Hezbollah & the Battle Against ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra in Lebanon (Censored on Facebook)

[Photo: Lebanese members of Hezbollah and supporters honor their fallen comrades in Baalbek (EPA)]

Hezbollah and the Battle Against ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra in Lebanon

I thought the following video would be useful to share. I am continuing to write an in-depth article on the war conflagration caused largely by U.S. imperialist support to Sunni salafi radicals in Syria as well as by the U.S. imperialist invasion and establishment of a puppet Shia death squad government in Iraq and U.S. imperialist backing of Turkish genocide against Kurds.

This is a multi-facetted struggle that includes the imperialist myth of moderate rebels in Syria. In Syria, the U.S. is backing the salafi Islamist extremists of the Islamic Front and the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA), supposed "moderates" who have imposed Islamic law, stripped women of rights, oppose democracy, and oppose secular government. They have also carried out brutal sectarian crimes against non-Sunnis and Kurds, but not to the same degree as Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIS. Yet, they have been largely aligned with Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIS against the Kurdish YPG and Bashar al-Assad's, both of which are secular and pro-woman. In fact, the Islamic Front and the FSA just signed a non-aggression pact with ISIS in the Damascus area, characterizing Bashar al-Assad's secular government as the main enemy.

In addition, the U.S. and it's allies directly armed and trained the rebels that became Jubhat al-Nusra and ISIS at one time, the U.S. only turned on them when they became a threat to the U.S. imposed puppet regimes in Baghdad and Iraqi Kurdistan. In Iraq, there the are strong elements of sectarian communalist blood letting between the U.S. puppet government and ISIS on both sides. Some of the most effective fighters against ISIS in Iraqi Kurdistan are the leftist and secular PKK, a group that the U.S. labels terrorist and U.S. ally Turkey continues to bomb.

In Syria, Lebanon, and Kurdistan, the fight for national sovereignty and secularism is most directly a fight against the genocidal and misogynistic butchers of ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra and includes siding with other nationalist forces including the Kurdish YPG and PKK, the Syrian government, and Hezbollah.

In Lebanon, an important force in this fight is Hezbollah. They defended Lebanese national sovereignty from the Zionist Israeli butchers in 2006 and are presently defending Lebanon from the takfiri extremists of ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra. While I would put forward a different program, a socialist and secular program rather than the one put forward by Hezbollah, I think the following video presents a lot of information that backs my position that it is incorrect to characterize this fight against ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra in Lebanon simply as sectarian warfare. Hezbollah is in fact defending religious and non-religious minorities in Lebanon and Syria, despite their profoundly religious program. Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIS, on the other hand, are slaughtering and enslaving those same minorities.

Instead of characterizing this as sectarian warfare, in Lebanon, Syria, and Kurdistan it is instead important for revolutionary communists, anti-imperialists, and supporters of secularism and women's liberation to call for the military defeat of ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra to defend the lives and freedoms of non-Sunni minorities and Sunnis alike. Lebanon, as is the case in Syria and Kurdistan, is a situation where the effective resistance to ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra is being carried out by forces strongly opposed by the U.S. imperialists.

-Steven Argue of the Revolutionary Tendency

The Islamic State and Hezbollah Fight For Lebanon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvil3E3QgMY