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Rete dei Comunisti, Cambiare Rotta, O.S.A.
A large delegation of the Rete dei Comunisti, Cambiare Rotta – Communist Youth Organisation, and OSA (Opposizione Studentesca d’Alternativa) has been invited and will participate from 9 to 11 January in Caracas in the ‘Festival Mundial Internacional Antifascista por un Nuevo Mundo’.
This Festival is the fruit of a proposal formulated in November during the ‘Congreso Mundial de la Juventud y Estudiantes Antifascistas’, which also brought together in Caracas more than a thousand young people from around seventy countries, including our delegation.
Nicolás Maduro, who spoke at the conclusion of the meeting in November, endorsed the Festival’s proposal, urging in his speech that ‘leaders, young people, workers, peasants from all over the world come to accompany the people of Venezuela to the oath of 10 January’.
Indeed, on 10 January, the newly elected President Maduro will be sworn in and take office for this new term for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
The swearing-in ceremony will be held on 10 January in the Palacio Federal Legislativo, seat of the Asamblea Nacional, and will mark the beginning of a new six-year political period (2025-3031) in which the country is more ready than ever to continue on its long-standing path.
Venezuela is today the country that represents a systemic socialist alternative within the multipolar world, and the beacon – along with socialist Cuba and Sandinista Nicaragua – of the possibility of redemption for the peoples of Latin America, examples of the possibility of emancipation for the Global South.
The proposal that emerged last September in Caracas – to which we enthusiastically adhered – of the creation of an Antifascist International, of which this important festival is a stage, is a concrete possibility for the advancement of an internationalist proposal based on cooperation between peoples and for a future of peace that openly contrasts with the plans of the Euro-Atlantic bloc elites. Elites who would like to impose their imperialist domination through war, colonialism, slave exploitation of labour power and cultural subordination to the racist and sexist values of the Western ruling classes.
For these reasons, there has been no shortage of attempts to delegitimise last year’s electoral processes in Venezuela – which we have continually witnessed as observers – and attempts at political destabilisation led by the Venezuelan oligarchies represented by the coup d’état extreme right and supported by western imperialism, who seem to want to continue with their provocations.
The fact that the Meloni government disowns Maduro as president, not recognising the outcome of the 28 July presidential elections, and instead recognises the so-called ‘opposition leader’ Edmundo González as president is a disgrace for our country that reinforces the significance of our presence in Caracas.
A significance amplified by the fact that the European Union maintains, and indeed expands, the sanctions it has introduced since 2017 against Venezuela and which are added to the actual US embargo through which the various Yankee administrations have tried – unsuccessfully – to strangle the country economically in order to destabilise it politically.
With President Maduro, against the coup oligarchy!
For a New World and against Fascism!