The National Association of Free and Alternative Community Media (ANMCLA) demands the expropriation of the private media magnates of their transmitters and equipment, and the establishment of direct-democratic control of the population over the new TV channel.
The capitalists should have the right to free expression, but they do not have the moral right to hold special privileges because of their wealth.
Similarly, it is necessary to transcend the privileged position of the administrative apparatus, which should serve the people.
The struggle against state control on all levels in the Venezuelan society, including the media, is a critical issue for the future of the Venezuelan experiment. This demand for the socialisation of media is particularly interesting and important.
It is necessary to establish direct-democratic control of the population over the media programme, largely through non-privileged, easily and quickly recallable delegates directly responsible to the masses and derived from the self-managing workers' and communal councils.
Democratic free-thinking, as the reflection of a truly democratic praxis, represents the harshest blow against the manipulative capitalist industry of consciousness.
As the pioneers of true democracy in Venezuelan media, the Association for Communitarian, Free and National Alternative Media (Anmcla) say:
"The freedom of expression is the expression of freedom, not the voice of privilege."