'Long live the struggle of Afrin against occupiers': Syrian Revolutionary Left Current - The Region

24.1.18

'Long live the struggle of Afrin against occupiers': Syrian Revolutionary Left Current - The Region: The Syrian Revolutionary Left Current is a particularly unique social actor within the broader Syrian civil opposition. Releasing its transitional program in October 2011 with the outbreak of the Syrian uprising, the Revolutionary Left Current was one of the first groups to denounce and warn against the militarization of the opposition. Among their other demands was the immediate downfall of the Assad Government and the construction of a secular, pluralist and decentralized Syria. But as the war became increasingly marginalised, and proxy powers began to fund hardline Islamist forces to carve their own spheres of influence in Syria, voices like the Revolutionary Left Current became increasingly marginalised.