Venezuela: A 30 years of the "Caracazo" even bleed from the wound
Today 27 February, are met 30 years in 1989 the Venezuelan people led a popular rebellion. Currently we crossed the threat of foreign intervention with the US in the lead, riding the precarious situation in which lives an important part of the Venezuelan population, caused by government measures Nicolas Maduro and the junking of the "democratic freedoms" from these two reactionary sectors.
The rightist opposition, especially the MUD extinct, Today clustered around the figure of Juan Guaidó Popular Will Party, It aims to advance a "coup" to a government that is already illegitimate and has repudiation and rejection of the overwhelming majority of the Venezuelan people. (Is as we say in good caraqueño language "is hitting a cripple". "It is fighting a fallen". It is to bring the "stolen departure").
In the background, Guaidó mature and are part of a power structure that is functional to capitalism. The dispute between them, It is related to the imperial sector will privilege in delivering resources Venezuela, resources that will be "sold" to "price of desperation".
While this dispute happens between them, workers are those who have borne the full weight of a crisis caused by the traditional bourgeoisie and the "Bolivarian bourgeoisie" that emerged with managing the country's resources at will from power. Both are sides of embezzling the nation, and in some cases, They have been to partners in times when "the cows were fat". 30 years later in Venezuela we have a lumpen bourgeoisie was strong in the Chavez-period exponentially Maduro, while state bureaucrats were formed into a new caste of bourgeois. Today workers and the poor suffer the most brutal adjustments, the total decline in gains won in years of struggle, shortages of food and medicine and, especially, the absolute precariousness of life. totalitarianism, blackmail and repression accompany Calvary.
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February 89 It was the time when a turning point in what is known as Fourth Republic or the marked period in which the bourgeoisie, US fundamentally, It was very well represented in the Social Democratic Party of Democratic Action (AD) and the Social Christian COPEI each with its satellite parties, where the camper left today would have to take stock of his performance during that period.
to stay 40 years in power, the traditional right, which today it is the face of a military intervention in Venezuela, sold nationwide price "skinny chicken". They privatized the main basic and service companies in the country and after the famous "black friday" (1983) the Venezuelan population was depleted at an accelerated rate. The Caracazo was the response of the masses against capitalist adjustment imposed at the time the IMF. Just as the Berlin Wall fell.
But the other side of capitalism left the camper is, the same as in February 1989 He was not up to the popular rebellion, the same camper left who supported the faithful representative of the bourgeoisie, Rafael Caldera and helped come to power, the same camper left in the period Chavez turned to applaud as seal and to become many cases tariffed Revolution XXI century or the Bolivarian Revolution (I imagine long dissertations about the name of the revolution). Those satellites dedicated to be a bourgeois nationalist government. They were the same as they were welcomed to the "Cuban revolutionaries", experts confiscation of participation and involvement of workers and the people. They were the ones who reached out to the false progressive ones as blurred the role of the working class in central preposterously state employers. They were the ones who sucked their stockings while betraying Lula Brazilian workers hugged and large companies, in which Odebrech played an important role in the embezzlement of public funds from various nations. That's the same camper left while defending Ortega represses those who faced him its measures to increase the retirement age and IMF impose measures. Is the same camper left spares no effort to support the government of Maduro. His "anti interventionism" comes to him just to say that they get their hands from Venezuela to the US intervention; but they put their hands to China, Russia and Turkey take over natural resources, of riches, of holding companies, of life of workers taking them to be total workforce and absolutely precarized and semi slave.
As part of anti-capitalist tide Network to the challenge before us
The Caracazo and its consequences are only a small part of what happens worldwide when workers got up against the system, against capital. Trotsky described as well, the tragedy of mankind is the crisis of global revolutionary political leadership.
Fight capitalism and bureaucratized addresses that are equally capitalist, patriarchal and pro-imperialist, It is the task and the challenge arises Marea Socialista as part of anti-capitalist Network.
We are part of the millions in the world rise up and fight. We are the yellow vests in France, Teachers in the United States, women against patriarchy and machismo, We are the ones in Turkey face a dictator like Erdogan, we are the thousands of Argentines who rise up against Macri measures, We are the ones who face Ortega in Nicaragua, We are those who defend Catalan autonomy, We are those fighting in Chile, who in Brazil face the Bolsonaro to the lulismo opened all space, which we accompany the democratic revolutions in the so-called Arab Spring, We are all workers and oppressed people rising against the capitalist system.
And we are of those who in Venezuela oppose the imperialist military intervention of the hand of a right proinjerencista we face Maduro who heads a totalitarian government, capitalist and corrupt.
Zuleika Matamoros
reproduced from Anticapitalist Network
28.2.2019
