{"id":8602,"date":"2017-08-05T21:10:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/?p=8602"},"modified":"2017-08-05T21:10:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:10:08","slug":"confront-and-defeat-maduro-and-the-psuvs-coup-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/confront-and-defeat-maduro-and-the-psuvs-coup-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Confront and Defeat Maduro and the PSUV\u2019s Coup Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the voting of July 30 on the fraudulent Constituent Assembly, the Maduro administration took one more step on his anti-democratic and repressive turn, of denying the most basic democratic rights of the Venezuelan workers and people.<\/em>
\nBy UST-Venezuela.<\/strong>
\n 
\nIf there was something missing on the list of the repressive and reactionary measures \u2013 like the suspension of regional elections (governors), military courts trying civilians, the disregarding of Amazonas\u2019 deputies at the beginning of 2016, and the disregarding of the National Assembly; and in the present the destitution of Mayors, of which 8 are in jail, plus the repression to the protests that left over 100 dead from April to the present; the attacks on workers\u2019 organizations like suspension of Union elections without a new date in major companies like Sidor and PDVSA; the ban to mobilize and protest; the more than 5000 detentions and over 500 political prisoners \u2013 now we have to add the establishment of an illegal Constituent Assembly, formed by leaders of the PSUV like Iris Varela, C\u00edlia Flores, Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, Diosdado Cabello, Isturitz, Willis Rangel, and a long list of unpresentable ones, who did not even make a campaign explaining what they would change of the Constitution of 1999, and leaving outside all those who did campaign but are not part of the PSUV apparatus.
\nAs we already denounced in several articles, the fraudulent NCA will have free hands to attack popular conquests and rights. On the same election day, more than a ten of deads crowned the \u201cparty of the people\u201d. Before the establishment of the NCA, the government carried out the house arrest of Leopoldo L\u00f3pez and Antonio Ledesma. On Sunday 30, in the evening, Maduro announced that \u201cthe first measure of the Constituent will be to restructure the Public Ministry to have justice again.<\/em>\u201d Diosdado [Cabello] has already announced that \u201cthe days of the National Assembly are numbered,\u201d<\/em> confirming that the Constituent of the PSUV is not proposed to solve the problems of misery, hunger, or medicine shortage. From the UST, we call to the broadest unity to confront this anti-democratic monstrosity that proposes to preserve Maduro and the PSUV in power indefinitely and attack the people\u2019s rights.
\nThe MUD and Its \u201cDemocratic\u201d Mask<\/strong>
\nThe MUD of bourgeois opposition parties \u201cclimbed\u201d over the popular outrage, trying to lead the protests. In fact, it appears as the only political leadership the government polarizes against, trying to cover up the real polarization in Venezuela, which is between a government only supported by its friends of the Boli-bourgeoisie, the Bolivarian Armed Forces, and the State bureaucracy, on one side, and the workers, students and youth, and a broad popular segment of the population on the other.
\nThe fact that a bourgeois leadership, with a neoliberal economic program, anti-workers and anti-popular, which has relied on coups and repression, to now be relying on the protests and \u201cdemocratic demands\u201d of the people is not by its own merit or because the masses \u201cturn to the right,\u201d but because of the sad role of the so-called \u201cleft\u201d, which unconditionally supported Chavism and its bourgeois government for years. This is why, before the most dreadful crisis that affects the people, there is no strong alternative to the polarization MUD-regime.
\nThe MUD is a bourgeois leadership, counter-revolutionary and pro-imperialist, which does not even pose to defeat the government through popular mobilization. Despite a minority of it showing to be \u201cstrong\u201d, the majority sectors \u2013like Democratic Action now, affirming that they would run for governor\u2013 push for a dialogue and agreements with the government. Thus, the civic stoppages have little incidence among the important factories or workplaces, because they are called only through social media; its Union leaders do not dare to organize assemblies. This is why the Guevara or the Borges try to put limits to the mobilization: to not lose control of it. And, in fact, the mobilization intensity decreased.
\nAll of them follow the policy dictated by imperialism: to push harder each time for an electoral consensual outcome. The \u201cinterfering\u201d measures of imperialism are nothing more than a strong pressure and \u201csanctions.\u201d The puppets of the OAS, like Almagro and other reactionary presidents like Temer, Macri, and Pe\u00f1a Nieto, follow the same imperial orders.
\nWhile the MUD waits for a stronger intervention of the US and its puppets in the crisis, the socialists of the UST denounce that nothing good will come out of this rotten pan. Workers can only trust our own independent organization, and know that our strength resides in the mobilization and methods of struggle that we have learned over the years: stoppages and a General Strike organized from our work and study places.
\nThe Shameful Role of the \u201cLeft\u201d<\/strong>
\nThe Great Patriotic Pole and most part of the Latin American and the world left, raise the defense of Maduro and its Constituent. They argue that the government and regime of the \u201cSocialism of the XXI Century\u201d are being attacked because of its anti-imperialist policy, and to take the oil reserves from them. Maduro, then, could use the Constituent to defend the sovereignty and independence, and to radicalize the measures against imperialism, attacking the \u201ceconomic war\u201d against Venezuela, according to the statements of the President himself.
\nHowever, over all these years and despite the speeches, there was no rupture with the bourgeoisie nor with imperialism. On the contrary, Chavism deepened the oil rent model: today, the oil income represents 96% of the oil export dollars. Chavism consolidated and increased the dependence of the oil export to the US, which is an income of 30 million a day.
\nBy the way, the oil multinationals like Chevron have granted over 40% of the oil extraction by the \u201cmixed\u201d companies, which are not even audited. Over all these years, the country was de-industrialized, and far from \u201cspreading\u201d petroleum, this measure favored the speculation with cheap dollars. Today, the industry represents only 14% of the GDP (in 1998 it was 18%). The basic industries are bankrupted and almost completely paralyzed, as denounced by the workers. The fall of oil production is alarming: almost 1 million less of oil barrels per day, and refineries like Puerto La Cruz\u2019s have been paralyzed for months. But the Venezuela\u2019s dependence of imperialism is clearly seen in the huge debt with imperialist banks and vulture funds; the bonds sale at extremely low prices, with relief of up to 70%; and the punctual payment of the fraudulent external debt, which keeps our people from eating and heal because of lack of dollars to import food and medicines. Compared to 2014, there is a 65% less of food, medicine, and consumables imports. Will the NCA break with imperialism? Will it expropriate the multinationals that steal our oil and natural resources? Will it imprison the ones that, from the government, carry out an \u201ceconomic war\u201d to the people? The numbers speak clearly: in 2012, workers had a minimum wage equivalent to US$400; in the present, the minimum wage represents $10-$30 dollars (depending on if it is the official or parallel dollar). The catastrophe for the working people is evident. Childhood and women mortality during births has increased (according to the official numbers by the Ministry of Health, 29% and 65% respectively, between 2015-2016). By defending the government of Maduro, the Chavist and Latin American left is an accomplice of its brutal adjustment.
\nThe \u201cLeft\u201d Supports the Fraud and Lies to the Venezuelan People <\/strong>
\nMaduro and the CNE [National Electoral Committee] announced, on Sunday evening, \u201ca great voting of the Venezuelan people,\u201d affirming there were \u201cover 8 million\u201d voters, and according to Jorge Rodr\u00edguez, Chavism \u201crecovered and surpassed its historical number of votes.\u201d Those numbers, made-up by the CNE, have just been denied by the company Smartmatic, technology and software provider for elections since 2004, for being \u201cmanipulated information.\u201d The voting centers, pretty empty, confirm the manipulation regarding the number of voters. With the pressure and threatens, as well as with the participation of bureaucrats and the \u201chard-core of Chavism,\u201d the estimate of voters is 3 to 4 million, no more than that. A series of denunciations by several candidates became public today, including some of the PPT [Patria Para Todos – <\/em>Fatherland for All], part of the GPP, as well as little transparency, and they demand an \u201cauditing.\u201d The regime first used and then betrayed its own base and Chavist left candidates, calling to vote for the leaders of the PSU dependence of, and leaving the rank and file candidates out. Will the world left support this fraud that they call \u201cpopular will\u201d?
\nBut, beyond the numbers, what has been happening for a long time now is the abandonment of the people by this government and regime. The misery wages, the shortage, the hunger, the lack of medicines and gas, the price-release of products, together with all the other evils, generated the mobilization and protests of more than just the \u201cmiddle-class segments.\u201d It is the popular neighborhoods, like Valle del Chuy, Catia, and January 23, in Caracas, among others, and T\u00e1chira, Maracay, Anzo\u00e1tegui, and San Feliz in Ciudad Guayana (Bolivar), etc., who are mobilized.
\nThe \u201cCoups\u201d that the \u201cLeft\u201d Denounces and the Ones that It Does not See <\/strong>
\nAs we said above, the polarization, fed year after year by the bourgeois opposition of the MUD as much as by the Chavist government, has changed: it is the workers, the popular segments, and the youth and students who joined the protests and confront the government in several ways. There is a people rebelled against the regime and the government. Today, most Venezuelans want to government to leave, and a majority does not support either bourgeois pole politically.
\nMaduro responded to all protests with repression. The National Guard, a sector of the \u201cgroups\u201d that are armed and many times supported by the repressive forces, attacked the protests, generating acts of violence that left over 100 deads. According to the Public Ministry, around 65% of those deads were caused by official bodies or by those groups. There are hundreds of young people and students being tried by military courts, something that is forbidden by international agreements.
\nThis bourgeois government defends the bourgeoisie\u2019s businesses, be it the traditional or Boli-bourgeoisie\u2019s, or the oil and mining multinationals\u2019. As a way to preserve itself, after losing the elections for the National Assembly, in December 2015, it dismissed 3 deputies of the state of Amazonas who guaranteed the absolute majority to the opposition, and then the Supreme Justice Court held the NA in contempt and disregarded it [as a power].
\nThis \u201cleft\u201d who denounced a \u201ccoup\u201d or \u201cparliamentary coup\u201d to Dilma in Brazil now supports Maduro and his Constituent, as well as the repression to the \u201cright\u201d. This left is abandoning the traditional flags of the left of defending the democratic rights under any bourgeois government, to raise the flags of the world right instead, accusing the acts of students and popular sectors of \u201cterrorist and vandals\u201d when they mobilize and confront the GNB repression [Bolivarian National Guard]. This left is an accomplice of a bourgeois government that, to stay in power, imposes a fraudulent Constituent, represses, and kills without any consideration.
\nWe Must Reject and Confront the Fraudulent Constituent: Out with Maduro! <\/strong>
\nFrom the UST, we say this government has to leave because it has destroyed the country, and the workers\u2019 and poor people\u2019s lives. Thus, we have no doubt that the \u201cOut with Maduro!\u201d is not only the will of the majority of the Venezuelan people, as it is a necessity to start solving the serious problems in the country. To confront the Constituent \u2013if it is established\u2013 and its resolutions will be part of the struggle to end Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\u2019s government.
\nThus, we pose the broadest unity of action against the government. We call to support all struggles of our people, in unity and with a program that expresses a workers\u2019, popular, and peasants\u2019 solution for the crisis. We defend the full independence of workers from the MUD or any other bourgeois, military, or bureaucratic leadership. We propose assemblies, meetings, and all form of organization that allows voting the actions and methodology for the different protests and struggles. The UST will participate in unitary struggles, with a program that poses:
\nOut with Maduro! For a General Strike, voted in assemblies and meetings in factories and work and study places, to unify all struggles in a \u201cVenezolanazo\u201d until this government falls!<\/strong>
\nLet\u2019s confront the fraudulent, illegal Constituent!<\/strong>
\nFree and Democratic General Election!<\/strong>
\nFreedom to every political prisoner!<\/strong>
\nTo end hunger and misery, we propose:<\/strong>
\nImmediate suspension of the external debt payments: money for food and medicines!<\/strong>
\nHealth and education for our people!<\/strong>
\nFor a dignified wage! Automatic wage increase according to the inflation rate!<\/strong>
\nPrice freezing, controlled by workers and consumers!<\/strong>
\nState investment in food and medicine production!<\/strong>
\nSocial Auditing of all State movements of money: reserves, loans to FONDEM, external debts, money sent abroad, and national banks for government\u2019s businessmen and agents!<\/strong>
\nConfiscation of all goods and funds of the corrupt ones! Repatriation of capitals! Jail to the corrupt ones!<\/strong>
\n100% Venezuelan oil! End of mixed companies!<\/strong>
\nNationalization of all multinational companies!<\/strong>
\nNo to the Miner Arch! Mining Plan discussed and agreed with the communities!<\/strong>
\nExpropriation of the Boli-bourgeoisie companies, enriched through fraud!<\/strong>
\nRecovery of basic, national industries!<\/strong>
\nNeither Maduro and PSUV nor the MUD! For a Socialist Workers\u2019 Government!<\/strong>
\n***
\nTranslation: Sof\u00eda Ballack.
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