Venuzela: So what if they dare
Roland Denis: PNA-M13 | 13.08.2004 23:56 | Venezuela
The referendum, as we had thought, will constitute a fabulous scenario for the deployment of an extraordinary potential of movilization, organization, debate, and of liberation, to a certain degree, of several points of popular organization that for a long time had been trapped by the bureaucracy introduced by government-supporting political parties; the organized or disorganized spontaneity with which the patrols, the local commands as well as the defense preparation have been developing, in the midst of the chaos of our own world, the participation and the intense involvement of the people in charge, is the best testimony to it all.
On that aspect, without a doubt, the referendum has been one of the experiences that has provoked the same passionate reactions in the populace, comparable to those of April 13th, or during the rescue of PDVSA, or even during the oligarchic imperialistic sabotage of that date. This event, as was expected, is going to be tinged with a lot of tension, both nationally and internationally, as the presence of the masses in the streets was intensified: today, the red and black background of the NO ads, fills up the walls of the country, and victory of President Chavez is irreversible. The referendum has been part of a struggle in the midst of a historical moment, where a single world order is trying to be installed, commanded by the military, technological, communicational, and of course economical forces led by the US and the so-called G8.
On that aspect, without a doubt, the referendum has been one of the experiences that has provoked the same passionate reactions in the populace, comparable to those of April 13th, or during the rescue of PDVSA, or even during the oligarchic imperialistic sabotage of that date. This event, as was expected, is going to be tinged with a lot of tension, both nationally and internationally, as the presence of the masses in the streets was intensified: today, the red and black background of the NO ads, fills up the walls of the country, and victory of President Chavez is irreversible. The referendum has been part of a struggle in the midst of a historical moment, where a single world order is trying to be installed, commanded by the military, technological, communicational, and of course economical forces led by the US and the so-called G8.
Venezuela and the Bolivarian government have turned, by being irreverent to this criminal and satanic attempt, into a clear anomaly, unacceptable to this supranational domination logic, which does not care about concessions, forgiveness, ambiguities and limits that support the revolutionary process.
It is there where the referendum, far from being just a simple electoral act, is one more moment of a struggle that will never end as long as one of the involved parties is defined as victorious: either this macabre empire, or the forces of liberation that are born and supported on the Bolivarian revolution in our territory as well as in the rest of our America.
On this beautiful collective experience, and this picture of struggle for life, we move forwards towards August 15th. Now, there are three things that at this time, are highlighted as points of expression of this confrontation, to which we must have planned, clear responses.
The first point, is violence, and the confrontation that is attempted and will continue to be attempted until voting time. Calm and happiness, my brothers, because there is nothing to find there, let them go insane, provoking clashes or even acting upon terrorist plans intended to cause fear and mass dissappointment, in order to cause collateral effects at voting time, or as excuse to dismiss the referendum itself. Leave them with their impotence and their sexual-political frustrations, while we continue giving birth to worlds and beauty that we give to all peoples on Earth.
The second point is much more significant and complex in its consequences: a popular process has been put into motion in beauty and freedom; however, the state we must continue to defend, is still a colonized piece of land, infested with all the bureaucratic and bourgeois obstacles of our useless republics, as a result of enemy infiltration, but also by effect of corrupt power ambitions of pseudo-revolutionaries.
It is about a state that has allowed, on one hand, that fascism and imperialism are the masters of the CNE, especially of its internal information links. The Permanent Electoral Registry was never purged, and the worst part is that all the machinery, systems, Smartmatic, CANTV, in summary, all the technology through which the electoral process can be handled, is all in their hands, which is why at this time, we can say that they can do whatever they want with the voting results, fabricating the percentages, since, to the date, there is no mechanism of physical examination of the votes or the technological systems that corroborates the truthfulness of the results that they will put on the CNE´s passive command.
Conclusion: if they want, they can play the technical draw card, thus provoking a generalized chaos and a last hour compromise, or simply force out a YES vote victory, without giving anyone any way of legally protesting the results, at least during the immediate hours and days after the referendum.
Fraud then becomes a high probability scenario, for which we must be prepared, making the NO vote vitory and the massive voting that we have encouraged ourselves, an undisputable reality. What do we do then, if fraud is imposed as a final way of provoking us by part of a defeated oligarchy. Massive mobilization and general strike, which is alredy an act that the collective has decided upon, but this has to have direction and shape, in order for it to make sense, because it does not suit us to fill the streets with people or surround Miraflores only to express our indignation.
The third proble: having an operative political agenda that is coherent and allows us to clearly determine the revolutionary jump that we will be obligated to do, over legality and usless State pressure. In this sense, we will refer to all the forces that have always defended the revolution, including its soldiers, its popular organizations, its unions, its cultural and proffessional organization, and of course, the President, in order to know what decision we must take.
Between the 15th and the 16th, if this human putridness that holds electoral mechanisms in its hands, dares to do what it can, we will have to ensure territorial control of all spaces where our strengths are, as well as popular deployment itself, raiding all the strategic and vital centers of our land: supermarkets, drug stores, factories, gas stations, police headquarters, municipal governmental buildings, healthcare centers, hospitals, and the damned media, which are the voices from hell.
The popular control will have to be given to the relevant government offices, during popular assemblies, where we will all be involved in this decisive act of the revolution. A popular militia, working together with the Armed Forces will be in charge of maintaining and guaranteeing order and security. We cannot accept sacking, popular control over the means of life and defense is the ultimate goal of this struggle.
And to the president, and all the representatives of the Bolivarian government, we ask of you to accompany this struggle that the whole world will support; consequences will be dire, we know, but it is about a natural decision of a people who are fed up with so much impunity, a decision of liberation, of happiness for all.
Therefore, we demand the immediate control and nationalization of telecommunications that are currently in the hands of oligarchies and transnational corporations, as well as the immediate nationalization of the financial sector, a revolutionary government, made with the most heroic and authentic characters of our revolution, starting with the President himself, who we ask to maintain the control of the country, and to accompany the true exercise of power by part of the organized insurrectional bases of a people that has definitely decided not to give up and turn into one of the beautiful beacons that all human beings, today, represent, with our struggle, our dreams and our creation.
Until victory always, all power to the people.
Our America Project- April 13th Movement.
It is there where the referendum, far from being just a simple electoral act, is one more moment of a struggle that will never end as long as one of the involved parties is defined as victorious: either this macabre empire, or the forces of liberation that are born and supported on the Bolivarian revolution in our territory as well as in the rest of our America.
On this beautiful collective experience, and this picture of struggle for life, we move forwards towards August 15th. Now, there are three things that at this time, are highlighted as points of expression of this confrontation, to which we must have planned, clear responses.
The first point, is violence, and the confrontation that is attempted and will continue to be attempted until voting time. Calm and happiness, my brothers, because there is nothing to find there, let them go insane, provoking clashes or even acting upon terrorist plans intended to cause fear and mass dissappointment, in order to cause collateral effects at voting time, or as excuse to dismiss the referendum itself. Leave them with their impotence and their sexual-political frustrations, while we continue giving birth to worlds and beauty that we give to all peoples on Earth.
The second point is much more significant and complex in its consequences: a popular process has been put into motion in beauty and freedom; however, the state we must continue to defend, is still a colonized piece of land, infested with all the bureaucratic and bourgeois obstacles of our useless republics, as a result of enemy infiltration, but also by effect of corrupt power ambitions of pseudo-revolutionaries.
It is about a state that has allowed, on one hand, that fascism and imperialism are the masters of the CNE, especially of its internal information links. The Permanent Electoral Registry was never purged, and the worst part is that all the machinery, systems, Smartmatic, CANTV, in summary, all the technology through which the electoral process can be handled, is all in their hands, which is why at this time, we can say that they can do whatever they want with the voting results, fabricating the percentages, since, to the date, there is no mechanism of physical examination of the votes or the technological systems that corroborates the truthfulness of the results that they will put on the CNE´s passive command.
Conclusion: if they want, they can play the technical draw card, thus provoking a generalized chaos and a last hour compromise, or simply force out a YES vote victory, without giving anyone any way of legally protesting the results, at least during the immediate hours and days after the referendum.
Fraud then becomes a high probability scenario, for which we must be prepared, making the NO vote vitory and the massive voting that we have encouraged ourselves, an undisputable reality. What do we do then, if fraud is imposed as a final way of provoking us by part of a defeated oligarchy. Massive mobilization and general strike, which is alredy an act that the collective has decided upon, but this has to have direction and shape, in order for it to make sense, because it does not suit us to fill the streets with people or surround Miraflores only to express our indignation.
The third proble: having an operative political agenda that is coherent and allows us to clearly determine the revolutionary jump that we will be obligated to do, over legality and usless State pressure. In this sense, we will refer to all the forces that have always defended the revolution, including its soldiers, its popular organizations, its unions, its cultural and proffessional organization, and of course, the President, in order to know what decision we must take.
Between the 15th and the 16th, if this human putridness that holds electoral mechanisms in its hands, dares to do what it can, we will have to ensure territorial control of all spaces where our strengths are, as well as popular deployment itself, raiding all the strategic and vital centers of our land: supermarkets, drug stores, factories, gas stations, police headquarters, municipal governmental buildings, healthcare centers, hospitals, and the damned media, which are the voices from hell.
The popular control will have to be given to the relevant government offices, during popular assemblies, where we will all be involved in this decisive act of the revolution. A popular militia, working together with the Armed Forces will be in charge of maintaining and guaranteeing order and security. We cannot accept sacking, popular control over the means of life and defense is the ultimate goal of this struggle.
And to the president, and all the representatives of the Bolivarian government, we ask of you to accompany this struggle that the whole world will support; consequences will be dire, we know, but it is about a natural decision of a people who are fed up with so much impunity, a decision of liberation, of happiness for all.
Therefore, we demand the immediate control and nationalization of telecommunications that are currently in the hands of oligarchies and transnational corporations, as well as the immediate nationalization of the financial sector, a revolutionary government, made with the most heroic and authentic characters of our revolution, starting with the President himself, who we ask to maintain the control of the country, and to accompany the true exercise of power by part of the organized insurrectional bases of a people that has definitely decided not to give up and turn into one of the beautiful beacons that all human beings, today, represent, with our struggle, our dreams and our creation.
Until victory always, all power to the people.
Our America Project- April 13th Movement.
Roland Denis: PNA-M13
