After the successful demonstration to the
presidential palace on August 8th, the campaign for the release of the student
activists from the CLEP-CEDEP and the
MENA arrested on August 6th while demanding
more university places continued with more demonstrations and actions.
On Monday August 6th, a force of nearly 1000
police officers attacked a peaceful sit-in demonstration of students who were
demanding access to university. The protest had been organised by the Movement
of Non-Admitted Students, a campaign launched by the Committee in Defence of
State Education - Committee of Student Struggle.
After 8 months of occupation, the struggle of the workers at
Sanitarios Maracay is more alive than ever before, despite the problems they
are facing. On July 18th, a delegation from Hands off Venezuela went to Maracay to hand over the 1,318,000
Bolivars collected in the last weeks by Hands off Venezuela, Britain.