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By Jorge Martin - www.marxist.com
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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 |
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After the cement industry, now Chavez has nationalised SIDOR
with its 15,000 workforce. This has come about thanks to the pressure of the
SIDOR workers who were able to contact Chavez directly. The decision is a
correct one. It must now be followed by a general nationalisation of the
commanding heights of the Venezuelan economy and finally complete the
revolution.
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By Hands Off Venezuela - www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Tuesday, 18 March 2008 |
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A London High Court judge on Tuesday suspended a court order
which froze 12 billion dollars (7.6 billion euros) of assets owned by Venezuela
state oil firm PDVSA in a dispute with US energy giant ExxonMobil.
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By Revolutionary Marxist Current (CMR) in Venezuela
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
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On March 14 the Venezuelan National Guard arrested and
injured several SIDOR workers. The workers at SIDOR are demanding the
nationalisation of the factory under workers' control. The Minister of Labour
instead of listening to the workers is trying to break the strike, thereby
undermining the confidence of the workers in the government.
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By FRETECO
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
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FRETECO (the Revolutionary Front of Workers in Occupied and
Co-managed Factories) has also issued a statement of solidarity with the SIDOR
workers, signed by several factory councils and union structures.
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By Patrick Larsen in Venezuela
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Tuesday, 11 March 2008 |
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The two-month long series of congressional assemblies of the PSUV in Venezuela
recently came to an end. The debates in the congress clearly indicate that a
left-right polarisation is taking place within the party, with the rank and
file seeking a revolutionary way out and a right-wing bureaucracy that is
trying to mould the party to its own outlook.
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By Luis Granados Ceja - HOV Canada
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 |
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In an early morning attack on March 1, 2008 Colombian military forces
made an incursion into Ecuadorian territory and murdered several
FARC-EP guerrillas, including spokesperson Raúl Reyes. The goal of this
operation was to undermine the progress that had been made with
Colombia’s government and the FARC-EP as a result of Chávez’s mediation
efforts.
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By José Antonio Hernández and Patrick Larsen (CMR Caracas)
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
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On
February 15, 16 and 17 the fourth assembly of the PSUV congress was celebrated
in Caracas. The
Marxists intervened with their own bookstall and delegates, selling a large
quantity of material and discussing with many of the delegates. They report
that there was a lot of interest in Marxist ideas and the general mood is one
of wanting to push the party towards genuine revolutionary policies.
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By Patrick Larsen in Caracas, Venezuela
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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 |
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The
Venezuelan revolution has been going on for almost ten years now. The idea of socialism has been discussed seriously on an
international scale. It is in
this context that all socialists should be watching Venezuela with great interest,
where the new socialist party, the PSUV, has entered a two month congress period.
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By Jorge Martin
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Monday, 04 February 2008 |
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More than 13,000 tonnes of food have been seized in the last two weeks in Venezuela as part of the Food Sovereignty Plan launched in order to fight speculation, hoarding and sabotage in the food distribution chain. The main lesson is that food soverignty is not compatible with capitalism.
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By Der Funke
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Monday, 04 February 2008 |
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At a recent meeting of the international
leadership of the International Marxist Tendency, the Austrian
Marxist paper „Der Funke“ interviewed William Sanabria
and Yonie Moreno of the Venezuelan Corriente Marxista
Revolucionaria (CMR).
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By Iranian Workers’ Solidarity Network
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Tuesday, 15 January 2008 |
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After Hugo Chavez successfully negotiated the release of two FARC hostages the Iranian Workers’ Solidarity Network has addressed a letter to the president of Venezuela asking him to help get released workers and youth arrested by the clerical Islamic regime in Iran.
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By Alan Woods
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
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The Bolivarian Revolution is now at the crossroads. It has reached the critical point at which decisions will have to be made that will have a determining influence on the fate of the Revolution. The role of the leadership is decisive at this point in time. But here we find the greatest weakness.
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By Alan Woods
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Thursday, 13 December 2007 |
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On December 7th R. Douglas MacDonald wrote an interesting letter on the constitutional referendum in which he mentions Alan Woods’ article on the same. He raises the question “that the revised constitution could have permitted Chavez to be elected president for life” and this may have been an important factor. Alan Woods replies to this, reiterating the fact that the Chavez electorate are dissatisfied with the slow pace of the revolution and discontented with the results.
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By Hands Off Venezuela
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Wednesday, 12 December 2007 |
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On Friday, December 7th, Al Jazeera's programme The Listening Post
analysed the world's media biased coverage of the constitutional reform
referendum. Amongst those interviewed was Alan Woods, founder of Hands
Off Venezuela.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Monday, 10 December 2007 |
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The December 7th edition of "La Hojilla Impresa", the weekly newspaper of the famous TV programme of Mario Silva "The Razor", which cuts through the lies of the counter-revolution, published a major extract of Alan Woods' analysis of the constitutional reform referendum in its centre pages.
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By Alan Woods
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Monday, 03 December 2007 |
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The
proposals for constitutional change have been defeated by 50.7% to 49.3%. The
opposition hardly increased its absolute vote, but there was a high level of
abstention. This is a warning. The masses are demanding decisive action not
words! It may be that this defeat will have the opposite effect. It can rouse
the masses to new levels of revolutionary struggle.
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By Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria (CMR) Revolutionary Marxist Current
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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
On Sunday the
Venezuelan people are voting in the referendum on constitutional reform. A
massive “yes” vote would strengthen the revolution. The oligarchy, imperialism,
all the forces of reaction have lined up behind the call for a “No” vote. This
is not the time to sit on the fence. All genuine revolutionary forces must
rally behind the call for a “Yes” vote. Also check out the Hands Off Venezuela blog that will cover this over the weekend.
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By Erik Demeester
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Tuesday, 27 November 2007 |
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Economic sabotage is an underexposed and
underreported tool of the counterrevolution in Venezuela. It is part and parcel
of a general plan of destabilisation of the revolution in the run-up to the
referendum. The limits of reformism in combating food scarcity stress the need
for bold measures, like nationalisation of the food industry and the
mobilisation of the masses. No time can be lost!
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By Euler Calzadilla , Wanderci Silva Bueno and Darrall Cozens in Caracas
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Monday, 26 November 2007 |
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Last week Chavez met
several worker delegations and made one of his most radical speeches ever,
explaining that the aim of the revolution is to change the relationships in the
workplace, to plan production, to take over piece-by-piece the functions of the
government and to finish up by destroying the bourgeois state. A clear
indication of how polarised the situation has become in the build-up to the
December 2 referendum.
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By Leonardo Badell and Darrall Cozens - HOV
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Thursday, 22 November 2007 |
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They came in their tens of thousands, in their
hundreds of thousands. They came from schools, from colleges, from
universities, from teachers unions and trade unions, and from the Social
Missions concerned with education. They came in their red shirts with different
names but all saying the same thing, Si in the referendum. Eyewitness report from Caracas.
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