Concrete block production by the Ezequiel Zamora Commune, Antimano, Caracas.
September 7, 2011 -- Cuidad CSS, translated by Owen Richards for Venezuela: Translating the Revolution. Posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- Among the aims of community organisation is that of building the communal state, where power is exercised directly by the people, through self-government, with an economic model of social property and local self-development.
Based on this premise, 236 communes and more than 9000 communal councils have been established, according to information from the Ministry of Popular Power for the Communes.
Through this process the city of Caracas has turned into a space full of examples of self-government.
Socioeconomic model
In the Capital District around 44 sectors exist that are in the process of building communes in order to lay the foundations for Venezuelan socialism.
In the Antimano ward, 18 communal councils of the Carapita sector and part of Santa Ana organised to establish the Victoria Socialist Commune.