Special ’ Issue International Leninist Trotskyist Fraction March 2019 Collective for the Refoundation of the Fourth International Price US$2 e-mail: [email protected]● www.flti.ci.org Latin America THE SCAM OF THE “BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION” SIDOR Strike 2013: “Diosdado we don’t believe neither in Socialists with Hummer nor in Communists with Rolex. We believe in the workers’ revolution” Socialist revolution or caricature of a revolution TABLE OF CONTENTS After having expropriated the Latin American revolution and having sold out Cuba to imperialism, the Boli-bourgeoisie departs from history in a sea of blood, hunger and sellout……….......…………3 THE RISE AND DECLINE OF CHAVEZISM* Presentation…......................................................................................................................................……5 Part I: The decline of Chavezism............................................................................................................….7 Part II: Chavez and the imposture of the Bolivarian Revolution – The expropriation of the anti- imperialist struggle of the masses…..........................................................................................................13 Part III: Permanent revolution vs staged revolution Discussions with the pro-Bolivarian left……......................................................................................…28 The fight against Capriles-Maduro-Obama pact…............................................................................…38 The utopia of the democratization of the regime of the Bolivarian constitution…….....................… 48 CUBA On the passing away of Fidel Castro The leader of the capitalist restoration in Cuba has died……..........................................…………… 51 The milestones of the capitalist restoration in Cuba…….............................................................……..59 A bourgeois constitution for a capitalist Cuba...............................................................................…… 64 * “The rise and decline of Chavezism”, socialist booklet published as e-book by Rudolph Klement Socialist Publishing House, 2014 Ebook available on: www.editorialsocialistarudolphklement.net Socialist Publishing House International Workers' Organizer 3 2018, May Day Workers’ Assembly to fight against imperialism and the capitalists The Bolivarian revolution, a caricature of a revolution After having expropriated the Latin American revolution and having sold out Cuba to imperialism, the Boli-bourgeoisie, departs from history in a sea of blood, hunger and sellout Statement of Liga Comunista de Trabajadores (Workers’ Communist League) of Venezuela “Those Bolivarians together with the Castroites put us Latin American workers out of sync with the heavy battalions of the workers of the imperialist metropolises, the greatest allies of the Latin American revolution. So the former two handed Cuba out to imperialists, restoring capitalism.” “Today Maduro has surrendered to imperialism, as a continuation of Chavez, who with famine and bullets imposes the sacking of Venezuela’s oil and natural resources, condemning the oppressed to barbarism.” come from Venezuela to pay countries. As in Ecuador, people to usurp them, supported by Cas- tribute to the martyrs of Chicago knocked down the IMF government, troism, by the WSF, which came to I of yesterday and today; to those fought against the plans of the oil continue the work of Stalinism -that who fought against the capitalist transnationals, overthrew the lackey had surrendered the USSR and given barbarism imposed on us by impe- governments like that of Lucio Guti- the workers states over, and so was rialism and the bourgeoisie. Against errez. Like the masses of Bolivian discredited. that barbarism that today we must workers who knocked down the gov- They offered us “socialism” and continue fighting, and about which ernment of Goni-Mesa; like the Ar- “anti-imperialism,” usurped our today I come to bring a reflection. gentine workers who made 2001 rev- struggles and led us to a series of That barbarism is embodied to- olution; like the Venezuelan workers detours. They prevented the work- day in the Bolivarians and the new who made the Caracazo. ing masses from taking power, that agents of imperialism. We have to It is on this set of processes, that is, they prevented the workers from draw several lessons today. in each of our countries, a set of leading the peasants and the unem- As we know, there was a set of bourgeois and opportunist agents of ployed to destroying the bourgeois Latin American revolutions in our the bourgeoisie mounted over them states and making our own class rule and starting the road to socialism, thus giving concrete realization to the anti-imperialist tasks of expro- priating the transnationals without compensation and expelling all the military bases, above all. The Bolivarians desynchronized each one of our revolutionary pro- cesses, dislocated them, divided them, after they mounted on these revolutions. For example, they came with Castro and Chavez here in Ar- gentina to say that it was necessary Obama and Raul Castro to support the Kirchners; to first 4 International Workers' Organizer work and produce and that they (the Kirchners) would then distribute the profits. Taking advantage of this pro- cess, later, they disengaged us from the struggle of the US workers who were fighting against the war in Iraq, who imposed mobilizations for the rights of immigrant workers in the United States and, responding to the world capitalist crash and the attacks of the imperialist bourgeoisie, pro- Empty shelves in Venezuela moted the movement “Ocuppy Wall Street” against 1% of parasites. finance the social security system survive, to prepare something to eat, Those Bolivarians along with Cas- and mobilizes the middle classes, with a salary that is not enough for troism, desynchronized us from the precisely taking advantage of the anything. There is no longer trans- heavy battalions of the workers of the fact that the workers have their or- portation, services have collapsed ... imperialist metropolises, the greatest ganizations kidnapped by the San- Children no longer go to school, first allies of the Latin American revolu- dinismo, and through the Church because they are not fed and they tion. Moreover, Castro and Chavez in mobilizes the peasants, something faint in class, (and to go) they have particular, sent to vote for Obama – a similar to what happens in Venezue- to get on construction trucks. Last black masked Bush-, to dress impe- la. This prevents the workers move- week a child fell from one of these rialism in a “democratic” disguise. ment from leading the poor peasants trucks and died and this is censored And once he was elected with all that against the attack of the bourgeoisie by the press. betrayal, they made agreements with and imperialism as a whole. It is terrible what happens; dis- imperialism. For what? To give Cuba That is the reality today; the re- eases that were believed to have been over by restoring capitalism, to take ality is that a Maduro surrenders to eradicated such as diphtheria and the Yankee flag to flutter over Hava- imperialism due to his fear of the measles have reappeared; they die of na again; to agree on the coup d’etat masses. He fears the revolutionary asthma, because they cannot control in Honduras with the fascist Lobo; masses and the workers more than hypertension, because there are no as- to make the workers in Bolivia sub- he fears imperialism, since after all pirin for children. It is a war of hunger mit to a pact with the fascists of the the latter is his master. And he has and looting that imperialism imposes Media Luna; to make the workers surrendered just as Lula has done in through its already direct agents. and peasants in Ecuador tolerate the Brazil. That same Lula that today This shows that the bourgeoisie is transnationals and their looting of the they are defending in the acts of the not even ready to feed its slaves. This oil from the east of the Amazon; to left, so that the masses and workers rotten system is no longer capable, sell out the peasant resistance in Co- do not take to the streets and attack even to feed those who it exploits. lombia, a treason that the FARC has imperialism and the bourgeoisie. And this is one of the biggest crimes carried out, added to the pacts. Maduro has given himself up to carried out by those who try to de- This is how they turned the rev- imperialism, as a continuation of ceive the workers, telling them that olutions astray. They have betrayed Chavez, who with famine and bul- this system can give us more, that we us and imposed so far the imperialist lets imposes the plundering of Ven- must fight for more democracy in or- looting and the payment for of exter- ezuela’s oil and natural resources, der to obtain better conditions, as if nal debts by the people, one of the condemning the oppressed to bar- this system could give better living cruelest mechanisms of looting and barism; that makes Macri look like conditions. It’s all a lie! plundering. The payment for of the he was a baby. Today in Venezuela, If the workers do not conquer external debt means, for example, people make long queues, hundreds power, destroy the bourgeois state, that the government of Daniel Or- of people in front of bakeries to get a tend to make their armed forces tega and Sandinismo imposes plans few loaves of bread that they can eat and impose their own domain -the against the workers, kidnaps the