Venezuelan President: “Workers Will Rule”
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By Staff Writers, Telesur
Telesur
Monday, Aug 11, 2014
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| President Nicolas Maduro's speech to the Venezuelan workers (Photo: Miraflores). |
“You can count on my support to recover the companies abandoned by the bourgeoisie. We need to build a new economic model in the country, where the working class is protagonist.”
- Nicolas Maduro.
The First Congress of Workers, which will officially start tomorrow, will debate plans and proposals for the economic development of the country, with the presence of rural workers, industrial workers, civil servants, among others.
The president called for the construction of a committed and revolutionary union movement, as current unions are “becoming too old, and are at the end of their tether”.
The head of state confirmed that workers' organisations can rely on the executive power's support to re-activate companies and production units that are not contributing to the development of the workers and the country.
“Whoever gets involved in the economic war, in one way or another, the workers, with the law in their hands, must take over this production unit (...) and make it work," Maduro said, refering to what he alleges is economic sabotage committed by big business.
The Venezuelan government has repeatedly accused the opposition and big companies to attempt to destabilize the economy for instance by storing basic products to create a situation of scarcity, and selling the same products at high prices.
Wills Rangel, president of the Bolivarian Socialist Union of Workers (CBST) seconded Maduro's points and highlighted the importance of a protagonistic workers' movement, “We bear the responsibility to make the revolution of Chavez irreversible”.
Just like Maduro, Rangel believes that one of the main tasks of the workers' movement will be the fight against inflation through an improvement of productivity, “for which it is necessary to determine the relation of work and productivity in state-owned companies”, he said.
About the national steel company SIDOR, where workers have launched several strikes over the past month, Rangel said the workers' proposals to improve the productivity and recover the company “must be listened to”, and he pleaded for the increased investment in the state-owned company, as well as others.
He said the meeting was not representing any sector specifically, not even the CBST, but rather representing “all the male and female workers of the country who feel committed to the Bolivarian, socialist homeland”.
Maduro also said that Venezuela's worker law was Chavez' greatest demonstration of loyalty with the workers' cause, and urged the workers not to allow this law to go unheeded, by studying it and fighting for its application.
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