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<h1 class="title">What Is to Be Done?</h1>
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<p class="byline"> By <span class="author">Luis Britto Garcia-
aporrea.org</span>, <span class="date">January 6th 2016</span>
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<p>Renowned Venezuelan writer Luis Britto Garcia echoes Lenin in
asking "What Is to Be Done?" at the start one of the most
difficult years the Bolivarian revolution has ever faced. Here are
his recommendations. </p>
<p><span><strong>Debate</strong> what went wrong, how and why.</span> </p>
<p><span><strong>Reserve</strong> debate for the inner sphere, as
all competing accusations and tirades serve to discredit. </span></p>
<p><span><strong>Reaffirm</strong> socialism as an ideological base,
guide and aim for political organizations.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Select</strong> state functionaries and candidates
by scrupulously reviewing their career, attainments and council,
rather than their personal relationships to or their agreements
with the upper echelons (of the revolutionary leadership). </span></p>
<p><span><strong>Assemble</strong> schools for political and
ideological training.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Repair</strong> the corrupt structures that destroy
all that they touch.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Investigate</strong>, exhaustively, unexplained
increases in wealth and external signs of wealth in both the
public and private sectors. </span></p>
<p><span><strong>Combat</strong> the economic war, in which until
now only the aggressor has fought.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Preserve</strong> in their posts those
functionaries who have actively and effectively applied measures
against speculation, hoarding and scarcity.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Assume</strong> state control of the importation
and distribution of food and basic goods.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Assume</strong> state control of the banks.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Stop</strong> awarding preferential dollars to
businesses that do not employ them for their designated purpose
but rather for the destruction of the country.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Clarify</strong> that to vote for a referendum
would revoke all of the economic, social, cultural and public
services we have achieved in fifteen years.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Solicit</strong> the Supreme Court to nullify any
laws that threaten the principle of irreversibility of those
social achievements protected by the constitution.</span> </p>
<p><span><strong>Veto</strong> by presidential act the laws that
deny or destroy our economic, social, political or cultural
rights.</span> </p>
<p><span><strong>Propose</strong> a progressive tax reform and
denounce as accomplices any parliamentarians that oppose it.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Establish</strong> a price for fuel that at least
recoups the cost of production.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Actively support</strong> social movements that are
struggling against paramilitarism, corruption bachaqueo
[reselling], and smuggling.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Communicate</strong> that a planetary economic
crisis is currently underway, with global scarcity of food, in
which the price of hydrocarbons has dropped by over half and the
government has reduced its income on the same scale.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Divulge</strong> the incomparable economic, social,
cultural, educational and political achievements of
Bolivarianism and its fulfillment of the [United Nations]
Millennium Goals. </span></p>
<p><span><strong>Recall</strong> the miserable social, cultural and
economic indicators of the past century and those of other
countries that fall under neoliberal governments.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Examine</strong> meticulously the origin, records,
career and activities of possible beneficiaries of social
benefits.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Remember</strong> that those who are raising
prices, hoarding and hiding merchandise are business actors in
the Economic War and not the government.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Reveal</strong> that over two thousands public
functionaries are on trial for corruption.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Recollect</strong> that Bolivarianism restored
social benefits to workers and if they do not fight for them
neoliberalism will take them away again.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Restructure</strong> the public media system to
uproot its merely reactive practices and convert it into a
generator of debate and perspective.</span> </p>
<p><span><strong>Stop</strong> mimicking the vulgar formats,
interruptions, insertions, decorations, conning, and user abuse
characterized by capitalist media in our socialist media.</span></p>
<p><strong>Substitute</strong> ephemera such as entertainment events
for long-lasting government action. </p>
<p><span><strong>Eradicate</strong> paramilitarism and it’s cohort,
parapolitics.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Maintain</strong> rigorous control of border zones
to block paramilitaries, resellers and smugglers. </span></p>
<p><span><strong>Rotate</strong> regularly and frequently the
authorities in control of border zones.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Investigate</strong> NGOs and bar those financed by
the hostile power which declared Venezuela an extraordinary
threat to its security (US). </span></p>
<p><span><strong>Dismiss</strong> foreign advisers that have never
gained power in their country and may contribute to our losing
it in this country.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Abandon</strong> all hope of pact, conciliation, or
cohabitation with the right wing which has spent the past 16
years trying to assassinate Bolivarianism.</span></p>
<p><span><strong><em>Act</em></strong> instead of declaring that
action will be taken.</span></p>
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