Party of the Committees to Support Resistance―for Communism (CARC Party, Italy)
Comrades, the CARC Party thanks the World Anti-imperialist Platform for organizing this Conference and wishes that a similar one will be held in our country in the near future, in order to continue on the path that the Platform has taken and to which we are joining. It expresses its utmost solidarity with the Venezuelan people and their government, the government that the people have given themselves and which, strengthened by the legacy of Hugo Chavez, defends them against all internal and external aggression, the government we thank for hosting this conference, which is both a moment and a tool of defense against the imperialists who attack the Venezuelan people and all the peoples of the earth, and at the same time a sign of the movement of the popular masses and the rebirth of the communist movement that is manifesting itself in many parts of the world.
Comrades, what has been done cannot be erased. The steps forward taken by the Venezuelan people in recent decades, as well as the struggles for the establishment of socialism by all the peoples of the world and the parties that have led them for more than a century, have left indelible marks on present history, point the way to future history, and urge us to advance along this path.
In the face of proletarian revolutions (socialist and new democracy), struggles for the liberation and independence of peoples, and the resistance movement of the popular masses, the international community of US, Zionist, European, and associated imperialist groups (Canadian, Japanese, South Korean, Australian, and the like) responds with the extension of war. It is war on the eastern front of Europe: the imperialists started it more than ten years ago in Ukraine with the massacres of the population in Kiev, Odessa and then in Donbass, and today they are retreating in the face of the Russian Federation’s intervention in support of the people. It is war in Palestine, where the Zionists are carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian people like that of the Nazis against the Jewish people in the last century, and which is now forced to withdraw from Gaza in the face of popular resistance in Palestine and in the imperialist countries, on whose support the survival of the Zionist state of Israel depends.
There is mobilization against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, with the US imperialists sending their warships to its seas, the latest act after all attempts to destabilize the government from within by mobilizing their infamous serfs, traitors to the nation.
These are all overt and covert destabilization maneuvers on various continents around the world, and attacks on the living conditions of the masses in all countries, both imperialist and oppressed by imperialists. It is war on the military, political, economic, social, and cultural fronts, and part of this war is the awarding of the Nobel “Peace” Prize to Marina Corina Machado, a vile tool of the US imperialists, an enemy of the people of Venezuela, and one of the worst figures of reaction on the South American continent.
The international community of US, Zionist, European, and associated imperialist groups has become embroiled in World War III because it now has no other way to deal with the crisis that is corroding and devastating its system at its roots: an economic, political, and cultural crisis, a general crisis that affects every aspect of society and has only two possible solutions, proletarian revolution or war. War is the only option for the imperialists, who continue to wage it even in the face of defeats such as those in Ukraine and Palestine, and as will inevitably happen when they extend it to East Asia, against states such as the People’s Republic of China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
The imperialists will be defeated, as the Nazi-fascists were in World War II. The imperialists are faced, among other things, with socialist states that are powerful on every level: political, economic, military, social, and cultural. Neither they nor anyone else can defeat a country where the people and their government are united, where communists lead the masses to advance in the construction of socialism, learning from the victories and also the defeats of the communists who preceded us, correcting the mistakes and overcoming the limitations that caused the first world wave of proletarian revolution to run its course and the communist movement to retreat. The imperialists have failed to subdue a small nation like Cuba, they have been defeated on a small peninsula like Vietnam, they have failed in every attempt to overthrow the governments of Venezuela in the last two decades. Nor have they succeeded in breaking the resistance of the Palestinian people, which turned into an attack with the operation carried out on October 7, 2023, the Al Aqsa Storm.
Mao Zedong and the Chinese communists taught us that “imperialism and all reactionaries, from a long-term and strategic point of view, are paper tigers. On this, we build our strategic thinking. On the other hand, they are also living tigers, iron tigers, real tigers, and they eat men. On this we build our tactical thinking.” Imperialists sow death and destruction, they have no moral rules, they do not stop at any horror, and in this sense, they are real tigers. But fundamentally they are paper tigers: every step they take is a step toward the precipice, they go forward blindly driven by the pursuit of profit, every step they take arouses resistance and rebellion that communists can and must transform into revolution: into the revolutionary people’s war that will defeat the imperialists and establish socialism. For this reason, the communist and anti-imperialist forces, each in their own field and together, while confident of their victory, must devote all their attention and utmost rigor to developing and implementing a plan of action to advance the revolution in their own country and unite with those who, under all skies, raise the banner of the struggle against imperialism, of the struggle to end World War III and the imperialist system of which it is the fruit.
This Conference is precisely a tool for better understanding the situation and how to intervene to transform the ongoing war into revolution. We therefore wish it every success, and that it may cement the establishment of a world anti-imperialist front.
Our will is to commit our best energies to a world anti-imperialist front, with the confidence and strength that comes from the knowledge that this front includes nations such as China and Russia, which are also committed on an economic level to forming alliances such as the BRICS, that this front includes nations such as North Korea, Vietnam, Venezuela, and many others, and which includes parties and organizations active in every part of the world. At the same time, and above all, we are dedicating all our energies to advancing the socialist revolution in Italy, that is, to overthrowing imperialism in our country and making Italy a new socialist country. The way to do this today is to create an emergency government of popular organizations, a People’s Bloc Government that will address the increasingly devastating effects of the crisis among the popular masses of our country. This is the greatest contribution we can make today to the struggle against imperialism at the international level and for each country, our best contribution to the Venezuelan people, the Palestinian people, and all the peoples of the world. This government, which the CARC Party has been working to establish for more than fifteen years, already includes among its measures the establishment of international relations with any country willing to establish them, privileged relations, for example, with governments such as that of Venezuela.
The tradition of revolutionary struggle of the Italian people is for us not only a source of pride but also a basic stone for advancing the socialist revolution and, today, for establishing the People’s Bloc Government. This glorious heritage has also been shown in recent days, with general strikes, blockades of ports, roads, highways, and railways, and demonstrations by millions of people in support of the Sudum Flottilla, under the slogan “Let’s block everything,” which started with the dockers of Genoa, who are currently at the forefront of the Italian working class.
All this gives us confidence, lights our way, and allows us to send a message of joy to you who are taking part in this Conference and to all those who are listening to us.
Long live the Venezuelan people and their government!
Let’s turn our resistance against the imperialists into an attack!
Forward, until victory!