[Marxism] Bolivarian Continental Coordination: Call to Action against G-8 Summit

[Greg McDonald <sabocat59@xxxxxxx>]

Against the G8 Summit – Unity and Revolutionary Struggle

15.03.2007 | Bolivarian Continental Coordination

From Our America we join the great Anti-G8 mobilization as part of  
the campaign "Not One Yankee Soldier in Our America and in the  
World", as well as the debate about alternatives to capitalism. We  
call on the revolutionary organizations of the whole contient to  
participate in this important process and to coordinate, propose and  
extend in their territories different activities in the run-up to and  
at the time of the summit in Heiligendamm next year, 2007.
For freedom, for the sovereignty and welfare of all the oppressed  
peoples of the world, Unity and Revolutionary Struggle.
Bolivarian Continental Coordination (CCB)

Not One Yankee Soldier in Our America and in the World! Against the  
G8 Summit – Unity and Revolutionary Struggle.

“Unity, Unity, Unity Should Be Our Motto” Simón Bolívar

The idea is widespread that the worst massacre in history was  
perpetrated by the fascists against the Jews, communists and  
intellectuals; however, even if that was abominable and blood- 
chilling, nowhere in the history of humanity has there been a  
massacre larger in numbers or crueler in methods than the one  
committed in America (in the North, in the center and in the South)  
during the time of colonialism. The result of Christopher Colombus'  
arriaval in the New World (America) meant death for the natural or  
indigenous populations, or their disappearance as cultures. More than  
60 million humans killed, countless more enslaved, all plundered and  
driven from their land without exception, for two fundamental  
reasons: being different than the colonizing culture and living in  
the richtest land known at the time.

It is important to say this, because this fact is fundamental in the  
development and accumulated history of our peoples in the new  
continent, who heroically shook off those yokes, recovering  
independence, but who have not been able to get rid of the hawks and  
vultures which make plans from the heart of the empire - the most  
sophisticated and not the least bloody - to continue plundering  
America and to usher in a process of re-colonization which has been  
going on for several decades.

"(...) The United States and its allies have a policy of continental  
domination and they possess the instruments to execute this plan: the  
Southern Command, military forces spread out in bases and specific  
operations; the International Monentary Fund IMF, the World Bank, the  
World Trade Organization WTO, the Plan Puebla Panamá, Plan Colombia,  
Plan Patriota, Andean Initiative, NAFTA, CAFTA - RD, FTAs" ...

Haiti is "intervened" by the combined forces of the US, France,  
Spain, Canada, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Brazil and other coutries,  
in the disguise of the United Nations (MINUSTAH, United Nations  
Stabilization Mission in Haiti). The border of the Dominican Republic  
with Haiti is practically under the control of the Southern Command  
of the Pentagon. Today American military bases are spead out through  
all our territories: the base Tres Esquinas in Colombia; Iquitos, in  
Peru; Manta, in Ecuador; Palmerola, in Honduras; Comalapa, in El  
Salvador; Reina Beatriz on the Island of Aruba; Libería, in Costa  
Rica; Guantánamo in Cuba; s camp of 200 miles and including trawling  
under the water, close to Vieques in Puerto Rico. This without  
counting the unrestricted access of American military to national  
military bases, as in Colombia, or the smaller military presence in  
Antigua, Peru and the Bahamas.

This situation has generated important resistance movements which  
have delayed the installation of many more military forces, such as  
in the so called triple border vertex where Argentina, Brazil and  
Paraguay meet, or in Vieques in Puerto Rico, abandoned by the gringos  
after a large people's movement.

The public raison d'être of this apparatus of intervention is the  
struggle against drug trafficking and the protection of democracy.  
However, several American congressmen admit this complicated  
framework is made to suffocate any social, political or  
insurrectional movement which hampers the development of the  
expansion plans of the transnational imperial economcy, for example  
the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA, ALCA).

A tangible proof of this claim is Plan Colombia or the "antinarcotics  
plan", the military component of the FTAA and a strategy for gaining  
power in the Amazon Region composed of Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia,  
Peru and Ecuador. Created by the government of Clinton and  
implemented since 2000 by the government of Pastrana in Colombia.

With a cost of more than two billion dollars, 70 helicopters,  
thousands of military uniforms, training, subcontracting of  
mercenaries and financing of five new battalions, it has managed to  
professionalize 52,000 soldiers for an approximate total of 320,000  
people linked to military questions of defense and security.  
Professional soldiers, amongst whom are to be found so-called  
paramiliaries who have caused the internal displacement of more than  
three million people, via threats, terrible massacres, selective  
assasinations and fumigation with glyphosate over food crops, water  
and farms.

The areas abandoned due to the terrorism of the Colombian state,  
financed by the empire, are not exactly areas dominated by drug  
trafficking, even though they become this after the operations; they  
are areas of interest to transnational capital to control oil, zones  
apt for monoculture or various minerals including especially gold,  
coal and water.

The transational capital profiting by this humanitarian crisis is not  
just American; European businesses like Repsol, Nestle, Fenosa,  
Siemens, Daimler Benz, MBB, Carl Zeiss, Dornier, Rotexchemie  
International Handels GmBH, among others, have gotten quite a benefit  
from the implementation of fascism in Colombia, without counting  
their direct links to crimes and serious violations of human rights  
in Latin America, as was denounced and condemned in the Alternative  
Summit of Brussels in a Popular Tribunal.

Of course these multinationals are not alone, since the trajectory of  
the policies of the European Union in relation to international trade  
is oriented towards the interests of big corporations.

On the other hand, the resonating "commitment to peace" of the  
European Union EU by directly financing certain Non-Governmental  
Organizations (NGOs) constitutes the other face of the plans for  
domination, whose role has been vital: neutralizing the opinion of  
all sectors about the political situation of every country; mining  
the people's struggles and their most sincere demands by buying  
consciences and serving up distractions while privatization goes  
forward implacably.

The G8 is nothing other than the close alliance between the hawks and  
vultures of the world, to continue avanti in the march of capitalism,  
defending the interests of a few macabre minorities who decide the  
fate of the planet, the establishment of laws, the implementation of  
wars, displacement, murder and the ideological neutralization of  
thousands of people etc.

In Our America, a revolutionary wave breaking out, which, based on a  
long accumulated history of colonization, liberation, heroes without  
peers (Zapata, Petion, Tupac Amarú, Bolivar, Artigas, San Martín, la  
Gaitana, Guicaipuro, Villa, Lame, Caamaño, Che Guevara, Prestes,  
Castro, Arenas) and continuing resistance, is searching through  
experience for alternatives to build another world which is possible  
and necessary and in doing so conquer definitive independence.

The counterproposal to the FTAA, which obeys the interests of  
transnational capital and strives for the absolute liberalization of  
trade in goods and services and investments, has flowered in our  
continent with the reemergal of Boliviarian and popular ideas like  
the ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas and the Caribbean),  
not subordinate to any hegemonic world center, proposing fair trade,  
an equal exchange and the solution of the problems of the colossal  
poor masses in Latin America. And in the framework of the ALBA there  
is a proposal to create Petro-America, conceived as a multi-state  
oil, gas and energy company integrated by the countries like Ecuador,  
Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia and Venezuela.

In July 2006, with the intention of giving an impulse to these and  
other proposals and neccessities, like the IHF (International  
Humanitarian Fund), Venezuela publically joined Mercosur (made up of  
Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay) showing the imperative that our  
history demands, namely giving life to a process of unification of  
the peoples of Our America.

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, again taking up, in the person  
of Hugo Chávez Frias, the banners of Simon Bolivar, has began a  
revolutionary process sui generis which started with the  
nationalization of oil, the agrarian reform and the establishment of  
"missions" which attempt to improve the quality of life of the  
Venezuelan people; attempting to solve problems of vital importance,  
like health, education and nutrition, amongst others.

Chávez has expressed on numerous occassion that the project on which  
Venezuela has embarked cannot be anything but socialist and has  
opened a debate about the validity and necessity of socialsm as an  
answer to the screaming failure of capitalism in light of the major  
problems of humanity. In step with the revolutionary process,  
Venezuela is preparing for the agression being prepared zealously by  
Yankee imperialism, using and strengthening fascism in Colombia in  
the form of the narco-paramilitary president Álvaro Uribe Vélez (AUV).

Colombia has been the protagonist of many years of brave resistance  
and struggle. This country, while remaining a spearhead for the  
intervention in all of America, contains a highly organized insurgent  
movement including the oldest guerilla army in the continent, the  
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army (FARC-EP).

Under the banners of Bolivar, Marx and Lenin. a real people's army  
has been constituted, which in an an interesting exercise of power  
for more than 42 years has drawn up proposals in various occasions to  
supersede the conflict and the problems such as the drug trade as  
part of a project of true peace with social justice and popular  
participation.

Furthermore, they are part of the accumulated history of Latin  
America that we mentioned and a reflection of the revolutionary wave,  
the swerve of the electorate to the left or center-left, evidence of  
the generalized repudiation of the neoliberal project; also the  
growth of leftist popular forces, the reemergence of insurgent  
movements, the countless demonstrations, strikes, protests, the  
strengthening of the popular movements, the coordinations of  
organizations of indigenous peoples, people of African descent,  
women, students, peasants, of trade unions and human rights groups;  
political parties, collectives, forces, nuclei etc., with unifying  
ideas, with the idea of founding a new project which is creative,  
diverse and profoundly democratic.

Coordinations which seek to overcome old disputes by establishing  
common points, to recognize the importance of each and every form of  
struggle, of the contribution of each and every organizational form  
which pushes forward the conquest of the people's interests.

Effectively, unity is a fundamental aspect of what is developing  
today in America: it is the legacy which is gathered from Bolivar and  
other thinkers and liberator heros; it is the legacy which is  
gathered from its strong indigenous component and its strong link  
with life and the land; it is the legacy which is gathered from the  
great thinkers of humanity like Marx who called for the unity of the  
oppressed of the world. It is the strategic alternative only possible  
by virtue of solidarity and the sovereignty and welfare of all our  
peoples.

We appeal for this, unity, today in the call of this great  
international movement to expel imperialism, misery and death, which  
capitalism offers as a future. Beneath the rhetorical disguise of  
development of humanity one will find its most loyal representatives  
at the head of this summit of the G8.

From Our America we join the great Anti-G8 mobilization as part of  
the campaign "Not Ine Yankee Soldier in Our America and in the  
World", as well as the debate about alternatives to capitalism. We  
call on the revolutionary organizations of the whole contient to  
participate in this important process and to coordinate, propose and  
extend in their territories different activities in the run-up to and  
at the time of the summit in Heiligendamm next year, 2007.

For freedom, for the sovereignty and welfare of all the oppressed  
peoples of the world, Unity and Revolutionary Struggle!

Executive Committee
Bolivarian Continental Coordination (CCB)
...because we all find ourselves in Bolivar


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