El Militante, the paper of the Revolutionary Marxist
Current (CMR) in Venezuela,
recently interviewed organisation secretary of the union at Sanitarios Maracay,
Jose Villegas. Villegas explains the nature and history of the struggle at the
factory, and discusses the plans of the workers to get the factory nationalised
under workers’ control.
This is the English translation of an
article
by Luis Primo, a leading figure in the UNT, in which he looks at the tasks
facing the Venezuelan working class. He stresses the fundamental role of the
working class in leading society in the struggle for socialism.
This column, by Munno Bhai in Urdu, was
published in the Daily Jang in the 7 largest cities of Pakistan on
January 12. Its estimated circulation was more than one million and many more
people read it.Â