26 and 27M, we did a great internationalist meeting

A view of the debate-talk organize after international meeting

By Damian Vekelo, FAR

On May 26 and 27 an international meeting was held, with the presence of revolutionary militants from Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and Uruguay. Driven by the FAS, with organizations that integrate the Internationalist Guevarist Coordination, the meeting meant a transcendent fact on the road to unite all of us who face imperialism (and capitalism) in this continent, starting from the principle that for the Marxists the Socialist revolution is national by its form, but international by its content.

The exchange between the participating comrades was very rich, of a deep theoretical and political content, in which the international situation and perspectives were deepened, coinciding fully with the character of the crisis of capitalism and the perspectives of development of the movement of masses. Around these points, there is a deep agreement that until now capitalism has not found a way out of the crisis that erupted in 2008 and this debacle has a political correlate, in a breakdown of traditional forms of domination, which manifests itself mainly in a crisis of the bourgeois democratic regime.

This context, which at the same time implies a huge pauperization of the working class, leads the workers and the broad oppressed masses to rebel, not only against their direct oppressors, but also against the institutions that, disguised as workers' organizations, function as containment dam to the development of the conscience and the independent organization of the workers, as the case of the bureaucratized unions(syndicates).

In contrast to the institutions that up to now guaranteed the domination of capital,  forms of direct democracy emerge in an embryonic form, all over the world, although unevenly, which are for us the germ of a new institutionality. In the particular case of the American continent, there are also great coincidences in the characterization of governments after the 2000 crisis, the options that emerge in the heat of large mass mobilizations that made the regime tremble in countries like Venezuela or Argentina.

Both the populisms and progressisms of all the coats and traditions (Chavism, WideFrontism, Kirchnerism), fulfilled the role of firefighters before the fire of the class struggle that toured this part of the world. Today these projects are in decline but even the bourgeoisie seeks to recycle them so that they can again be life saver of capitalism, that is why it is of crucial importance for the revolutionary left to clearly delimit the two fields and programs in conflict.

The fundamental contradiction is between capital and labor and it is of the utmost importance for revolutionaries to denounce the siren songs of national populism, in particular the one referenced with the Venezuelan Chavism, which after the banner of socialism has brought the worst misery to the workers and the people of Venezuela, in an unprecedented situation and many groups, especially in Argentina, claim as the way forward, seeking to beautify the role of the State, devising new deceptions to the masses to deposit their expectations in some bourgeois "National and popular".

A transcendent event

In a context of deep crisis of capitalism, the meeting and exchange between activists from different groups of the revolutionary internationalist left, is an event of great transcendence, in the process of sharpening the class struggle in the world, this is an important step to begin to coordinate actions and common campaigns against imperialism and its lackeys. 

The quality of the agreements reached, provides the basis to begin the path of regroupment of the revolutionaries who fight to end capitalism and build a society without exploiters or exploited, we have on our shoulders the vast experience of revolutions in the last century, with its advances and setbacks, but fundamentally we have the historical opportunity of the moment in which we live, in which the crisis of capitalism is the greatest of its history and the walls with which it is sustained are falling apart. 

This forces the revolutionary left to multiply efforts to rebuild an international leadership that contributes to the development of the struggle of the working class throughout the world. It is a steep and winding road but we have in our favor all the strength of history, this is the first step.

Read draft document of the internationalist meeting

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