translated from the Venezuelan section website of the IMT and Marxist current inside the PSUV.
http://luchadeclases.org.ve/manos-fuera-de-ven-leftmenu-163/7344-alan-woods-qdefender-el-voto-completar-la-revolucionq Alan Woods "defend the vote, complete the revolution"<http://luchadeclases.org.ve/manos-fuera-de-ven-leftmenu-163/7344-alan-woods-qdefender-el-voto-completar-la-revolucionq> [image: Print]<http://luchadeclases.org.ve/manos-fuera-de-ven-leftmenu-163/7344-alan-woods-qdefender-el-voto-completar-la-revolucionq?tmpl=component&print=1&layout=default&page=> [image: E-mail]<http://luchadeclases.org.ve/component/mailto/?tmpl=component&link=8acf2fac22fe5d32324dc018321d88169c2e70af> Written by Hands Off Venezuela Sunday April 14, 2013 Today Sunday April 14, are being held new presidential elections in Venezuela. Following the unfortunate passing of our dear friend and revolutionary giant Hugo Chávez, today the working class and the revolutionary people of Venezuela must fight back in a strong electoral battle against the forces of the reactionary oligarchy and imperialism. Once again, the eyes of millions of workers, youth, peasants, unemployed and poor throughout the world, eagerly await a new victory for the Bolivarian revolution against capitalist counterrevolution and imperialist. >From the Hands Off Venezuela, have defended for over ten years internationally Bolivarian Revolution, against the attacks of corporate communication at the service of the great transnational capital, who have unleashed as never before during the last decade, a campaign vicious lies and discredit Venezuela, seeking to isolate the Bolivarian Revolution of workers around the world, and also, we have an uphill political battle in each of the countries where it operates the Campaign to counter attacks from various bourgeois governments and political organizations, is working against Venezuela. With the disappearance of Commander Chavez, the Hands Off Venezuela Campaign, has taken another step forward, to deepen the international defense of the Bolivarian Revolution. Proof of this are the numerous acts of solidarity that the campaign has done in various places around the world. From Brussels to the Basque Country, in Minneapolis to Berlin, Mexico City to Vienna, have mobilized all young comrades, workers, union leaders and leftist activists who make up the campaign to defend the Bolivarian Revolution in this new phase. Today, before this battle between you, our brothers and sisters Venezuela class, we take a new step forward to defend the revolution. Therefore, since the Hands Off Venezuela Campaign, we have prepared this statement to tell you, our comrades of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: The new challenge today April 14 before them, not just a struggle yourselves, it is a struggle of the world working class against imperialism, a struggle of socialism against capitalism, that you fight for all the poor and oppressed of the world. As we said, millions of workers around the world are pinning their hopes on you comrades. It is absolutely necessary to give a new sound defeat the oligarchy and imperialism, to continue deepening the socialist revolution in Venezuela and Latin America, holding high the banner of revolutionary struggle for socialism, to the world. To give a concrete example of the continuing importance of the Bolivarian Revolution in the eyes of the world's oppressed, I will quote part of an answer I gave in an interview I did the newspaper El Universal two weeks ago and were built in Venezuela delivered 350,000 houses in the last two years, while in Spain over the same period 350,000 families lost their homes through eviction for not paying the mortgage. In Spain there are now six million unemployed, including 58% of young people, while in Venezuela, unemployment fell from 18% to 8% during the presidency of Commander Chávez. It is obvious, then, how the workers and oppressed of Spain and the rest of the world, come to Venezuela a path, a reference to the struggle to end oppression in which they live. Therefore, comrades in Venezuela, from the Hands Off Venezuela, and on behalf of all national sections that make up the Campaign across five continents, we call all the revolutionary people of Venezuela to mobilize massively today, to defend the Bolivarian Revolution in this new battle against the forces of reaction and also to show the world once again today, despite what they say every hour media communication bourgeois world, Venezuela is the most democratic country in the world. No employee or worker must stay today at home. Fellow worker, fellow workers, mobilizing all the comrades that laboras factory, the company that laboras, your union. No worker should stay home Bolivarian exercising their right to vote. The Venezuelan working class, the vanguard of this revolution, should give a new example of which is the height of this great historic compromise. Young student, you too, should be an example of cutting edge and revolutionary commitment. Unemployed youth and students from Spain, from Arab countries, from Africa, have their hopes for you. You housewife, working woman, working woman, you can not miss this great undertaking. Well, fellow workers, students, peasants and indigenous, the poor of the world have great faith in the work that you performed today. The eyes of the world are upon you. Again, from the Hands Off Venezuela Campaign call them massively mobilized to defend their votes to the Bolivarian Revolution, and to defend well, the revolutionary legacy of Commander Chávez. The mass mobilization and awareness of the revolutionary people, to exercise their right to vote today and to defend it against the sabotage of the oligarchy, it is essential to give the next battle: complete the socialist revolution in Venezuela with the expropriation of the oligarchy . Comrades, the revolution's future depends on you. *Long live the Bolivarian Revolution!* *Long live the working class and the revolutionary people of Venezuela!* *Chavez lives, the struggle continues!* By Hands Off Venezuela: Alan Woods, founder and Jorge Martin, international secretary [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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