30 Years of the
São Paulo Forum
Message of Greetings of CPC(M-L)
The São Paulo Forum was
founded in July 1990 when revolutionary and progressive parties from
Latin America and the Caribbean came together in Brazil to discuss the
new international scenario after the collapse of the Soviet Union and
the consequences of the neo-liberal policies that a majority of the
region's governments had been pushed to adopt. Fidel Castro and former
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva played a
decisive role in its development.
On this occasion, TML Weekly
is posting the message of greetings sent to the Secretariat of the
São Paolo Forum by National Leader Anna di Carlo and
Secretary of the Department of International Affairs of the Central
Committee Claude Brunelle, as well as the speech delivered by Miguel
Díaz-Canel, President of the Republic of Cuba, on July 28 at
the virtual Meeting of Leaders in celebration of the 30th anniversary
of the founding of the São Paulo Forum.
Message of Greetings of CPC(M-L)
The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
sends revolutionary greetings and congratulations to the São
Paulo Forum on the occasion of its 30th anniversary.
Today, more than ever, the struggle of our peoples
for sovereignty, well-being and peace requires the development of a
strong anti-imperialist movement, in which all peoples, based on unity
in action, develop an all-sided struggle against the common enemy
represented by U.S. imperialism and its national and international
allies.
 Thirty years ago,
thanks to the vision of Comandante Fidel and the initiative of
President Lula, it was possible to break with the imperialist assertion
that the end of history had been reached with the fall of the USSR and
the socialist bloc in Eastern Europe. From this unwavering statement
that there are alternatives for the creation of a better world, a
formidable energy arose from all the revolutionary, progressive and
democratic forces in Our America to make the aspirations of the peoples
to exercise their sovereignty, raise their well-being and to realize
peace, prevail.
The arrival of progressive governments with
pro-social policies, the creation of important institutions such as
UNASUR, CELAC and ALBA among others, all aimed at achieving regional
integration, maintaining the sovereignty of each people, marked in a
concrete way the will to establish Latin America and the Caribbean as a
zone of peace, free from foreign interference.
We have also seen how during these 30 years, the
empire and its allies never abandoned their claims to dominate the
peoples of Our America and control their human and natural resources
for their own benefits. They never accepted that the will of the people
to decide their future for themselves and to live in peace existed.
Thus they never went on the defensive, only changed their strategy and
developed new methods such as constitutional coups and the
judicialization of politics to remove progressive leaders from
executive power, while not giving up the old methods either, such as
funding treacherous internal reactionary forces to provoke chaos,
violence and assassinations to justify armed intervention, espionage
and interference by the OAS where they count on their lackeys like
Canada to attack the credibility of progressive governments and the
democratic right of people to freely choose their governments and the
policies to direct the development of their future.
During these 30 years of intense struggle, the
São Paulo Forum has been a centre of debate to develop plans
and actions to continue advancing on the path of peace, integration and
well-being of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. It is to
the honour of the Executive Secretariat of the São Paulo
Forum to have constantly maintained that the Forum is a place of
exchange of organized progressive forces, where the concrete problems
we face can be examined in the light of the experiences and needs of
the present moment.
Thirty years ago, our Party was present at the
first meetings, and throughout these 30 years we have always
participated in unity with the peoples of Our America, from Canada, in
contributing to the advancement of the great objectives of peace and
the sovereignty of the peoples, so that Canada will no longer serve as
a base for U.S. aggression against other nations and peoples. We were
present 30 years ago, and we are present today, to continue the
struggle for unity in action of all the peoples of Our America in the
anti-imperialist struggle for sovereignty, peace and the
well-being of all.
Revolutionary greetings,
Anna Di Carlo
National Leader
Claude Brunelle
Secretary of International Relations
Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 28 - August 1, 2020
Article Link:
30 Years of the
São Paulo Forum: Message of Greetings of CPC(M-L)
Website: www.cpcml.ca
Email: editor@cpcml.ca
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