In his weekly TV programme Aló Presidente,
broadcast on Sunday April 22 from Urachiche in Yaracuy, president Chávez
advised all Venezuelans to read and study the writings of Leon Trotsky, and
commented favourably on The Transitional Programme, which was written by
Trotsky for the founding congress of the Fourth International in 1938.
The workers of
Sanitarios Maracay, a company in Aragua, Venezuela, which has been occupied and
run under workers' control for more than 5 months, have been subject to brutal
repression today, Tuesday, April 24 as they were travelling by bus to Caracas
in order to participate in a national march in defence of workers' control and
the process of expropriations launched by president Chavez in 2005.
We have
received the following appeal from the comrades of
Militante in Oaxaca about the arrest of David Venegas, a councillor of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca.
We appeal to all readers to show their
solidarity with the comrade and demand his immediate release.