CELAC, ALBA-TCP, BRICS+ are leading an anti-imperialist counteroffensive to defend the sovereignty and development of the Global South

Integrating any continent into a confederation—in this case, LAC (Latin America & Caribbean)—means local, regional, national, and international development of what Antonio Gramsci dubbed the structure, infrastructure, and superstructure. All will be necessary for a successful Confederation of Nuestramerica.

This must involve an enormous effort from social movements, communes, councils/assemblies, and collectives; revolutionary parties/leaders/heads of state; as well as anti-hegemonic multilateral institutions; all working toward the integration of LAC towards an anti-imperialist confederation of LAC states.

In the LAC class antagonism, the reactionary pro-colonial bourgeoisie factions of underdeveloped nations tried to torpedo—with the assistance of their imperial masters—our popular Latinoamericanista effort, yet were only able to slow it a couple of years. Nevertheless, the long arc of history bends in favor of our political force correlation of the LAC proletariat and international working class in general.

Bolivarianism has shown for over two centuries that it is the LAC formula that strikes equilibrium in the universe, as Simón Rodríguez and Bolívar once called achieving world peace without empires.

The BRICS+ pluri-centric world order tends in the same direction: defending and empowering the Global South against the empire, securing the international trade routes to develop workers’ economies in peoples’ democracies around what used to be the periphery of the western imperialist world order.

The hyper-exploited South will wrest control of our means of production as we reassert our sovereignty, develop commerce routes, and construct a new whole financial architecture through the BRICS+, one that creates a world order without economic coercion and imperialist hegemony threatening humanity’s existence.

The dialectical tensions will build a post-dollar 2030 with the majorities of the world moving beyond free-market capitalism towards real free trade and the construction of a 21st-century Socialist Internationale Civilization.

ALBA Proposes 2030 Anti-imperialist Agenda Adapted to the New Epoch

President Maduro launched the ALBA 2030 Agenda with short, medium, and long-term goals to be achieved.

The XXIII summit of heads of state and government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) was held on April 24 at the Miraflores Palace. What began as an articulation of government and peoples resistance against US imperialism in 2004 has since become "a great alliance for the life of our peoples."

Venezuelan Workers' President Nicolás Maduro Moros said: "ALBA has demonstrated a great capacity to be at the center of the truth, for the right of peoples to development, independence, peace, democracy, freedom, sovereignty; in short, the right to life," and stressed that in the past 20 years the bloc has demonstrated its unique solution to the crisis of capitalism.

Prior to the summit, a meeting was held in which a common agenda was discussed that adapts to the new scenarios that are to come, a space where they talked about higher objectives to be achieved in terms of geopolitics, economics, finance, health, and production, among others.

He pointed out that, although integration was important, “it had to be transcended and raised to a higher level by appealing to the original dream of our liberators.” It is because of them that he called for “the political will to move from a community of states to a confederation of peoples; of LAC governments.”

Likewise, President Maduro launched the ALBA 2030 Agenda—ANTIDAVOSWEF. This document containing seven axes of action was discussed and approved before the plenary by the heads of state members of the group.

The seven action lines of the ALBA 2030 Agenda are as follows:

1. Creation of an ALBA-TCP cooperation and development agency.

2. Study and approve the Petrocaribe relaunch plan.

3. Approval of the ALBA Food Plan.

4. To sign and definitively adopt the Peoples' Trade Treaty.

5. To promote a special program of shared scientific, cultural, communicational, and academic development.

6. Relaunch the ALBA Health Plan.

7. Creation of an ALBA agency for the mitigation of the impacts of climate change.

As one of the main axes, the creation of a development agency was proposed that will aim to raise funds for projects. They also talked about the relaunch of Petrocaribe, a program interrupted by the illegal coercive measures imposed on Venezuela by US imperialism.

On the food investment plan, the creation of joint plans for the use of organic seeds, fertilizers, and agricultural machinery was proposed. It is planned that the bloc will be transformed into a "fair trade zone" and that the countries will be complementary in different sectors of the economy, principles of the multipolar world.

Regarding scientific, cultural, and communication development, the relaunch of the ALBA Salud program was discussed, with training of doctors, nurses, and progress in the creation of an agency to mitigate climate change.

In addition to President Nicolás Maduro, who served as the host of the summit, Gaston Browne (Antigua and Barbuda PM), Ralph Gonsalves (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines PM), Daniel Ortega (President of Nicaragua), Miguel Díaz-Canel (President of Cuba), Roosevelt Skerrit (Dominica PM), Luis Arce (President of Bolivia), Phillip J. Pierre (Saint Lucia Prime Minister), Joseph Andall (Foreign Minister of Grenada), and Norgen Wilson (Ambassador of Saint Kitts and Nevis) were present in Venezuela.

The exposition of the 2030 Development Agenda represents not only the commitment to deepen the relationship of the intra-bloc countries, especially in the economic-commercial field, something that has been in the works since the beginning of the 2010s, with all the impetus received by the Regional Compensation System (SUCRE) as an exchange currency of the integration mechanism; but also the commitment and importance that the Bolivarian Republic attaches to the Caribbean as a strategic geopolitical zone at a time when an important actor in the area, such as the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, puppeteered by Washington and ExxonMobil wants to damage the image that Venezuela has been building in that geographical space vital to the national interests of our Venezuelan socialist anti-imperialist homeland.

CELAC’S Role Heading Towards BRICS+ in a Pluricentric World Order

With CELAC members like Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, and Honduras in line towards BRICS+ membership, we—LAC proletariats—are stepping up to build a post-dollar multipolar world order. These CELAC members move fast and steady towards a confederation of LAC states, passing from a community of nations to a complete LAC confederation.

This Bolivarian project is more necessary than ever to defeat the reactionary bourgeoisie-state puppet regimes in the LAC region, including Javier Milei in Argentina, Daniel Noboa in Ecuador, Dina Boluarte in Peru, Irfaan Ali in Guyana, all of whom are economic pawns of BlackRock/Atlas Network, and have introduced the imperial troops of Laura Richardson’s Southern Command, CIA, Mossad and even Blackwater paramilitary mercenaries.

We in the Global South are not going to tolerate any form of colonialism, imperialism, fascism or neoliberal capitalist theft any longer!

2024 marks the revolution worldwide! That's why President Nicolás Maduro recently called for "evolving CELAC from a community into a confederation" and last week while leading the latest ALBA-TCP reunion in Caracas, Venezuela, our socialist leader called for an anti-imperialist LAC counteroffensive.