N°16 septembre 2021 On August 13 Venezuela's parliament approved the agreement negotiated in Mexico City under Norwegian auspices between the government of President Nicolas Maduro and representatives of the opposition.
Although this agreement recognizes the legitimacy of President Nicolas Maduro, commits to renounce violence and asks that the US sanctions against Venezuela be lifted, it nonetheless constitutes the formation of an alliance between the social democratic forces represented by the Unified Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) of President Maduro and a fraction of the Venezuelan right. This political process of uniting a large part of the bourgeoisie is to continue from September 3 to 6. In our Weekly N ° 704 of February 17, we noted that the significance of the government’s vigorous attacks against the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) were intended: "to organize a turn towards the right-wing forces and the employers and for this purpose, the PCV must be sacrificed on the altar of "national reconciliation" because it fights in an uncompromising way against capitalism, imperialism and the corruption which is gnawing at the country and undermining the bases of the "Bolivarian Revolution "(1).The signing of the Mexico City agreement fully confirms this assessment. Faced with this situation, the political bureau of the Central Committee of the PCV, has just published on August 17 a declaration which analyzes the nature of this agreement and calls for the formation of a popular and revolutionary alternative: "Today more than ever, we workers must be united to fight against the offensive that the bourgeois pact of Mexico will impose against our rights and the sovereignty of the country. Yesterday, it was the Punto Fijo pact (2); today it will be the Mexican Pact. With new and old actors, but always against the interests of the workers and the homeland. The working class, the peasantry and the popular forces must build the Popular and Revolutionary Alternative in the face of the new alliance of the elites ". In its declaration the political bureau of the PCV (3) engages in a class analysis of the Mexico accord: "The political representatives of the two most important fractions of the national bourgeoisie reached an agreement in Mexico in order to lay the foundations aiming to continue a process of political negotiations which has been developing for some time and has given concrete results to the profit of the enemies of the Venezuelan people. On the one hand, we have the government of Nicolás Maduro and the surrender leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), representing the interests of the powerful new rich formed in the shadow of state-owned enterprises. On the other side, the right wing, led by Juan Guaidó, Henrique Capriles and the social democratic parties, representing the traditional national bourgeoisie and the interests of the American and European transnational monopoly groups ". And the PCV adds: "Mexico's MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) is based on previous economic agreements, aimed at providing guarantees to private capital. Both the government and the right-wing opposition agree on the current neoliberal economic adjustment imposed by the policy of price liberalization, the de facto dollarization of the economy, the privatization of public goods, the return of public enterprises and agricultural land to private capital and large landowners, fiscal flexibility policies, openness to private capital in the oil sector, policy of destruction of wages and deregulation of labor relations; and also the important promises to national and foreign private capital of juicy profits with the Special Economic Zones and the expectations from a reform of the Hydrocarbons Law which plans to privatize the oil business and reduce the capacity of the State to capture oil rents. That is why the working class, the peasantry and the popular sectors cannot be deceived by the dialogues of the bourgeoisie in Mexico. It is not our interests and our needs that count on the agenda of the political representatives of the rapacious national and transnational bourgeoisie. On the contrary: it is at the cost of sacrificing our conquests and our rights, and bearing on our shoulders all the weight of the crisis and of the illegal imperialist sanctions, that today these two political forces of the bourgeoisie shake hands and aspire to sign the "peace pipe".
Faced with this situation, more than ever, the Venezuelan people and their Communist Party need internationalist class support. Ours is theirs in their struggle for the lifting of the illegal blockade initiated by imperialism and especially of the USA, national independence, respect for conquests and social rights won through struggle.
(1) https://www.sitecommunistes.org/index.php/monde/monde/1314-venezuela-mali-italie-haiti-catalogne-turquie
(2) This pact was concluded in 1958 between the three major Venezuelan parties of the time: the Democratic Action, a social-democratic party, the Independent Electoral Political Organization Committee, a social-Christian party and the Republican Democratic Union, a social-liberal party. This pact, as the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez was coming to an end, aimed to establish a government from which the Communists of the PCV would be excluded.
(3) https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2021/08/17/comunicado-bp-pcv-el-pacto-de-elites-se-consolida-en-mexico/