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Protest free political prisoners Venezuela

Venezuela after the presidential election: ‘This is not a left-wing government’

Atenea Jiménez & Simón Rodríguez — More and more leftists, including former Bolivarian activists, are forming new coalitions and campaigns against the government.
A youth raises his middle finger while riding public transportation in Caracas, Venezuela on September 7, 2023 © Maxwell Briceño.

Postcard from a Venezuelan feminist in Caracas

Ariadna Mogollón — Venezuela is not the same country it was in 2017, or 2018 when there was a very intense economic crisis due to the blockade imposed by the US. There has been an economic recovery, but its a recovery that has deepened class divisions.
walking past poster of Maduro

The end of Venezuela’s Bolivarian process? An interview with community activist Gerardo Rojas

Gerardo Rojas discusses the July 28 presidential election, the current state of community organising in the country and why we might be witnessing the Maduro government’s final break with the Bolivarian process.
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Venezuela: Politics of the commons — The open-ended history of communes

Reinaldo Iturriza looks back at the history of communes and how they are supposed to be more than "appendages" of state institutions.
Plan Pueblo a Pueblo food distribution activity at Mateo Liscano School, Quibor, Venezuela. Photo by Gerardo Rojas.

‘Where danger lies…’: The communal alternative in Venezuela

Chris Gilbert — To frame the ecological promise of Venezuela’s communal project, it is useful to consider some of its main features, and contrast them with the capital system.

Venezuela’s ‘21st Century Socialism’ and Marx, Lenin and Luxemburg on the role of cooperatives — A response to Marta Harnecker

By Stansfield Smith

Venezuela: ¡Comuna o Nada!

Venezuela: a turning point for Latin America?

By Stuart Piper Janua

Rightists’ election victory poses major threat to Venezuela’s advances: Can People’s Power save the Bolivarian Revolution?

 

President Nicolás Maduro addresses Chavista supporte

Venezuela: Racism and the counter-revolution

Chavez’ revolutionary government spent $300 million to build a futuristic fu

Venezuela: Revolution brings substantial improvements to working-class neighbourhoods

Hillside barrios in Caracas.

Marta Harnecker: 'Chavez's legacy: with the people, building a socialist alternative to capitalism'

Thousands turn out in Caracas to remember Chavez.

By Marta Harnecker, translated by Yoshie Furuhashi for MRZine

March 6, 2013 -- La Segunda -- When Hugo Chávez triumphed in the 1998 presidential elections, the neoliberal capitalist model was already floundering. The choice then was whether to re-establish the neoliberal capitalist model -- clearly with some changes including greater concern for social issues, but still motivated by the same logic of profit seeking -- or to go ahead and try to build another model.

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