https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/turning-right-repressing-left-under-pressure-venezuelas-maduro-shifts-course
Interview with Venezuelan socialist Antonio Gonzalez Plessman: "Different factors explain this turn to the right. "Some are internal, the result of changes in power relations and the governing elite’s management of the economy, and others are external, in that they are due to the international right’s attacks. "The blockade imposed by the United States and European Union runs systematically contrary to the protection of human rights. Its impact on the population is devastating and criminal. It seeks to generate a change in government, which is a violation of our right to self-determination. "With all its contradictions and internal tensions, in Venezuela there has been an attempt to construct a democratic alternative to capitalism that is independent of the US. This is something that imperialism cannot tolerate. What is occurring today cannot be understood outside of the framework of this existing conflict. "By escalating this conflict, the US and EU are among those responsible for the deterioration of the governing elite, for the tactical turns it has taken, which ended up becoming strategic." ***** This highlights the continued importance of campaigning against the blockade. This is the best way socialists living in the US and its allies such as Australia can support those trying to reverse the rightward turn. The need to avoid US sanctions on Venezuela's state-owned enterprises provides a reason or pretext for privatisation. The need for unity against US imperialism and its allies provides a pretext for repressing dissent. Hence we must oppose US sanctions and military threats. Chris Slee -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#9443): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/9443 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/83794761/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
