Dear comrades,
A brief look at the situation reveals that we live in a time of intensification of the class
struggle, the contradictions of capitalism and the international conflicts, phenomena that
are closely intertwined. In Europe the troika offensive against the working class
continues, with the imposition of neoliberal economic recipes that sacrifice wages,
pensions, employment and social rights on the altar of the interests of the finance capital.
Amid the crisis and the popular uprising, we are witnessing a disturbing rise of the far
right in the old continent.
Under the Obama administration, the United States have doubled bets on military
interventions to maintain their hegemony. Using the pretext of fighting terrorism, they
trample the UN and announce the start of the bombings in Syria, as a clear imperialist
aggression. They also provoke Russia in Ukraine, inciting intolerance and violence of the
extreme right and the government against the Russians residing in the country, increasing
the risk of a more serious armed conflict in the region.
On the American continent, in Latin America and the Caribbean where progressive
governments rehearse an integration project and a new geopolitical arrangement, the
Empire acts with the aim of precluding the ongoing process of change and in order to
preserve its hegemony resurrect the failed FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas). It
is also behind the coup initiatives against the Venezuelan government and acts as a
backstage actor against progressive candidates in Brazil, Bolivia and Uruguay, which
have presidential elections in October.
The coups in Honduras and Paraguay, both supported by the USA, were tests for the
recession on the continent. However, the resistance of the peoples and of the progressive
governments is strong. We cannot forget the lessons of the military coups and the
deployment of fascist regimes in the region. Behind those tragic events were the United
States, which are currently practicing a similar plan. However, historical conditions have
changed and do not seem so favorable to the reactionary purposes of the empire and its
allies.
The backdrop of the current scenario is the declining of the US economic and political
hegemony in the world, and particularly in the Americas, movement whose counterpoint
is the rise of China and the BRICs. We are witnessing the agony of the remaining
imperialist order born from the agreements signed by the capitalist countries in 1944 in
the town of Bretton Woods at the end of World War II.
The depletion of the US world order hegemony naturally generates a geopolitical crisis
in convergence with the global economic crisis, allowing a transition to a new diplomatic
order which can not be realized without major fights, clashes and contradictions.
The historical moment is both difficult and auspicious, full of new challenges for the
working class and the trade union movement worldwide. We must point out the prospect
of a class alternative to the social dilemmas and the imperialism crisis.
It is our duty to defend a new multilateral and anti-imperialist international order, to
struggle for peace against wars led by the USA, NATO and the European Union. We have
to fight capitalism with all our strength and raise high the banner of socialism. It is also
our duty to demonstrate our total and unrestricted solidarity with Nicolas Maduro´s
government in Venezuela, and to all the other progressive and democratic governments
that are striving for the sovereign integration of Latin America and the Caribbean. We
shall as well defend the rights of the Palestinian people, denouncing the crimes committed
by Israel, repudiate the military aggression against Syria and the provocations against
Russia in Ukraine.
The crisis of the international capitalist system is a clear sign of its historical limitations,
which have caused the two world wars of the 20th century and is leading humankind once
more to the path of barbarism. Capitalism has given what it had to give. It doesn´t have
anything good to offer to the nations.
Given this reality, we have the challenge of raising the role of the working class in the
political struggles, to unify battles in order to pave the way for deeper social
transformation towards new national development projects, with sovereignty, integration,
democracy, valuing work , aiming the destruction of capitalism and the construction of a
new society, the socialist society.