In Venezuela, today it is focused the most advanced of the US imperialist offensive that seeks to re-take full control of its businesses deals in Latin America

When this paper is released, Venezuela is shocked by a huge political crisis. Together with this statement, we publish a breaking news statement of the Collective for the Re-foundation of the Fourth International-FLTI, written together with the comrades of the LCT (Communist Workers League) of Venezuela.

In that country, the catastrophe and sufferings of the masses are unprecedented. There is no good times or high prices of oil or business deals to distribute among the Bolivarian bourgeoisies and imperialism. In Venezuela the decisive element is that, whenever there’s a new imperialist assault that comes for all, the Bolivarian bourgeoisies have contained, deflected and crushed the anti-imperialist revolutionary process that the Latin American masses staged over the last years.
As we said before, Evo Morales turned out to be the most diligent executor of the imperialist plans in Bolivia, being the guarantor of the mineral plundering. The government of Kirchners in Argentina was one that paid most dollars for the financial interests and the foreign debt to the IMF. Lula and the PT have surrendered to the US long ago, with the church’s blessing. In Venezuela and Cuba the two greatest tragedies that this parody of “Bolivarian revolution” meant for the Latin American masses are concentrated. In those two countries, together with Colombia, the Bolibourgeoisie and Stalinism caused the cruelest defeats for the workers movement, which paved the way for imperialism to deal decisive blows in the sub-continent.
The Bolivarians have surrendered long time ago and they opened the doors for the US current offensive upon Latin America.
In 2008, with Obama-Castro pact, they handed over the Colombian resistance and they marked the trade agreements that introduced the right to heir and for foreign investments in Cuba, which allowed Castroism to become a new bourgeoisie in the island. The most serious of this is that they made Obama look nice, when he was the one that laid off hundreds of thousands of workers in USA or imposed the worst plans of labour flexibilization to keep their jobs. This very Obama, who state-ized the debt of the bankers for it to be paid by the workers and the people of USA with starvation and misery, was received with honors by Castro and Chavez.
This is the cause of the rising of a white working class, which is dispossessed today and follows Trump’s demagogy, thus dividing the working class. The result is that the US flag waves in Cuba and Castroism has proclaimed “socialism is no more, not even in the island”. THIS IS THE HEAVIEST BLOW, the most brutal and cruelest shot in the back of millions of workers and peasants that seek to open the road for the revolution in heroics fights in Latin America, both in the 20th century and the years passed of this 21st century.
But this is not all. The servile Bolivarians to imperialism have gone further away. They supported the massacre of Putin and Al Assad to the Syrian revolution. They also support the Iranian theocracy in the Middle East and they recognize the Zionist-fascist state of Israel and take good care in not shutting down their embassy.

In Venezuela, Maduro and the notorious caricature of revolution, the so-called Bolivarian Revolution, not only paid imperialism until the last penny of the foreign debt, but also they imposed all the plans of hunger and misery to the Venezuelan working class. They didn’t touch a single interest or business deal or lands to the oligarchy, which controls the food and the entire trading network of food. As a result of this, they unleashed a devaluation of more than 1000% of the currency, which sent the masses to hunger and desperation. Today, millions of refugees flee from Venezuela.

The government of Maduro has been a big “squeezed lemon” that imperialism used as a decisive ram to deceive first, then divert and finally defeat the fights of the Venezuelan working class. The result of this Bolivarian adventure is 300.000 million dollars that the Bolivarian bourgeoisie has in Miami bank accounts, while millions of Venezuelan workers live in hunger. How can imperialism not advance in Venezuela, if Maduro has already paved the way and cleared it from the masses, to which disorganized and imposed a brutal attack on them?

Maduro has played his role. For imperialism, there is not a single drop of juice left in the squeezed lemon.
Let’s be clear. This imperialist offensive has the way free, because of that parody and scam of the “Bolivarian revolution” that sold out the anti-imperialist struggle of the Latin American masses and handed over Cuba to imperialism. If there was an anti-imperialist revolutionary workers movement as that one which broke out in Venezuela in 1989 with Caracazo, the US wouldn’t even dare to set a single foot in that country.
This coward Bolivarian bourgeoisie and the entire Stalinist left, the former Trotskyists and social-democrats that supported it are co-responsible of leaving the masses in the worst conditions and defensive before the brutal imperialist attack.

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When we issue this paper, the government of Maduro, in crisis, regrets that the US does no longer consider him as the agent to continue guaranteeing the business of imperialism in Venezuela and the entire region. He threatened to suspend the relationships with USA in 72 hours but it keeps a blood bond with imperialism paying until the last penny the fraudulent foreign debt to the IMF at the expense of the starvation of the people, as we have said.

Decades ago, at the end of the ‘80s and beginning of the ‘90s, the governments of the Punto Fijo pact regime, the traditional parties in Venezuela, tried to impose such conditions of generalized famine of the Venezuelan people to pay the IMF.
All these offensives were defeated in the late ‘80s and beginning of the ‘90s by the Caracazo, a huge mass semi-insurrection which was the first Latin American masses’ clash against the imperialist plundering through the foreign debts, together with that of Mexico in 1986.

The Caracazo disorganized the entire imperialist offensive on Venezuela.
Chavezism and Maduro re-organized the business deals of the capitalists and imperialism not only in Venezuela but also, as we have seen, in the entire region. They managed to impose the same plans of famine, increase in the cost of living, hikes in prices of fuel, IMF plundering that not even Carlos Andres Perez, supported by the repressive military couldn’t impose back then.
Now, the followers of Carlos Andres Perez and other repressors of Caracazo will come to continue their work… and the one of Maduro, as he has finished his job, after decades, to settle the full American dominance and finish the colonization of Venezuela, chastising the Latin American masses with it.

Under the orders of OAS and Trump, the National Assembly appointed Guaido as Venezuela’s president. Maduro insists in that he is the only one that can control the masses. In a shameful speech that lasted for hours in Miraflores palace he promised the masses “more missions”, “more houses”, “more food ration” and a vague promise of “reconstructing Venezuela”. Miserable! Venezuela cannot be rebuilt without expropriating the capitalists and the entire Bolibourgeoisie that stole the money away and put it in Miami; without breaking with the IMF that takes 18 thousand million dollars a year from Venezuela, guaranteed by Maduro with devaluations that took the wages to 19 dollars a month. The promises of Maduro is a pack of rice per week. That’s the only thing the scam of the Bolivarian revolution can give to the starving people.
This cynic anti-worker policy of Maduro, which takes the masses to despair, not only weakens him and leaves him “hanging from a paintbrush” but mostly paves the way for US imperialism to start planning his overthrowing and prepare huge businesses with slave labour force and hunger wages, and what’s even more important to keep the oil entirely, as Maduro has already started to give it to the US.

While the masses eat from the trash and millions run away from Venezuela, the bourgeois gangs of imperialism define which government will come tomorrow, counting the amount of officers and barracks that each bourgeois gang has. This count started on Monday, January 21st, with the putsch attempted by a detachment of the Bolivarian National Guard in Cotiza barracks in Caracas.
Meanwhile, Trump launched a powerful missile, expecting a full definitive rendition of Maduro. He confiscated all the funds of the Venezuelan oil that are in USA, announcing that he will only give them to Guaido, who is sheltered in Colombia’s embassy of Venezuela. Maduro and the Bolibourgeoisie? They hadn’t touch a single centimeter of the US property. They are brave to suppress the working class and submissive to imperialism, of which they are junior partners.
Today, the future of Venezuela is not decided in the Constituent Assembly or in the National Assembly or Miraflores palace or the Embassy of Colombia, where Guaido is sheltered.
The “coup d´état forces” that are being prepared won’t arrive to Venezuela in a UFO nor by an invasion, for now. These counterrevolutionary forces come out from the heart of the bourgeois officers of the Bolivarian Armed Forces, which is the only institution that still stands of the bourgeois gangs and imperialism as a whole, and it is openly disputed. They will decide if it is Trump’s time or Maduro to continue for some time.
The currents of the reformist left, Podemos, Syriza, Stalinism, the murderers as Putin or the Chinese mandarins that are presented as “friends of the subjugated people”, etc. call the Venezuelan people to stop this coup by tying their fate to the anti-worker pro-imperialist policy of Maduro, who is settled in nothing more and nothing less than the officers caste that is preparing the coup.

For the revolutionary socialists we cannot even dream with stopping a single coup tank or the uprising in the barracks that has started without disarming, as we say in our statement, to the entire officers body of the Bolivarian armed forces that both Maduro and Guaido Trump.
To disarm the officers caste of the armed forces and arm the people, disputing the rank and file soldiers from the officers is the task. The struggle for the army has started. The bourgeois gangs dispute the officers among themselves. The workers must win over the rank and file soldiers. This is the decisive battle and the starting point of the entire revolutionary program.
To arm the people, expropriate the capitalists and break with imperialism to be able to eat is the only way that can assure the defeat of this evil plan of imperialism that is underway and the miserable rendition of the native bourgeoisie before their major partner.

In the entire American continent they want the working class to believe there are two alternatives: Trump or the “progressive” Democratic Party of the imperialist bandits of USA; Lopez Obrador or PRI; Lula of Bolsonaro; Cristina Kirchner or Macri. The reformist left wants to take the American working class to the feet of the counterrevolutionary “democratic” gangs of US imperialism or their “leftist” servants.
We Trotskyists affirm that there are not only these two alternatives but three. There’s also the powerful Latin American working class (a thousand times betrayed by parliamentary left chatterboxes and Stalinists that sold out the biggest gains) that strongly resists this imperialist offensive and its allies, the US workers.
The iron alternative in Latin America is between the workers and poor peasants fighting against imperialism, getting rid of the parasites of the native bourgeoisies to open the revolution… if not, the cruelest defeats will come by the hand of these bourgeoisies and imperialism.
The Latin American working class hasn’t given up. Each time it intervened, it defeated tens of imperialist offensives. Even today, with too many betrayals, it doesn’t give up. In the very borders of Rio Bravo, 70,000 workers of the maquilas have risen, while 4000 starving and disposed in Central America go to seek what’s theirs to USA, where the imperialist bankers that plundered their wealth are. The dock workers of Chile have shaken that country with huge strikes.
In Argentina, the hot coal of the revolutionary uprisings of December 18th and 19th 2017 are still burning, while the bourgeoisie and the reformist left seek to open the electoral year and take the masses off the streets.
The Brazilian working class hasn’t said its last word, let alone the US working class.

The fight against the imperialist wars, to paralyze the US war machine, to recover Cuba sold out by Stalinism, to retake the anti-imperialist struggle to expel the IMF, dissolve that bandit cave of AS, end with the capitalist markets of the transnational companies (as FTA, Mercosur and ALBA) and sweep away with the capitalist regimes of Latin America is in the hands of the working class and the poor from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego.
The US offensive in Venezuela is stopped and defeated with Caracazo, Argentinazo and the workers and peasants revolution in the entire continent. Bolsonaro and its Bonapartist semi-fascist risings are confronted by committees of workers, poor peasants, rank and file soldiers and workers militias. The onslaught of USA in the Caribbean and Central America is defeated by fighting as the workers in the maquilas installed south of Rio Grande. The rhetoric of Trump “the cowboy” is fought by setting up against the anti-war movement, the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Black Panthers, and breaking with the imperialist parties of the counterrevolutionary US Democrats.