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By Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria - venezuela.elmilitante.org
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Wednesday, 02 August 2006 |
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Economic growth in Venezuela is stimulating
class struggle and the level of organisation and mobilisation of the Venezuelan
working class is rising, but it has not yet reached the point where the labour
movement has placed itself at the head of all the exploited layers of society.
What is lacking is a political leadership of the working class, with a
programme and method capable of pushing the revolution to a final and
irreversible conclusion.
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By the International Marxist Tendency - www.marxist.com
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Friday, 21 July 2006 |
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Chavez is about to visit Iran. We understand the reasons for
reaching trade deals with a regime like the Iranian. The US is attempting to isolate Venezuela, but
we believe it is one thing to reach such deals and it is another to present the
Iranian regime as if it were somehow “revolutionary”. To do such a thing would sow confusion among the Iranian workers, the only ones who have a genuine
interest in defending the Bolivarian Revolution.
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By Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria - venezuela.elmilitante.org
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Thursday, 06 July 2006 |
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The current high price of oil allows the Bolivarian
government to respond to the demands of the masses, redistributing the national
wealth and providing money for the missions and other social projects, public
works, etc. While recognising this, we have to understand that under capitalism
none of these measures can permanently resolve any problem and are shoring up
new contradictions.
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By Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria - venezuela.elmilitante.org
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Wednesday, 21 June 2006 |
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The correlation of forces continues to be enormously
favourable to the Venezuelan revolution, but it is necessary to take advantage
of this in order to finish the job and take the revolution to the end. As long
as the revolution does not break totally and absolutely with the private
ownership of the means of production it will be in danger and will not be
irreversible.
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By Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria - venezuela.elmilitante.org
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Thursday, 01 June 2006 |
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The recent congress of the UNT in Venezuela broke up into two hostile
camps. If this is allowed to develop into a fully-fledged split it would
represent a major blow to the Venezuelan working class. This must not be
allowed to happen. Things are changing with every passing minute and hopefully
the damage may be undone. In the meantime we are publishing this declaration of
the Marxist Revolutionary Current.
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By Hands Off Venezuela - www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Friday, 26 May 2006 |
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Jeremy Dear, General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists and member of the British Hands Off Venezuela steering committee, met with President Chavez as part of a trade union delegation from Britain. Jeremy discussed the campaign of disinformation in the mainstream media abroad. We will report more on this next week together with reports of the UNT conference taking place now. For now we link to two articles from Aporrea.org and a video where Jeremy is interviewed by state channel VTV.
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By FRETECO
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Thursday, 04 May 2006 |
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http://freteco.elmilitante.org is the new website of the
Venezuelean FRETECO (Revolutionary Front of Occupied Factories), a
front set up by workers at the Inveval factory in Los Teques, near Caracas.
It will contain news, images and documents about the struggle for workers'
control in Spanish.
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By CMR, Caracas - venezuela.elmilitante.org
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Thursday, 04 May 2006 |
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May
Day this year in Venezuela was characterised by the profound division
between revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries. While the CTV desperately tried to
mobilise their supporters to show their hostility towards the
Bolivarian government, the new revolutionary
confederation of trade unions, the UNT, organised a massive rally of
hundreds of thousands of workers and youth.
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By Patrick Larsen
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Tuesday, 18 April 2006 |
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The Venezuelan masses have
just celebrated the defeat of the 2002 coup attempt to overthrow
Chavez. The situation is still very much a favourable one for the
revolution. But that will not remain so for ever. Sooner or later the
issue of who is to govern society will be decided. The lessons of
history clearly indicate that to stop the revolution being unravelled
the power of the capitalist must be broken once and for all.
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By Ted Grant and Alan Woods
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Thursday, 13 April 2006 |
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Today marks the 4th anniversary of the defeat of the coup that attempted
to remove President Hugo Chavez from power in 2002. Within less than
48 hours reaction was defeated by a magnificent movemenet of the
Venezuelan masses. Here we reproduce the analysis of those events written by Ted
Grant and Alan Woods published on April 14, 2002. As they said, "What is required is a conscious and audacious Marxist
tendency, which would participate in the Movement for the Fifth Republic (MVR)
and give it the necessary revolutionary perspective, programme and
strategy." Read the article here.
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By Yonnie Moreno, Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria - venezuela.elmilitante.org
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Friday, 07 April 2006 |
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On April 4, workers from occupied
factories and factories under cogestión (workers'
control) marched in Caracas from the National Assembly to the
Miraflores presidential palace. The march had been organised by the
recently created Revolutionary
Front of Workers of Factories Occupied and under Workers' Control
and included delegations from several occupied factories.
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By Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria - venezuela.elmilitante.org
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Friday, 07 April 2006 |
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This is the text of a leaflet issued by
the CMR for the Latin
American Gathering of Worker-Recovered Companies in
Caracas in October 2005
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By Patrick Larsen in Caracas
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Tuesday, 04 April 2006 |
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On Thursday March 30,
nearly one thousand Venezuelan trade unionists gathered in a
preparatory assembly in order to discuss the urgent tasks of the
labour movement and to promote the celebration of a new national
congress of the UNT, the National Workers’ Union.
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By Jorge Martin
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Friday, 31 March 2006 |
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Listen to the mp3 file here (56 MB).
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By Maarten Vanheuverswyn – www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Friday, 31 March 2006 |
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On Monday March 27, the British Channel
4 screened a documentary on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez that can only be described as scandalous.
Unfortunately this is not just an isolated
incident, but part of a more general and concerted effort to spread
half-truths and open lies about Chavez with the aim of preparing
world public opinion for “regime change” in Venezuela.
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By Jorge Martin (Hands Off Venezuela – www.handsoffvenezuela.org)
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Thursday, 30 March 2006 |
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The US Navy will be sending four ships, one of them carrying 60 fighter
planes, and a total of 6,500 soldiers on a major military exercise in
the Caribbean starting in the next few weeks. This can only be interpreted as a threat and as a concrete preparation for
future military intervention against the Venezuelan relvolution.
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By Patrick Larsen
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Tuesday, 14 March 2006 |
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In February the Venezuelan province of Ciudad Bolivar was the setting for a number of remarkable struggles on the part of the youth, the working class and the organised communities. In one of them, a fight against a rise in the prices of bus tickets, masses of youth went so far as to seize the buildings of the local parliament. Ronny Pante and Carlos Rondón, leaders of the local student movement, recount what happened. |
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By Jorge Martín - www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Friday, 10 March 2006 |
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On March 8, the British Parliament held a debate on Venezuela, proposed by Labour MP Colin Burgon, who sparked off Blair’s attack on Hugo Chavez by posing a question to him on Venezuela. “Indeed, some people in Latin America found [the answer] more than disappointing, and it created a minor political tsunami.” |
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By William Sanabria and Jorge Martín
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Wednesday, 08 March 2006 |
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On Saturday, February 25th a meeting of representatives of the workers in factories that have been expropriated or are occupied took place in the premises of Inveval, in El Carrizal, not far from the Venezuelan capital Caracas. Dozens of workers took part in the meeting, the main aim of which was to set up a national Revolutionary Front of Occupied Factories. |
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By Jorge Martin
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Monday, 06 March 2006 |
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The Bush administration and its allies have launched yet another campaign designed to demonise Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The latest example is an article in The Washington Times by Stephen Johnson. Jorge Martin takes a look at who Stephen Johnson is, and the dangers of the campaign. |
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