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By Patrick Larsen in Venezuela
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Thursday, 30 October 2008 |
 The Bolivarian government still enjoys mass support. But the defeat in the constitutional referendum last December was a clear warning. After 10 years of revolution, the main problems facing the workers have not been solved. The masses that support Chávez are growing weary of seeing a lack of profound social changes and a lack of a clear perspective to complete the revolution. It is time to take firm action against the oligarchy.
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By Editorial Board Arabic Hands off Venezuela website
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
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November 2006, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine organised a
festival of solidarity with the Venezuelan revolution at the cultural centre of
Almishal, in Gaza.
During the activity comrade Ghazi Surani gave an important speech in support of
the Venezuelan Revolution.
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By Patrick Larsen in Puerto Ordáz
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Monday, 15 September 2008 |
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Over the
weekend the founding congress of the J-PSUV (PSUV Youth) was held. It
revealed two sides to the situation. On the one hand the
revolutionary fervour of the youth who managed to block attempt to
impose undemocratic Statutes on the organisation, but it also
revealed a well-organised bureaucracy intent on stifling genuine
debate. The youth of the CMR intervened in this debate, connecting
well with the revolutionary rank and file.
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By FRETECO
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
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We have received the following appeal from the comrades of FRETECO (Revolutionary front of workers of the occupied factories) in Venezuela. The workers of one of the occupied factories, INAF, are being threatened with eviction from the factory on August 30th by the former boss. Please support workers’ control and sign this resolution!
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By Patrick Larsen in Venezuela
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
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The founding congress
of the PSUV Youth is set to take place on September 13-15th in Rio Chíco, in the state of Miranda. This is of the highest importance. As we shall
see, the youth have played a very important role throughout the Venezuelan
revolution.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Saturday, 02 August 2008 |
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On hearing of the nationalisation
of Banco de Venezuela the World Congress of the International Marxist Tendency,
which was sitting at the time, immediately discussed this important measure
taken by the Venezuelan government and passed unanimously this resolution of
support.
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By Alan Woods
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
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In a television programme broadcasted to
the whole of the country on July 31st, President Chávez announced the nationalisation
of Banco de Venezuela, the Venezuelan bank owned by the Spanish banking
multinational Grupo Santander.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008 |
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See all the events of Alan Woods' speaking tour in Venezuela
- Launch of Reformism or Revolution
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By Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria (Venezuela)
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
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Over the weekend, June 13-15, the Venezuelan Revolutionary
Marxist Current (CMR) held its 5th Congress at the Inveval factory -
presently being run under workers' control. One hundred comrades attended the
congress, where all the reports confirmed significant growth over the past
year, both in terms of numbers and influence within the Bolivarian movement and
the wider workers' and youth movement.
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By El Militante - Spain
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
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While at the Madrid
Book Fair to launch his latest book, "Reformism or Revolution" Alan Woods was
interviewed by the comrades of El Militante and explained that, "The Venezuelan
Revolution (...) is not yet finished and cannot be finished unless the landlords
and capitalists are expropriated and the workers take power into their own
hands."
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By Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria (Venezuela)
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Monday, 02 June 2008 |
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Speaking to a gathering of
national leaders of the PSUV on May 30, President Chavez explained that he was
reading a book by Alan Woods, Bolshevism - the road to revolution, and
raised a copy for everyone to see. He referred to Alan as a friend and a
British Marxist theoretician. He then quoted a couple of passages from the book
on the role of the revolutionary party.
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By Marcelo Colussi (Argenpress)
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Thursday, 29 May 2008 |
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Alan Woods in an interview with Argenpress,
referring to the situation in Venezuela,
explains that those who argue that we must wait for a better moment are wrong. Time is
not on our side but on the side of the counterrevolution. It is not too soon,
but very, very late. The December referendum was a warning that the masses are
getting tired of endless delays, of endless parades and demonstrations,
referendums and election campaigns. They demand action and they demand it now!
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By Yonnie Moreno
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 |
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The question of setting up factory committees has been posed in Venezuela.
Because some of those putting forward this idea belong to the reformist wing of
the Bolivarian movement, the leadership of the UNT unions instead of promoting
them have come out against them. Marxists on the other hand view this as an
opportunity to promote genuine workers' control from below.
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By Pablo Roldan and Mauro Vanetti
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
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Opposition students in Venezuela are depicted as poor
victims of an authoritarian regime. The world media pick up on this and repeat
the fairy tale until people start to believe it. But these students are such
victims that they receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in the form of the
"Milton Friedman Liberty Prize". Friedman's Chicago Boys were also
advisers to Pinochet, no doubt also seen as a "victim" by these people.
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By Patrick Larsen in Caracas
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
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At the April 30
preparatory meeting for May Day 4000 workers filled the Teatro Taressa Carreño
in Caracas to hear Chavez give his most radical speech ever. He signed two
decrees in front of the audience: the first one being a law that increases the
minimum wage by 30% and the second the official nationalization of SIDOR. This
was followed on May Day with hundreds of thousands of workers filling the streets
of Caracas.
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By Jorge Martin
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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Six years after the coup against the
democratically elected government of Hugo Chávez was defeated
by the magnificent mobilization of the masses, the contradictions
within the Venezuelan revolution are as sharp as ever. Either the
revolution goes all the way and breaks the power of the oligarchy or
this will make a comeback and eventually crush the movement.
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By Jorge Martin
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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After the announcement that SIDOR has been nationalised, the owners have been manoeuvring, with the clear intention of sabotaging the steel plant. The workers have responded immediately by going on the offensive and taking control of the situation.
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By Jorge Martin
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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On April 3, Chávez announced the
nationalisation of the cement industry. This measure, which
accompanies the nationalisation of a dairy plant in the Andean region
and now the nationalisation of SIDOR, is clearly to be welcomed by
revolutionaries and socialists. It will encourage the workers in
other companies to struggle; it will make them more confident in
raising their demands for nationalisation.
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By Jorge Martin - www.marxist.com
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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 |
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After the cement industry, now Chavez has nationalised SIDOR
with its 15,000 workforce. This has come about thanks to the pressure of the
SIDOR workers who were able to contact Chavez directly. The decision is a
correct one. It must now be followed by a general nationalisation of the
commanding heights of the Venezuelan economy and finally complete the
revolution.
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By Hands Off Venezuela - www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Tuesday, 18 March 2008 |
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A London High Court judge on Tuesday suspended a court order
which froze 12 billion dollars (7.6 billion euros) of assets owned by Venezuela
state oil firm PDVSA in a dispute with US energy giant ExxonMobil.
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On Thursday, November 27, in the evening, three trade union
leaders were assassinated in Aragua, Venezuela. The International Marxist Tendency condemns these brutal
killings of workers' leaders whose only crime was to stand firm in the defence
of workers' interests against the intimidation and terrorism of the capitalist
class. We call on the
international workers' movement to mobilise against these killings and demand
that those responsible be identified and brought to justice.
The final results of the Venezuelan elections are now out.
The Socialist United Party of Venezuela (PSUV) has won about 80% of all local
councils and 17 out of the 22 governors that were up for election. However the loss of Miranda, Carabobo and the Metropolitan
District of Caracas, all of them extremely important from the point of view of
politics, economy and population, and the fact that the PSUV did not win Zulia is a serious warning for the revolution,
which has to be added to the defeat of the constitutional reform referendum.
The first results that have been issued
of yesterday's local elections in Venezuela confirm that there is
still widespread support for the Revolution, but in some areas
tiredness is setting in and the Opposition, in spite of losing around
300,000 votes, has taken advantage of this. This is due to the delay
in the revolution. The only conclusion revolutionaries can draw is
that it is time to complete the revolution once and for all.
On
Sunday November 23, 2008
Venezuela faces one of the most decisive elections in its history.
These elections will determine who controls the governors and the key
municipal positions throughout the country. What
happens on Sunday will have a profound impact on the future of the
Bolivarian Revolution.
The recent
trade union conference of the Marxist Tendency (CMR) in Venezuela saw
the participation of workers from all the key industrial areas of the
country and a whole series of factories that are in struggle and
demanding nationalisation. The Tendency is becoming an important
point of reference for militant workers throughout the country.
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