Solidarity with the working people and the CP of Venezuela (PCV) against the attack on its political and electoral rights

Our Parties once again express their solidarity with the people of Venezuela, who have been hit hard by the illegal and coercive imperialist measures as well as the capitalist crisis that brings about the dismantling of achievements and rights of the working class and the popular strata.

The dialogue between the Nicolás Maduro government and forces of the reactionary opposition, which until recently sought his toppling through a coup d’état and an imperialist intervention, does not intend to secure people’s interests. This dialogue, on the one hand has direct results in favour of the interests of the reactionary opposition and the business groups; on the other hand, it precipitates the loss of labour, trade union, and political rights of the workers and the revolutionary organizations. Typical examples are the intensification of the criminalization of workers’ struggles, which has led to the unfair detention of a significant number of trade unionists, and the recent attacks against the political and electoral rights of the CP of Venezuela and the “Popular Revolutionary Alternative (APR)”, in the framework of the proclamation of the candidates for the forthcoming local elections on 21st November.

We denounce these unacceptable acts that aim at hindering the PCV candidates and preventing the people from widely supporting them in the forthcoming local elections.

We express our support and solidarity with all the PCV and APR candidates. The recent decisions of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela to block the PCV and APR candidates in the Municipality of Caracas, the Guaira State, and the Municipality of Macanao are completely objectionable and unjustifiable. At the same time that guarantees are provided for the participation of the reactionary forces in the election, it is unacceptable that PCV candidates are blocked, in violation of fundamental political and democratic rights. Moreover, we reiterate our denunciation of the media blackout of PCV, which has gone to extremes when the PCV and APR MP was repeatedly banned from taking the floor in parliament.

We also denounce the recent attacks against the General Secretary of the PCV, comrade Óscar Figuera, unleashed by an MP of the governing party, who once again attempted to link PCV with the plans of the imperialists and the US State Department against Venezuela.

We demand that all anti-communist attacks against PCV stop and that its violated political and electoral rights are immediately restored.

The PCV has a long tradition of anti-imperialist struggle in the service of the working class and the popular strata, in defence of the sovereignty of its country for the past 90 years. Its reinforcement will always be a guarantee of anti-imperialist, democratic, and revolutionary struggles in Venezuela.

The statement is open for further endorsements.

SolidNet Parties signing