Colombia Informa
Internationalist Seminar “Uniting Peoples in Struggle”, concludes: “Construction of Popular Power, in the dispute for the hegemony that allows us the emancipation of all forms of domination and the construction of a just society, in unity, in harmony with mother Earth”.
From October 6-11, the Internationalist Seminar “Uniting Peoples in Struggle” was held in Bogotá. This event saw the participation of several delegates from Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Palestine, Kurdistan, Cuba, Catalonia, Mexico, Peru, among other peoples represented by various social organizations.
During the debates of the internationalist organizations they agreed in characterizing the challenges at this moment at the global level in which there exists a block of multiple dominating forces whose main forms of accumulation are,
“Financial capital, extractivism, agribusiness, surplus value, exploitation of the working class, appropriation of the material, intellectual, spiritual riches, generated by the working class.”
They also denounced hidden markets such as war, the arms trade, drug trafficking, sex and human trafficking, among others.
Likewise, the organizations of the participating countries agree that the social sectors most affected by the policies of the dominant market at present are women, youth, children, the elderly, peasants, Afro and indigenous peoples. Likewise, the migrants, the exiles and the refugees. LGTBI people, among others, are included in these vulnerable populations.
The Seminar highlighted the struggles of the popular bloc, such as those in Puerto Rico, Catalonia and Palestine. The peasant struggles for agrifood sovereignty, the fight against extractivism, mining, dams and agribusiness. To this the resistance and permanence in the territories are added. Territorial control and exercise of governance in the territories, justice and the struggle for self-determination.
They emphasize as an important aspect the advances in economic sovereignty, the feminist economy, the relation between economy and politics, as well as the democratization of the economic sector. Important achievements include the exchange of knowledge and products, the struggles and organization of young people, urban work in neighborhoods, the right to the city, urban reform in housing and decent housing, infrastructure, popular economy, health care, work, communication, urban agriculture, among others.
Like other important achievements, the seminar recognizes the important work of internationalist solidarity for the liberation of fraternal peoples. I highlight the emblematic cases of Palestine, Kurdistan and Colombia. In addition, solidarity against American interventionism in Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia and Nicaragua.
A central aspect of the debates is the prominent role of popular feminisms and the struggle against patriarchy. They include the importance of political-ideological formation, popular education, as well as Popular-Alternative Communication.
The meeting ended on October 11 and the assistant organizations defined different plans to work jointly, in solidarity and strengthen mechanisms of unity in the search for a better world.
