Our correspondent Belén de los Santos interviews Yhamir Chabur, U.S. media analyst part of the Venezuelan Solidarity Network, during the second day of the Anti-Fascist Youth & Students World Congress. teleSUR
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00:00We go to Caracas, the Antifascist Youth and Students Work Congress continues.
00:09Let's go with our special envoy Belando Los Santos for more information that is happening on this second day.
00:14Hello studios, how are you? Exactly, we're here in Caracas for the second day of the Youth Antifascist Congress that is underway here in Venezuela.
00:33We were saying yesterday that 70 countries sent delegations to this Congress.
00:39There are over 1,000 delegates that have been summoned here to Caracas that are debating and bringing experiences from all over the world with one goal.
00:50And that goal is to debate different struggle strategies to confront the fascism that is being seen all over the world in different projects.
01:02And this is a key strategy to internationalize that struggle, to seek a common agenda and common strategies to combat that.
01:13So that is the process that is being here today.
01:16The second day is being inaugurated as we speak with different speeches and the first panel table that is being listened to by all the delegates.
01:27And in that context we are here speaking to one of the members of this delegation to come from the United States.
01:35We are talking about Yamir Shabour.
01:37He is a U.S. activist and media analyst and also part of the Venezuelan Solidarity Network.
01:44So thank you Yamir for joining us this day here at the Congress.
01:49And please, let's start by talking a little bit about this Congress that is happening here in Caracas.
01:55What were your ideas and your just view of the first day?
02:00How did you experience the day yesterday and your first impressions about the discussions that are being underway?
02:08Yes, I just want to say thank you Belen for inviting me once again here to join you in Telesur English.
02:16It's a grand opportunity to now be here live in Caracas, Venezuela.
02:22The birthplace of the liberator Simon Bolivar and now the epicenter of anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism and anti-fascist struggle
02:31has been expressed in this Youth International Conference.
02:35But yes, the experience here has been amazing, has been inspiring to see youth from over 75 countries
02:43coming from all around the world from Europe to Asia to Africa, different parts of Latin America and as well as North America
02:51coming here all unified under the umbrella of anti-fascism and hearing testimonies from different struggles around the world,
03:02learning from every other group and also being aware of the new challenges that we're facing with this crisis of capitalism
03:11that we're witnessing worldwide and the rise of fascism as we see in Europe, as we see in the wars in Ukraine,
03:20in the Middle East with the State of Israel and now as you see as well in South America with presidents such as Javier Mirle from Argentina
03:32and now in the United States with the victory of the ex-president Donald Trump and his extreme MAGA movement in the United States.
03:45So we are all coming together in figuring out ways as the youth, as people who are the future generation of our countries
03:55and also the future generation of our planet Earth.
03:59Exactly, and Yamir, I would like to point out something that you were just saying.
04:04So the United States has had an election process and it's entering a new period political-wise
04:12and with the new presidency of Donald Trump that will begin this January.
04:18So that is a new context for the state and also a new context for the world and also for the movement within the United States.
04:27So what does the fight against imperialism, the fight against fascism mean within the United States
04:36and particularly within the United States in a new presidency of Donald Trump?
04:41That's a very great question.
04:42I think the ascendancy, the new ascendancy of Donald Trump who was president before coming back into the White House
04:51demonstrates the crisis of capitalism that we are feeling worldwide but also in the United States
04:57where this new fascism that we are seeing, and I say new because it takes the old ideas and tries to re-market itself, tries to re-brand itself.
05:08We see an example with Donald Trump and his Make America Great Again movement
05:14which when you think about it in the acronym terms it's called MAGA.
05:19When you think about it he talks about this time when the United States was grand
05:26but when you think about it what does he talk about?
05:29What specific time period was America ever great for vulnerable communities
05:35whether that's African American or Native American, indigenous people or as well as migrant communities or LGBTQ communities.
05:45So we see Donald Trump utilize the hypocrisies and the failures of the Democratic Party
05:53which has led the country to a downward spiral when we talk about inflation
05:59due to the wars that the Biden and Harris administration has supported in Ukraine
06:05and with the state of Israel which has affected the U.S. economy with inflation
06:09as well as the immigration at the border which the migrants are coming as economic refugees
06:17from countries such as Venezuela or Cuba or Nicaragua or other states
06:22that the United States has intervened militarily or economically
06:26stabilizing the countries affecting this migration into the United States
06:32and as well as the genocide we see in Palestine
06:35which the Biden and Harris administration has not wanted to address or solve
06:41but Donald Trump has taken all the problems and the failures of the Biden administration
06:49and the frustration that people has felt to take to his advantage for his campaign for his presidency.
06:57So as far as explaining his MAGA movement which is a new fascism
07:03basically they want to turn the clock around and want to make sure that the U.S. is the hegemon
07:10worldwide imperialistically wanting to attack states like China and Iran
07:17making sure that they can weaken the bricks
07:20and making sure to ensuring that the U.S. dollar stays as the global currency worldwide
07:25but internally you know talking to somebody from the United States
07:29they also want to smash historical social movements
07:33that of Dr. Martin Luther King and his civil rights movement
07:37they would love to turn the clock back
07:39and since they can't do an upfront attack on the civil rights movement
07:43they have to attack the vulnerable communities
07:45which are the immigrants and also the trans LGBTQ community
07:50which Donald Trump has said on his first day
07:53he's going to do mass deportations of undocumented immigrants
07:57and we in the United States the people that stand for justice
08:01the people that stand for equality
08:03we will not allow that and we have to follow in the footsteps of leaders
08:09like Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
08:12and also to end my point too
08:16the irony how Donald Trump the new elected president of the United States
08:21the empire will take his inauguration will be January 20th
08:29that's the same day as Dr. Martin Luther King Day
08:33where we celebrate in the United States
08:35so we are planning as the social movements throughout the United States
08:39to mobilize in Washington DC on the 20th
08:42to demonstrate opposition against Donald Trump
08:45and his new administration his new right-wing administration
08:48and also to defend that golden legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King
08:53we will definitely be closely following
08:56what will be happening in the United States
08:58and the possibility that the social movements
09:00will be able to organize and mobilize
09:04in the face of this new period term in office of Donald Trump
09:08Thank you Jamir for joining us in Tell Us Your English
09:11and that was Jamir Chabour an activist
09:13also media analyst from the United States
09:16and this is just one more testimony
09:19of the kind of debates that are going on in this Congress
09:23let's recall we are at the Youth Anti-Fascist Congress in Caracas
09:27over 75 countries have sent their delegations here
09:32and these are the kind of debates that are going on
09:35what is the current global scenario
09:37what are the challenges that the peoples of the world are facing
09:41but also what are the opportunities for international solidarity
09:45what are the opportunities for organization
09:48in the face of these challenges and of this global structure
09:52to think about and to plan and to build a new world order
09:57that is what is being debated here
09:59and it's being debated by none other than the young generations
10:03on all of these countries
10:05a huge part of the global south
10:07but also of western powers and western economies
10:11whose organizations and whose activists
10:14are also here trying to build a better world
10:17so we will continue to bring all the information
10:20from what is happening here in Caracas throughout the day
10:23now we go back to you Luis
10:26Thank you Belen for the latest information
10:28we will stay in touch for upcoming news briefs
10:30to continue knowing everything that is happening
10:32in this anti-fascist international congress of the Gilson students
10:36stay tuned with Teresa Ringlis for more updates