On June 23 Alan Woods
was in one of the heartlands of the Venezuelan industrial proletariat, Ciudad
Guyana,
where the country's heavy industry is based. More than 350 workers from several
key industries attended the meeting and really connected with the ideas of
revolutionary Marxism that were outlined by Alan.
The launch of the book Reformism or
Revolution, Marxism and Socialism of the 21st Centuy (a reply to
Heinz Dieterich) took place on June 21, at the Art
Gallery of the Regional Legislature of
Anzoategui, in Barcelona,
in the presence of 90 workers, youth and community leaders. Alan Woods
expressed concern that the delay in the revolution was already producing signs
of apathy and disillusionment in the Bolivarian rank and file.
On Saturday, June 21, Alan Woods was invited to attend a
meeting of workers in the auto sector. He addressed the meeting of more than
600 autoworkers from all over Venezuela,
in Barcelona,
Anzoategui. The debate and the mood among these workers revealed a high level
of understanding of the tasks that need to be carried out to push the
revolution forward to its final conclusion, the expropriation of the bosses.
"The task that still remains to be
accomplished here for the revolution to become a reality is nothing more and
nothing less than the expropriation of the land, the banks and the big
monopolies; until that is done the situation will still be problematic",
pointed out Alan Woods.
At two
meetings of Alan Woods' speaking tour to launch Reformism or Revolution, 400 oil workers turn up in Monagas and
Anzoategui, one in the San Tomé complex and the other in the Morichal Oil Field.