"Avante!" Article by Luis Carapinha, member of the International Department
The legislative elections on September 26th, in Venezuela, had a clear winner. The revolutionary alliance formed by the PSUV, PCV and other allied organizations, conquered the absolute majority of the parliamentary seats ( 98 in 165 ). A result which corresponds to the greatest number of votes ever achieved by the Bolivarian faction, both at national level and in the majority of states (18 in 24), together with the electoral circles (56 in 87 ), within the country.
An important victory for the Bolivarian Revolution, which the abominable mediatic intoxication campaign, rises round Venezuela, and aims to present as a " chavist opposition" triumph, acclaiming its "return" to Parliament. A reversal manoevre of reality' which pretends to ignore that the major forces which form a " democratic" oppositionist colligation - a cats’ bag, where almost all fits, from the extreme - right wing and all kinds of Venezuelan right - wing coloring unto the smallest and radical left - wing, passing by the discredited lineage social - democracy and the opportunist successive waves of the "renovating left-wing" havoc - which did not participate, by self-option, in previous parliamentary elections, in what was considered to be a desperate attempt to unlegitimize the process begun in 1998, following the coup d'état cartridges' exhaustion and the patronal assassin destabilizing of the vital oil sector, in 2002 /03.
It is true, the ambitious aim of a 2/3 majority was not achieved. Nor, nevertheless, one cannot underestimate the relative tendency of the electoral progression, demonstrated by the reactionary forces in the last 3-4 years, for which diverse nature factors have contributed.
However, such facts do not withdraw significance to this new popular unity victory and of the “workers’", as the Venezuelan communists have declared in a press statement divulged by the PCV, on the 27th. At the end of almost 12 years of a Boliviarian Government, under President Hugo Chavez leadership, the resistance capacity is remarkable, demonstrated by a process which dared to defy the great bourgeoisie and imperialism. All this within a radicalization of the class struggle framework, in the country and a permanent force decantation ( in parties as the Podemos and the PPT, which represented about 12% of the electoral spectrum, and abandoned the Bolivarian faction, in 2006). A spectrum which, alias, is inseparable of the greatest capitalist systemic crisis effects, suffered in Bolivar's mother country. Not to mention the constant dispossessed bourgeoisie from the government subversive campaigns, but economically powerful and directly linked to the USA's and EU's imperialist agenda.
Above all, the current victory opens up conditions to continue a strengthening path for the Bolivarian Revolution, amending detected failures and weaknesses and proceeding the creative search for answers before its own contradictions and the presented colossal challenges.
The transforming process, which resulted from the entrails of a very wealthy Venezuela, but intimidated by the wounds and the capitalist exploitation extreme decay, is, currently, a unique social lab. Over there, the demanding and complex struggle for the construction for national sovereignty and independence and the consequent need for affirmation of the Bolivarian revolution anti-imperialist nature, rapidly develops unto an emancipation process , with growing anti-capitalist elements and the assumption of the aim of transition unto socialism, which stirs millions of men and women. Interests and irreconcilable perspectives, are confronted in epic battles between the building of the New and the persistence of the Old, joining battle in Venezuela land, today. The outcome is left open. With the certainty imperialism will do everything in order to defeat that experience, also striking towards the emancipation of the Latin-American and the peoples of the South, in general.
