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By Yonie Moreno
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Tuesday, 21 November 2006 |
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After occupying Sanitarios Maracay, the workers have created new organisational forms for the running of the factory. The Assembly of workers is the highest decision making body, and has elected a 21-member Factory Committee, who are subject to the right of recall at any time by the Assembly, to organise production at the plant. The workers have also held meetings with workers from occupied factories in Brazil and Venezuela in order to learn from the experiences of other workers in the occupied factory movement.
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By Board of directors of Sanitarios Maracay Trade Union
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Tuesday, 21 November 2006 |
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As part of the campaign against the Bolivarian Revolution and President Chavez, the owner of Sanitarios Maracay has announced the closure of the factory. The workers, in defence of their jobs and the revolution, have occupied the factory and demanding that the Bolivarian government nationalise it under workers'control.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Thursday, 16 November 2006 |
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The Venezuelan edition of Reason in Revolt
has just come out. Here we publish the Introduction where emphasis is placed on
the need for Marxist theory, the “catalyst” that can speed up and complete the
Venezuelan Revolution.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Thursday, 16 November 2006 |
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The Venezuelan edition of Reason in Revolt
has just come out. Alan Woods will present the book on Friday, November 17, at
6pm at the Ernesto Che Guevara hall of the Book Fair. We publish also the
Introduction where emphasis is placed on the need for Marxist theory, the
“catalyst” that can speed up and complete the Venezuelan Revolution.
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By Junta directiva del Sindicato de Sanitarios Maracay
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Thursday, 16 November 2006 |
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En su ofensiva contra el pueblo venezolano, los trabajadores y al presidente Chávez de nuevo los capitalistas intentan golpear a la revolución. El pasado 14 de noviembre el patrón de Sanitarios Maracay anuncio el cierre de la empresa. Esta situación forma parte del continuo intento del patrón de quebrar la organización de los trabajadores y pisotear sus derechos durante los últimos años.
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By William Sanabria (CMR)
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Wednesday, 15 November 2006 |
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Alan Woods recently spoke at a meeting at Inveval, one of the nationalised factories in Venezuela under workers' control. Alan spoke to the workers about the present world situation, the Venezuelan revolution, and the urgent need to take the revolution to the end. |
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By William Sanabria (CMR)
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Wednesday, 15 November 2006 |
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Más de un año y medio después de su primera visita, Alan Woods volvía esta Lunes 13 de Noviembre a la empresa expropiada y controlada por los trabajadores Inveval. Muchas cosas han cambiado desde aquel 19 de abril de 2005. Entonces Inveval se llamaba aún Constructora Nacional de Válvulas (CNV) y era una empresa tomada por los trabajadores, quienes llevaban más de dos años luchando contra el sabotaje contrarrevolucionario del empresario, el golpista Andrés Sosa Pietri, y demandando al gobierno la expa expropiación de la empresa. |
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By Alan Woods
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Tuesday, 14 November 2006 |
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The central thesis of this book from beginning
to end is the following: that the Bolivarian Revolution can only succeed if it
goes beyond the boundaries of capitalist private property, expropriating the
oligarchy and transforming itself into a socialist revolution. The Revolution
has begun, but it is not finished. The old state apparatus is still
largely intact and a number of key economic levers (including the banks and the
land) remain in the hands of the Venezuelan oligarchy.
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By Patrick Larsen
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Tuesday, 14 November 2006 |
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This past Sunday, November 12, Alan Woods presented his book “The Venezuelan Revolution – A Marxist perspective”, to a packed meeting at the Caracas Book Fair. Alan spoke on the current situation in Venezuela, discussing the struggle between reform and revolution, the elections, and what is to be done to guarantee the success of the revolution.
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By Silvio Camacho (CMR Caracas)
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Monday, 13 November 2006 |
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The Fundación Federico Engels has intervened for the first time at the
Caracas Book Fair. There is a thirst for Marxist ideas, which is revealed by
the number buying material and stopping for discussions.
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By Karen Larsen and Marie Frederiksen in Madrid
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Monday, 13 November 2006 |
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José-Antonio Hernández was recently interviewed at the 20th
Congress of the Spanish Students’ Union, which
was held over the weekend of November 10-12. The Congress passed a resolution
in support of the Venezuelan revolution, and José was asked his opinions on the
situation in Venezuela
and the work of the Students’ Union.
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By Eduardo Molina and Yonie Moreno
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Friday, 10 November 2006 |
 On Wednesday, November
8, Alan Woods addressed a packed meeting on the Bolivarian Revolution and
Socialism in Mérida, Venezuela. The event was mainly composed of youth but was also attended by older comrades,
workers, trade unionists and peasants. Here, gathered under one roof, were all
the most advanced elements of the Bolivarian movement in Mérida.
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By Jorge Martin
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Wednesday, 01 November 2006 |
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The
campaign for Venezuela's
presidential election on December 3rd is already well under way. But this is
far from a normal election. On December 3rd what is really at stake is the
future of the Bolivarian Revolution.
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By Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria - El Militante
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Wednesday, 18 October 2006 |
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Part Four of Venezuelan perspectives
analyses the stage of the revolution we are passing through. It is important
that we understand the processes at work, draw out their main tendencies and
draw up perspectives. Our tactics and work in the revolutionary movement must
be determined on these perspectives. By looking at the role played by Chavez,
the developments in the Bolivarian movement, we can adopt the necessary tactics
to win the masses to the programme of Marxism.
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By FRETECO
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Tuesday, 17 October 2006 |
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On October
13 and 14, sixty representatives of workers from factories that are occupied or
in struggle, together with some 40 guests, met in the Parque Central in Caracas
in a national gathering organized by Freteco, the Revolutionary Front of
Workers in Occupied Factories.
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By Francesco Merli
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Friday, 13 October 2006 |
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FRETECO will be holding its second national
conference on October 13-14. It is not an accident that this meeting is taking
place just a few weeks before a major turning point in the Bolivarian
revolution: the presidential elections of December 3. This conference
represents a major development in the role the organised workers are playing in
the revolutionary process.
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By Hands Off Venezuela - www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Wednesday, 04 October 2006 |
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Today's Hands Off Venezuela website features a video interview with its international secretary Jorge Martin about the upcoming Venezuelan elections, an exchange of letters in the Guardian, part of their Media Watch section, and two interviews with Hugo Chavez during his recent visit to the US to attend the United Nations General
Assembly (Time magazine The Sound & The Fury and the Tavis Smiley TV show on PBS, also available as audio and video files on the show's site).
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By FRETECO
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Wednesday, 27 September 2006 |
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Los próximos días 13 y 14 de octubre se celebrará en los salones de
Parque Central en Caracas el Encuentro Nacional de Empresas
Recuperadas, Ocupadas y en Lucha con el fin de coordinar los esfuerzos
de todos los trabajadores de las empresas recuperadas y ocupadas y
organizarnos en las tareas de los próximos meses: la reelección del
presidente Chávez y la lucha por la expropiación de los capitalistas a
través de que la clase trabajadora venezolana amplie y desarrolle la
toma y ocupación de empresas ens en toda la nación, como un primer paso
para la expropiación de la oligarquía capitalista Venezolana
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Monday, 25 September 2006 |
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Just released! A meticulously researched examination
of the role of the AFL-CIO in the April 2002 coup against the
democratically-elected government of Hugo Chavez. In light of this information,
labor activists in the U.S. and around the world should multiply the pressure on
the AFL-CIO to end its ties with the NED and to pursue genuine worker to worker
solidarity with the workers of Venezuela and the world. Read the article on the Hands off Venezuela site.
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By Patrick Larsen
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Monday, 25 September 2006 |
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President Chavez's recent speech at the UN has received a lot of media attention worldwide. Looking at the various reactions, from that of the masses in Venezuela to that of the reactionary media in Venezuela and around the world, it is clear that Venezuela is becoming increasingly polarised.
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