Statement of the PCMLV on the death of Commandante Chavez
The Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela, PCMLV, expresses its grief and solidarity at the physical loss of Commandante President Hugo Chavez Frias to all the workers, peasants, students, women's organizations, revolutionary, anti-imperialist, socialist and Bolivarian parties and organizations of the masses.
We also express our condolences to all his family, friends and to the national government for the loss of a great humanist, a patriotic, progressive and consistent revolutionary statesman, as President Hugo Chavez proved to be until the last days of his existence.
We call on the working class, which knows how to rise to the challenge in the revolutionary struggle in the most pressing moments of history, to prepare to resist and defeat the reactionaries who will not hesitate to take advantage of this difficult time to thwart through violent means the gains and demands that we have achieved under the leadership of President Chavez. Imperialism will set stronger traps at this sorrowful moment that the national revolutionary movement is going through.
The call is to not renounce the struggle to build socialism, the banner that President Hugo Chavez raised in all circumstances; this banner needs to be taken up rigorously and courageously by all the workers of this nation in this difficult moment in history. We, as Party of the working class in Venezuela, make the call for the struggle and building of socialism and communism from the scientific conception of Marxism-Leninism.
The acts of sabotage, of hired killers, the terrorism, food shortages, the propaganda of disinformation, anxiety and manipulation will intensify. The national and international reactionaries feel victorious at this time, but the national and world working class will go forward with the necessary and strategic battles to continue the path of victory and the accumulation of forces to confront the fascists and imperialists.
The death of the President of the Republic must not mean the decline in popular organization, but rather it must serve as an impetus for future struggles against the class enemy. We must not believe in the phony condolences local right wing, which on dozens of occasions tried to assassinate the commandante. These sectors are moved by a single impulse: profit at any cost whatever.
The right wing is evaluating what actions to take in the coming days. It is no coincidence that the Venezuelan government expelled two U.S. military attaches for conspiratorial work.
We strongly call on all the revolutionary elements to close ranks against the capitalist and imperialist enemy. The working class must be prepared for a possible difficult situation; it must not trust the bourgeois enemy that has historically proven to be traitorous. If the pro-imperialist bourgeoisie tries to take advantage of this hard time of grief of the humble and exploited masses, the masses should respond forcefully and applying revolutionary violence.
Socialism can only be built with the worker-peasant alliance in Power and the people in arms!
PCMLV
President Hugo Chavez, and Salutes His Legacy of Struggles Against Neo-liberal
Polices and US Imperialism!
New Delhi, 6 Mar. 2013
After two years of battling cancer, Venezuela's
President Hugo Chavez passed away today. CPI(ML) Liberation deeply mourns the
death of this architect of the Bolivarian Revolution; an iconic crusader against
US imperialism and neo-liberal policies. His loss will be deeply felt, not just
in Venezuela and other parts of Latin America, but all over the world. Whether
it is in Palestine and Lebanon in the Middle East or India, Chavez was and will
always continue to be a symbol of hope and resistance to millions of people
struggling for their rights.
During his long tenure as Venezuela's President from
1999 onwards, he continued to dream of and champion his vision of 21st century
socialism, successfully battling right-wing sponsored military coups, strikes
and recall referendums. He used his Presidency to try and bring in several
fundamental changes in Venezuela's polity: he introduced a new constitution
which increased rights for marginalized groups and altered the structure of
Venezuelan government, he put in place a remarkable system of public referendums
with mass participation to decide major public policies, he introduced
participatory democratic councils, he ensured nationalization of several key
industries including oil, increased government funding of health care and
education which led to significant reductions in poverty.
Moreover, Chavez emerged as a symbol of Latin American
resistance to US imperialism, and as a strong pole for a united Latin American
response to US domination. He tried his level best to unite Venezuela, Bolivia,
Cuba, Argentina, Brazil and other Latin American countries in an attempt to
isolate US in Latin American politics. This unity, initiated by Chavez, posed a
huge challenge to the long history of US plunder, corporate loot, state
repression and CIA-backed coups in Latin America. Chavez also stood against
US-Israel sponsored genocide in Palestine; after the most recent Israeli attack
in Gaza, Venezuela was one of the few governments which showed the courage to
dismiss the Israeli ambassador to Venezuela and support the struggling
Palestinian people.
CPI(ML) Liberation stands in solidarity with the
mourning, struggling people of Venezuela, who have pledged to keep alive
Chavez's legacy and his dreams. Struggling people and movements across the world
join hands in mourning this great architect of the Bolivarian revolution. This
fight will continue in the universities, factories and mines across the world.
(Kavita Krishnan)
Member, Central
Committee
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Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
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