Venezuela - 22nd July, 2016
Castro brothers and Bolivarians’ model: capitalist catastrophe, a sea of hungry and billions of dollars to the IMF and imperialism
In a deal with Capriles and MUD, sustained by the OAS, Maduro sinks venezuelan people into barbarism, supported in the paramilitary bands and the Generals that murdered Venezuelans during the Caracazo |
With regard to the Operations for People’s Liberation (OLP), by the Bolivarian Armed Forces, the National Guard, the police and the fascist Collectives
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On 5 July, hundreds of Venezuelan working class women mobilized to the border between San Antonio de Táchira (Ven.) and Cucuta (Col.) cities to cross to Colombia and buy staples for their families. They identified as supportive brothers of the martyred Palestinian people, carrying posters saying "Welcome to Gaza" and "the Government treats us as to Palestinians". That is how the massive exodus of exploited to Colombia began for the last weekends, a show that immediately recalls the hundred thousand Syrian refugees in Europe.
Those are true human tides crossing the border on foot for food or toilet paper. On 16 and 17 July alone, more than 170 thousand people crossed the line. Others are forced directly to abandon their land, family and friends for exile, due to hunger and widespread barbarism.
The exploited are fleeing the hell of Bolivarian Venezuela, of this scam by military servants of the banks, the IMF and the oil companies, whom the Castroes and the world left have painted of anti-imperialists and even "Socialists". All of them legitimized a gang of charlatans that spoke of "anti-imperialism" while giving Wall Street banks nearly two billion dollars of oil income. That scam has come to an end. Wall Street forced Venezuela become the Haiti occupied by forces of the UNO, or a looted black African country.
Worker wages (U$ S 15 monthly average) is not enough to buy working-class families the necessary products for three days. There is no food. The small quantities for sale are traded for monstrous prices in the black market. 28 children will die per day because of malnutrition. There is a water shortage and power blackout. Working-class neighborhoods suffer starvation and barbarism as not seen even in 1989 when the Caracazo erupted.
Public health is in ruin. It makes 10 months that there are no vaccines in public hospitals. Without water even to ensure hygiene in working-class households, Zica, dengue, chikungunya are spread. Older diseases long ago eradicated such as tuberculosis and polio are returning. Sick workers cannot keep resting because they have to stay waiting in daily rows of 6 hours in the markets to see if they get a little flour or rice.
Currency is pulverized. The factories are paralyzed or directly have to close and there are layoffs and mass suspensions.
Acting in Venezuela is the Maduro-Capriles-MUD Covenant, where the big deal is that Maduro imposes iron and fire the sinking of the poor people. The OAS with its call for dialogue is the guarantor of this deal, since it is the Government of Maduro, leaning more and more in the armed forces and vigilante gangs, which better ensures that US imperialism can go on gaining dollar on dollar of the repayment of the external debt. The famous "right-wing coup" that both the Castroes and the world left are waving as a scarecrow ended up being Maduro’s, completely disciplined to the White House and Wall Street. This bourgeois frightened by the specter of the "Caracazo" is giving each time more power to the generals, the murderous colonels that assassinated the poor during the Caracazo, whom the left refuses to confront.
With the Decree of State of Emergency in May, the army took charge of the repression in the streets. Now with the Mission for Sovereign Providing, Maduro has given the Gal. Padrino Lopez, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the custody and distribution of the food that is given to the rich and denied to the people, and all the ministries must subordinate to him. These executioner generals carry out a daily and systematic massacre against the exploited so that these do not dare rise up as in the Caracazo.
An entire wing of the world left has called to defend the Bolivarians against “the right". They have to explain what is "progressive" and "democratic" in this Bolivarian Republic that has militarized the working-class neighborhoods with the tanks and war guns of the Army. The Chavista "collectives" are true fascist hordes that murdered under the aegis of the sinister OLPs (Operations for People's Liberation), as did the Triple A of Peron in Argentina of the ' 70s.
There you have your vaunted "coup", gentlemen! : A fierce Bonapartist regime of the Bolivarian Constitution that imposes hunger and barbarism to the people. Obama and Wall Street have their Venezuelan Al-Assad! All of them are in a Covenant against the poor! Therefore the oligarchy applauds and the MUD plays the recall referendum to entertain the masses!
This is the "Bolivarian revolution", the model that the Castroes and the World Social Forum voiced for years. Starvation and barbarism were imposed not only with massacre and repression. A betrayal to the Venezuelan and the Americas proletariat was necessary so this barbarity could be imposed. The Castro and the WSF went on saying that the time had not come to rise in revolution, that capitalism could be more human, that "another world is possible". Charlatan tricksters Chavez and Fidel Castro were applauded in the Counter-Summit against Bush.
The Renegades of Trotskyism worldwide said that the revolution was not yet at the order of the day; that it was necessary to support the Bolivarians to confront Bush. They said that thanks to Chavez and Evo Morales socialism could be reached. In Venezuela, currents as Chirinos’ PSL ran huge campaigns to raise 10 million votes for Chavez. The PSTU-LIT said from the leadership of CONLUTAS that the Bolivarian Governments should not be confronted. The PTS and the PO of Argentina applauded excitedly. "Not all of socialism is good, and not all of capitalism is bad," said Raul Castro then, to liquidate the remnants of the socialist achievements of the Cuban revolution; all those pretenders were silent.
Here are the results of "their model": capitalist barbarism, a sea of hungry and some billion dollars for the IMF and imperialism! The same fate awaits the Cuban workers under the new bourgeoisie of the PC of the Castro regime. Though, there are still parties of the rogue left which dare to say that the Bolivarians were progressive, that it is forbidden to rise in a worker and peasant revolution against them!
It is every day clearer that in order to eat, the workers and poor people need to start their revolution. No breakthrough can be found under this rotten system. This is the path that poor people tried to take in June, with dozens of riots for bread throughout the country; they came to Caracas to the cry of "this Government is going to fall". The revolutionary general strike was in the agenda to pull out Maduro and for attacking the imperialist property to be able to eat, but the trade union bureaucracy and its servants of the Venezuelan left prevented it. No party among these left-wing Venezuelan charlatans of the "revolution" raised a program so that those riots become an uprising for the bread against the Government, the MUD, and Wall Street, organized and run by the working class. It was high time for the Venezuelan proletariat to answer the situation as their manufacturing worker brothers and sisters in La Paz, Bolivia, against Evo Morales, but that was prevented by their leaderships. The riots passed away and hundreds of prisoners and tortured were left.
For the exploited, the betrayal of their leaderships prevented them to fight against the Government, the MUD, and Wall Street. They are now forced to find bread on the other side of the border.
In Colombia, cynical President Santos -co-author of the expropriation and mass murder against the Colombian peasants - receives the exploited from Venezuela with a face of "democratic" and "pacifist" government. His "democracy" and "peace" are the millions of Colombian farmers displaced from their land and expropriated through massacres by the multinationals and the oligarchy to develop a powerful agribusiness and make big business profits for the Chiquita Brand, the cereal companies and the big banks! This is “Havana’s peace”, signed by the Santos Government of the seven US military bases, the leaders of the FARC (CRAF) under the tutelage of Obama, imperialism and the new bourgeoisie of the Cuban Communist Party.
The Castroes and Chavezes are enemies of the oppressed in a Latin America subjugated by imperialism. They are complicit of Wall Street and the Pentagon in the massacre of the Colombian peasant resistance, called to give in their weapons and surrender so they are massacred mercilessly by paramilitaries, Colombian army and the marines of US bases. They are complicit in the murder of hundreds of black youths at the hands of white police of Obama, whom they called to vote. That’s why they support the massacre against the Syrian masses, who rose in a heroic revolution for bread.
The food that the toiling masses of Venezuela need is in Colombian fields. The key for land and wages in Colombia is in defeating Havana and Caracas’ politics, which hold the regime of the gringo bases. The enemy is the same: Wall Street, the bases of the Pentagon, the starver regimes of the native bourgeoisie, and above all, the Obama-Castro Deal. For all these, the Venezuelan and Colombian revolutions are twinned in a same struggle.
To provide food and medicines for the people...
Down with the scam of the Bolivarian revolution! Enough of Maduro and the MUD! Out with the IMF and imperialism!
No repayment of the external debt! Expropriation without compensation and under workers control of all banks, the food chain and all the imperialist monopolies! Nationalization of foreign trade! For a worker emergency plan against the crisis to ensure food, health and education for the people!
To confront repression...
Down with the State of Emergency!
¡Out with the military in both borders and neighborhoods! ¡Down with the LPO and the Chavista "collectives"!
Self-defense committees for confronting repression!
Freedom for CIVETCHI workers and for all those detained for taking food!
Discharge for all workers, peasants and students detained, imprisoned and sued for fighting!
Let’s go to the barracks and make the soldiers disavow their officers, those executioners of the people!
For the dissolution of the officer caste, murderers of the people in the Caracazo!
To be able to fight...
Down with the collaborationist Union bureaucracy of CTV, CSBT, UNETE and FADESS! Let’s follow the example of the manufacturing workers of La Paz and break the subjugation of our organizations to the Bolivarian regime!
It is necessary to set up right now supply, factory and unemployed committees!
For a National Worker and Popular Congress, with rank and file delegates from all factories, shops and neighborhoods, to prepare the revolutionary general strike!
It’s necessary to actualize the cry of Sidor workers:
"We do not believe in Hummer Socialists or Communists in Rolex"...!
OPEN THE WAY TO THE REVOLUTION OF THE WORKERS!
THERE WILL ONLY BE BREAD IN A WORKER AND SOCIALIST VENEZUELA WITHOUT GENERALS, BOSSES OR IMPERIALIST BANKERS!
To bto be able to eat, let's expropriate imperialist properties in Venezuela and in Colombia!
A single fight on both sides of the border!
Long live the fight of the manufacturing workers of La Paz!
Long live the struggle of our working-class brothers and sisters of color against Obama and his police!
For a single revolution from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego!
Workers’ Communist League- Venezuela
