Featured image: Participants in the first World Anti-fascist Parliamentary Forum.
The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, participated in the closing of the first World Anti-fascist Parliamentary Forum, held in Caracas and which will serve as a basis for the construction of a Permanent Anti-fascist Congress at a global level.
“The horizontal dialogue of civilizations, cultures, and people is important,” said President Maduro in an address to the forum. “It is creating awareness and the necessary strength to face the challenges of this 21st century.”
Maduro noted that the forum serves as a space in which to debate the fascist resurgence in the world, 100 years after the emergence of this political current in Europe, a current which triggered the Second World War.
“We have been studying why there is a resurgence of far-right fascist expressions. Why the contempt for the peoples of the South, for migrants from the peoples of the South? Fascism laid the foundations for Nazism, inspired it, and supported it,” noted the president.
In contrast, the revolutionary leader said that in Latin America, a response has emerged to confront this ideology that has only brought misfortune to humanity. “The profound thought of the Bolivarian Revolution is the construction of a model that unites all of our America and, in turn, the struggles of the world,” he stressed.
“This meeting is opportunity to say to the four winds: enough of fascism, no to neo-fascism, no to Zionism,” exclaimed the host of the meeting.
Fascism vs. hope
The president reflected on the resurgence of fascism in several countries and compared it to the rise of this current in Europe in the past century. “They nursed a monster [Hitler], just as they nurse the monster of Netanyahu today, [or] here in America, the monster of Milei,” he said.
In this sense, he added that there are two factors that cause this resurgence: the first is the exhaustion of the Western imperialist models of domination and “their ethical and moral exhaustion. Today, humanity is not inspired by the US and European model, decadent capitalist.”
“They have disfigured all the concepts of family, community, and coexistence,” said President Maduro. “The West is lost and from the West itself no human, progressive alternative for change has emerged.”
The second factor, in the opinion of the national leader, is the loss of the world hegemony of the West and the emergence of a new multipolar world economically represented by the BRICS countries. “This mechanism is attacked by the forces of the West, which have reacted against this block, with aggression towards the most powerful countries that comprise it,” he stated.
“It is the first time in 100 years that a new multi-centric, multi-polar power block has emerged which represents a different alternative for humanity and which envisions a definitive change in power relations,” he added.
The birth pangs of a new world
President Maduro reflected that many of the conflicts that humanity suffers from today are reflections of the birth of a “new world,” represented by a new economic and ethical model different from that imposed by Western hegemony.
“We cannot understand the genocide in Gaza, the emergence of fascism in Ukraine, Taiwan’s attempt to break away from China, [or] the attempt to install a puppet government in Venezuela that reproduces fascism, without understanding these phenomena as signs of the birth pangs of a new world,” said the president.
He further added that, “In this century, fascism is deeply rooted in the political culture of the West, of capitalism and imperialism. From Caracas, we say with a voice of hope: the 21st century will be different, it will be the century of the emergence of a different world.”
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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