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Venezuela & the 2017 Constituent Assembly

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Channel: Proletarian TV · 2017 · Education

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Comrade Marcus Garcia, of the Venezuelan Embassy (UK) speaks at the CPGB-ML meeting to celebrate internationalism and anti-imperialist solidarity, on 29 July 2017 - and on the eve of election of the new Constituent Assembly.

He explains succinctly events in the past 6 moths that have dominated the news coming from Venezuela:

Since Feb 2017 the US-funded opposition have sought to escalate their campaign of economic sabotage, political violence and destabilisation within Venezuela, while the USA has sought to isolate Venezuela diplomatically. The imperialist media campaign has likewise built up momentum, all with the continued objective of overthrowing the Bolivarian Revolution, the PSUV and its leader, the current elected President, and the people's chosen successor of Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro.

In 2015,  the campaign of destabilisation was designed to lead up to and subvert the electoral process, and indeed the opposition secured a majority in the National Assembly at that time. They have since sought to use that body in order to stage a coup and oust the president and thus overturn the gains of the people and reinstate the unbridled rule of the comprador capitalists and the US corporations.

These aims have been typified by attempts to pass legislation privatising the social housing stock built for the people, to raise the land price, and to declare an amnesty for all the opposition's treacherous, criminal, treasonous enterprises.

In particular, Venezuela sits on the largest proven world oil reserves and despite economic difficulties consequent on the fall in the world oil price (also engineered to an extent via overproduction and the US shale gas boom), the Venezuelan national reserves are considerable and Venezuela is a great prize for US imperialism.

Moreover, the friendly relations between Venezuela and Cuba, and the efforts Venezuela has made to use its wealth to benefit the whole of the Caribbean, Central America and the South American continent have challenged the US imperial writ that has run, and been the declared aim of the USA since the Monroe doctrine was pronounced.

Trump has declared that sanctions will follow, that military options are on the table, has sought to gather support for a 'coalition of the willing' to invade and overthrow the legitimate Venezuelan government, and has used US influence to try and isolate and destabilise Venezuela. 

It is a testament to the popularity of the Chavistas that all these concerted efforts have yielded so little fruit. Moreover, Maduro has stated the willingness of the Venezuelan government and people to fight to defend the gains of the revolution.

We congratulate the Venezuelans on the successful election of their new constituent assembly, which is designed to isolate the reactionaries, and hold them to account for their actions.

When the time is right, we hope and trust that the Venezuelan people will find the strength and courage, and have the opportunity to oust their perfidious exploiting class (beholden as they are to the US, and willing as they are to burn working class activists and heap any and every misfortune upon the working masses to secure their wealth and privilege) and firmly establish the rule of the working class - the dictatorship of the proletariat.

A planned, diversified socialist economy and state is the only way Venezuela can secure her gains in the long term.

Victory to the Bolivarian Revolution!

See other contributions:
Harpal Brar CPGB-ML: https://youtu.be/V7wM529iFbI
Mr Kim, DPRK Embassy: https://youtu.be/wYCTaH-Jad4
Marcus Garcia, Venezuela: https://youtu.be/3Y0696SjD38
Jorge Louis Garcia, Cuban Embassy: https://youtu.be/SYX6owZiFN8

Read an account of the inspiring meeting here:
http://www.lalkar.org/article/2724/celebration-of-anti-imperialist-victory-anti-imperialist-barbecue-in-southall
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