Venezuela calls for a global women's uprising for peace and sovereignty

After honoring the Liberator Simon Bolivar in the homonymous square in Caracas, the Ministry of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs, through the Simon Bolivar Institute for Peace and Solidarity between Peoples (ISB), installed this Tuesday the first conference of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform, which seeks the creation of the International Platform of Anti-Imperialist Women.

This was reported, from the “Antonio José de Sucre” Yellow House, by the president of the ISB, Blanca Eekhout, who indicated that the main objective of this women's platform will be to make visible the struggle of peoples for the liberation of all humanity.

“We believe that when women are the protagonists, we advance with much more force; and I am sure that victory is ours, because by accompanying, being and being together, we effectively manage to face the barbarism and horror of this imperialism that today threatens, as never before, humanity and all life,” she said, while recalling that Commander Hugo Chávez was the one who raised the flags of feminism and proclaimed the Bolivarian Revolution as a feminist.

“And not just any feminism, it's the feminism that is built in the people, in the commune, in the territory; it's the feminism that recognizes the history of our women, of our indigenous women, and that heritage, we maintain. We have a long history of women who fight, who build, who wove for the first time with their hands the flag of this Republic, but they also raised it with the sword to defend it,” she said.

The conference was part of the First International Day in Support of the Bolivarian Revolution and the Communes, which was inaugurated - together with the World Anti-Imperialist Platform of South Korea - on October 17 and will end on the 26th of that month.

“Together we must contribute to the defense of the Homeland, there are many things to do. Here are the original peoples, not only of Venezuela, but of the Great Homeland. They are also in the United States itself -indigenous peoples-, they are in Canada and they are in all parts of the world, and we also have an international struggle, we have already agreed so that together we can contribute, be on the front line of this fight to demonstrate, as we, the original peoples, with our silent weapons, we can defend the Homeland,” said Venezuelan deputy Noelí Pocaterra.

The Cuban filmmaker and pacifist, Lázara Lizette Vila, called for strengthening “mechanisms against violence and thus refuting all forms of abuse”, and “there is an urgent need for greater representation of us in politics, in public administration, so that gender justice is truly internalized in all societies.”

The activity is framed in the anniversary of the “Timon Coup”, one of the most emblematic speeches of Commander Hugo Chávez, who laid the foundations 13 years ago for the realization of a “Revolution within the Revolution”, focused on efficiency and transfer in government management, with emphasis on the strengthening of Popular Power organized in communal councils and communes.