Carolina Michelle Cabrera Martínez | Socialist Chair Antonio Gramsci (Mexico)
To the Anti-Imperialist Platform:
I would like to clarify that the political definitions and tasks we propose here are primarily aimed at strengthening anti-imperialism in Latin America and the Caribbean. We are focusing on the cases of Venezuela, Colombia, and Mexico, countries that are currently the main targets of Washington’s intervention. However, these proposals also seek to enrich and enhance the valuable work of the Platform at the international level.
Analysis and proposals from Mexico:
In the case of Mexico, there is a favourable scenario for us to speak out against imperialism’s actions in Gaza; sympathy for the Palestinian people is enormous. Furthermore, in the face of Trump’s constant interventionist threats against our government, the willingness of the population to mobilise is practically unanimous.
However, this broad solidarity with Palestine, Venezuela, and Colombia is not reflected equally towards the latter two countries. Fascism in Latin America has deployed counter-revolutions in different forms, dismantling the left and advancing the right.
Demonstrations of strength on the left cannot be limited to mass or crowd simulations; it is necessary to lead the struggle from an organised and politicised people in each locality. A left-wing social process that does not deepen favours the return of the most recalcitrant right-wing forces. The Mexican right wing knows this well; recently, an expression of fascism has been reconstituted through the National Action Party with the slogan ‘Homeland, Family, Freedom,’ an ultra-conservative gamble with fascist roots. Meanwhile, the left continues to fail to mobilise the people in an urgent anti-fascist struggle.
For this reason, we began a solidarity movement with all of Latin America some time ago, whose core and greatest strength currently resides in Mexican universities, through the Mexican University Network against Imperialist Aggression, which is committed to the union of Latin American peoples. In addition, we work in collaboration with trade unionists, feminist movements, and other social actors.
In Latin America, we must move from limited solidarity, based on a lax, ‘bourgeois’ liberal-democratic vision, to active and militant solidarity. This requires something fundamental: building effective political action that is not only intense activism, but also, and above all, a strategy for the accumulation of forces in defence of our cause. In other words, coordinated activities that respond to a common purpose: in the short term, to establish an interpretative bridge between Washington’s recent and historical threats against Mexico, Venezuela, and Colombia.
On Colombia:
In Mexico, we do not yet have significant experience of broad solidarity movements with Colombia, beyond small groups that support various political forces in that country. Next week, we will have a meeting in Mexico City with members of Colombia Humana, where we will address this issue.
Regarding Venezuela:
Solidarity with Venezuela remains limited. This is due, in part, to the constant and massive campaign by the hegemonic media that has bombarded Mexican public perception, fuelling prejudices and irresponsible statements such as: ‘We are not Venezuela’, ‘Our economy is doing well, we are not like Venezuela’, or ‘We will not be Venezuela’. These phrases have been repeated, with decreasing intensity, by governors, senators, deputies, and left-wing leaders, creating a common prejudiced view.
However, President Claudia Sheinbaum, due to her socialist background, has shifted this narrative, making it clear that a sister country should never be treated with contempt, especially when it has been harassed by imperialism since Chávez came to power.
Commitment and actions:
We take on the tasks and duties that the World Anti-imperialist Platform has entrusted to us in Mexico. We strive to link the anti-imperialist struggle currently being waged by the people and government of our country with those being carried out by other countries in Washington’s sights. In addition, we are working to build an anti-fascist struggle that we must lead from the left, in parallel with the anti-imperialist struggle. We will urgently prioritise coordination and solidarity with Venezuela and Colombia—in that order—and then move towards integration and cooperation with all the peoples of Latin America in an active and committed struggle within the World Anti-imperialist Platform.
Last but not least, we reaffirm as a maxim that the anti-fascist and anti-imperialist struggle will be feminist, or it will not be; and that the feminist struggle will be equally anti-fascist and anti-imperialist, or it will be meaningless.
With Bolívar and Hidalgo in our minds and hearts!
Long live the Patria Grande!
And to hell with imperialism!
