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Venezuela and Black liberation
FIONA SIM sees the Venezuelan anti-fascist and anti-imperialist initiatives as offering hope to the rest of the world
BY POPULAR ACCLAIM: Venezuelan President
Nicolas Maduro arrives at the
Teresa Carreno Theatre in
Caracas to deliver his annual
address, January 15
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IN EARLY January 2025, over 2,000 international delegates gathered in Caracas, Venezuela for the first ever World Anti-fascist Festival. The festival was one of the major directives of the first International Antifascist Congresses held just months prior.
Guests included government ministers and leaders of the Cuban and South African communist parties. The platform was an opportunity for Venezuela’s re-elected president, Nicolas Maduro, to place the country’s Bolivarian revolution in the context of the global fight against fascism, racism and imperialism.
The leaders of the Bolivarian Revolution have correctly identified fascism as the next great battle to win and have mobilised key activists and influencers in the joint struggles against imperialism, colonialism, and fascism from Africa, Asia, Latin America and even Europe.
In bringing these groups together in Venezuela against all the odds of sanctions, it is an act of defiance against the northern hegemon of the US.
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