President Maduro at the closing ceremony of the International Anti-Fascist World Festival in Venezuela, January 11, 2025. Photo: Presidential Press.
The International Anti-Fascist World Festival For a New World, held in Caracas, Venezuela, in which more than 2,000 delegates from 125 countries participated, came to an end.
At the closing ceremony of the festival, on Saturday, January 11, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro thanked the participants for attending the festival and pointed out that the proposals that have emerged demonstrate the vitality that this movement is gaining.
“On behalf of all Venezuela, I thank you for coming to this unprecedented event,” said President Maduro, adding that “we are at peace, in democracy, in full exercise of our national sovereignty, and the people are moving forward in this new stage.”
Global anti-fascist alliance
President Maduro highlighted the need of the formation of a global anti-fascist alliance.
He highlighted the need of the continuous construction of the capacity of mobilization in cities and the countryside, building forces on social media platforms, in neighborhoods and educational institutions to fight fascism and to transform our countries and societies.
Previously, the participants published a document drafted by the more than 2,000 delegates at the event, in which they expressed their firm support for the Constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
João Pedro Stédile of the Landless Workers Movement of Brazil said, “At this crucial moment of the global class struggle, it is vital to establish our forces in each of our countries. It is not enough to be in solidarity with Venezuela, Cuba and Palestine; it is necessary to fight in our lands. They shall not pass!”
Venezuela, a beacon of global struggle
Stedile highlighted President Nicolás Maduro’s firm stance in defending self-determination and social justice. “Venezuela remains a beacon in the global fight against fascism and imperialism,” he said. “Under his leadership, Venezuela is leading the fight against all forms of exploitation and dominating the international stage with a focus on justice and unity.”
More than 2,000 delegates from 125 countries participated in the forum, who also attended the January 10 swearing-in ceremony of Nicolás Maduro as the constitutional president of Venezuela.
Final resolution
The final resolution of the International Anti-Fascist Festival proposes:
- To continue to advance in the organization and consolidation of chapters of the Anti-Fascist International in each country, region, and continent, creating a global platform for the struggle against fascism, with an executive secretariat of the Anti-Fascist International.
- To create and launch the think-tank of the Anti-Fascist International, called the Caracas forum, to establish spaces for strategic analysis and anti-fascist praxis in each country, region and continent. It is proposed to convene a major world meeting of think-tanks in the first half of 2025, organized by the Executive Secretariat of the Anti-fascist International.
- Launching of the “seedbeds of the new world” training camp in March, an initiative taken by the youth comrades who participated in the festival. This program and initiative aims to train young people from all over the world to be leaders committed to building a new world.
- Holding the world anti-fascist meeting of the religious sector.
- International meeting of political training schools of the Global South.
- To develop community initiatives that allow the anti-fascist movement to take root in the bases in each organization.
- To launch the popular, anti-fascist feminist international on March 8.
- To hold a world anti-fascist congress of the indigenous peoples.
- To convene a global meeting of jurists against fascism in 2025 to establish legal and legislative strategies to confront fascism and similar expressions.
- To call upon the peoples of the world to strengthen the Anti-Fascist International as an instrument of collective existence.
- To transform the year 2025 into a milestone towards a world of peace, equity, and emancipation.
The delegates, representing political parties, cultural and grassroots organizations, intellectuals, indigenous peoples, youth, students, workers, parliamentarians, communicators, personalities from more than 125 countries, took an oath in which they underline their commitment to the people of Venezuela and their leader, President Nicolás Maduro.
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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