it was revealed the IDF killed many of them during the breakout from the Gaza concentration camp! The proposed combined SSC and USSC shows no signs of making a military bloc with the armed forces of the Palestinian resistance. Their method is clear: they oppose the agency of the masses, finding each armed rebellion “terrorist” during the terminal crisis of capitalism, inventing a progressive pole in Western imperialism to be found in the Blue spectrum of Kamala, Starmer and Macron. The Oakland Socialist, League for a Revolutionary Party (LRP) and now USSC oppose the Troskyist method of fighting fascism with working class independent organization, instead they pacify the working class with illusions that the Democrats can stall the fascist threat and provide the workers a better hill to fight from. We answer the arguments of the LRP in our report on the upcoming election to comrades abroad, which expands on our fight for a Labor Party and our article on the need for labor to build a class independent united front to defeat the fascist threat.
The SSC has opportunity to reject both State Department Socialism and anarcho-Democrats (who oppose a workers party but support the capitalists’ Democratic Party) and take up the struggle for socialist revolution by making a political reassessment; otherwise they will descend further into irrelevance becoming just another wart on the Donkey’s ass like the DSA.
SYRIA
We have defended the agency of the Syrian masses against the Al Assad regime in our press, in international and local debates and on picket lines confronting both the tankies who denied the revolution and the U.S. imperialists who tried to subvert it.
We fought for working class united fronts in particular for international labor defense of the Syrian Revolution. We exposed the fake calls for democracy of the west and fought for victory of the Syrian Revolution through permanent revolution to defeat U.S., Russian and NATO imperialist forces.
We challenged the tankies of PSL, WWP and ANSWER in their own demonstrations bringing our program to their rallies to support the fight against Al Assad while they constructed their international popular front with Russian imperialism and its client state. When Al Assad released ISIS prisoners in 2014 we exposed their role in supporting the imperialist fight against both the revolution and the Kurds. We reiterated our call for independent non sectarian forces to lead the revolution as our Comrades in NZ/Aotearoa opposed the deployment of SAS forces to the region.
Following the Charlie Hebdo attack we rejected the national chauvinism of the western pacifists and social democrats who collapsed in the face of the terror imperialism elicits. When the chickens come home to roost it is time to explain how only permanent revolution can resolve the tasks of the national democratic revolution in the semi-colonies. When the comrades of CoRep gave up on the Syrian Revolution we sent a delegation to their international conference to fight for the revolution.
When the Bernie campaigners of the left united with the renegade “Trotskyists” and old CP Stalinists of the Peace and Freedom Party we challenged them and Rick Sterling (American propagandist who calls Al Assad’s Syria Socialist) at their Berkeley Starry Plough bar forum with this fact sheet. We supported the Leon Sedov Brigades fighting to turn the anti-imperialist and Anti-Assad forces socialist. We promoted a military bloc with al Nusra before it dissociated with al Qaeda and became JFS (Jabhat Fatah al Sham). Against sectarianism, where militias like JFS (HTS – Hayat Tahrir al Sham) remained true to the anti-imperialist cause and advanced their political program away from the isolation of jihad and towards the Permanent Revolution we advocated a military bloc with them fighting for our program in the revolution. While remaining steadfast in our opposition to the semi-colonial comprador Erdogan regime when Turkey lent a hand to the forces of resistance in Idlib and against the role of imperialist Russia we defended their support while opposing their oppression of the Kurds.
At no point did we turn our back on the Syrian revolution which though in retreat today suffering under the joint occupation of US/NATO and Russian/Al-Assad repression ultimately must reemerge as the contradictions of the inter-imperialist war unfold across the entire region, making all the imperialists and their proxies evermore unstable.
UKRAINE
Likewise we have been consistent in our opposition to the competing imperialist forces in the proxy war over Ukraine. Unlike Syria no independent forces emerged in Ukraine to oppose both the role of the US/NATO and Russian imperialism. The fake socialists of the region made their bloc with the comprador regime which imposed anti-democratic repression on the working class and all independent anti-fascist and anti-imperialist forces.
When the RCIT released their statement against the fascist coup and resolved to stand against both Brussels and Moscow we took them at their word and in a consistent struggle against sectarianism we republished their statement. Unfortunately they did not remain true to it as the war escalated from 2014-2022 they denied the inter-imperialist character claiming that the West had no boots on the ground even after Western mercenaries, trainers and intelligence agencies were exposed as directly involved.
Following the fascists victory over the Maidan In 2014 we raised the banner of the Permanent Revolution fighting for workers councils. We said, “No political support to the white Russians or Slav xenophobes in the East attempting to incite secession to Russia!” We explained: “In this situation of a neo-fascist Kiev regime attacking a mainly proletarian South East as ‘terrorists’ we are for a workers united anti-fascist front with NO political support to any ultra nationalist petty bourgeois or bourgeois forces siding with either imperialist bloc.”
On February 14th 2022 we were prepared and fought against the inter-imperialist war in the tradition of martyred German socialist Karl Liebknecht who said: “The main enemy of the German people is in Germany: German imperialism, the German war party, German secret diplomacy. This enemy at home must be fought by the German people in a political struggle, cooperating with the proletariat of other countries whose struggle is against their own imperialists.”
On March 6th we expanded our initial statement and took it as a leaflet to the streets during the initial demonstrations. We opposed the social imperialists’ calls for NATO No Fly Zones just as we were opposing the Russian intervention and defended the anti-war protesters being arrested by Putin.
The Russophile tankies love to quote the first sentence of Karl Liebknecht’s statement above but never quote his second sentence which calls for internationalists to fight all imperialism both at home and abroad, to fight for fraternization in the trenches and to open the road to socialist revolution with a dual defeatist policy for the international working class.
On both sides of the political divide we identified social imperialists who rejected the conquests of Zimmerwald and the dual defeatism of Lenin. Today and for the last two and a half years the State Department Socialists deny that the imperialist character of the war dominates and that the Zelensky regime is a proxy for NATO; these “socialists” becoming defencists. Likewise the Tankies reject the imperialist character of Russia and cling to a supposed progressive character of the China/Russia bloc as anti-imperialist, likewise promoting a defencist position.
We immediately challenged this alignment of the self proclaimed socialists with a campaign for a New Zimmerwald and articles to expose the proxy nature of the war, explaining hybrid war in the current epoch where the US fights from a distance as consequence of the anti-war sentiment that arose out of VietNam and the disgrace of the two wars against Iraq and Afghanistan.
We took our Dual Defeatist program to the streets to bring the imperialist war abroad home and internationally for a New Zimmerwald, challenging the program of the Tankies at a demonstration organized by the United Front Committee for a Labor Party (UFCLP). We broke with and exposed its leadership (Steve Zeltzer) which adapted itself to the Tankies and Putin apologists, abandoning and burying their official March 2, 2022 position against the Russian invasion and for dual defeatism in order to maintain their semi-cozy relationship with the Marcyites and IG supporters of the ILWU and to expand his bloc with the Tankies of Code Pink, Class Consciousness (Australia) and the Partido Obrero. We had spent two years working in the UFCLP challenging from within adaptation to the positions of Red Med and Partido Obrero in the years leading up to the war. It is no surprise that Labor Video Project (Steve Zeltzer’s journalistic archive) took down the February 24th, 2022 Zoom panel where our speaker raised our Dual Defeatist position and challenged Fabio Bosco of Conlutas (Brazil) and Guillermo Kane of Partido Obrero (Argentine.) This video is still listed but unavailable on FaceBook.
Internationally we hosted a series of open meetings and debated with various tendencies participating in forums and panels across the spectrum as nearly every tendency found multiple reasons to abandon the Leninist method to fight imperialist wars and the Trotskyist program of Permanent Revolution. Our Brazilian comrades of the GTR debated the GOI here.
In November of 2022 we participated in the Socialism or Extinction conference bringing our program for Dual Defeatism, an international anti-imperialist united front and a New Zimmerwald to an international conference of 10 workers organizations. Although our statement was adopted, the leading participants of the Left Party/Left International refused to join us in the U.S. streets to challenge the Tankies, and ultimately the International Continuations Committee broke apart as a number of organizations fractured or left the budding united front. We have maintained contact with a number of organizations in hopes that a balance sheet on Latin American Morenoite centrism will be produced. Such is necessary to help the radicalizing youth and workers of the Global South break from the illusions in popular frontism. Many still have illusions that the PT in Brazil is a workers party, that Bolivarianism and Maduro represent a progressive anti-imperialist force, that China and Cuba, euphemistically called “actually existing socialism” have not restored capitalism and that the China/Russia bloc are a progressive alternative to western imperialism.
In Summary
We warn members of the Syria Solidarity Committee against becoming an irrelevant appendage on the Democrats. We read the principles of this “socialist” lash up and find no fight for and no program for socialism, but only a scolding of the pro-Putin left and a suggestion that it will be many years before the left can live this down, as if no other position exists; as if there are no dual-defeatist forces, acknowledged or desired! Endorsing a modern Kautskyism/late Shachtmanism* will be the result of joining the USSC, a solidarity committee that is in solidarity with NO actual Ukrainian socialists and whose leading lights insist we “MUST RELY” on the Democrats to “resist” the Trump fascist threat. How is this threat described and how is it proposed to resist it Not by advocacy of organizing physical resistance by Union members and the oppressed, until at last this fascist coup threat was acknowledged by Bolton and the neocons!The USSC’s real solidarity is with Zelensky and with western Russophobes who support a wider war for the destruction of the historical Russian empire, and not by revolt of the peoples of the prisonhouse of nations, not by socialist revolutions but by NATO invasion.
Likewise we must warn that becoming a Democrat vassal grouping will reduce our practical solidarity from support for the Syrian revolution to support for the “strategic stability” policy of the State Department. Perhaps they will make occasional noises calling for one more relief corridor into Idlib, while maintaining a U.S.-Russia ‘deconfliction hotline’ and ‘deconfliction zones’. This while NATO countries are deporting Syrian exiles into the clutches of Assad’s prisons!
In fact the U.S. policy PRESERVED the Assad dictatorship in a division of labor with Russian imperialism! This can be found in the Congressional Record, where a State Department spokesperson told Congress that the U.S. insisted the Free Syrian Army quit fighting Assad’s forces and instead concentrate their fire exclusively on ISIS, for fear that the Assad regime would be smashed. There is zero reason to believe this policy will change, whatever the November 5th outcome. We get less than nothing from this alliance. But we’ll lose our political independence.
Nothing in the USSC statement on the elections leads workers to forming workers self defense guards against the fascist threat of MAGA or Trumpism. Any so called socialist outfit which claims their reason to vote for the capitalist candidate is that fascism is at the door is exposed as both pacifist and class collaborationist for warning against the fascist threat but not organizing the workers to form up labor led self defense guards and militia in every union and oppressed peoples’ neighborhood and national organizations.
In an October 13th revision to the proposed Unity Statement we are being told the joint committee will oppose all imperialism including Israeli imperialism, Iranian imperialism, Chinese and Russian, even while voting for the Democrats who maintain U.S. bases all over the region. The CWG/ ILTT agrees that China and Russia are imperialist, however neither Iran or Israel can be characterized by any twisted interpretation of Lenin’s definition. This requires adaptation of the Sub-imperialist theory or the historic third camp position, but this lines up with the USSC view that capitalist bourgeois democracy and fascism are different in essence and are not both expressions of the dictatorship of Capital, the law of value and its wages system.
Like Kautsky, who supported ‘his own’ German bourgeoisie in WW One, Max Shcahtman, father of the “3rd camp” socialism in the U.S. wound up supporting the Bay of Pigs invasion and the VietNam war. Now the LRP friends here assembled call for American workers to deliver whatever munitions Ukraine, i.e. the Zelensky state, asks for, fattening the bloated profits of the military industrial complex as it prepares for WW3.
VOTE NO!
Appendix:
Below is the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign “Points of Unity”:
Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign
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POINTS OF UNITY
October 13, 2024
Preface
The Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign (USSC) was organized a month after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. We were founded by a group of activists heavily involved in supporting the Syrian Revolution, opposing the Assad regime and its counter revolutionary allies, Russia and Iran. The USSC was organized to bring together a broad section of the left, including socialists, anarchists and others to support a Ukrainian victory. It was also organized to oppose and provide an alternative to the many left apologists for Putin (or Russia), who in some cases outright support Russia’s neocolonial invasion. They form the “Putinist left.”
We support Ukrainian resistance and Russia’s defeat. Russian warfare has a military front and a disinformation, or “infowar,” front. The Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign formed in part to counter the Putinist propaganda war.
In the past, socialism has played a huge role in the working class movement as a whole. The Putinization of the left negatively impacts the direction of the socialist movement: Socialism cannot return to playing a principled role in the working class movement as long as it is infected with Putinism. This is part of why we are explicitly socialist, which also includes anarchists.
International working class solidarity is the core socialist organizing principle. After October 7, the need to emphasize this principle became even more urgent and clear. The USSC was the first group to openly call for a movement to Unite the Struggles and for socialists and the left in general to build international working class solidarity.
Shortly after its founding in 2022, the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign developed some “points of unity.” Much has developed since then. What follows is our updated 2024 Points of Unity.
Ukraine needs a global solidarity movement to support and defend it. The Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign is working to help build that movement.
- We fight for justice, accountability, democratic and transparent organizing, universal human rights, equity, collective liberation, and climate justice through cooperation and solidarity among workers and the oppressed.
- We acknowledge that the international working class, the oppressed of the world, and defenders of human rights, democratic rights, social equality, and environmental justice all depend on the defeat of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- We endorse principled socialism and socialist political analysis. We condemn all crimes against humanity and against the planet committed in the name of “socialism.” Socialism has nothing to do with what the Soviet Union became, in particular under Stalin and his successors. Soviet rule has turned many in Ukraine (and elsewhere) against “socialism.” The return to capitalism in Russia and Eastern Europe has meant the rule of oligarchs, drug cartels, and warlords. It has also fostered poverty, human trafficking, corruption, oppression, and imperialist invasions.
- We oppose all imperialisms and colonial settler states. This includes Russian, Chinese, Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), Israeli, U.S., and Western European imperialism. We are socialists and anarchists of various stripes who see capitalism and the drive for private profit world-wide as disastrous for the world; it leads to repression, exploitation, invasions, wars, and environmental extraction/collapse.
- The United States and NATO should supply all the arms Ukraine requests with no strings attached.
- We support the cancellation of Ukraine’s foreign debt and are against subjecting any aid to Ukraine to IMF or EU austerity conditions.
- We support workers providing material and political aid to Ukraine (independent of their governments), in addition to government aid to Ukraine.
- We are for the non-discriminatory reception of all refugees from Ukraine, Syria, Palestine, Afghanistan, Haiti, and elsewhere. We oppose racism, Islamophobia, and anti-semitism.
- We support those Russians and Central Asian Indigenous activists both inside and outside the country who campaign against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We also support a guarantee of political refugee status for opponents of Putin and for Russian soldiers who desert.
- We support global nuclear disarmament. We oppose the use and threatening of all nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
- We support seizure of the real assets such as real estate and bank accounts of Russian government members, senior officials and Russia and Ukrainian oligarchs. Those assets should be used for Ukraine’s defense.
- We oppose Zionism and all other forms of ethno-nationalism. This term means seeing a particular ethnic or religious group as a nation, with all others being unwelcome, second class citizens at best. For Putin, the favored people are the ancient “Rus” people. For Zionists the favored people are Jews. For Modi, the Hindus. For Islamic fundamentalists it is Muslim people. In the United States it takes the form of Christian nationalism, meaning Christians of European descent. In its place, we promote international working class solidarity.
- We believe that the main danger facing the working class and the oppressed today is fascism and, its sibling effort, far right extremism. We distinguish between fascism and liberal capitalist democracy as political systems although we recognize that the latter cannot resolve the failures of capitalism. Neoliberal capitalism and its attacks on the working class have created the conditions for the rise of the far right and fascist movements. No capitalist party or politician will lead a serious fight against authoritarianism and fascism.
- We endorse disability justice and oppose all forms of ableism. Capitalism has no use for anyone from whom it cannot make a profit. Central to this are people with disabilities. Capitalism is threatened by anyone who is neurodivergent, disabled, or mentally ill (such as people on the spectrum, with ME/CFS, or with schizophrenia). The extreme right wing of the Capitalist class and fascists openly, historically and presently, propose eugenics.
- We endorse the precautionary principle and protecting those most vulnerable to death and disability. The “free market” and both sides of the aisle demanded the end of Covid-19 protections, including and especially for millions suffering from Long Covid, despite the ongoing global pandemic. Covid minimizing disinformation, anti-masking, and anti-vaxxing are core campaigns of the extreme right that increasingly Democrats have tolerated or embraced. We oppose all such measures that kill, disable or bring bodily harm to millions without informed consent, especially those most impacted: BIPOC, LGBT+, and poor/underresourced people.
- We oppose fascism including “Traditionalism” which means so-called “family values”, repression of LGBTQ+ people, misogyny, and ethno-nationalism. We recognize that Putin is the world centralizing leader in promoting the far right and ethno-nationalism as well as “traditional/family values.” A central part of Traditionalism is transphobia and homophobia and attacks on LGBTQ+ people. Many world leaders have followed Putin’s example and are connected to him. Since we are located primarily in the United States, we point to Donald Trump and the New Right as one of the foremost examples. As a Putin ally, it is no accident that Trump and the majority of his party in effect support the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
- We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation. We oppose Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocidal attack of Palestinians and the Biden/Harris administration’s participation in and support for it.
- We support the right to armed self defense. Intentionally targeting civilians, however, is terrorism not self defense, and we oppose it.
- We support the BDS movement and oppose all US aid to Israel. We demand the end of Israel’s blockade/siege of Gaza and the immediate withdrawal of all Israeli forces from Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank, and the end of all Israeli strikes against Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen and Syria (where it would be done to further Israel’s imperialist aims rather than to weaken Assad. The same has been and would be the case for US military strikes in the region.).
- We support the people’s uprising in Syria that began in 2011, also known as the Syrian revolution (“Free Syria”), and we oppose the fascistic Assad regime and its allies (Iran/IRI and Russia) and oppose normalization with the Assad regime.
- We support the Women, Life, Freedom movement started by women in Iran. The Islamic Republic in Iran (IRI) is not only a repressive regime at home. Its supposed status as the leader of the “axis of resistance” to Israel is false. It hides behind this branding to support right wing movements like Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis. The IRI will not do anything to significantly further the cause of Palestine; they seek to exploit it for their own imperialist agenda.
- We support the struggles for freedom and for workers rights inside China. We support full rights for Uighurs and we oppose the genocide against Uighurs and neighboring ethnic minorities by the Chinese Communist Party.
- We oppose the BRICS alliance. BRICS is a capitalist alliance originally composed of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa; it now includes Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and others are seeking to join. BRICS claims to be “anti-imperialist”. It is, however, an alliance of major and lesser imperialist and would-be imperialist powers, almost all of which have repressive, authoritarian, right-wing governments. It is in part a discursive propaganda tool for Russia, China, and the Islamic Republic of Iran, and furthers their often overlapping and strategically networked imperialist, extractivist interests in Asia, Latin America and Africa.
- We support collective liberation and international working class solidarity in place of all sectarian divisions among workers (divisions based on race, national origin, gender, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity). Some examples of sectarian organizations are Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Janjaweed/RSF in Darfur, HTS in Idlib, the Taliban, the Islamic State, M23 in Congo, and the RSS in India.
- As socialists, we endorse tactical voting depending on the situation. We recognize that there is a fundamental difference between the political systems of multi-party bourgeois capitalist democracy and right wing fascism-oriented one-person dictatorship. Socialists are always obligated to oppose the rise of such right wing dictatorships, even if this means at times tactically voting for or temporarily supporting capitalist politicians or parties. Some examples of tactical voting to oppose the rise of far right dictatorships and potential dictatorship include leftists voting to stop: Trump/MAGA and the New Right in the US; the National Rally in France, the AfD in Germany and Bolsonaro in Brazil. We oppose support for any so-called left alternatives in the U.S. to the Democrats who apologize for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and/or who have ties to the far right. This includes the Green Party, Cornel West, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
- An independent working class movement is necessary to advance the needs of the working class and the planet, and to force the retreat of the Trump/MAGA and the “New Right” (who are actually fascists, primarily Silicon Valley/tech linked).
- We support and encourage uniting the struggles of Palestine and Ukraine against the invasion and occupation by Israel and Russia respectively and for full democratic rights. We support liberation struggles internationally, including those of the people of Iran, Syria, Burma/ Myanmar, Uighurs and elsewhere. We endorse uniting all liberation struggles.
- The most important principle of socialism is international working class solidarity. Putin has created a vast far-right web, which includes actual fascists, into which many on the so-called “left” have entered—some consciously and for mercenary reasons, others without realizing it at first. Cloaked in left rhetoric and branding, they apologize for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and many are now assets (unaware of their role) or outright agents (aware) of Putin and fascism enabling. Those who enable or work for fascism betray the core socialist principle of international working class solidarity and cannot play any positive role rebuilding socialism and an independent working class movement moving forward.
- We oppose platforming, and do not platform the assets and agents of Putin who have betrayed these principles and have gone too far to turn back. We do not regard them as “friends” or “comrades,” nor do we conceal the insidious role they play. If it is tactically important to debate them, we expose their links with Putin, with the far-right, and with their presence in Putin’s far-right web hidden within “leftist” spaces.
- Lastly: All left organizing must be done democratically, with a clear and accountable leadership, and the right to full expression of all ideas on how to advance our common struggle and collective vision.
- Talmadge Wright, Professor Emeritus Sociology – Loyola University Chicago, USA
- Garrett Quan, Food Not Bombs, USA
- Cheryl Zuur, Retired president AFSCME Local 444, USA
- Pedro Ramirez, North Central Valley DSA, USA
- Isabelle Abbott,
Ukrainians For Liberation, National Lawyers Guild, USA - Meghan Keane, Syria Solidarity NYC, USA
- John Reimann, member and former recording secretary, Carpenters Union Local 713, USA
- Oakland Socialist – Socialist Blog, oaklandsocialist.com, USA
- Derek Johnson, The No Fate Project
- Alexander Johnson, Syria Solidarity Australia, AUSTRALIA
- Amina Ali, Activist, New York City, USA
- Richard Johnson, Green Party member, UK
