Network of Anticapitalists Condemns Interventionism Against Venezuela, and Denounces the “Authoritary Route” of Maduro's Government

Delegations from several countries of Europe and Latin America met in Buenos Aires to create the Network of anticapitalists. This network discussed and reached common conclusions regarding the worldwide panorama, and tasks proposed for the international revolutionary groups. This international encounter led to the conformation of this international anticapitalist network of groups and parties.

Some of the international participant organizations were the Socialist Movement of Argentine Workers, Marea Socialista of Venezuela, the Chilean Anticapitalist Movement, The Paraguay Socialist Alternative, The French Commune, Socialist and Freedom of the Spanish State and the Green Party of Belarus.

Marea Socialista from Venezuela presented a report that led to a forum on the current events in Venezuela. A joint declaration was reached by the beforementioned political organizations.

Declaration on Venezuela 

 

Venezuela suffers its sharpest crisis in the 20th and 21st century. While the U.S. Government poses threats and interventionist practices, the Venezuelan government policies hides its inefficiency behind the U.S. Empire ambitions. 

The hyperinflation runs without control, dismantling every political, economic and social accomplishments; besides, there is a social and services collapse, and there are generalized repressive practices.

The autoritarism grows rapidly and there is a permanent state of exeption. There is also, abandonment, and the replacement of every previous legality, includying the dismantling of the Bolivarian Constitution of 1999 and its replacement with alleged “Constitutional decrees”. Framed within this context, the Venezuelan people are sinking in misery, and threatened by an unprecedented sanitary crisis. Venezuela is currently suffering of a forced migration of massive sectors of its population in the first “forced diaspora” of millions of Venezuelans in the 21st Century in South America, too.

Venezuela not only suffers from U.S. interventionist threats and practices, but also from failed policies by the Venezuelan government that excuse behind the U.S. agenda. Before this situation: 

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We condemn and reject any form of interference, interventionism, sabotage, blockade or aggression by the U.S. imperialism, against Venezuela in its different variants, especially any measure or economic sanction that may violate the country's right to export its products or that may prevent it from obtaining food and medicines for the people, as well as inputs for production. 

We also repudiate the requests of sectors of the Venezuelan right-wing opposition that encourage a foreign intervention against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela or that promote concerted actions against the Venezuelan economy.
 

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We denounce the authoritarian, repressive and stateless course that the government of Nicolás Maduro has been adopting, through the usurpation of powers and with the imposition of a fraudulent National Constituent Assembly, without consulting the Venezuelan people and with the evident purpose of introducing new counter-reforms that add up to those already applied, which imply: setbacks with respect to what has been achieved in terms of democratic liberties, civil rights and sovereignty; as well as the sacrifice to which the Venezuelan people are subjected as a result of the embezzlement of the nation in function of the interests of the bureaucracy, of the debt and business system with global capitalism and the deepening and violent expansion of a wild extractivism whose The most evident sample is the so-called Orinoco Mining Arc.
 

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On the other hand, in view of the increasing authoritarianism and deterioration of the democratic life that is experienced in the country, which affects not only the sectors of the traditional opposition, but also the so-called "critical chavismo" already extended social sectors and workers that they try to exercise their right to protest and to act politically; we demand the cessation of persecutions, dismissals, arbitrary imprisonment, political crimes and violation of rights, and we demand the reinstatement of free democratic development and the restoration of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela sanctioned in 1999.
 

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In order to favor the liberation and recovery of economic resources to overcome the crisis and address the humanitarian emergency, we support the proposal of a Public and Citizen Audit, independent and with full power of development, to investigate the allegations of embezzlement. nation and the strong indications of a corrupt and illegitimate debt, as well as the criminal flight of capital to international banks and tax havens, with the aim of returning these resources to the Venezuelan people and earmarking them as a priority for the relief of their situation and the recovery of the internal production. It is the Venezuelan people and not the foreign powers for their particular purposes, who has the right to punish their corrupt officials
 

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We advocate for international solidarity support for the Venezuelan people who, within the framework of respect for sovereignty, can contribute to solving the food and health emergency or to meet humanitarian needs. And, before the diaspora of Venezuelans and Venezuelans, caused by the policies of the government of Nicolás Maduro, the crisis of which he is one of the main responsible, and by the political conditions that have been generated in the country, we deplore the indolence and contempt with which the government treats the victims of this situation and we also call for the broadest solidarity and defense of the rights of those who are impelled to emigrate to other countries. We do this in order to help them and guarantee the best possible conditions regarding receptivity, rights and living conditions in the countries of destination.

Likewise, we demand from the Venezuelan government the adoption of all measures leading to the cessation of the conditions that cause such an exodus. And we emphatically reject the measures of the state bureaucracy leading to deprive the families of Venezuelan emigrants of aid remittances, either through mechanisms of change that are outside the real values ​​or other formulas of capture and confiscation of the resources of such remittances (such as the tax announced by the Vice President of the PSUV), while, in contrast, the capital escaped and those derived from embezzlement and corruption are not punished.

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In the face of the upcoming presidential elections and state legislative councils, we accompany the electoral policy of Socialist Tide of participating with the vote in the presidential elections, without giving up in the denunciation of the insufficiency of guarantees and of the manipulated conditions in which it is carried out. We do so from an independent standpoint against the candidacies of the bureaucracy and capital, in opposition to any resulting government, which represents such interests and intends to continue the unloading of the crisis on the working class and the popular sectors, either with the classical ones neoliberal formulas, awakening the illusion of a magical solution through dollarization, or under the false flags of a revolution that has been betrayed and dismantled by the Maduro-PSUV government.

 

Buenos Aires, May 4th, 2018
 

On behalf of the constituent groups of Anticapitalists Network:
 

Alejandro Bodart and Sergio Garcia of the Socialist Workers Movement of Argentina
 

Gonzalo Gomez and Carlos Miranda from Marea Socialista de Venezuela
 

Joaquín Araneda and Maura Gálvez Bernabé of the Anticapitalist Movement of Chile
 

Carlos Mareco and Nicholas Germanier of the Socialist Alternative of Paraguay
 

Danubio Trujillo and Gabriel S. of Rumbo Socialista de Uruguay
 

Daniel Petri and Francis Charpentier. La Commune de France
 

Manel Pere Lecha and Carral Flower of Socialism and Freedom of the Spanish State
 

Anatoly M.  Green Party of Belarus

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