Caracas, September 13, 2023 (Mincomunas Press) – According to the Vice Minister of Social Movements, Fernando Rodriguez, humanity faces the great challenge of maintaining a civilizing system of death or fighting for life through the restitution of ancestral community practices.
“In the face of the civilizational crisis caused by modernity, social movements have the responsibility to raise the banner of the struggle for life, to protect nature, and to rebuild community life. Facing the dilemma of life or death, the answer is the people’s power organized, life in collective,” said Rodriguez.
During his participation in the radio program En Clave Comunal, broadcasted by RNV, Rodriguez explained that, in Venezuela, there are more than 40 social movements or flags of struggle, as known within the Bolivarian Government’s Homeland Plan.
“A social movement arises that need for vindications. It is a conquest of a vindication in different areas. The social movement is a form of legitimate social protest in the face of difficulties, which they remedy thanks to collective work. In Venezuela, the commune is an instance of government, not an organized sector of society. That is why, today, there are social movements that raise the banner of the commune, that promote the commune as a liberating form of government, even as a liberating alternative in the face of the civilization crisis that is threatening all existence”, pointed out Rodríguez.
To each cause, a social movement
In his intervention in the radio program En Clave Comunal, Carlos Ron, president of the Simon Bolivar Institute for Peace and Solidarity among Peoples, assured that the social movements count on the support and accompaniment of the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela.
“In this Bolivarian country, we can see a lot of effervescence of social movements since the Caracazo, but it is necessary to highlight that it has been building its own culture of social movements, which are close to other struggles for demands that we have seen highlighted in the global South, such as the peasant movement, which fights for the right to food sovereignty. Our Venezuelan communes are doing important work for food sovereignty. Commander Chavez used to say: For every cause, a movement. Every time an act of justice is needed, it arises the need for social movement. We have the advantage that this social movement can become that vanguard because a revolutionary government accompanies it,” Ron emphasized.
The researcher added that a social movement has a cause as a starting point, which is directly connected with the needs of the population’s bases and seeks the vindication or defense of this cause with an organized collective willing to fight tirelessly.
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