During the closing day of the World Congress of Anti-Fascist Youth and Students, the students unanimously condemned the interference of empires, colonialism and their attempts to exterminate the free peoples of the world, as reflected in the final declaration of the event.
Amid cheers, the students gathered in the La Carlota Convention Centerin the state of Miranda, received the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro and before starting the activity, they expressed their good wishes for his birthday.
“There was no other more beautiful way than to celebrate 62 years well accomplished, well lived, than to celebrate it with the anti-fascist youth of the world. Thank you guys, raise your flags, there is a humanity to be built, let the drums of peace sound,” the first President said to the young people when praising their work in the congress. “I am glad that you, so young, accompany the battle of the Bolivarian Revolution. The flags of the world are raised to accompany our struggle,” added the head of state.
The activist of the Palestinian Youth Organization, Watan Jamil Alabed, who was in charge of reading the final declaration of the congress, highlighted the importance of the union of the collective, organized and humanitarian struggle to confront and defeat the maximum expression of hatred and violence that has arisen in humanity; fascism, neofascism and similar expressions.
“Fascism attacks democracy and also strips people of their fundamental rights, perpetuates inequality, oppression, violence and death. Fascism is our antagonistic enemy,” reads the text of the final declaration.
“The people of the world who accompany us in the battle against imperialism and fascism; They impact the mind and heart. It fills us with renewed energy and shows us once again that we are on the right side of history, that we are on the side of peace, life and for a new world,” Maduro added.
He assured that he agreed with the proposals that have emerged from the day. We must look for ways to ensure that the blue book, which contains the founding ideas of the 21st century Revolution, is known in all languages,” he entrusted Vice Minister Rander Peña. “Whoever sows ideas guarantees the fight for humanity,” he expressed.
“Our generation grew up admiring the martyrs of the 60s. It was a generation that grew up cultivating the hope that the moment would come, in the land of Simón Bolívar, when Venezuela would speak with its own voice,” he said when reflecting on Las Líneas de Chávez , texts that Commander Chávez wrote in the years 2010-2011.
“We feed on the struggle of Ché, of the Sandinista front. There have always been springs of struggle for justice. Nobody ever gave us anything. That moment came in the early morning of February 4, 1992, with our great teacher Hugo Chávez Frías,” he said.
Maduro insisted that Chávez’s thoughts have political and historical validity for the entire 21st century. “For this reason, Venezuela continues and will continue in the fight for a multipolar world,” he stated.
Heading to 10E: Great World Antifascist Festival in Venezuela.
Maduro supported the idea of young people to call the Great World Antifascist Festival in Venezuela from January 8 to 10, “so that leaders, young people, workers, peasants from around the world can come to accompany the people of Venezuela and accompany the president. at the swearing-in ceremony before the National Assembly on January 10.
An oath will be taken with the people of the world “for the future, for peace. The fight is fighting,” Maduro harangued. “Here there will be peace, integration, the only “peo” will be the drum to dance with joy and happiness, he said when referring to the students’ slogan If there is peo with Maduro I rest.
He proposed the birth of the Great International Movement of Anti-Fascist Youth and Students and for the new world to be built, so that new concepts and new ideas could be incorporated. He also urged young people to work towards building anti-fascist applications and social networks.
“Artificial Intelligence (AI) today directs cognitive warfare, military and economic warfare. Through AI, technological imperialism is trying to impose a cyber-fascist coup on humanity, to take control of humanity. Their instrument is social networks,” said the President.
we are not alone
Maduro assured that the time of barbarism has arrived, with the genocide against the people of Palestine, against Lebanon, the attacks against Syria, Iraq and Iran. The Nazi attack of the Ukrainian regime against the people of Russia. The siege and harassment against Venezuela. “We cannot be left alone in the anti-fascist struggle nor normalize these processes,” he said.
For this reason, he assured that State institutions “are obliged to act against Venezuelans who promote and support the approval of the garbage law, who ask for sanctions and support the economic war. Because they violate the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.”
