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Venezuela | The Revolution is inspiring youth all around the world
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11/23/2024
TeleSUR correspondent Belén de los Santos reports from the Anti-Fascist Youth & Student World Congress in Caracas, Venezuela, as delegates from all around the world discuss the common agenda against these far-right ideologies. teleSUR
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Venezuela hosts its first International Anti-Fascist Youth Congress in Caracas as delegates from
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all around the globe meet to discuss a common agenda in their fight against fascism worldwide.
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More details with our correspondent Belén de los Santos.
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Over 500 international guests have arrived in Venezuela for the World Anti-Fascist Youth
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Congress that is underway in Caracas.
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Guests from over 70 countries have come together to exchange ideas and experiences in their
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goal to develop a common struggle plan against fascism worldwide.
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Well, first of all, I would like to say that it's very important that we have today's congress
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in Venezuela and the slogan, the motto, as far as I know, of this event is Venezuela
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Anti-Fascist Territory and that's right because Venezuela has been a pain in the neck for
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the United States for quite a long time already.
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This is a country that never defends, that never sells its motherland and it provokes
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great admiration and great inspiration watching the people of Venezuela fighting for their
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freedom and it's very important having the youth here because we see a lot of young people,
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a lot of young people from all over the world, from different countries, from different regions
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and they are all willing to build a new, more honest future within a multi-polar world
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where everybody would have a say, where everybody would be equally respected, so it's very important
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to have this kind of events to exchange experience and to stay together.
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After being subject to over 930 illegal coercive measures and a brutal foreign media campaign
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against its election process, Venezuela has decided to promote an international alliance
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against a world order that threatens to destroy sovereign projects.
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You know, Venezuela I think is at the forefront of a very historic struggle and not only that
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but Venezuela has clearly recognized the nature of that struggle and recognized the nature
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of imperialism that is behind fascism and I think this is a very good opportunity for
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delegates from around the world to witness what that looks like here in Caracas where
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of course that struggle has been very open in many cases.
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The contestation of the elections recently and the violence that followed which I think
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is absolutely correctly identified as fascist terrorism.
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I think that delegates today assembled from so many countries have a lot to offer as well
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to Venezuela and to each other in sharing their own experiences in their countries back home.
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The fight against a capitalist world order that tries to impose the hegemony of western
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powers by warfare and economic oppression is one of the key topics of debate.
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Delegates from different corners of the world have come together to analyze the impact that
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this scenario imposes on their peoples.
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Well in my opinion currently not only in the Netherlands but in Europe as a whole I think
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the most important struggle that is going on now is what's happening between Russia
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and NATO.
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We have now one of the biggest conflicts since the second world war on our continent provoked
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by NATO actions and it doesn't seem like people in Europe are realizing how dangerous
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it is and also what the role of the United States and NATO is in escalating this conflict
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as big as it has gotten now.
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So I think one of the most important things that needs to be done right now is to make
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people aware of the one sided perspective they are receiving from the media and also
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just being curious and interested and legitimately wanting to know and being charitable towards
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for example the Russian perspective on the conflict and what their world view is.
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And Russia has a very important history within that because you know that the Soviet Union
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fought against the fascists, they fought against Nazism in the great war of the motherland
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but the thing is that the war against fascism never stopped in 1945 because this is what
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we see now and this is a very huge tragedy for our country and for our people because
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now we have the special military operation Ukraine against the neo-Nazi regime of Ukraine
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I would say.
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We are not fighting against people but we are fighting against the neo-Nazi regime supported
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by the western countries financially, by words and by all the means.
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In spite of the challenging global scene, an atmosphere of optimism and camaraderie
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marks this youth anti-fascist congress.
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With raised Palestinian flags, the people from around the globe continue to strengthen
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their international alliances, trusting the will and resilience of their youth to build
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a peaceful and free alternative to a world in crisis.
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It's been said that imperialism or rather fascism is not a sign of capitalism's strength
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but its weakness and I think this is important for us to recognize.
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It's easy to be overwhelmed and to feel hopeless when we see these fascist advances taking
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place around the world but I would insist, I would insist that this is an opportunity.
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This is again, this is a symptom of capitalism in crisis and a back foot in weakness.
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