Desde Belarús, grupo anarquista realiza actividad en solidaridad con pueblo y anarquistas de Venezuela

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Reproducimos una información que podría parecer menor, pero que para nosotros tiene el enorme significado de evidenciar que la solidaridad anarquista no conoce fronteras ni distancias, pues desde aquella lejana ex-república sovietica llega la notica de una acción realizada por l@s compas del Grupo Anarquista Priamen, quienes en una parada de autobús de la Plaza Simón Bolívar en la ciudad de Minsk colocaron una exhibición de diversos materiales en solidaridad con la lucha que recientemente ha ocurrido en territorio venezolano.

Van a continuación el texto (en inglés) y las imágenes de la nota informativa, cuyo original se encuentra en https://pramen.io/en/2017/08/belarusian-anarchists-express-solidarity-with-the-people-of-venezuela.

Belarusian anarchists express solidarity with the people of Venezuela

“On August 2 anarchist from Minsk organised a solidarity action with the people of Venezuela fighting against Maduro’s regime. Around 10 am activists postered a bus stop that is situated at Simon Bolivar Square. The posters inform about the uprising in Venezuela and call people of Belarus to follow the heroic actions of the fighters.

Venezuela experiences 4 months of bloody clashes of demonstrators protesting against the regime of the left populist Maduro with the punitive forces. Police and Chavista mobs loyal to the Socialist Party and the successor of Chavez have murdered more that 100 people during these months. The people continue to demand the resignation of Maduro, taking of urgent measures to fight misery and liberation of political prisoners.

The regimes of Venezuela and Belarus are very much alike. Like there, here the president is doing his best to strengthen his authority and suppress the opposition. In both countries aggressive anti-West rhetorics is used to distract attention of the people from internal problems. No surprise that Hugo Chavez was Lukashenko’s best friend. In both cases the talk about ‘the damned West’ doesn’t have anything to do with the reality – Belarusian state and Venezuelan corporations tied with the authorities are actively trading with Europe and the USA, since money has no smell. Here and there the state makes exploitative attempts to ‘take care of the people’ – buying the loyalty of the population with social pelts.

At the end of March Nikolas Maduro made another attempt to take over the power and suppress the opposition in the face of progressing misery and food crisis. The people answered with mass protests, powerful pushback of the police and expropriation of supermarkets. We as anarchist always support those who rise against injustice, political and economic oppression and admire the morals of those who refuses to be obedient. Today there are more and more of such people in Venezuela, especially among the youth. These people protest not only against the left populist Maduro, but the right-wing opposition as well, whose political maneuvering and striving for power is on the surface. Changing of one ruling party for the other has never brought real change to the working class. The youth in the street starts to understand it better fighting against the false ‘alternative’ to the socialist government of Maduro, they self-organised in the neighborhoods for barricade fights with the police and establishing new city infrastructure, which has decayed as a result of the leftist rule. Our comrades, anarchists of Venezuela, are assisting the people in the uprising by word and action.

We, anarchist of Belarus, wish the people of Venezuela success and resilience in their fight and sincerely desire that the revolution that is taking place in the country isn’t limited to the change of the president only, but sprouts self-organisation, political independence and critical attitude to all authority in Venezuelan society. For freedom is not ‘the good government’ which is deciding what is best for us, but the elimination of all hierarchical institutions and substitution of them by the system of popular committees and assemblies. We also are calling the Belarusians to take a cue of the people of Venezuela, of their commitment and heroism in the confrontation with the state lies and violence. And let the popular solidarity sweep away the dictators and destroy the walls of prisons not only in the far-away
Venezuela, but in our country as well!”