Venezuelan ambassador and PCV militant speak

[Stuart Munckton <stuartmunckton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Below is the links fron Green Left to the speech that
the Venezuelan Ambassador to Australia gave to a
solidarity conference in Sydney, which was very good,
and an interview a comrade who visited Venezuela did
with a leading Venezuelan Communist Party (PVC)
militant while there.

Tommorrow a national tour of Australia of Alvaro
Guzman, National Director of the Bolivarian Student
Front, begins, organised by Committees in Solidarity
with Latin American and the Carribean and Resistance
which will a great opportunity to help build
solidarity with the Venezuelan revolution.

Of course the key place to be doing that is the US,
given the role the US is playing in trying to destroy
the revolution. I know that there are a lot of
solidairty groups doing different thingsm, but it
seems a shame that there isn't a party to do the sort
of consistent solidarity work that the US SWP did with
Cuba in the early years of the revolution there. it
seems to be that the radicalisation of the Venezuelan
revolutionary proccess, with it being the first
conrecte revolutionary break post Cold War, requires
that sort of effort.

Stuart

Venezuelan ambassador 'The struggle for our America'
 
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2003/551/551p21.htm


Interview: 'It is impossible to win this fight alone'

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2003/552/552p17.htm




--- Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Fred
Feldman wrote:
> >The Najaf bombing had the earmarks of an Al Qaeda
> type action, as did
> >the bombing of the UN center (although this one has
> much more sharply
> >the characteristic Al Qaeda trademark of directly
> targeting the masses
> >as the enemy).
> 
> I agree with much of Fred's post, except that I
> wouldn't necessarily base 
> my views on the UN bombing on what the Cuban
> government said. They have 
> different imperatives as an isolated and vulnerable
> socialist state.
> 
> To me the big issue with these car-bombings is not
> morality but politics. 
> It is interesting that whoever carried them out (the
> same is true for 9/11 
> as well) made no attempt to identify or explain
> themselves. This is not 
> just terrorism, it is contempt for the masses. At
> least Hamas takes credit 
> for its attacks on civilians and provides an
> explanation.
> 
> Also, keep in mind that these terror bombings might
> be the work of 
> provocateurs. Although I don't believe that the 9/11
> attacks were the 
> result of a CIA conspiracy, it is not beyond them to
> blow up innocent Arabs 
> in pursuit of their geopolitical goals. The only
> thing I question in the 
> article below is whether Casey's operation was
> "secret" or not. Keep in 
> mind that the ruling class was trying to prevent
> Reagan from going the 
> route of Richard Nixon at the time and was anxious
> to make people like 
> Casey and Oliver North appear as "rogue elements".
> 
> The Times (London)
> September 28 1987, Monday
> 
> US anger at rogue operations: Book exposes CIA
> chief's 'secret war'
> 
> BYLINE: From MICHAEL BINYON
> 
> DATELINE: WASHINGTON
> 
> There was swift and angry reaction in Congress at
> the weekend to the 
> revelation that the late William Casey, the former
> Director of the Central 
> Intelligence Agency, had colluded with Saudi Arabia
> to undertake three 
> covert operations, including an attempted
> assassination of a Lebanese Shia 
> leader that killed 80 people.
> 
> Senator Sam Nunn, a Democratic member of the Senate
> intelligence committe, 
> said that very serious questions were raised by the
> fact that Mr Casey had 
> given more information to The Washington Post, which
> reported the 
> collusion, than to Congress. He predicted that if
> the paper's contentions 
> were substantiated, this would lead to new and
> tougher restrictions on CIA 
> operations.
> 
> Bob Woodward, the paper's assistant editor and chief
> investigative 
> reporter, said a book published this week that Mr
> Casey was frustrated by 
> CIA bureaucracy and opposition to a pre-emptive
> strike against Sheikh 
> Muhammad Husain Fadallah, leader of the pro-Iranian
> Hezbollah (Party of 
> God) movement in Lebanon.
> 
> Mr Casey, therefore, secretly arranged with the
> Saudi Ambassador in 
> Washington to pay Dollars 3 million (Pounds 1.8
> million) for Saudi 
> intelligence to mount an assisination attempt. A car
> bomb exploded outside 
> Sheikh Fadlallah's Beirut flat on March 8, 1985.
> Eighty people were killed 
> and 200 wounded, but the Shia leader was unhurt.
> 
> 
> Louis Proyect, Marxism mailing list:
> http://www.marxmail.org
>  

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