Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Statement of the PCMLV on the death
of Commandante Chavez
The
Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela, PCMLV, expresses its grief and
solidarity at the physical loss of Commandante
President Hugo Chavez Frias to all the workers,
peasants, students, women's organizations, revolutionary, anti-imperialist,
socialist and Bolivarian parties and organizations of the masses.
We
also express our condolences to all his family, friends and to the national
government for the loss of a great humanist, a patriotic, progressive and
consistent revolutionary statesman, as President Hugo Chavez proved to be until
the last days of his existence.
We
call on the working class, which knows how to rise to the challenge in the
revolutionary struggle in the most pressing moments of history, to prepare to
resist and defeat the reactionaries who will not hesitate to take advantage of
this difficult time to thwart through violent means the gains and demands that
we have achieved under the leadership of President Chavez. Imperialism will set
stronger traps at this sorrowful moment that the national revolutionary
movement is going through.
The
call is to not renounce the struggle to build socialism, the banner that
President Hugo Chavez raised in all circumstances; this banner needs to be
taken up rigorously and courageously by all the workers of this nation in this
difficult moment in history. We, as Party of the working class in Venezuela,
make the call for the struggle and building of socialism and communism from the
scientific conception of Marxism-Leninism.
The
acts of sabotage, of hired killers, the terrorism, food shortages, the propaganda of disinformation, anxiety and manipulation
will intensify. The national and international reactionaries feel victorious at
this time, but the national and world working class will go forward with the
necessary and strategic battles to continue the path of victory and the
accumulation of forces to confront the fascists and imperialists.
The
death of the President of the Republic must not mean the decline in popular
organization, but rather it must serve as an impetus for future struggles
against the class enemy. We must not believe in the phony condolences local
right wing, which on dozens of occasions tried to assassinate the commandante. These sectors are moved by a single impulse:
profit at any cost whatever.
The
right wing is evaluating what actions to take in the coming days. It is no
coincidence that the Venezuelan government expelled two U.S. military attaches
for conspiratorial work.
We
strongly call on all the revolutionary elements to close ranks against the
capitalist and imperialist enemy. The working class must be prepared for a
possible difficult situation; it must not trust the bourgeois enemy that has
historically proven to be traitorous. If the pro-imperialist bourgeoisie tries
to take advantage of this hard time of grief of the humble and exploited
masses, the masses should respond forcefully and applying revolutionary
violence.
Socialism
can only be built with the worker-peasant alliance in Power and the people in
arms!
PCMLV
Caracas, March 5, 2013