The emergence of the anti-imperialist struggle and for peace.

José Reinaldo Carvalho - At the initiative of the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples, the Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity, and the Anti-Fascist International, events will be held in Caracas, capital of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, on July 23, 24, and 25, in defense of world peace and against the warmongering of US imperialism, its Israeli Zionist accomplices, and the member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Among the activities, celebrations will be held to mark the birthday of the Liberator Simón Bolívar on July 24.

The events in Caracas represent a call for internationalist resistance, solidarity among peoples, and the urgent need to reorganize the world system based on multilateralism and justice. It is no coincidence that the focus of discussions will be the fight against wars of domination promoted by the imperialist powers of the Global North—wars that take various forms: invasions, bombings, sanctions, economic blockades, proxy wars, legal manipulations, and campaigns of political destabilization.

Simón Bolívar, in addition to being a military leader and statesman, was a strategic thinker of peace with justice. The holding of the Amphictyonic Congress in 1826, proposed and led by him, foreshadowed a Latin American architecture of sovereignty, collective security, and solidarity. By declaring that "unity will save us," he proposed a historical project of liberation that rejected any submission to imperial power—whether that of the European colonial metropolis of his time or that of the United States, which was already showing signs of its expansionist vocation.

Today, true peace can only be conceived within the framework of the Bolivarian tradition of resistance. And it is under direct attack. American imperialism, under the leadership of President Donald Trump, is intensifying its aggression on a planetary scale. It is promoting illegal sanctions against dozens of countries. In the military field, it is encouraging a proxy war in Ukraine against the Russian Federation, sustaining the Zionist genocide in Palestine, and maintaining constant threats to the sovereignty of China, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba. The United States and its NATO allies are attempting to transform the world into a permanent battlefield to ensure the survival of their crumbling hegemony.

Now, this same imperialism is turning against Brazil as well, with sanctions and threats, interfering in the country's internal affairs and sowing political instability. 

But these are times for resistance, for accumulating forces, for struggle, not for resignation or capitulation. Faced with the escalating belligerence, the peoples and vanguard forces are not intimidated, and that is why promising initiatives are emerging. The strengthening of BRICS+, the amplifying of the voice of the Global South, the new perspectives of CELAC, the advances of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), and China's proposals for a Global Peace and Development Initiative, a Global Security Initiative, and a Global Civilisation Initiative are shaping a new international correlation of forces. Added to this is the deepening of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, whose government, led by Nicolás Maduro, successfully combats the far right and makes an invaluable contribution to the struggle for a genuine and advanced democracy in the world. 

The genocide against the Palestinian people, the blockade imposed on Cuba, the sanctions against Venezuela, the constant provocations and attacks against China, and the US and Israeli bombing of Iran cannot be analyzed in isolation. They are expressions of the same imperialist logic: controlling territories, resources, and consciences in service of monopoly-financial capitalism and neoliberal and neocolonialist policies. 

Therefore, the events in Caracas take on strategic value. They re-establish the struggle for peace as a militant, collective, and priority task. Bringing together intellectuals, artists, activists, and representatives of popular movements from various countries, these events represent a space for global articulation for those who refuse to accept the world as it is—divided between a few warlords and billions of victims of misery, oppression, and imperial violence.

It must be said clearly: true peace will not come from the White House, nor from the State Department, nor from NATO generals. It will be the work of the people. It is in the fertile ground of resistance and struggle that hope and the conviction of achieving a world without wars, without imperialist domination and injustices awaken and flourish. 

At this moment when humanity is facing immense dangers, it is urgent to reclaim Bolívar's legacy as a beacon of struggle and a horizon for the future. May his voice echo in the debates in Caracas and in every trench of the fight for world peace. 

True international security begins with an end to wars of plunder and respect for the self-determination of peoples. This is the banner that flies in Caracas this July—and that must fly in every corner where dignity rises up against empire.