Sinking capital and rescuing our lives

Recover capital at the expense of salary?
Sinking capital and rescuing our lives, that the product of labor be for workers



1 The cannibalism of a broken economy

 
1a It is demonstrated that economic war does exist, has always existed and is capitalism, through exploitation, of imperialism against oppressed nations, within the nation, of public and private employers against their workers, before governments of the “Punto Fijo” deal, today with Maduro and his team, see only the list of preferential dollars granted by government agencies for import since the change control was created, the first 15 are almighty companies in the world, automotive, drugs, food, the steel industry when it was from the techint group and one from Venezuela, the Polar Group, those benefited by bringing their products made anywhere in the world, with our cheap dollars to sell them to those who produce those dollars, the Venezuelan company favored , the beer and bagasse Polar food, used to build an emporium abroad, with all that money had been carried out the largest projects of national industries, both urban and in agriculture.

Maduro has said that the bicoca of 70,000 million dollars of debt has been paid, with that amount plus the dollars granted by Cadivi and Cencoex since 2004, would have built the best industrial park in Latin America along with a comprehensive agrarian reform.

Now we are in a paralysis of the economy, where it is not intended to leave the cause that produced it, only resort to warm cloths to lighten the fever. On the part of the government, they only take pains to look for how to obtain dollars to continue in the same. From the private sector, the industrial sectors became the best importing merchants, through the acquisition of preferential dollars, supplied by the welfare state and it is enough to hear Lorenzo Mendoza to realize that his actions are to continue demanding dollars to be able to continue producing, more parasite cannot be this national bourgeoisie.

The production when it is not zero is very low in all public and private companies, heavy industry in Guayana, the oil industry, all sectors of manufacturing, metalworking, plastics, chemicals, auto parts, tires, household appliances, and more complicated the disaster, before the confiscation of the money of the Venezuelans on the part of the banks, promoted by the BCV.

1b Extreme gravity situation only survive the most lucrative businesses that include food medicines, some indispensable services such as the transport of those same goods and something unheard, the via crucis to obtain cash
Despite the loss of value of the Bolivar, cash is very scarce, then there is the pathetic contradiction that the cash is sold, paid electronically, with debit or by transfer an amount in bolivars to receive a much lower amount of bolivars in cash and that is essential, because of the need to use it in transport, it is also common for the food to have a lower value in cash, and you cannot buy it and you must pay it with debit, which is sometimes up to 50% more.

There are those who make a circuit of retail sale of merchandise in cash and electronic, all at the expense of the consumer, where there is someone with access to wholesale regulated price, linked to the government, which is enriched due to shortages.

Banks when they have cash, because the remittance arrives, they have limited the amount per person, the users enter the bank by lots, until the bank does not allow more income due to the scarce quantity to be distributed, there are other limitations, a transaction by person and be the owner of the account, you can withdraw from a single affiliate accounts and do not pay third parties. A "corralito" disguised and cruel.

The transport is paid in cash and only for interurban transfers, the amount you can withdraw from the bank gives for one day, in many cities and towns the transfer is in trucks, vans, because the proper transport is unemployed because they argue they cannot cover the maintenance of the unit. The extra urban transport is almost impossible; a round trip costs as much as the monthly minimum wage and the payment is in cash.

About employment, many times a person is not hired to do a job because the salary is not enough to pay for transportation, much less food, an example for breakfast a pie is worth more than twice the value of the minimum daily wage. 10 empanadas equal a minimum monthly salary

The containment of a social irruption are the bonds, an aberrant call card of the country that forces the government due to hunger, a set of imported foods called clap, increasingly scarce and it reaches fewer people.

2 The government and the MUD two sides of the same coin

Today Venezuela is in a chaotic situation, the resolution of the crisis does not transcend the causes that led us to the collapse of the economy, because the political, negotiating and radical options of both the MUD and of the government, in their economic proposals they offer nothing different from a capitalist recovery, they differ in the form of achieving it, the method through an adjustment varies only in its intensity, liberation from exchange control, devaluation of the currency, increase in tariffs on services, facilities for private investment, especially supply of dollars by the State, more imports and wages of hunger. 

Both the extremists, and the conciliators of both sides seek social and economic stabilization, recover bourgeois governability, via fast, with shock therapy or slow, gradual with sedative, the two will be at the expense of us, especially the workers, with a retroces or in salaries, as we are suffering. Our purchasing power or real salary, has gone back decades, only in 2017 lost 84% of its purchasing power according to some analysts. 

The exact measure of the capitalists, a new exchange agreement, a new law of foreign investments and the reopening of the securities market. 

The vaunted non-dogmatic socialism, but modern adapted to this 21st century, went down in history. By any of these two routes the bestial fit and the other with Clap and bonuses, one with left hand and the other with right hand, do not raise anything outside the exploitation of man by man. So not everything is imputed to the empire and the Venezuelan right. 

3 The pseudo-left 

The survival of this government is not based today on broad popular support, but still large sectors resist and defend their modest employment, or their bonus. What the US and capital fear is an uprising out of control of the mass movement, the confrontation with the workers and the people with scarce resources, is what is expected.

A part of that left, uses arguments of support to Maduro under a "logic of the lesser evil" the other part, just as harmful, product of the despair of not having achieved something within the Chavism, cohabit with the traditional right. Both as well as disorienting, they are liquidators for any movement that begins its rupture with nationalism. As long as the fighters and the working class do not take the lead and do not take action to solve their needs, disasters will follow. There is still a fragile balance between a weak and erratic government and an opposition of the unpopular right, which aspires to become a government. 

The gringos are interested in their energy security, and that is why their concern for governance in Venezuela, their motive is oil and Take advantage of any situation to act. He does not invade because he cannot, the figures do not give him, not because he does not want to. He does not care who governs, but if that government serves his interests

4 There has never been an alternative program to these traditional and parasitic relations of production

In the elections nothing is proposed as a concrete proposal to address the hardships, only speeches, propaganda and promises Respect to the elections it is necessary to manifest and to assert that those who govern and who aspire to govern do not represent us. Therefore, we say above all to the workers and the people in general not to be fooled by the "messiahs" who will try to take advantage of the current crisis situation, let us not be fooled by the promises of elections, we have the null vote backed by a platform of revolutionary struggle 

The workers are not prepared to propose an alternative if they do not have a concrete project of struggle, assuming one can give a chance to overcome this crisis to their benefit. 

Only with a platform of revolutionary and organized struggle can the capitalist exit be defeated.

Punctual proposals in addition to those already known

Claps to publish the distribution sites, quantities and foods that contain the bags and boxes. Control by the communities of their management 

Transportation that an alternative emergency plan is given, the permissions of the abusers' lines are eliminated, the trucks are censed, their state who handles them, and the community is answered with the service. Each community knows with the real state of the line, the amount of transportation available, its quality, its drivers, its approved stops, its route, its schedule, the line must deliver account to the corresponding community. We have to expropriate the transport mafias. Food control over production, privilege to independent producers, assistance to the necessary infrastructure on the part of the state, planning on the needs of consumption and the communities that produce, guarantee on the distribution and its sale, without vaccines or intervention military or police.

The Wheat it must be eliminated the privilege that have the private bakers, is published in each site the amounts of the sacks delivered and the price paid along with the other inputs such as yeast, oil and sugar, the production of necessary "salted bread" is published and of the sweet bread. Let artisanal bakers privilege the true communal producers. Likewise, corn, the priority for the people, the publication of national production, quantities and places, distribution sites, prices and a transport system to supply the communities without intervention or vaccination by the police and the army. 

The medicines that are controlled imports, their import price is published quantities and purposes according to their requirements, control of Barrio Adentro workers and the communities on the storage and delivery of medicines.

No to the banking corralito, issuance of cash currency according to the needs, to establish a real and effective electronic payment platform. That the list of imports, import prices, quantities, and those supplied with amounts and prices be published, both food and supplies, spare parts, equipment. War against the mafias 

(1) It is essential to reorder the economy in order to benefit workers and communities throughout the country. Immediately requires nationalization of banking and foreign trade and all strategic sectors under workers' control, the elimination of payment of debt, no compensation to the robber capitalists, reorganization of the economy according to social needs without capitalist bosses nor bureaucrats. General salary increase to cover the basic family basket.

José Capitán

About Venezuela Shannon is clearer than the left

We present a series of articles concerning the serious economic and political crisis in Venezuela, taking advantage of our decision to translate them to send to non-Spanish speaking comrades, however, we ask your cooperation, do not hesitate to send us your political comments , his contributions or corrections to the translations, we are not experts in the language of Shakespeare, nevertheless we take the risk to publish them, undoubtedly we advance, like militants by an international organization of the workers, that cannot be other than the Refoundation of the Fourth International

About Venezuela

Shannon is clearer than the left

"Our policy and our sanctions are trying to force an agreement ... what the president (Trump) is saying is that the region's patience has a limit. This is not a threat, but to say that Venezuela is too important a country to leave it for years. Look, the Venezuelan people have shown a resilience and a strength to overcome the adversity impressive, and that has allowed the country to cross moments of scarcity that would have caused explosions elsewhere. But it would be a mistake to think that the patience and capacity of the Venezuelan people represent apathy. It is not like this. It is a country that requires a solution to its political crisis "Tomas Shannon, US Undersecretary of State, in an interview with the newspaper El Pais de España (Jan Mártinez Ahrenz Washington October 17, 17)

Again the empire and its acolytes do not recognize the electoral results of the governorates, denounce them and threaten with greater sanctions.

The fundamental problem is the aggression or intention of direct or indirect intervention in the destiny of the country, it is not a question of supporting Maduro, the problem is confused because in Venezuela the government of Maduro has sunk the country in its worst economic and social crisis, a vertiginous increase of the poverty and the unemployment and that gives rise so that the Venezuelan partners of the empire, try through to remove the government, to impose itself to its wide ones.

The actions of the Trump government are an aggression by the empire against an oppressed country, are unacceptable and reflected deformedly in the debates between the Shannon and the Maduro, who nevertheless express it better than the great majority of leftists who write about Venezuela. These denounce as a priority the dictator Maduro, denounce the repression by the government and highlight the "popular protests"

Maduro in each of his public statements asks God for his help for dialogue with the right-wing opposition, which is no more democratic than Maduro, neither is the government of Colombia or Mexico. Every state represents the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, in addition the "official chavismo" clings to power but make choices shared by the right-wing opposition.

Maduro is so incapable that even for dictator does not mean not to commit abuses of power and electoral advantage, but is a child compared to a Temer  (Brasil president)  or a Santos (Colombia president), who govern directly with the CIA and the Pentagon, perhaps a Diosdado Cabello may be in the near future to the height of these.

The fascist bands led by the MUD and the church took advantage of popular discontent, mobilized but at no time represented the interests of workers and communities. In the confrontations, rather riots against the GNB, the national police and paramilitary groups called collectives, the culprits, the intellectual and material authors of the murders, assaults, fires to public places, among which the health ones and educational, freight  and public transport, were never determined, all these actions were financed and organized from the right parties, mayors, governorates and institutions both national and foreign, with promotion to international media that have endorsed genocides like CNN, chains of Colombian TV and the Spanish press.

Oil is not Soy or Coffee

The struggle in Venezuela for power is a struggle between privatizers, on the one hand Maduro and Eulogio del Pino (PDVSA) negotiating with Russia a greater participation in the production of the Orinoco Oil Belt, on the other hand the 100% privatization proposals of the right expressed in the MUD.

Reuters reported in July that Rosneft was negotiating a mortgage swap over 49% of Venezuela-owned refiner Citgo (US) for a stake in energy assets and fuel supplies in order to avoid complications from potential US sanctions , "If they offer something more interesting, we will consider (the proposals)" says the chief executive of the Russian oil company Igor Sechin

Trump threatened not to buy more Venezuelan oil, but he did not dare, under pressure from lobby of oil industry, as demonstrated in a letter sent to Trump by the US Congress.

 "Venezuela is the third largest supplier of crude to the United States, after Canada and Saudi Arabia. 90% of Venezuelan crude imported by the United States is processed on the Gulf Coast of Mexico (Texas). Displacement of this amount of crude would increase the refiner's costs, reduce efficiency, and raise consumer fuel prices. In addition, it could destabilize crude markets worldwide, raise world oil prices, and strengthen the economies of Iran and Russia. "

The strength of the Venezuelan economy is peculiar because it resides in the State property of oil, alone shared in joint ventures in the Orinoco oil belt (the largest in the world). In Venezuela, the proletariat has the power to refine a little more than 1.3 million barrels a day of oil and produce more than 3 million crude, in addition to producing and processing through gas (natural and liquefied) in 3 vast cryogenic and petrochemicals complexes, which are no small thing, although today it only exports crude product of the lack of investment and maintenance of PVDSA in the refineries, operating in about 1/3 of its installed capacity. Venezuela has the second largest refinery in the world.

the government also has 100% ownership in electric power generation companies, gold, iron and aluminum, mining and processing (refining), cement industries, much of the food, companies rice, Sugar, dairy, coffee, fertilizer companies, wheat mills, also paper mills, hotels, as well as the largest telephone company in the country, among many. All in permanent losses of its production.

The economic warfare by the public and private employers is against the Venezuelan people and will always be so in a society where the relations of production and distribution are capitalist.

The first thing that must be noticed of the interview with Shannon is the importance they give to our situation from the outside, and this is also common from the inside, for example when Mendoza Potella (Venezuelan expert in economics and oil) affirms the vital character of that resource for our Nation, but also points out that Venezuela is a traditional exporter to the Texas refineries on the Gulf Coast of Mexico. In addition to being a net exporter of hydrocarbons, it has the largest oil reserves in the world and its gas potential is not negligible.

The government talks and negotiates elections

The participation and results of the elections to the ANC and regional governors were significant, despite popular discontent. The welfare state, now diminished but not exhausted, favors the government, this is still the clientele mechanism through pensions, housing, food in the bags "Clap", card of homes of the country, sub employment called “chamba juvenil”, in addition to coercion to public employees to go to vote.

Along with this, some sectors were motivated to support the government in the fear or anger of the opposition of the right, by the chaos caused by the fascist actions that worsened the serious economic situation and social change caused by the government, another element was the failure of the MUD, having performed primaries to present unitary candidates to the governorates and ended up being divided, with several candidates opposed to each other. The fascist methods were temporarily defeated and the left continues in the limbo, without presenting concrete proposals as an alternative to the MUD and the continuity of government.

Until today the whole economy has failed, the little that is left is administered by the banks in function of their interests, not of the country, and Maduro is proud of paying without fault the debt, at the expense of the growth of misery, hunger and unemployment.

The regulation of prices is a mockery, the only price that is regulated are salaries, that's why we have to decide because of us, the salary must cover the basic needs of every worker, if there is not for all we decide for ourselves the workers. The priority is the national production and for this it is necessary to have the resources to start up the productive apparatus, it is essential the integral nationalization of the banking, part of the raw material and accessories must be imported, for that reason it is necessary to nationalize foreign trade, under control from the workers. Necessary exchange agreements of any kind cannot be sustained without the support of a productive economy, just as foreign debt cannot be given priority over the interests and needs of Venezuelans. Immediate suspension of debt repayment.

With the objective of directing existing resources, to leave the economic bankruptcy, only a government of the workers can undertake the pending tasks, this forces to propose a front of fight after a concrete platform by means of a program with this objective, there is no other way, the bourgeoisie, is parasitic and harmful, its function is to squeeze the country, eradicate it.

Jose Capitan