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By Maarten Vanheuverswyn and Ramon Samblas in Caracas
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Wednesday, 10 August 2005 |
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Yesterday, August 8 saw the start of the 16th World Festival of
Students and Youth, which is being held in Caracas this year. Under the
slogan "For peace, solidarity and against imperialism", more than
15,000 young people from all over the globe gathered to discuss an
entire range of issues, all of them anti-imperialist in nature. |
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By Jorge Martin translation from RISAL
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Monday, 08 August 2005 |
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French translation of Chavez announces expropriation of closed factories – Venezuela debates socialism
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By Jorge Martin
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Monday, 18 July 2005 |
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In his weekly Alo Presidente TV programme, Venezuelan
president Hugo Chavez announced that some 136 closed factories are
being surveyed with the aim of expropriating them. Within the workers’
movement this has been enthusiastically received. The main discussion
now is what is meant by socialism, how to apply “co-management” and
what the role of the workers is in the revolutionary process and in the
economy. |
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By Jorge Martin - www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Thursday, 07 July 2005 |
At the end of June 2005, Ruben Linares was in Britain. Jorge Martin interviewed him for Hands Off Venezuela. Click here to read the article on Handsoffvenezuela.org.
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By Roland Schmidt, Co-Chair, New Democratic Youth of Alberta
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Wednesday, 15 June 2005 |
The following is an article written by Roland Schmidt for an upcoming
NDYC (New Democratic Youth of Canada) newsletter focusing on Venezuela
and the Hands off Venezuela campaign. Read the article on Handsoffvenezuela.org.
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By Alan Woods
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Friday, 10 June 2005 |
 Alan
Woods provides some very interesting insights into the processes taking
place within the Venezuelan working class, the discussions on what kind
of workers’ control is needed, on what is the next step facing the
Revolution, and so on. His notes from his trip to Venezuela in April
reveal a growing socialist consciousness among the Venezuelan masses.
See also pictures from the visit. |
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By Alan Woods
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Monday, 18 April 2005 |
Alan Woods interviews Adan Chavez, the brother of Hugo Chavez and a
leader of the Bolivarian movement. Adan expresses his support for
Marxist ideas and for the Hands Off Venezuela campaign.
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By Jorge Martin
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Thursday, 07 April 2005 |
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The decree of expropriation of Venepal in January this year was a major
turning point in the Venezuelan revolution. The decision to nationalise
Venepal and put it under the administration of the workers, and the
very high profile way in which the decision was taken, was bound to
have an impact amongst other groups of workers in the same situation. |
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By Rob Sewell
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Wednesday, 30 March 2005 |
 This
book by Alan Woods is essential reading for all those who want to
understand what is happening in Venezuela today. But this is no mere
description of events. It is a powerful Marxist analysis of the
Venezuelan Revolution, its weaknesses and strengths, its contradictions
and unique characteristics. The book was not written with hindsight.
Every chapter, beginning with the coup of April 2002, was written as
the events were unfolding at the time, and traces the winding course of
the revolution. With an introduction by Rob Sewell.
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By Hands Off Venezuela
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Monday, 14 March 2005 |
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The Chavez Code by Eva Golinger cracks the code of
intervention of the United States in Venezuela. Eva Golinger is a
Venezuelan-American attorney. In 2003 she began to investigate the
interference of the United States in the coup d'etat of April 2002
against President Chávez and brought to light the more than 20 million
dollars invested by the American government to finance anti-Chavez
groups. In October 2004, she obtained top secret documents,
declassified under the Freedom of Information Act, that demonstrate the
U.S. government's prior knowledge of and complicity in the coup. Cuban
magazine Juventud Rebelde published extracts of the book on March 6 ("The Chavez Code" by Eva Golinger) and then, on March 13 a review by Rosa Miriam Elizalde and Rogelio Polanco (Deciphering the Code of US Lies on Chavez). |
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By Cort Greene
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Friday, 04 March 2005 |
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Current U.S. ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte has been nominated by
President Bush to be chief advisor and the first National Intelligence
Director, with authority over 15 formerly independent intelligence
agencies. So just who is John Negroponte? |
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By Jorge Martin
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Tuesday, 01 March 2005 |
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“I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is
not capitalism, the path is socialism”. With this clear statement on
his weekly TV programme “Alo Presidente,” Chavez reaffirmed his point
of view that socialism is the only way forward to solve the problems of
inequality, misery and poverty that millions face in Venezuela and the
world today. |
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By Alan Woods
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Wednesday, 16 February 2005 |
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The progress of the Venezuelan Revolution has inevitably brought it
into conflict with the vested interests of the oligarchy. At every step
the demands of the masses in both town and village clash with the
so-called sacred right of property. Upon the resolution of this
contradiction the future of the Revolution depends. |
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By Alan Woods
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Tuesday, 01 February 2005 |
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Two days ago, Venezuelan President Chavez gave a speech at the
Gigantinho Stadium at the closing session of the World Social Forum in
Porto Alegre, Brazil. In this speech, President Chavez gave further
indications of the direction in which the Bolivarian Revolution is
moving.
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By Ramon Samblas
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Monday, 31 January 2005 |
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UNT organiser Ricardo Galindez spoke to Ramon Samblas about the
progress of this new trade union organisation in Venezuela and the
latest events that have taken place in this Latin American country. An
edited version of this interview also appeared in today's left-wing
daily The Morning Star. |
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By Alan Woods
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Friday, 21 January 2005 |
Dramatic events are unfolding in Venezuela. Although the
nationalisation of Venepal in itself it does not yet mean a qualitative
change in the class nature of the Venezuelan Revolution, this bold
measure certainly signifies a step in the right direction. It indicates
that the working class is intervening in the Revolution with increasing
determination, pressing for its independent class interests, demanding
a break with capitalism and pushing the Revolution forwards. |
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By Jorge Martin
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Thursday, 20 January 2005 |
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The dispute between Venezuela and Colombia over the kidnapping of a
FARC leader in Caracas continues and threatens to involve other Latin
American countries. It is becoming increasingly clear that this
incident is part of a renewed offensive by Washington against
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. |
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By Jorge Martin
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Thursday, 20 January 2005 |
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On the morning of January 19th, in the Ayacucho room of the
Presidential Palace in Caracas, and with the presence of Venepal
workers and trade union leaders, Chavez signed decree number 3438 which
expropriates Venepal.
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By Ramon Samblas
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Tuesday, 18 January 2005 |
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The oil supply to the US from Venezuela has been cut once in recent
years. The reason for this cut was the bosses’ lockout at Petroleos de
Venezuela (PDVSA) that took place at the end of 2002 and the beginning
of 2003. Now the recent trip of President Chavez to China has made top
ranking members of the US administration uneasy. |
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By Jorge Martin
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Friday, 14 January 2005 |
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As was to be predicted, London’s Financial Times reacted negatively to
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez’s announcement of a speeding up of
land reform. We did not expect less from the FT, a paper that has
always unashamedly defended the interests of capital. However, what we
did not expect was for the FT to argue that the “best way to address
rural poverty”, was for businesses to “pay decent wages and guarantee
good working conditions for its workers”! |
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