To
our compatriot Nicolas Maduro, President of the Republic; to the
working class and working people of the city and countryside; to the
patriotic officers, classes, and soldiers of the National Bolivarian
Armed Forces; to the national leadership and militancy of the
political parties and popular organisations of the Great Patriotic
Pole, including the United Socialist Party.
The
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela finds itself threatened yet again by
acts of political violence from sectors of the extreme right as part
of the execution of a destabilising plan elaborated by North American
imperialism.
This
plan has as its objective the imposition through force and blackmail
of a government which would work to maintain US hegemony throughout
the continent, taking apart the processes of national liberation
which begun across Latin America at the start of this century, and
turning back progressive advances which have allowed the working
class and the people in general to establish rights and social
advances which were historically denied them by governments which
responded absolutely to the interests of the bourgeoisie, which in
itself acted as a subordinate to North American imperialism.
On
this occasion the aggressive escalation against our people by those
actors of the oligarchy and extreme right is much greater.
Apart
from the anti-popular violent acts resulting in the creation of
shortages and the high cost of living, terrorist acts have been seen
in various cities across the country in recent weeks.
These
acts have been accompanied by a national and international propaganda
war which looks to sew confusion and instigate confrontation between
nations, creating a state of chaos and violence which only favours a
bloody resolution of the political crisis, be it through a coup or a
direct intervention by North American imperialism and the
international institutions at its beck and call.
The
Venezuelan extreme right, following instructions from US imperialism
and with its direct financing, does not control itself in its crimes
of violence and provocation.
With
such objectives in mind, the pro-US right are pressuring military
officers with diverse forces of blackmail and manipulation.
We
call on the patriotic soldiers and officers to not cede to these
unpatriotic terrorists and to take up the cause of the defence of our
national sovereignty and our independence and the security of our
people without hesitation and with complete commitment.
For
us, the Venezuelan communists, it is clear that what is happening is
the sharpening of the class struggle in its political form — the
heightening of the struggle for power. The forces which represent the
interests of European and North American great monopoly capital are
attempting to take over control of Venezuela and all Latin America by
defeating and vanquishing the social and political sectors which
offer resistance to such objectives.
In
light of the dangerous terrorist escalation, which is putting our
national sovereignty, independence, and the gains of the working
people at risk, we call for a unified, forceful, and coherent
response. It is necessary to mobilise without delay the widest
possible anti-imperialist alliance to defeat the anti-democratic
terrorist plans.
We
urgently need the central government, the parties of the Great
Patriotic Pole, the forces of the popular and working-class movement,
and the patriotic command of the armed forces to work together.
It
is necessary to develop a popular and patriotic plan to defeat the
pro-imperialist and terrorist extreme right. To not do so would be to
act with irresponsibility and, in reality, to hand oneself over
without a fight.
The
true revolutionaries do not hand ourselves over, we fight united
until we succeed.
The
Venezuelan working class needs that the sectors of the
petit-bourgeoisie which currently hold hegemonic power in the
national executive, the other powers of state and parties of
government, immediately abandon all sectarian and selfish conduct
which has only weakened the Bolivarian process and effectively works
in favour of the enemies’ plans.
The
Communist Party of Venezuela has insisted for many years for the need
for a collective and unified national leadership of this Bolivarian
process of changes, but the petit-bourgeoisie groupings which have
exercised hegemonic control over the government have not paid
attention to these calls and proposals.
Hence,
in the current context we insist on unity of action of all the
political and social forces willing to defend the nation against the
imperialist enemy and their puppets.
However
also, in the context of a wavering and inconsequent petit-bourgeoisie
in power, we call upon the most conscientious and combative sectors
of the popular and workers’ movements, the peasantry, the middle
strata, the revolutionary intellectuals and the patriotic officers to
forge a block of forces which will lead the wide patriotic and
anti-imperialist alliance so as to halt the seditious plans of the
pro-US right and also so as to displace the reformist-appeasement
sectors which, from positions of government, tend to favour the
sectors of the big bourgeoisie and form pacts with social democratic
elements of the right wing.
Only
an ample, popular unity, led by the organised and conscientious
working class can guarantee the defence of the Bolivarian nation and
the deepening of the revolutionary changes towards the real
construction of socialism on scientific and committed foundations.
Peace
is won by defeating fascism.
