Venezuela

International appeal

“Venezuela is going to the polls again on December 3. Hugo Chavez continues to represent a decisive factor for the triumph of the revolutionary process. A big victory for Chávez and the Venezuelan people will act as a call to struggle across the Latin American continent.”

 

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Many of us signed, two years ago, a protest against the exclusion of Heloisa Helena and other members of parliament from the PT, the Brazilian Workers Party. Today, Heloisa has become the presidential candidate of the new Party of Socialism and Liberty (PSOL), founded by several bureaucratically excluded or dissident members of the PT, and of a Left Front.

 

The Marxist left has played a key role in building the Brazilian Workers Party (PT) from its formation two decades ago. How the left responds with the PT now in government drifting into neo-liberalism, poses major questions of principle. Day to day tactics can only be determined on the spot, but at its latest international meeting the Fourth International launched a debate on the broader strategic issues facing our comrades. The following statement from the International Socialist Group was presented to the meeting as a fraternal start to the discussion.