President Hugo Chavez welcomed thousands of social activists at the Poliedro-Stadium in Caracas, Venezuela on January 27, 2006
In a long and passionate speech, the popular president of Venezuela described the historic facts of the struggles between imperialist capitalism and democratic socialism.
His chronological review described the eighteenth century’s liberating battles of Simon Jose Antonio de la Santisima Trinidad Bolivar; the sacrificial battles of the twentieth century highlighted by the heroic symbol of those times: Ernesto Che Guevara; and the present twenty-first century’s electoral achievements of several Latin-American republics.
Chavez scorned the United States for their hypocritical stance on terrorism while sponsoring terrorism themselves, and angrily demanded that the U.S. stops the criminal occupation and genocide in Iraq immediately.
The classic Marxist phrase: "Socialism or Death" was allegedly repeated by Rosa Luxemburg, Fidel Castro, and this time with unequivocal determination by Hugo Chavez.
Furthermore, he made it clear that the people of the United States are necessary and indispensable to a world socialist revolution. “We are counting with you”, he said optimistically.
Finally, he urged all social minded people to unite in a socialist revolution warning us that, according to many scientists and political futurists, if we don't, our environment and our species might be extinct in this century.
Watch a translated version - Quick Time movies- of segments of his presentation
on: www.pasifikost.ca
Original: World Social Forum