Some 50 activists participated in a very intense day of discussions during the Conference of Hands off Venezuela in London, on May 22. The main guests of the Conference were Katy Jaimes and Elías Chacón, active in the Socialist United Party (PSUV) and the PSUV youth as well as the movement of occupied factories, who had travelled from Venezuela to report on the current situation of the Bolivarian revolution.
Venezuelan Marxists Katy Jaimes and Elias Chacon were interviewed by British daily paper Morning Star and the article was published on the morning of the British Hands Off Venezuela Conference. Katy Jaimes and Elias Chacon are on a tour of Britain, visiting the HoV conference and several trade union conferences.
On Saturday May 22nd, Hands Off Venezuela is holding its national conference in Britain. Come and hear speakers from Venezuela and discuss the latest events surrounding the Venezuelan Revolution, including the PSUV congress, Chavez's appeal for a Fifth International, the setting up of a Bolivarian militia, factory occupations, the forthcoming national assembly elections and the situation in Latin America in general.
More than 100 protestors on Tuesday took part in a picket in Copenhagen to commemorate the defeat of the CIA-backed coup in Venezuela on the 13 April eight years ago. The event was also a protest against the continued aggressions and coups on part of Imperialism in Latin America.
On Monday, 5 October, Latin America solidarity organisations protested outside the Honduran embassy in London against the coup in Honduras and in solidarity with the Resistance movement.
The attacks against the workers of Mitsubishi Motor Company (MMC) in Barcelona, Anzoategui, in Venezuela, and their union organisation, have started again. We appeal to you to take part in the protest campaign.
Hands Off Venezuela has participated in pickets and made statements against the coup in Honduras. Here we publicise a number of links to articles and reports on handsoffvenezuela.org.
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