What are SW-NZs proposals for advancing international solidarity with Venezuela?
The starting point is that the revolution in Venezuela is a genuine socialist revolution with a socialist leadership that has tactical and strategic nous, plus there’s the PSUV with 5 million people wanting to join it, and then there are uprisings happening across Latin America where the struggle against neoliberalism is quite advanced, with millions of people in motion. Given this, we believe that this is the first time in a long time that the conditions exist for the creation of a new “socialist international” — and a real one, not one where somebody just decides they can build one, but one that has a mass basis. This gives it every chance of becoming a reality, so we want to raise the prospect and prompt other groups to think about it, which is what we have tried to do with our statements. Subsequently, Chavez himself has talked about a new international organisation that unites left-wing parties across Latin America and the Caribbean, with a forum to be held next year. So obviously
