Latest message from the Communist Party of Venezuela. (my italics) : Dear Comrades. Communist and Workers Parties of the World
The situation in the country is very complex. The political dispute between the two hegemonic blocs of the national bourgeoisie tends to become more acute, as a result of the deficiencies of the presidential electoral process of last July 28. On the one hand, the fraction of the bourgeoisie which has its political representative in the governing party, the PSUV, clings to the political control of the State, even resorting to electoral fraud, and on the other hand, the parties of the traditional bourgeoisie, which are grouped in the Unitary Platform alliance, return to the agenda of external interference. For the Venezuelan working class, not everything is black and white in this dispute. It is not true that demanding the right to transparency in the electoral process and that the popular will expressed by a majority at the ballot box be respected, means siding with the political forces of the traditional right wing, much less with imperialism. This crude blackmail is what the bourgeois fraction in power intends to use to disqualify and criminalize the legitimate struggles of the workers and popular strata who today demand transparency and verification of the electoral results. There are those who, even from abroad, try to impose the thesis of the lesser evil, even if that means endorsing a grotesque electoral fraud, which would translate into a brutal setback in the little that remains to the Venezuelan working class of liberties and democratic rights. As we have defended since our 16th National Congress, none of the parties representing the two fractions of the bourgeoisie in confrontation represent the interests and aspirations of the Venezuelan working class. But particularly, the forces that support the current government of Nicolas Maduro, it has fallen to them to personify the most aggressive anti-popular and anti-working class adjustment in the history of the country. This government has been very efficient in using all the control they exercise over the whole state apparatus, to serve the interests of capital and impose on the shoulders of the working class the harmful effects of the crisis and the criminal imperialist sanctions. It is not that the sanctions are not responsible for the crisis facing the country, it is that the government of Nicolas Maduro has used the repressive power of the state to protect the capitalists from the effects of these sanctions and the crisis, amplifying its consequences on the workers and the people in general. That is the reason why the government boasts of a supposed economic recovery and private investment boom, while workers have lost almost all their labor and social rights. It is the PSUV government, the one that has kept for 3 years the workers' salaries frozen at a pyrrhic 3.5 dollars per month, the ones that have bonified the income of the workers, the ones that have eliminated de facto the social benefits of the workers , the ones that imposed regressive resolutions such as the ONAPRE instructions and Memorandum 2792, both with the purpose of dismantling the collective bargaining agreements of the public and private workers. In addition to this destruction of labor rights, there is a violent repressive policy to criminalize and prosecute the union struggles of the workers to recover their rights. The PSUV government, for the Venezuelan working class, is not an expression of any progressive interest, on the contrary, it is the personification of the fiercest and meanest needs of capital in the phase of deep crisis of Venezuelan rentier and dependent capitalism. The current political crisis is a violent manifestation of the specific features of the historic dispute between fractions of the national and world bourgeoisie for the control of the Venezuelan oil rent. >From the PCV we uphold the strategic line of building a working class and >popular alternative to the two poles of the bourgeoisie, and at the same time >fighting and defeating the tendency towards the consolidation of political >forms of authoritarian management, towards which the forces of capital are >advancing dangerously in the context of the acute crisis. Allowing either of the two fractions of the bourgeoisie to impose itself through electoral fraud or a coup d'etat, is a step in the consolidation of an authoritarian regime tailored to the offensive of capital against the Venezuelan workers. Cordially Héctor Alejo Rodríguez Secretary of International Relations of the CC-PCV -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. 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