Venezuela: Given the proposals of the PCV, that demands a special commission to investigate corruption and Nicolás Maduro

ByUnited Socialist

He 12-04-23 a news item appeared in which the Communist Party of Venezuela (PVC) demands of the National Assembly (official) of which the deputy Oscar Figuera is a part, party general secretary, that a commission be formed to investigate the corruption and inaction of senior government officials up to Nicolás Maduro (https://www.aporrea.org/contraloria/n382023.html). He indicated that everything must be investigated by a commission with "personalities who are not committed to the mafia and criminal gangs that have an internal confrontation" to raid the nation's wealth.. He related all this to the so-called anti-blockade law, which he describes as the "law of surrender and looting" and criticized the secrecy that prevents social and institutional oversight., so that there can be more forceful actions against corruption. As noted, the Comptroller General, The Prosecutor's Office and the National Assembly are powers of the State, with the constitutional mandate to adopt measures. And he referred to the cases of Aryenis Torrealba and Alfredo Chirinos, Eudis Girot, Johanna Gonzalez, Marcos Sabariego and Gil Mujica, whose judicial decisions must be reviewed, annulled and the State must compensate all of them. He concluded with a call to Venezuelan social and political organizations to join "a great movement for the dignity of the people.".

the sea, anti-capitalist political organization, socialist and anti-bureaucratic, advanced anti-corruption initiatives several years ago (since 2013), throughout which he promoted investigations based on complaints of embezzlement from the nation and capital flight, and presented requirements to the public organizations that Figuera mentions. Along with these supported complaints and resources introduced in State entities, Marea promoted the Platform for Public and Citizen Audit, also including among its purposes the investigation of Illegitimate External Debt. Ver: www.aporrea.org/contraloria/a320575.html

Linked to this we also present the claim for compliance with the Article 91 of the Constitution, on the adjustment of the minimum wage with reference to the cost of the basic basket, as a way to defend the income of workers and the value of work against the predatory voracity of bureaucracies and employers. Ver: https://www.aporrea.org/trabajadores/n357132.html The anti-corruption fight must produce among its results - in addition to discovering and punishing the facts- the rescue of defrauded and stolen resources to allocate them to the recovery of the country and above all to the well-being of the people, starting with the substantial improvement of all salaries.

Nevertheless, at that time, many leftist organizations had not yet distanced themselves from the bureaucratic and corrupt government, camouflaged behind the discourse of "revolution" and "socialism", but with a marked capitalist and anti-worker practice. At that time Marea was put in the bag of the right-wing opposition, instead of realizing the betrayal of Madurismo to the Bolivarian revolution.

The Continuing Embezzlement continued in its colossal looting of the country, taking ahead benefits achieved in services and social security, and completely destroying the remuneration of work and important work achievements. It is largely what has plunged the people and the working class into unprecedented misery., that cannot be "justified" with the discourse of the blockade, the sanctions, the "criminal dollar" or the fall in oil prices. Although they are important aggravating factors, At the bottom of everything is the abyss of corruption, that swallows everything, and the maintenance of rentier capitalism administered by a political-military bureaucracy that has become lumpen-bourgeoisie, that beyond the praise for Chávez and the revolution, They have acted as a true counterrevolutionary steamroller, cloaked in misleading pseudo-socialist rhetoric.

During all these lost years and in the midst of harsh attacks from the government, we could have tried, with more support, the impulse of this "movement for the dignity of the people", and perhaps we would have resisted better the attacks of anti-worker and repressive policies, that have done tremendous and prolonged damage to the material living conditions of the workers and the people in general., to the organization, to combat capacity, and even to social conscience.

It would be necessary to resume those investigations and those complaints, among other, that show what the government tries to hide under the smoke screen that covers a dispute between clans that fight over the loot of the State (the money and resources of the people). Reason why it's not the government, which is part of the cause of the problem, Who can go out now to "fight corruption", because it represents the social stratum that executes it and lives off of it at the expense of all Venezuelans who depend on their own work..

For this we say, we do not have any trust in institutional organizations, although we have turned to them to demand their State responsibilities, to place, for example, el TSJ, or the National Assembly of which Oscar Figuera is a deputy and they don't even let him speak, apart from wanting to remove the legality of his party with tricks implemented with the CNE. Venezuelan popular wisdom taught us that "zamuro does not take care of meat", but still he is still at the peak of the zamuros, because there is missing someone who can scare them away: an organized and powerful social factor, that is a genuine expression of the working class and the popular sectors, supported by honest intellectuality.

It seems good to us that the structurally entrenched corruption in the Venezuelan bourgeois State (administered by false revolutionaries) be investigated, among other possibilities, for a commission with "personalities who are not committed to the mafia and criminal gangs that have an internal confrontation" to raid the nation's wealth. But it does not have to be precisely a commission appointed by the AN, that responds to the government and its interests, but that the way would have to be opened for the carrying out of Public and Citizen Audits, with the participation of workers and communities, not just "personalities", and even from professional and academic unions, formed through democratic social processes, to investigate, for example, corruption in the Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana (CVG) and its core businesses, in addition to what must primarily be done in Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).

The working class of Guyana, of PDVSA and the country, They have the full right to demand their full participation in carrying out audits and in the formation of audit committees of the companies., that are not to make up and cover up wrongs and corruption nor are they at the service of the change of control to other ambitious and untrustworthy hands. This would require holding assemblies and democratic review meetings., balance, restructuring and redirection where manual and intellectual workers examine everything within the companies at work tables, look closely at all businesses, put a magnifying glass on the accounting books and funds. And it is a task that requires absolute autonomy to carry it out..

This is what could be expected if Workers' Control had been applied, which did not suit bureaucracies and corrupt mafias., as well as its business associates who are beneficiaries of chimbo contracts; but they sabotaged it to the limit so that it would not develop and finally they extirpated it everywhere. Don't come and compare it with the so-called Productive Councils of Workers (CPTT), that they are mere instruments at the service of the bureaucrats on duty, named by hand or managed by “convenience”.

In this way we would not be limited to “parliamentary” work or mere external observers without true access to information management., but we would be involving the working class and citizen participation in the controlling role; especially when we know that it is the workers who are in contact with production and are the main sufferers of waste or misuse of their effort at work., those who often notice "things" and are not listened to or are victims of retaliation for "opening their mouths".

For reasons and amounts much smaller than those that have been "lost" in the hands of the pseudo-Bolivarian and falsely socialist bureaucracy., with these new capitalists, with the government that appointed them, promoted and supported them, rotated and defended for years, Former President Carlos Andrés Pérez was prosecuted and dismissed in the Fourth Republic and regarding the behavior of his government there was a 27 F, a 4 F y a 27 N. Therefore, There are plenty of merits for the government and the senior staff of state institutions and companies to be investigated. (in many cases in the hands of the military). We also agree on this requirement. But, as the saying goes: Who bells the cat?

For this we must awaken and promote a powerful conscious movement., organized and in full readiness to fight to combat corruption and for the recovery of the rights of workers and the Venezuelan people, that it cannot carry out and complete its task if it is not with the vocation of achieving power and changing the structure of the State and capitalist functioning of the Venezuelan economy.: We are talking about a real change, with the people below, and not with bureaucrats, businessmen, speculators and opportunistic soldiers, because what happened in Venezuela with the "socialist" promise was a scandalous fraud, a scam on the people, whose real object was not social transformation but rather "take yourself off so I can put myself on". This has to be made up for!!

And it is not something that is simply resolved in an electoral scenario like the ones we usually have in Venezuela., where what counts is the money, the advantage of institutional power, State resources used with embezzlement of use and "marketing", with additives of clientelist “populism” to cajole with occasional crumbs. What it's about, It is a form of deep mobilization, combative and sustained, that breaks into the prevailing disorder, with the capacity to lead to strong and democratic empowerment in favor of workers and the people.

We are fully willing to promote the unitary struggle that vindicates and achieves redress for the cases of Aryenis Torrealba and Alfredo Chirinos, Eudis Girot, Johanna Gonzalez, Marcos Sabariego and Gil Mujica (and any other number of workers imprisoned for fighting and or denouncing corruption), with the review and annulment of the unjust judicial decisions that were imposed on them. This also requires extensive and joint work for which you can count on us., within the framework of the purpose of contributing to forging that "great movement for the dignity of the people", with a sense of class.

With that purpose, Marea wants to reiterate and share proposals for a common program against corruption and embezzlement, and at the same time for the recovery of the resources that the working class has been stripped of along with the rest of the Venezuelan people..

· We call on the working class and the popular movement to exercise the role of anti-corruption controller and supervisor., which is linked to education and formation of values ​​and awareness against this scourge, which in Venezuela is a structural part of the system of domination.

· We maintain that the consistent fight against corruption has to be linked to the need to fight for a new revolution, to establish a democratic government, anticapitalist, workers and the people, without bureaucrats or corrupt.

· On that path, We raise the slogan of a Public and Citizen Audit, with worker participation, both companies and state accounts (including those of PDVSA, CVG, Mining Bow, agri-food sector…) as well as external and internal debts, highly suspected of illegality and illegitimacy. We even believe that workers have the right to this in private equity companies. To apply it, a social movement prepared and capable of organizing it and giving it impetus is necessary..

· We demand investigation, dismissal, judgment, imprisonment and confiscation of accounts and assets of the corrupt (for resource recovery). The recovery of lands that were destined for the peasantry must be included (by the Land Law) and ended up usurped by officials, military or their front men and associates.

· This goes hand in hand with the essential liquidation of nepotism and the concentration of multiple positions in the same people.

· We demand the demilitarization of the Public Administration and the review of all businesses and companies of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB).

· We demand that all unfinished and failed or uncompleted works be investigated, with which State resources have been squandered. (the "red elephants").

· We include in the audit and investigation requirement, with its due punishment if corruption is proven, the cases of companies and state funds handled by the self-appointed “interim president” Juan Guaidó and his team, with usurpation of public powers, and in a manner harmful to national sovereignty, in complicity or at the service of imperialism (US governments).

· We propose an Independent Fund and Under Social Control, for the deposit and management of resources that can be rescued from the hands of the corrupt, to allocate them to the improvement of salaries and social conditions, as well as the recovery of state companies, productive investment and public works necessary for the common good.

· Anti-corruption slogans, along with the demand for labor rights and constitutional wages (Art. 91, minimum wage with reference to the cost of the basic basket), They must be part of the main axes that drive the development of the class struggle in Venezuela, and the substantive recovery of the prominence of the labor-popular movement.

· Given the approach of the situation of national and presidential elections, anti-corruption demands must also take center stage, within the framework of the great discredit that surrounds the government sector and the opposition bourgeois formations; something that we will have to discuss how to approach.

· To achieve the necessary changes, We are committed to promoting and uniting all struggles, rebuild the organic strength and mobilization capacity of the working class and the poor people, and continue in the purpose of building a revolutionary party, anti-capitalist and anti-bureaucratic, of the exploited majorities.

Our entire struggle must be guided by the strategic certainty that we will not get out of the current calamitous situation unless a new revolution occurs in Venezuela., that allows us to overcome the current government and the prevailing corrupt-capitalist economic system, through a government of the workers and the people, without political-military bureaucracies, without corrupt mafias, without big businessmen taking advantage of the State and the national public economy, with predominance of social property based on the common good, without interference or submission of economic powers, external politicians or military, with a dynamic of worker and popular democracy and with full and real respect for the rights of the people.