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Unitary accord between the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)
Venezuela's ruling PSUV and the PCV have signed a unitary accord outlining the terms of their co-operation in April's presidential election and beyond. This translation has been provided to the Morning Star by Paul Dobson.
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Unitary Accord between the PSUV and PCV to address the crisis of dependent and rentier capitalism of Venezuela with popular, patriotic and anti-imperialist political and socio-economic actions:
1. We, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), as heirs to the legacy of Simón Bolívar and the struggles of the Venezuelan people in their aspirations for independence, sovereign development, and Latin American integration, subscribe to the present unitary accord.
Said accord contains the common commitment to implement it in all of its parts, and represents a clear understanding of the growing, immoral, illegal and criminal interventionist aggression of US imperialism and its European allies against the Venezuelan Bolivarian process. Such aggressions are putting at risk the prospect of national liberation which began with the popular victory of Commander Hugo Chávez in the presidential elections of 1998, and which even includes threats to our national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
2. We the PSUV and the PCV denounce before the world that imperialism, through the US government and with the subordinate complicity of governments of Latin America and the Venezuelan extreme right, insists on creating an artificial case in multilateral organisms against our country so as to justify international intervention, with the real possibility that the right-wing governments of Colombia, Brazil and Guyana may generate a provocation on our borders.
3. We the PCV and the PSUV express that the crisis of dependent and rentier capitalism of Venezuela has had, and has, serious consequences for the quality of life of our people, especially in their purchasing power, supply of goods and services; that this situation has been exacerbated by actions and measures of imperialism and its local figureheads, who promote private and public corruption, bureaucracy and the flight of foreign currency in a context of a severe reduction of oil income, all of which are phenomenon against which the national government must maintain and deepen a frontal fight, such as that undertaken in Psvsa and other State bodies.
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