The Peoples’ Assembly for Peace and the Sovereignty of Our America concluded in Venezuela with the approval of a manifesto that established commitments in the peoples’ struggle today.

After two days of reflections and debates in nine working tables and the attendance of representatives from over 50 countries, the delegates adopted a document that urges the construction of a new world order based on justice, independence and an end to interventionism.

The delegates of indigenous peoples, governments, parliaments, trade unions, youth, cultural, spiritual, communal organisations and social movements, called for forging a South world that is economically and technologically articulated.

Additionally, one that breaks the blockade with production, new trade routes, currencies and financial systems alternative to the dollar.

They proposed consolidating Caracas as a city of permanent encounter for assemblies, missions, legislative agreements and South-South popular articulations, building a bridge between the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples’ Trade Treaty and the BRICS+.

The text released by the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry indicated that the manifesto paid tribute to the resistance of the Cuban people, who for over six decades faced blockades, invasions and hate campaigns without renouncing their sovereignty.

It also recognised the «ethical coherence of Fidel Castro as a reference for current struggles».

The Venezuelan Executive Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, speaking at the forum the day before, called for raising voices for the peoples of our Latin America and the Caribbean, and exemplified «with the great dignity of Cuba which has endured decades of resistance to an ignominious, opprobrious and criminal blockade».

If there is someone who can give lessons to Monroism it is Cuba with its «(José) Martí, with our commander Fidel Castro, because he is the commander of free peoples not only in our region, but of the world», she affirmed.

She highlighted that they saw in the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution the beacon, the light, in moments and in decades when capitalism and neoliberalism did as they pleased in the political spaces of other latitudes and our continent.

The manifesto established as political commitments building cognitive sovereignty against media warfare and algorithms, through «a constellation of popular and free media that dismantle fake news and manipulation».

Declaring peace as «a territory to be conquered», with the denunciation of every foreign military base in Our America as a thorn in the side and «assuming active peace as a combat strategy against war».

Similarly, it called for uniting ecological and migrant struggles, in defence of Mother Earth and «recognising in the displaced the traces of plunder, with the slogan that Earth is not a resource, but a home».

They also proposed handing over to the youth «the key to the great avenues», recognising them as a creative engine and an actor with a voice and vote in strategic decisions.

The document recognised Venezuela as a «laboratory of resistances and beacon of convocation», and highlighted the legacy of Simón Bolívar, the strategic vision of Commander Hugo Chávez in the construction of a multipolar world and the role of Nicolás Maduro in articulating this international forum.

As part of the organisational decisions, the Assembly demanded advancing in the creation of a World Alliance of Peoples in Defence of Sovereignty and Peace, with the capacity to articulate networks and movements on all continents.

To declare itself a permanent space for international coordination and create a Permanent Coordination Table, based in Caracas, which will convene «two ordinary sessions per year and extraordinary meetings in the face of any threat to the peace or sovereignty of a nation».

Likewise, it urged the establishment of a World System for the Defence of Truth and People’s Communication, with an Observatory against cognitive warfare, nodes in universities, alternative media and international brigades of popular communication.

To promote a World Action Plan against Militarisation and Interventionism, which will include an International Map of Threats to Peace and a Rapid Political Response Mechanism, as well as the promotion of a Statute for the Collective Defence of Our America and the Caribbean.

It demanded constituting the Continental Front for Dignified Human Mobility and an International Legal Network for the Right to Human Mobility, in addition to a Great Homeland Solidarity Fund to support migrant persons.

Finally, the Assembly called for adopting the Mother Earth and Climate Peace Agenda and the Generation Brilliant 2035 Agenda, which «integrate ancestral knowledge, science and youth leadership in defence of climate justice and digital sovereignty».

For this Thursday, the delegates are scheduled to visit Communes to learn about these experiences, which seek to empower Popular Power as the new government of Venezuela on its path to 21st-century Bolivarian socialism.

There will also be an encounter with fishermen in the northern state of La Guaira, where in the evening national and international artists will offer a concert for the sovereignty and peace of Our America.