To counteract aggressions, we need more Popular Power and, therefore, more Revolution.

Published at: 29/11/2024 05:00 PM

Venezuelans are a historically rebellious people and in the face of fascist attacks and sanctions imposed by the American empire and the European Union, we strengthen Popular Power; that is why we say that with every aggression, there is more Revolution .

To learn about the importance of the organization of People's Power, we can review the 2015 publication called “POPULAR POWER, STATE AND SOCIAL STRUGGLES” by Frank, PhD in political science and professor in Latin American history at the University of Toulouse , France Gaudichaud, in which he explained that “the notion of popular power refers to this eruption of the labor and popular movement, to the mobilizations of the dominated, exploited and subordinate organized in a capitalist, patriarchal and hegemonic context, who, from their subaltern position and with their disruptive mobilization force, manage to begin to create spaces of their own, autonomous and subversive power of the prevailing social order”.

Gaudichaud also noted that “for its realization, it needs to be developed from real subjects and above all from economic spaces, and for this reason, experiences of popular power gain particular revolutionary force when they arise from the wage earner and the workers, since their resistances directly threaten the reproduction and accumulation of capital”.

In this regard and due to the importance of involving Popular Power in the management of the State, Commander Hugo Chávez, in 2007, proposed, in the first Plan of the Homeland, “planning, the organic development of the productive forces, information on all the needs of society systematically researched and disseminated and the satisfaction of collective needs raised to the rank of the essential objective of public administration, the administration of things at the service of all people, the disappearance or reduction in intensity of class antagonisms, of social injustice”.

In our country, since 2010, we have had the Organic Law of Popular Power, which defines, in its presentation, that “Popular Power is a group of organizations, under the direction of the National Executive Power, that promote citizen participation or popular initiative, that is, it promotes the direct exercise of sovereignty, through 'participatory, leading and responsible democracy'”.

In this way, and contrary to what the media continue to disseminate, by order of the world right, Commander Chávez said about popular power that “under socialism conceived in this way, it is possible to orient spontaneity and social muscle towards the construction of a participatory communal democracy, in which, without crushing private conscience, public and political consciousness dominates, the consciousness of citizens integrated into groups that reflect the transformative will of the people”.

Commander Chávez also added that “the fundamental objective is to build a socialist democracy based on Popular Power that forms the People organized to exercise and practice it, without forgetting that in our case, it comes from a society severely deformed by rentistic capitalism whose sociocultural dimension is expressed in the so-called culture of oil.”

It is then that, from the coherent vision of this policy, to demonstrate the work and strengthen the Bolivarian Project, the Grand National Congress of the Bolivarian Historical Bloc began in recent weeks. This is a political model that we have as a nation, for the irreversible and revolutionary transformation of Venezuelan society, with spaces to discuss the actions of the agenda of the Plan for the Homeland of the Seven Transformations (7T) that will project Venezuela for the next 30 years in areas such as: Modernizing the economy, full independence, peace, security and territorial, social, political, ecological and geopolitical integrity, with new lines of work that aim at comprehensive recovery of the country.

Regarding the Congress of the Historical Bloc , the first vice-president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, commented that “we have a theory, we have a project, we have a strategic, sociological, socio-political and socio-cultural vision according to the vision of the people and how to build the new political hegemony,” he stressed.

Cabello added that “the transformation of the State implies more power for the people: since it will be done together with the people, with the people ruling and deciding and being able, so that the people have more power every day”.

In the same order as the Historical Bloc, the World Congress of Antifascist Youth and Students also took place last week, at which President Nicolás Maduro Moros announced the birth of the Great Anti-Fascist Movement of Youth and Students of Venezuela, which for two days brought together a thousand young people, 500 of them representatives of more than seventy nations, to draw strategies against the manifestations of fascism, neofascism and similar expressions on the planet.

Among other ideas, the president assured that Venezuela will overcome the cyberfascism that is being committed against that nation, and pointed out that today imperialism intends to impose a cyberfascist coup on humanity with a war or cognitive massacre, through artificial intelligence.

He also denounced the bill under the name Bolivar, which has just been approved by the United States House of Representatives , in another attempt to economically suffocate Venezuela and offend the Liberator, in addition to violating the rules of international law.

He also mentioned that in the three anti-fascist congresses, the Founding Congress of September of this year, the Congress at the beginning of November “which founded the League of Anti-Fascist Parliamentarians and Parliamentarians of the World”, and this Third Congress, which conclude a founding cycle for this Great Movement of Youth and Students of the Anti-Fascist World, were demonstrates the ongoing struggle for a new world.

President Maduro insisted that new forms of commonwealth must be created and his own strategies of resistance must be promoted in order to turn destiny into consciousness, raise your flag boys, raise your strength, that there is a humanity to build.

At this event, the first vice-president of the PSUV, Diosdado Cabello, said: “I want to begin by expressing our total and absolute solidarity, affection, admiration and respect for the Palestinian people, who today continue to be massacred by fascism, to the Palestinian people who are resisting today.”

He also said that Liberator Simon Bolivar envisioned what U.S. imperialism would become when he said that “the United States seems destined by divine providence to plague the world with misery in the name of freedom.” He also said that “in Venezuela, the People and the Government have decided to confront the fascist extreme right to defend peace and tranquility.”

Fascism in Venezuela is expressed in violence in the streets, the promotion of hatred between Venezuelans and the increase of sanctions that do not allow the development and normal development of the nation's production and income , which, although they do not recognize it, affect the entire country.

Among the issues on the agenda of the World Congress of Anti-Fascist Youth and Students are women's rights, the struggle of student movements, workers' rights, the protection of the environment and the formation of youth organizations to combat the models of oppression of fascist expressions.

And since the attack is permanent, this week the US government , at the request of the Venezuelan right, increased the number of sanctions against Venezuelans who live in management and management positions to increase the country's income, as well as in strategic positions that guarantee security, and as Cabello expressed last Wednesday in his Con El Mazo Dando program : “What benefit has sanctioning Venezuela brought you? None... It has strengthened us as a people... We know who is calling for invasions, bombings and attacks on our country... They still don't understand that we are determined to be free.”

AMELYREN BASABE/Mazo News Team