Resolution on VENEZUELA

1) To organize a forum of debate to exchange ideas on the Venezuelan, Cuban and Nicaraguan regimes, which will allow us to analyze in depth and arm ourselves politically as a whole to intervene in those countries and to challenge campism ever ywhere. The center of the debate will be on the following issues:

• Condemnation and demand of the lifting of the blockade and economic sanctions against Venezuela imposed unilaterally by the US government and its imperialist and pro-imperialist allies, since it fundamentally goes against the Venezuelan people and tramples on the sovereignty of the country.

• Rejection of the government’s policy of criminalizing the struggles of the working class, and the detention and deprivation of liberty of workers’ and popular activists.

• We oppose the usurpation of the legality of various left-wing political organizations.

• We denounce the violations of freedom of information and expression and particularly express our solidarity towards the Website aporrea.org of popular and alternative communication, which is the object of shut-downs and attacks.

• We denounce the progress of the political-religious alliance to the detriment of the rights of working women and women in general, as well as of the diverse sexual orientations.

Our Congress showed significant advances through the incorporation of new sections and the deepening of relations with important revolutionary groups and parties in various countries. Here we share two experiences, in Brazil and Colombia, where the unification of different currents has allowed us to take a leap forward.