Declaration
of the Aragua Struggle Platform (PLA):
The country
is suffering from the worst crisis so far experienced in the history of
Venezuela from the point of view of the economy, which has repercussions in all
areas of national life.
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. As a result of this
bankruptcy due to the decline in foreign exchange earnings because of the low
oil prices, the lack of domestic production and the issuance of inorganic
money, which is the basis of inflation, capital bankruptcy occurs, the greatest
demonstration of which is the abrupt fall of GDP. In a continuous stagnation of
the process of national accumulation initiated in the management of the fourth
republic (specifically in the 1980s), today it is intended to leave bankruptcy
privileging capital and sacrificing workers.
It has a
concrete manifestation in the queues (shortage, due to the fall in imports),
loss of purchasing power, worsening of social services, closure of companies,
increased labor conflict, among others, which is the product of the specific
form in which capital found to reproduce the dilapidation of oil revenue.
Stigmatizing
the oil income has been a wild card imposed by those who have held the usufruct
of it, when, on the contrary, it is a gift, an advantage. Venezuela is rather a
privileged country to have access to that income and vilify it becomes
fashionable when the price of hydrocarbons goes down, however, the little that
comes in is still spent, importing, for example, the CLAP (imports of food that
before they were produced here), while private merchants and assemblers waiting
for cheap dollars to continue the feast.
Faced with
this situation, the official Chavismo and the MUD are presented as two sides of
the same coin in the capital attack against the living conditions of the
Venezuelan population.
However,
within the framework of this polarization the government launches the ANC,
while the MUD deepens its fascist radicalization. In this sense, the PLA constructs
an approach for the Venezuelan people, as a minimum way to strengthen the
capacity to fight against capitalism, the cause of the evils we suffer,
starting from the analysis of two elements that determine the current
situation.
THE
NATIONAL CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
In almost
200 years of republican history, until today, the Venezuelan people have always
been oppressed, the working class has been and continues to be exploited,
arguments through more than 20 constitutions renewed or reformed throughout that
period, have been for means of elections or consultations have been taken into
account or we have been pleased, where the candidates to be elected or
referendum approvals, are tailored to the rulers of power and bourgeois power
or some of their fractions. It has always been intended that everything goes
well or is arranged as the constitution allows.
We warn
about the fact that legal changes constitute the expression of the economic
needs of capital, therefore in a crisis such as the current becomes necessary
to ignite the alarms and call to protect our own and no longer allowed the sale
of the country to capital Foreign.
We see how
in the process of the ANC, mechanisms have been created that preclude genuine
participation from the grassroots, against which the same faces of the
machinery of the PSUV are raised, avoiding the real proposals of workers and
communities.
On the
other hand, the MUD, taking advantage of the popular discontent, feeds an
ascending process of fascistización summoning to the streets to sectors of the
middle class and of the lumpen proletariado
FASCISM
In
Venezuela the impoverishment of the middle class, along with the lumpen
delinquency contracted by the MUD, with the help of US imperialist
intelligence, stimulating racial hatred, plus the eagerness to apply adjustment
policies to workers to save capital, is a breeding ground for a reactionary
mass movement like fascism. Terrorism, in this case, is a tool used by
fascists.
The lack of
production and closure of companies, together with the conciliatory policy of
the Bolivarian workers' center that prevents mobilization, is a disciplinary
mechanism against the working class, in parallel, the right wing carries out
fascist actions, at the moment embryonic for the crushing of political spaces
for social struggle, expressing the interests of capital in crisis, as happened
in April 2002, with the "exit" in 2014 and now with more murderous
violence in 2017.
This
economic and political crisis that the country is living is irreversible,
administering the country as it has hitherto been done and before the advance
of the fascist right the answer is, as it is fought from the commune or from
the working class, fighting against capitalism.
We propose
the following points to overcome the fascist attempts and to leave the present
crisis:
• The state
budget must cease to be a tool for the perpetuation of 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 main industry, in this sense, as well as the agricultural production
advantageously usable by solar energy given the location of the country in the
tropics.
•
Nationalization of banking, to direct it in National Production. Not to the
import of finished products, parts, spare parts, food, develop the resources of
the country, to our benefit and not to importers, merchants, bankers, military
and bureaucrats of public institutions.
• The
nationalization of foreign trade is imperative and urgent in the face of
falling 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,
coupled with scarcity and the sale with surcharges of the goods, only leads to
finish sinking the country.
• No to
external debt payment. In addition to reversing these resources in investments
for the country, we note that both old and new external debt is obtained to
favor importers who were given foreign exchange for enrichment, as well as the
parasitic bourgeoisie that has always bled to the country. We also demand a
list of the "well-known companies of briefcase", as those who 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.
• Popular
power, sovereignty, constituent power, are hollow words, we can not have power
if we do not have control of ownership over the means of production.
• The
planning and surrender of all management, especially of public services, must
not only cease to be secret, on the contrary, they must be of regular and
public access for all Venezuelans.
• Communes
must be autonomous; in particular their budget can not depend on the gift at
the discretion of an official.
• Authentic
labor control over the production and accounting books of the administration is
indispensable. In particular, about the management of expropriated enterprises,
which are quite and had failed, whether service or production are paralyzed,
unusable or with little production, both by technological dependence and by
bureaucratic management. The aim is to promote a harmonious and integral
development, according to the needs of the country with the workers exercising
control, elected in assemblies, revocable and accountable. 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. Out corruption.
Outside the elements extraneous to the internal labor claims of companies.
• For an
autonomous and armed popular militia that responds directly to the communities,
the workers of the city and the countryside. Militia members also have a
comprehensive right to economic and social benefits for their livelihood and
that of their families.
• 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
delays on the part of the provinces and labor institutions of the state.
• For
freedom of association. Outside the intervention of the CNE and the RNOS. No to
the obstacles they impose for the registration of organizations and union
elections.
(Glossary:
CNE Consejo Nacional Electoral means
National Electoral Council and RNOS Registro Nacional de Organizaciones
Sindicals means registration of 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 suffer
from this outrage.
• General
increase in wages and salaries according to the annualized inflation index, and
impose the mobile scale of wages according to the increase of the cost of
living, reaching a salary that covers the basic needs of the people, in
addition to creating follow-up processes and control. The objective is to focus
on a minimum wage sufficient to cover the family's basic basket. For the
immediate pass of the ticket basket to salary to include that benefit in the
calculation of overtime, night bonus, vacations, bonuses, utilities and social
benefits of workers.
• Deputies,
if they are representatives of the people, can not have a salary higher than
that earned on average by a qualified worker. If the deputies want to raise
wages, they must raise the worker's salary.
• Neither
the wage is gain nor income that equals the profit of the
capitalists. It is to the income of the capitalists, their profits, where the
highest taxes must be applied.
• In order
to advance in the welfare state, it is necessary to give constitutional rank to
the missions, which means to eliminate them as foundations and pass them to
institutes autonomous or directly to the ministerial train, abolishing the
condition of outsiders to their workers.
• To
enhance the functioning of the system of justice and protection of the people
we must stop to exalt the immaculate conception of both the judges and the
corrupt, who are associated . In order to end impunity for both, popularly
elected judges are required, for periods of moderate time and can be revoked at
any time
• The
self-determination of the native peoples must not violate or exploit their
spaces and respect their autonomy.
• Increase investment
in education and research, which must be a function of national interests.
We call on
those who participate in the process of the constituent national assembly, who
are not interested in participating, the working class, to fight after a
Platform of Concrete struggle for our class interests to suppress exploitation.
Last but not least, socialist society is the only alternative to achieve peace.
