Venezuelan revolutionary: �You can count on us!�
The following message from Carolus Wimmer, a member of
the political bureau of the Communist Party of
Venezuela and director of international relations for
Venezuelan parliament, was sent to the Third Asia
Pacific International Solidarity Conference held in
Sydney on March 24-28. Wimmer was invited by the
organisers to speak at the conference but was not
granted a visa by Australian immigration authorities
in time.
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Communist
Party of Venezuela and the people of Venezuela send
warm greetings and wishes of days full of fraternity
and successful deliberations.
In the international context of sustainable
development, of the people's fight against the
policies of hegemonic globalisation and North American
imperialist oppression, and of constant provocation
and threats against the tendencies towards liberation
and sovereignty of the peoples and nations,
revolutionary ideas are of fundamental relevance.
This is particularly true in Venezuela, where the
murderous, provoking and destabilising glance of
Yankee imperialism � and of the continental oligarchy
subordinated to its interests � has a focused and
active counterrevolutionary strategy; and where the
organised and ideologically conscious people � the
Communist Party and the Communist Youth specifically �
must rise to meet the new exigencies and challenges
that the Venezuelan revolutionary process throws up,
as much in the national as in the international scene.
Each day, this peaceful revolutionary process presents
a picture of greater complexity. At the same time,
however, the nature of the changes to the economic
base of the capitalist society that are necessary to
radically transform society and truly open the way to
a society based on social justice are becoming
clearer.
The Third Asia Pacific International Solidarity
Conference demonstrates that we live in an
international context of growth in the camp of
progressive forces, and in which North American
imperialism acts to maintain, consolidate and extend
its worldwide domination.
In Venezuela, after the fascist coup in April 2002
that was ended by a great popular victory, the United
States of North America mobilised its allies
externally � the Colombian oligarchy and government �
and internally to block Venezuela�s strong tendency
towards economic and social recovery � which is
projected to grow even further in 2005 � and
simultaneously tried to deal a blow to the development
of a sovereign continental policy of integration and
unity of the countries of Latin America and the
Caribbean.
In opposition to this aggressive imperialistic policy,
the Bolivarian government of President Hugo Chavez is
constructing wide international alliances, both
tactical and strategic, with governments, political
and social movements and personalities. This will
contribute to consolidating and fortifying the
tendency towards worldwide multipolarity and to
raising defensive walls against the criminal blows of
imperialism. At the present time, imperialism finds
itself limited in its overt operations against the
Bolivarian revolution, because of its own internal
crisis and the many battle fronts it is bogged down in
� the main ones being Afghanistan and Iraq, and more
generally the Middle East and Latin America � and the
danger that the contradictions that its hegemonic
globalisation has unleashed internally will be
consolidated.
In Venezuela, one of the important things occurring
now is provocation around Venezuela-Colombia border,
which is promoted by the government of US President
George W. Bush and utilises the Colombian oligarchy
and government with the complicity of sections of
Venezuelan society, to promote a local war and
generate the conditions for an external intervention.
Dear comrades of this conference in Sydney, the
Venezuelan revolution is advancing in five directions.
In the political field: Since Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez's victory in the presidential referendum
with 60% of the vote, and the regional elections which
resulted in 22 of the 24 federal states being headed
by Bolivarian governments and only two belonging to
the opposition, there is total internal political
stability, which has allowed for long-term planning.
Nevertheless, revolutionary vigilance remains, and we
must move forward in the local elections scheduled for
August 2005, the parliamentary elections set for
December 2005 and the presidential elections in 2006,
where we must make sure of an overwhelming victory for
President Chavez.
In the economic field: To govern for a just
redistribution of wealth, conscious of the fact that
in the capitalist system there is no social justice,
it is necessary to think and fight for the transition
to socialism, and support the formation of
cooperatives and worker takeovers of industries whose
owners left during the counterrevolutionary sabotage.
In the social field: We are extending health programs,
for which we are grateful for the current help of more
than 10,000 Cuban doctors who guarantee humane
attention to the Venezuelan people. We are advancing
totally free education programs, trying to guarantee
full employment and a suitable house for each family.
In the territorial scene: We are advancing towards a
redistribution of the population, with new cities
founded on humanist criteria; and towards incentives
for agricultural production to guarantee food for all
of the population and to obtain food independence.
In the international scene: We are advancing:
multipolar political, economic and cultural relations,
especially towards Latin America, Asia and Africa; the
democratisation of multilateral organisations like the
UN; Venezuelan solidarity with the countries of the
South in regards to exporting energy resources; and
new military alliances to face up to a possible Yankee
invasion of Venezuela.
Dear comrades of the Third Asia Pacific International
Solidarity Conference, we Venezuelan revolutionaries
are conscious of our responsibility in the global
anti-imperialist struggle. You can count on us!
At the World Social Forum, Chavez said: �Capitalism
must be replaced.
�Every day more I am convinced, without any doubt in
my mind and as many intellectuals have said, that it
is necessary to transcend capitalism. But capitalism
cannot be transcended from within capitalism itself,
but through socialism, a true socialism based on
equality and justice. But I am also convinced that it
is possible to do this under democracy, but not in the
type of democracy being imposed from Washington.�
Until the total victory against imperialism!
For a just world, for a socialist world!
>From Green Left Weekly, April 13, 2005.
Visit the Green Left Weekly home page.
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