latin america

Coordinadora Nacional Autónomo Independiente De Trabajadores

Venezuela: Maduro’s inauguration ushers in new cycle of class struggle (plus Constitutional reform: ‘New economy’, same objectives)

Two articles by members of the National Independent Autonomous Workers’ Coordinating Committee discuss the implications of Maduro’s inauguration after the disputed July 28 presidential elections and the dangers of his proposed constitutional reforms.
Comunes

Comunes: Keys to understanding what is happening in Venezuela (plus statement: ‘A de facto government is born, let’s organise the rebellion’)

Comunes — With Chávez, we were moving in a revolutionary and popular direction. But in the past 10 years, the Bolivarian Revolution has lost protagonism and is no longer expressed in government policies. The results are in plain sight.
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro waves his nation’s flag at Miraflores Palace during his third-term inauguration in Caracas.

The Venezuelan working class under Maduro (2013-24): Part IV — The 2024 presidential elections and Madurismo’s authoritarian turn

Luís Bonilla-Molina — The July 28 presidential election marked the start of a new phase within Madurismo, one of deepening authoritarianism in order to stabilise its pro-capitalist regime.
Maduro with PDVSA workers

The Venezuelan working class under Maduro (2013-24): Part I — Introduction

Luís Bonilla-Molina — To understand the situation of the Venezuelan working class, it is important to analyse the Maduro government and Madurismo in three phases.
Comunes launch media conference

Comunes (Venezuela): ‘The Maduro government and right-wing opposition are two sides of the same coin’

A new left-wing political organisation, Comunes, has been launched in Venezuela to confront the government’s repressive authoritarianism, neoliberal economic policies and attacks on working people’s rights.
María Alejandra Díaz

María Alejandra Díaz (Popular Democratic Front): ‘Institutional avenues for resolving Venezuela’s political crisis are being dangerously closed off’

María Alejandra Díaz — Caught between two warring parties intent on continuing head-on towards a collision, we must insist on doing politics and defending transparency, popular sovereignty and the Constitution.
PCV Neirlay Andrade

Venezuelan Communist Neirlay Andrade: ‘An authoritarian regime is never the better option’

Neirlay Andrade argues that the Maduro government’s refusal to publish election results means it ‘is crossing a line of no return and rapidly imposing a reactionary regime.’
poverty in Venezuela

Imperialist sanctions, crony capitalism and Venezuela’s Long Depression: An interview with Malfred Gerig

Malfred Gerig situates the impact of United States’ sanctions on Venezuela and the rise of Venezuela’s crony capitalism within the context of the nation’s “Long Depression”.
Venezuela Uncle Sam

Prioritising anti-US imperialism, Maduro’s Venezuela and the complexities of critical solidarity: An interview with Steve Ellner

Steve Ellner lays out his views on anti-US imperialism, how this should factor into the left’s appraisal of China and Latin America’s Pink Tide governments, and what this means for international solidarity activists.
Photo composition showing Antonio Gramsci’s face with butterflies and flowers. Photo: La Tinta

Applying/misapplying Gramsci’s passive revolution to Latin America

Steve Ellner — A distinction needs to be made between critical support for the Pink Tide and the passive revolution analysis that gets translated into frontal opposition to those governments.
pro-Maduro rally

Venezuela: Opposing the blockade is our main task

Chris Slee — Activists in Venezuela have every right to criticise government policy. But for socialists in the imperialist countries, our priorities should be different.
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.