The Left,
the working class and the National Constituent Assembly
What can
the working class do in an ANC in its struggle against exploitation?
We are
experiencing a historic decline in the economy, seen from production, wages and
employment. Our activity, in this case the realization of a constituent, has to
respond to this situation.
Therefore
the constituent is not to rescue the capitalist order that has been strangling
us to this day, it is not for dialogue because of that, it is not to continue
plundering the country.
It should
also be made clear that the representatives of employers in a constituent are
our class enemies, those who have always benefited, based on our work,
protected by laws and their institutions.
Although
the fiscal deficit is intended to be used to justify an adjustment against the
people, the fact is that the bankruptcy of public finances is the direct result
of the plunder of the capitalists on their own state. Now, as a result of that
bankruptcy, the decline in foreign exchange earnings due to low oil prices, the
lack of domestic production and the issuance of inorganic money, which is the
basis of inflation, as it is always intended to leave, saving the capital and
sacrificing the workers.
It is
necessary for the workers to take the lead and organize as much as possible in
each factory, each neighborhood, a new direction with a program, an alternative
as a sectorial response to the constituent national assembly.
Based on
the proposals presented by the government, "we collect the glove" and
we propose:
For a
policy of the autonomous working class and struggle in the constituent.
1. A
Constituent Assembly to search for or guarantee peace.
The only
stability to emerge from the fascist threat is on the basis of getting out of
the economic crisis for our benefit and at the cost of those who plunged the
country.
2. Build a
new Post-Oil Economic System.
Stigmatizing
oil revenues, has been a wild card, imposed by those who have held the usufruct
of it, when - to the contrary - is a gift, an advantage, Venezuela is rather a
country privileged to have access to that income and vilify that income it
becomes fashionable when the price of hydrocarbons goes down, however, it
continues to spend what little it enters, importing, for example, the CLAP,
while private traders and assemblers continue to wait for cheap dollars to
continue the feast.
The money
that banks have is not theirs, the only way to invest those resources to the
real benefit of the country, part of the nationalization of the bank, to direct
it into National Production. No to the import of finished products, parts,
spare parts and food that can be manufactured in the country. The country's
priority is not the benefits to importers, merchants, bankers, military and
bureaucrats of public institutions.
Deputies,
if they are representatives of the people, can not have a salary higher than
the average salary of a skilled worker. Increase in taxes on profits, higher profit
higher tax
3. Advancing
more in the State of Social Welfare
To give
constitutional rank to the missions means to eliminate them as foundations and
to go to autonomous institutes or directly to the ministerial train, abolishing
the condition of its outsourced workers.
4. To
promote the functioning of the Justice and Protection of the People System.
It is not a
question of continuing to raise the immaculate conception of both the judges
and the corrupt, who are associated, to end impunity of both requires popularly
elected judges, for periods of moderate times and revocable at all times.
5. New
forms of participatory democracy.
Popular
power, sovereignty, constituent power, are bluff, but we have control through
ownership over the means of production we cannot have power. The planning and
surrender of all management, especially of public services, must not only cease
to be secret, but should be published regularly for access by all Venezuelans.
The
workers' control over production and the books of the administration are
indispensable, and the workers must be elected in assembly, accountable and
revocable by the same assembly. The communes, particularly their budget, do not
depend on the gift at the discretion of an official, must be autonomous.
For the
right to strike. Restore the exercise of the right to strike, to conquer the
requirements of workers, to the abuses and arbitrariness of employers, no more
dilations by the provinces and labor courts, not compulsory conciliation. For
Freedom of Association. No to the obstacles they impose for the registration of
organizations and union elections. Outside the intervention of the CNE and the
RNOS in the trade union organizations No to the criminalization of labor and
social protest. For the elimination of laws that restrict the freedom to
protest. Immediate freedom for the workers who suffers from this outrage.
6 Sovereign
Foreign Policy.
The
nationalization of foreign trade is imperative and urgent, given the fall in
imports, due to lack of foreign exchange and lack of domestic production, to
determine what should be imported according to the country's priorities. The
enrichment of privileged ones through the import business, along with scarcity,
sales with surcharges of the products, only leads to finish of sinking the
country.
Not to pay
the foreign debt, besides reversing these resources in investments for the
country, we take into account that both the old and the new foreign debt is
obtained to favor the importers who were given foreign exchange for their
enrichment, as well as to the parasitic bourgeoisie that has always bled out the
country. We also demand a list of the "well-known companies of
briefcase", as well as those that in exchange management favored these
companies in acts of corruption, it is time to clean the house starting with
those who have squandered the resources of the oil income.
7.
Pluricultural character of the country. Cultural Identity and a New
Venezuelanity.
The
self-determination of the native peoples is not to violate or exploits their
spaces and respect their autonomy.
8. Ensure
future stability.
Authentic
control on the part of the workers in the production. The control of workers on
the management of expropriated enterprises is essential, which are quite and
have failed, to the point that service or production are paralyzed, unusable or
with little production, both by technological dependence and bureaucratic
management. Workers for control must be elected in assemblies, revocable and
accountable, the aim is to promote a harmonious and integral development,
according to the needs of the country. No to the intervention or imposition of
the management of outsiders to the productive process, including the military
that with the command and the orders violate the most elementary democracy of
purely civil processes. Down with corruption. Outside strange elements to the
internal labor claims of companies.
By an autonomous popular militia. That it
responds directly to the communities, the workers in the factories, the workers
and the communities in the field, the militia also have integral right of the
economic and social benefits for their sustenance and that of their families.
9. The
preservation of life and the human species.
General
increase of wages and salaries according to the annualized inflation index, and
impose the sliding scale of wages, according to the increase of the cost of
living, to reach a salary that meets the needs fundamental principles of the
people, in addition to creating monitoring and control processes. The objective
is to focus on a minimum wage sufficient to cover the family's basic food
basket. For the immediate pass of the ticket basket to salary to increase the
cash and the inclusion of that benefit for the holidays, bonuses and utilities
of the workers.
The budget
of the State must stop being a tool of perpetuation of the capitalist
exploitation. In order to be guided by a harmonious and integral development of
the country, gas and petrochemicals are two branches derived from the oil
exploitation that can be the industry leading, as well as the agricultural
production advantageously usable by solar energy to the location of the country
in the tropic.
In each
workplace, combative unions, grassroots workers, an assembly should be called
to discuss local, regional, and national proposals to take to the streets with
mobilizations and public acts a plan of struggle and a social transformation
from a class perspective.
Not only
offer a proposal regarding the most immediate demands of the workers with
respect to wages, working conditions, and the recovery of trade unions
dominated by the bureaucracy. In addition, it gives us the opportunity to get
involved in the development of our own political force, choosing our candidates
for the ANC, and promoting a united front, not only in the union issue, to face
struggles that exceed us by being isolated and being able to strike necessary
to defeat the adjustment.
An
original, sovereign constituent assembly with power is a step forward towards a
Workers' government.
José Capitán
