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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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By Revolutionary Marxist Current (CMR) in Venezuela
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
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On March 14 the Venezuelan National Guard arrested and
injured several SIDOR workers. The workers at SIDOR are demanding the
nationalisation of the factory under workers' control. The Minister of Labour
instead of listening to the workers is trying to break the strike, thereby
undermining the confidence of the workers in the government.
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By FRETECO
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
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FRETECO (the Revolutionary Front of Workers in Occupied and
Co-managed Factories) has also issued a statement of solidarity with the SIDOR
workers, signed by several factory councils and union structures.
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By Patrick Larsen in Venezuela
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Tuesday, 11 March 2008 |
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The two-month long series of congressional assemblies of the PSUV in Venezuela
recently came to an end. The debates in the congress clearly indicate that a
left-right polarisation is taking place within the party, with the rank and
file seeking a revolutionary way out and a right-wing bureaucracy that is
trying to mould the party to its own outlook.
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By Luis Granados Ceja - HOV Canada
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 |
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In an early morning attack on March 1, 2008 Colombian military forces
made an incursion into Ecuadorian territory and murdered several
FARC-EP guerrillas, including spokesperson Raúl Reyes. The goal of this
operation was to undermine the progress that had been made with
Colombia’s government and the FARC-EP as a result of Chávez’s mediation
efforts.
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By José Antonio Hernández and Patrick Larsen (CMR Caracas)
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
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On
February 15, 16 and 17 the fourth assembly of the PSUV congress was celebrated
in Caracas. The
Marxists intervened with their own bookstall and delegates, selling a large
quantity of material and discussing with many of the delegates. They report
that there was a lot of interest in Marxist ideas and the general mood is one
of wanting to push the party towards genuine revolutionary policies.
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By Patrick Larsen in Caracas, Venezuela
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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 |
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The
Venezuelan revolution has been going on for almost ten years now. The idea of socialism has been discussed seriously on an
international scale. It is in
this context that all socialists should be watching Venezuela with great interest,
where the new socialist party, the PSUV, has entered a two month congress period.
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By Jorge Martin
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Monday, 04 February 2008 |
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More than 13,000 tonnes of food have been seized in the last two weeks in Venezuela as part of the Food Sovereignty Plan launched in order to fight speculation, hoarding and sabotage in the food distribution chain. The main lesson is that food soverignty is not compatible with capitalism.
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By Der Funke
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Monday, 04 February 2008 |
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At a recent meeting of the international
leadership of the International Marxist Tendency, the Austrian
Marxist paper „Der Funke“ interviewed William Sanabria
and Yonie Moreno of the Venezuelan Corriente Marxista
Revolucionaria (CMR).
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By Iranian Workers’ Solidarity Network
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Tuesday, 15 January 2008 |
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After Hugo Chavez successfully negotiated the release of two FARC hostages the Iranian Workers’ Solidarity Network has addressed a letter to the president of Venezuela asking him to help get released workers and youth arrested by the clerical Islamic regime in Iran.
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