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So what if they dare?... Revolution" The referendum as an example of international struggle.

by Open-Publishing - Sunday 15 August 2004

Edito G7 - G8... South/Latin America


by Roland Denis

The referendum, as we had thought, will constitute a fabulous scenario for thedeployment
of an extraordinary potential of movilization, organization, debate, andof liberation,
to a certain degree, of several points of popular organization that for along
time had been trapped by the bureaucracy introduced by government- supporting
political parties; the organized or disorganized spontaneity with whichthe 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 theintense 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 experiencesthat
has provoked the same passionate reactions in the populace, comparable tothose
of April 13th, or during the rescue of PDVSA, or even during the oligarchicimperialistic
sabotage of that date.

This event, as was expected, is
going
to be tingedwith a lot of tension, both nationally and internationally, as the
presence of themasses in the streets was intensified: today, the red and black
background
of the NOads, 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 andthe so-called G8.

Venezuela and the Bolivarian government have turned, by being irreverent
to thiscriminal 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 onemore moment of a struggle that will never end as long as one of the
involved partiesis defined as victorious: either this macabre empire, or the
forces of
liberation thatare born and supported on the Bolivarian revolution in our
territory as
well as in therest of our America.

On this beautiful collective experience, and this picture of struggle for
life, we moveforwards towards August 15th. Now, there are three things that at
this
time, arehighlighted as points of expression of this confrontation, to which we
must haveplanned, clear responses.
The first point, is violence, and the confrontation that is attempted and
will continueto be attempted until voting time. Calm and happiness, my brothers,
because there isnothing to find there, let them go insane, provoking clashes or
even
acting uponterrorist plans intended to cause fear and mass dissappointment, in
order
to causecollateral effects at voting time, or as excuse to dismiss the
referendum
itself.

Leavethem with their impotence and their sexual-political frustrations,
while
we continuegiving 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 statewe must continue to defend, is still a colonized piece of land,
infested
with all thebureaucratic and bourgeois obstacles of our useless republics, as a
result
of enemyinfiltration, 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 arethe masters of the CNE, especially of its internal information
links.

The
PermanentElectoral 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, wecan say that they can do whatever they want with the voting
results,
fabricating thepercentages, since, to the date, there is no mechanism of
physical
examination ofthe votes or the technological systems that corroborates the
truthfulness
of theresults that they will put on the CNE’s passive command.

Conclusion: if they want, they can play the technical draw card, thus
provoking ageneralized 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 leastduring 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 finalway 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 thishas to have direction and shape, in order for it to make sense,
because it
does notsuit us to fill the streets with people or surround Miraflores only to
express ourindignation.

The third proble: having an operative political agenda that is coherent
and allows usto clearly determine the revolutionary jump that we will be
obligated to
do, overlegality and usless State pressure. In this sense, we will refer to all
the forces thathave 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
territorialcontrol 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
fromhell.

The popular control will have to be given to the relevant government
offices, duringpopular 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 incharge of maintaining and guaranteeing order and security. We cannot accept
sacking, popular control over the means of life and defense is the
ultimate goal ofthis struggle.

And to the president, and all the representatives of the Bolivarian
government, weask 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 peoplewho 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
transnationalcorporations, as well as the immediate nationalization of the
financial
sector, arevolutionary government, made with the most heroic and authentic
characters ofour revolution, starting with the President himself, who we ask to
maintain the controlof the country, and to accompany the true exercise of power
by part of the
organizedinsurrectional bases of a people that has definitely decided not to
give
up and turninto one of the beautiful beacons that all human beings, today,
represent,
with ourstruggle, our dreams and our creation.

Until victory always, all power to the people.

Our America Project- April 13th Movement.