By Maher Khazaal
After several months of a historical economic crisis where the devaluation of the Lebanese lira drove the currency to a value higher than 10,500 to the dollar, the regime is 1% functional. It rules in favor of the interests of the main cartels and privileged parties, while rising inflation and the cost of housing affect the majority of the Lebanese people.
And as we have become accustomed to the government’s response, which is to give us its deaf ears, the masses returned to mobilize in force in different cities, managing to cut off the main points of access in the country.
Today, March 10, we saw a great march in the city of Sidon and others that show that people are fed up with the negligence of the State that allows prices to rise to favor of the usual suspects while the people struggle to buy milk and bread from the markets.
The mobilizations will continue and the intensity of the class struggle will accelerate every day.
Unfortunately, many parties and organizations continue in internal fights and discussions without seeing the need for the unity of the left. The spaces for open discussion are still minimal but that will not weaken the mobilizations of the masses, and while we are accompanying the people in the struggle from the Youth Movement for Change, we continue to insist that unity and democratic discussion is what will make a difference in the comming period, if not, we will be reproducing the same system with different faces.
Soon we will upload notes on the development of our experience, meanwhile we send greetings and strength to our comrades in Paraguay and all the countries where they are fighting.
