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<h1 id="reader-title">PSUV-PCV Unity Agreement to Confront
Crisis of Venezuelan Capitalism</h1>
<div id="reader-credits" class="credits">By PSUV and PCV –
Tribuna Popular - March 1, 2018<br>
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<p><em>On February 26, the Venezuelan Communist Party
and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela <a
href="https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/13685">signed</a>
a comprehensive programmatic agreement in which the
latter agreed to a host of popular demands in the
areas of workers' rights, corporate monopolies, and
collective leadership of the revolutionary process
in exchange for the former's endorsement of
incumbent Nicolas Maduro's presidential candidacy. </em></p>
<h3>Unity 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:</h3>
<p>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 unity
accord.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>2. We the PSUV and the PCV denounce before the world
that imperialism, through the U.S. government and with
the subordinate complicity of governments of Latin
America and the Venezuelan extreme right, insists on
creating a false 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.</p>
<p>3. We the PSUV and the PCV say that the crisis of
Venezuela's dependent and rentier capitalism 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, bureaucratism and the
flight of foreign currency in a context of a severe
reduction of oil income, all of which are phenomena
against which the national government must maintain
and deepen a frontal fight, such as that undertaken in
[state oil company] PDVSA and other state bodies.</p>
<p>4. We the PSUV and the PCV declare that the way out
of the current capitalist crisis should not be in
favor of the bourgeoisie and transnational
corporations but in favour of the interests of the
people, in the search for a new productive post-oil
model of sovereign development, and tend towards the
protagonist participation of the workers, campesinos
and campesinas, communards, and popular classes, which
should form a great anti-imperialist front and move
forward in the establishment of an organic expression
of collective and unified leadership of the political,
social, patriotic and revolutionary organizations so
as to enable an analysis of the government’s actions
as well as to construct and coordinate policy actions.</p>
<p>5. The magnitude and gravity of the current situation
and the intensification of the class struggle at
national and international levels demands an increase
in immediate actions to be taken in the economic,
social and political fields, including emergency
measures needed to prioritize popular demands such as
food and health requirements. Such measures would be
consolidated with the triumph of the patriotic forces
in the next presidential election.</p>
<h4>Rights of the working class and working people</h4>
<p>6. We the PSUV and the PCV underline the importance
of strengthening the class-based trade union movement
and the various expressions of the labour and
revolutionary movement, such as the Productive
Workers' Councils, Socialist Workers' Councils,
approving the special law established in the Organic
Labour Law, and respecting the autonomy [of such
organsiations]. Also, to develop channels of effective
communication and timely mechanisms of the other
revolutionary worker’s organizations so as to enable
workers of public and private sectors to have a
leading role in the development of the social process
of work.</p>
<p>7. Taking into account the deepening of the
capitalist crisis which affects large sections of the
working class, it is important to strengthen and
protect labour rights, employment protection and
expand the policy of creating new jobs.</p>
<p>8. We the PSUV and the PCV will work together, each
to the extent and scope of our organizations, from the
Government and the socio-political spaces we occupy,
to identify and channel the restitution of the
infringed rights of workers in cases already raised or
that may arise in public and private sectors.</p>
<p>9. [We commit] to immediately review and apply the
necessary corrections regarding denunciations from
revolutionary organizations regarding the actions of
certain public officials.</p>
<p>10. [We adhere to] advance resolutely in suitably
interconnecting the productive processes of the
nationalized companies with each other, many of which
must be restructured and the processes of dismantling
and deterioration that could lead to stoppages that
would be damaging for the national productive
development must be reversed. In addition, [we commit]
to protecting and institutionally supporting the rural
campesino collectives who have reactivated state-owned
farms.</p>
<p>11. We the PSUV and the PCV will evaluate the
experiences of workers control, such as the Guyana
Socialist Plan, so as to establish a new model of
ownership and multi-faceted management of the
state-owned enterprises whose productive processes,
management, and distribution are under worker and
popular control. We shall do this based on the
principals of collective leadership and so as to
permanently banish the scourges of corruption,
inefficiency and authoritarian and undemocratic
methods in management.</p>
<p>12. [Is it necessary] to promote and implement strong
actions by the National Superintendence for the
Defense of Socio-Economic Rights (SUNDDE) and the
Superintendency of the Institutions of the Banking
Sector (SUDEBAN), in articulation with the popular
organizations, in order to protect the millions of
users of the banking system, particularly workers,
pensioners, and small entrepreneurs.</p>
<p>13. We consider relevant and urgent the adoption and
strengthening of measures aimed at dismantling the
power of private monopolies, defining and promoting
policies to achieve sovereign and productive national
development, punishing corruption, speculation and
mobsters, and promoting the deepening of national,
sovereign, and productive developmental policies.</p>
<p>14 [We commit to] prioritize formal employment with
its respective labour rights as an activity that
dignifies the human being, as well as strengthening
wages and restoring them to be the majority and main
component of the income of the workers.*</p>
<h4>Measures to analyze in greater depth</h4>
<p>15. We the PSUV and the PCV, in bilateral and regular
meetings, will discuss strategic proposals that are
being raised by the PCV to collaborate in the
development of plans and policies of the State and the
Government for the benefit of the people and national
liberation, amongst others.</p>
<p>15.1 Themes included are the banking and financial
systems, foreign trade, public finances, and the tax
system.</p>
<h4>Strengthening political and organizational actions</h4>
<p>16. We the PSUV and the PCV will identify areas of
common action that we must strengthen both politically
and organizationally.</p>
<p>16.1. We the PSUV and the PCV will set a timetable
for the holding of bilateral meetings with a frequency
of at least once per month between representatives of
both national leaderships.</p>
<p>16.2 We the PSUV and the PCV will follow up regional
and municipal efforts to develop effective policies
and those which attend to needs of the population.</p>
<p>16.3. In the international arena, based on the areas
of action and attention of every organization, we will
strengthen relations with bodies that have
demonstrated consistent solidarity with Venezuela and
the revolutionary process.</p>
<p>16.4. In the production area, we will support
manufacturing and agro-industrial proposals and
projects, with special emphasis guaranteed to all
initiatives stemming from the communal and campesino
movement.</p>
<p>16.5. We the PSUV and the PCV are committed to the
strengthening of the labour and trade union movement,
facilitating the articulation of class-based and
revolutionary currents with the state entities so as
to solve problems and disputes as well as respecting
the rights of workers.</p>
<p>16.6. All projects related to audio-visual and
printed media that are initiatives of both
organizations and popular movements and workers will
be supported as part of the cooperation in the fight
in the media war and against psychological operations.</p>
<p>16.7. Both political organizations will foster
relationships between their youth organizations: the
Youth of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela and
the Communist Youth of Venezuela, through student,
cultural, sporting and community-based proposals so as
to deepen the rights of young people.</p>
<p>16.8. In order to make progress in the development of
policies of alliances PSUV-PCV and the revolutionary
popular movement, we will work to ensure a unified
formula of an electoral nature that ensures effective
presence and strengthening of our organizations in the
legislative elections at the national, state and
municipal level.</p>
<h4>Presidential elections</h4>
<p>17. The PCV, using this Accord and the diverse points
in which they coincide with the PSUV in areas of
national and international politics as its base,
assumes the candidacy of the compatriot Nicolas Maduro
Moros. We do so so that he may head a wide coalition
of political, social, patriotic, popular, and
revolutionary forces which may serve as the seed of a
collective and unified leadership of the process.
Also, so that he may represent the popular aspirations
of the anti-imperialist, unified, Latin American
struggle and develop our sovereignty in the interests
of the Venezuelan people. As such, we will work
together respecting the autonomy of each organization
so as to achieve an overwhelming triumph this upcoming
April 22<sup>nd</sup>.</p>
<p>18. Both organizations commit ourselves to widely
reproducing this Program of Unified Accord PSUV-PCV. </p>
<p><em>Translated by Paul Dobson for
Venezuelanalysis.com. For the text of the original
agreement, click <a
href="https://prensapcv.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/acuerdo-unitario-marco-psuv-pcv-26-feb-2018-pdf-con-firmas.pdf">here</a>. </em></p>
<p><em>*Editor's note: Over the past year, the
Venezuelan government has enacted successive
increases to the national minimum wage. However, the
PCV and other leftist groups have denounced the
rising proportion of food tickets, which now
constitute a majority of workers' wages, a
phenomenon that has been termed the "bonification of
the wage". More recently, the Maduro administration
has opted to further complement inflation-eroded
wages with holiday bonuses, which are direct cash
transfers administered through the Homeland Card
system. </em></p>
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