Comrades,
First of all, greetings to the organizers of this new meeting of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform, on behalf of our Central Executive Committee (CEC) and our entire militancy.
Our XXIII Congress, held about a year ago, characterized the international situation as one in which, on the one hand, the structural elements of the crisis of capitalism, the problems of realization of surplus value and overexploitation of labor power, with new phenomena such as the climate crisis and its harmful consequences on seasonal balances and natural disasters that tend to become more frequent and destructive, effect of a production system based on the accumulation of capital and fossil fuels, highly responsible for global warming, were aggravated and combined; the Covid 19 pandemic, linked to climate change and the rapid evolution of contagion, with more than 6,350,000 deaths worldwide, of which 139,970 occurred in Colombia; the Covid 19 pandemic, which is linked to climate change and the rapid evolution of contagion, with more than 6,350,000 deaths worldwide, of which 139,970 occurred in Colombia. 139,970 deaths occurred in Colombia; the food crisis and hunger affecting 828 million people in the world; the growth of inequalities and social unrest.
Within this framework of crisis of the main centers of world capitalism, the U.S.A. in particular is trying by all means and strategies to reestablish an impossible, its decadent unipolar hegemony, resorting once again to the arms race, neocolonialism and the open promotion of Nazi fascist regimes, all desperate and extreme actions in its strategic defense.
It is for this reason that the United States and the European Union have first of all, an aggressive policy to extend their areas of influence on the border with the Russian Federal Republic, through the enveloping expansion of NATO as the armed wing of imperialism and the offensive that uses the regime ruling Ukraine as an instrument of a long-prepared war provocation to the security of Russia. On the other hand, Washington, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand created AUKUS as a new military pact in the Indo-Pacific against the People’s Republic of China, India, Iran, Vietnam, the DPRK and in general all of Southeast Asia. Finally, they have promoted coups, civil wars and the destruction of nations in countries they consider peripheral, but rich in natural and human resources.
This policy seeks to avoid at all costs the reconfiguration of the international system. This leads them to violate and consent to the violation of human rights, international law, their own actions destroy before the eyes of the world their narrative of “a world based on rules”, as we see today in the savage action of extermination of the Palestinian people at the hands of the Israeli army, to which from this tribune we send an embrace of hope, solidarity and struggle, while we propose that from this stage to strengthen the global mobilization of November 29 in solidarity with Palestine and its cause of freedom.
The peoples of the world understand more and more that neither militarization nor wars nor provocations represent a solution to the different dimensions of the capitalist crisis and on the contrary may lead to a third World War. Fortunately, the world reality shows a growth of power factors seeking more cooperative international relations to find solutions to the problems of hunger, poverty, access to social rights and environmental depredation.
Recognizing the above does not mean renouncing the construction of a humanized world, a superior form of social organization, socialism and communism. It does not mean meeting with millions of human beings who seek by different and convergent paths to stop imperialist aggressiveness and its wars against the oppressed peoples of the world, to strengthen the networks of world solidarity and to promote cooperation between nations and states.
In our assessment, each people and revolutionary force contributes to these causes according to its context and socio-cultural particularities. In the case of Latin America and the Caribbean, Yankee imperialism intends to take refuge and defend its hegemony in decline, with the plundering of the region at the head of the southern command, activating different strategies and plans such as the intensification of blockades to Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, the legal war against popular leaderships and ultimately the coups d’état. However, the diverse unity of the popular forces have regained a good part of the governments of the region, which is of great concern to the imperialists, many of our governments are advancing in the guarantee of social rights, the nationalization of strategic natural resources, and positions in favor of world peace and a multipolar world. The peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean resist and build alternatives to imperialist domination, in the midst of the turbulence of the world economy and imperialist pressures, which are added to the methods and resources of the new transnational right and its neo-fascist tendencies.
In the Colombian case we managed to build a very diverse progressive political convergence, the Historic Pact, to win the government and be an instrument of the yearnings of the people. It is a difficult battle, the capitalist state is not designed to be governed by the popular classes, however our government, with its limitations, has given millions of hectares of land to the peasants of our country, has made it possible for the youth of the popular slums to attend university free of charge, among many other achievements.
The task of the revolutionaries and anti-imperialists is to make the wheel of history advance with many and different from us in a sense of social, material and cultural progress.
Long live anti-imperialism!
Long live solidarity among peoples!
