The following statement was published today, March 5, by the Communist Party of Venezuela and was written by Freddy Subdiaga, a Party leader in the state of Anzoátegui. The statement was written in Spanish and translated by Fight Back! staff.

This March 5, 2019, when our Venezuelan nation faces the most criminal U.S.-European imperialism stalking humanity, the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) will be completing 88 years of combat for the emancipation of the working class from capitalism, the system of the exploiter; guided by the scientific methods of Marxism-Leninism and the integral thinking of the Liberator Simón Bolívar.

88 years of raising the banner of the proletarian legion, since March 5, 1931, when the first cell of the PCV was formed in the city of Caracas, having as its predecessor the imprisonment of comrade José Pío Tamayo in the dungeons of Libertador Castle in 1929, who was the initiator of scientific communist thought in this Bolivarian homeland.

In these almost ninety years, the PCV has tempered the steel of numerous generations that went on to fulfill the historic role of the working class, experimenting with different forms and methods of struggle, with the driving purpose to unify the working class, the poor campesinos and revolutionary intellectuals; to march towards the seizure of political power by the working mass from the city and countryside; and to install the sovereignty of the proletariat, which implies the evolution and development of productive forces into a new socialist economic model, liquidating in time the capitalist mode of exploitation.

In this dialectical and historical spiral, the PCV has helped to raise the most felt interests of the workers, campesinos, students; of the indigenous peoples. Leaders such as Argimiro Gabaldón, Alberto Lovera, Donato Carmona, Pedro Ortega Díaz, Ramón Antonio Padrón, among other valiant cadre; backed by bastions of women like Eumelia Hernández, Olga Luzardo, Carmen Consoño, Belén San Juan, Josefina Hernández, among other heroes; youth like Livia Gouverneur, Francisco (Chico) Velázquez, Toribio García... they consecrated their lives for the liberation and emancipation of the working class, the revolutionary proletariat and all of humanity.

For the present and future generations of the working people, as long as the remnants of exploitation of human by human subsists, they will always have the Communist Party of Venezuela as an ideological, political and organic trench of the organized vanguard of the working class, to confront – in the transition from capitalism to socialism – injustice and social inequality, the fruit of wage slavery.

These 88 years of the PCV are a demonstration of constant loyalty to the working class, which elevates dignity and ethics of Venezuelan communists who, like those that came before them, continue to raise the hammer and sickle, the five-pointed star and the red flag, symbols of the class commitment to worker-campesino, communal and revolutionary popular unity, and to international solidarity.

Long live popular anti-imperialist unity!

Long live the self-determination of the peoples!

Proletariat of my homeland, unite!

Long live the Communist Party of Venezuela!

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Fight Back! News Service is circulating the following July 11 article from Tribuna Popular, a publication of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV). The article was translated by the staff of Fight Back!

The Politburo of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) congratulated the successful convening of the 9th National Assembly of the Workers and Class Struggle Unionist Movement, organized by the National Front of Working Class Struggle (FNLCT) this past July 7th.

The Assembly adopted a program to bring about a revolutionary solution to the crisis currently facing the Venezuelan people, and approved a plan of struggle that promotes the largest and broadest mobilization of workers in alliance with the people’s and campesino movements.

Pedro Eusse, member of the PCV Politburo, stated: “We cannot accept only partial, isolated demands — particular to each labor sector, such as the demands for wage increases and improved collective conditions — but rather together we must demand a reorientation of the political economy, and that policies are adopted to break the power of the monopolies, destroy the retail and financial mafias, the corporate thieves and to act with resolve against the factors causing profound harm, condemning the Venezuelan people to misery, poverty and hunger.”

To communists, these problems can be defeated with revolutionary theory and the mobilization of the people. This is why we insist on the need for workers, campesinos, comuneros and the people to assume control over all means of production, distribution and sale of goods and services.

Against the Impunity of Monopolies

The PCV denounced the impunity with which monopoly groups have acted, particularly Empresas Polar.

Eusse explained that this business group controls an enormous percentage of the consumer goods sold to the Venezuelan population. “Almost all of the daily consumer goods of the Venezuelan people are under the dominion of this monopoly group, who has free rein to raise prices in an exorbitant manner. They also forced more than ten thousand workers on to the streets, and have refused to follow government orders to re-instate these militants.”

“Empresas Polar is an enemy of the Venezuelan people, they must be confronted and we demand that the government adopt measures that will put this group behind bars so that it can no longer act against the interests of the Venezuelan people,” said Eusse.

The Party of the Red Rooster reiterated its proposal to nationalize all monopolies, “not under bureaucratic control but under the control of the workers and the people.”

Congress of Oil Workers

The PCV congratulated the 2nd National Congress of Socialist Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Workers, which convened on July 12 and 13 in the state of Zulia.

We believe that this Congress will result in a series of conclusions to put the oil workers movement on a struggle basis, that will fight so that the oil industry will be fortified, rescued and put to the services of the national interest under a model of administration of a new type, under the leadership of the workers, the people and of course of national government,” stated Eusse, who also confirmed the active participation of the Jesús Faría Class Struggle Current of Oil Workers in the convening.

For the PCV, “sovereignty must be reinforced by the actions of the oil industry. It cannot be handed over to the desires of private capital which aims to take more and more space in the oil sector. The PCV has warned of such, and has amplified the denunciations of rank-and-file oil workers.”

Campesinos Mobilize for a Change in Agrarian Policy

The PCV confirmed its active participation in the campesino struggle against the big landowners, the land abandonment in the countryside and the absence of policies to improve national production.

In this sentiment, Eusse stated that the PCV salutes the campesino march that began on July 12, leaving from Guanare for the city of Caracas, on the initiative of the platform of campesino struggle and with the active participation of the Nicomedes Abreu Campesino Struggle Current.

“This mobilization marks the beginning of a series of campesino actions on a national level so that a change in agrarian policy is adopted, one that confronts the impunity of the civil and military landowners and addresses the repressive role of the paramilitaries that defend them in certain parts of the country,” Eusse emphasized.

The communist leader pointed out that all working people must support and join with the struggles of campesinos and their demand for policies that lead to agricultural output, with financial and technical support, as well as the defense of campesinos against the landowners.

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