In a phone call to the program “Dando y dando” on Venezuelan television last Thursday, president Chavez said: “I’m going to wage a war against the lack of discipline” The head of the state asked the people to have a debate on those groups that propose the opposition to power and horizontality, or those who think that the government, as constituted power, is not part of the popular power. He will fight the groups that create divisions inside the PSUV (Unified Socialist Party of Venezuela).

In a new phone call to a program in the state owned TV station VTV, this time to the program “Dando y dando”, the president of the republic, Hugo Chavez, repeated his statement of the previous day, in which he addressed certain groups in the left and demand a debate about their ideology.
“I’m on full gear, I’ll wage war against the lack of discipline”, he said, referring to the PSUV and its recent creation. “There are lots of little groups everywhere, people crowning themselves as leaders of a faction, making campaigns inside the party and exchanging notes between them. I’m going to wage a war against this lack of discipline, but with loyalty, with a true revolutionary compromise. We shouldn’t pay attention to rumours and intrigues that aim to displace some one in the internal struggle for power, which were so typical of the previous regime and still take place between us”
Against anarchist groups.
President Chavez repeated the declarations he had done the night before in the program “La Hojilla”, in which he addressed groups that he described as anarchists, which had carried out demonstrations against the TV station Globovision and the bishop’s palace. “There are some groups that will not recognise the issue of power, and talk about being against power, that everything should be organised in a horizontal way, without leaders or bosses, but using coordination instead and thinks like that”, said the president.
The president also said that since the loosing of the referendum in the 2nd of December, some are of the opinion that those in government are not the constituent power any more, but the constituted power and can not be part in the debate on popular power. He said that this argument is fostered by the right wing opposition and imperialism, and that they use slogans like, “we don’t want to be governed, we want to govern”
“I want to speak to the people listening to us”, said Chavez, “to talk about the issue and cut short these ideas that are clearly of an anarchist nature and are trying to create divisions amongst us. Maybe because I have a military background planned for war, I am more used to the need for a plan, a hierarchy, a leadership and a discipline. This might not be military style, but it has to be revolutionary, with revolutionary cadres and submitted to a revolutionary leadership and program, with self criticism”.
Extracted from an article by Luiggino Bracci.
Translation by Miguel Martin.