Bulletin No48 juillet 2024 Maduro re-elected, the usual challenge from supporters of US imperialism
Nicolàs Maduro was re-elected President of the Republic of Venezuela for a third term on Sunday July 28.
As usual, reactionaries supported by US imperialism are contesting the election results. The interference of Western countries and certain lackeys of the United States in Latin America continues, as it has every time there has been a presidential election in Venezuela, since the last election of Hugo Chavez in 2013.
There is no doubt about the identity of the “spontaneous” demonstrators who contest the decision in Caracas, they are agents of the reaction who demolish statues of Chavez, nor about the role played by the muse of the reactionaries Maria Antonia Machado, who virtually calls for insurrection and may have organized the hacking of electoral data.
It is not up to the Communist Revolutionary Party to say whether the result is proven or not. Only the Venezuelan people are concerned and it is not the appeals of the so-called “ international community ”, that is to say the imperialist camp behind the USA that will convince us of anything.
What is Maduro's real policy?
But, among those who did not vote for Maduro, there are not only reactionaries. For years, Maduro's power has moved away from the Chavista orientation, slipped to the right, attacked the workers, the trade union activists of the CUT (United Central Workers) and especially the PCV, the Party Venezuelan Communist.
Maduro has recently made a rapprochement with US oil companies, such as Exxon-Mobil, in particular by creating free zones, where the exploitation of man by man is more than ferocious.
During the last legislative elections, in 2020, the PCV presented itself alone, outside the Bolivarian bloc whose main party is the PSUV (United Socialist Party of Venezuela). Since then, he has continued to denounce the drift of power, which turns its back on the hopes that Hugo Chavez had raised.
And, for two years, power in the hands of Maduro has been attacking the PCV. An official court even created a “ bis ” PCV, and a leadership composed of former party members and leaders of the PSUV, who had never been members.
This is because, despite its policy of openness, the much better relations between the Venezuelan State and the US oil companies, the dominant imperialist power prefers to support the ultra-reactionary opposition. So Maduro did everything to prevent candidates from his left, even going so far as to claim that the PCV was calling for people to vote for him.
However, in the last editorial of its newspaper Tribuna Popular , published before the elections, the PCV expressed another, contradictory choice, specifying that: "it is not a question of just any alliance, it is not a question of get rid of Maduro by all means .” This choice is clear: “ Unity of authentically democratic forces to confront the reactionary drift. Unity to confront the cool autocrat who dances choreographies to go “ viral ” and records podcasts with influencers, while persecuting and imprisoning political, social and labor activists across the country. To stop the man who, between prayers and rituals on stage, cuts taxes for businessmen and allows Chevron to plunder the country until 2050. To say no to the man who invokes " bloodbaths " and military uprisings if the electoral result is not favorable to him; to the man who wants to convince the world that the destruction of wages, the pulverization of social benefits and the dismantling of collective agreements are " socialist " policies .
Latest news of the government's relentlessness against the PCV
In a press release published on July 26, the PCV warned of the attack by power against comrade Hector Alejo Rodriguez, international secretary of the party.
Rodríguez, who worked for almost ten years at the oil ministry, was notified on July 2 of administrative dismissal proceedings against him, accompanied by a precautionary suspension measure. This procedure was opened on the basis of an anonymous complaint accusing him of being the architect of the alleged " diversion and supply of fuel to far-right factors, who intend to generate a climate of violence and of destabilization throughout the country during the presidential elections of July 28. ”
The so-called evidence presented to support this accusation amounts to a media report of a CPV statement on national affairs, which has nothing to do with the oil industry and even less with the supply of fuel in the country.
And the PCV press release says this: “ As if that were not enough, in addition to the absence of evidence to support this infamy, there is also a dangerous point: when formulating the accusations, the emphasis is placed on several occasions on the activism of Hector Alejo Rodriguez in the ranks of the PCV; which clearly shows that this procedure is an aberrant case of political persecution against a prominent leader who played a key role in the international denunciation of Nicolas Maduro's anti-worker and anti-people management in Venezuela. […] This fact also exposes the reactionary and anti-communist turn of the leadership of the government of Nicolas Maduro and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV); and takes us back to the terrible times of right-wing governments, when communists were persecuted, imprisoned and expelled from their workplaces because of their political activism. If this illegal administrative procedure is carried out, the secretary for international relations of the PCV will be the subject of criminal proceedings within the framework of a judicial system characterized by the systematic violation of the rights of defense and the rights of man of workers who are unjustly imprisoned for fighting or denouncing irregularities. This attack against comrade Hector Alejo Rodriguez is part of the plan to liquidate our party implemented by the corrupt leadership of the PSUV government and which has as its antecedent the theft of our legal personality to hand it over to a handful of mercenaries subordinate to their interests ".
A number of Latin American communist parties have been moved by this intense struggle of Venezuelan power against the party of the working class and against workers' rights in general. On July 28, the Argentine Communist Party, the Brazilian Revolutionary Communist Party, the Communist Party of El Salvador, the Communist Platform of American Workers, the Communist Party of Mexico and the Paraguayan Communist Party denounced Maduro's action in these terms: “ The National Electoral Council, under the control of the PSUV, refused the registration of a new organization for electoral purposes which would allow non-aligned political forces at the two bourgeois poles to present an alternative candidacy, but also prevented the PCV and other forces to register the candidacy of Manuel Isidro Molina, denying access to the candidacy system to the organization authorized to register.
[…] The so-called international community, and the governments of progressivism, have maintained a shameful silence in the face of this violation of the democratic and political rights of the working class and its parties, by the Electoral Council and the government of Venezuela. The attacks against the Communist Party of Venezuela are part of a general context of aggression against the working class and the labor movement: Attack against the living conditions of workers and their families, attack against union struggles, imprisonment of union officials . As in other countries, “progressive” management in Venezuela is the preservation of capitalist exploitation against workers, with a rhetorical makeup that brazenly simulates anti-imperialist, socialist and even revolutionary positions . ".
[…] The so-called international community, and the governments of progressivism, have maintained a shameful silence in the face of this violation of the democratic and political rights of the working class and its parties, by the Electoral Council and the government of Venezuela. The attacks against the Communist Party of Venezuela are part of a general context of aggression against the working class and the labor movement: Attack against the living conditions of workers and their families, attack against union struggles, imprisonment of union officials . As in other countries, “progressive” management in Venezuela is the preservation of capitalist exploitation against workers, with a rhetorical makeup that brazenly simulates anti-imperialist, socialist and even revolutionary positions . ".
In conclusion
The Communist Revolutionary Party renews its unwavering support for the Communist Party of Venezuela. It supports its demands to restore collective agreements and public services, create universal social security and restore the independence and legality of working class organizations.
In Venezuela as in France, only the struggle of workers, with their communist party, will make it possible to obtain gains or recover them.
Long live the international solidarity of workers and the PCV!