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| The Central Committee of the Syrian Communist Party held a meeting headed by its Secretary-General comrade Ammar Bagdash on 17 May 2017. |
Upon discussing the political situation, the Central Committee confirmed that the international situation is becoming more complicated and dangerous, due mainly to the intensification of the contradictions between the imperialist powers, which have become more intensive due to the huge periodical economic crisis of (2008-2010).
Historical experiences indicate that the period of economic recession that follows the crisis, especially if so huge, is usually characterized by increasing the imperialist aggression in order to overcome the effects of the crisis rapidly and at the expense of others.
In the current stage these contradictions between imperialist powers is more clear in the multi-faceted confrontation between the centers of traditional imperialism and the so-called emerging countries. And this confrontation might reach in several areas to military conflicts, as it happens in the eastern Mediterranean and Ukraine and the ongoing conflicts in several parts of Africa and the Afghan pit, as well as the region of East Asia is experiencing an escalation of tension and potentially explosive situation at any moment.
The new factor in these military conflicts is that such military confrontation were previously held -as a general rule- by regional allies and followers of imperialist centers, but at the current stage we find gradually escalating participation of imperialist states directly in these confrontations.
