Venezuela

Eduardo Sánchez discusses the recent economic measures announced by Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez and the rising protest movement for decent wages and pensions.

Roy Daza analyses the Bolivarian revolution’s trajectory, the economic, financial, and military pressures to which the country has been subjected, and how domestic policymaking has tried to cope with them.

Reinaldo Iturriza looks at the political situation in Venezuela after the January 3 US attack, the state of Chavismo and the communes and why talk of “betrayal or loyalty” when it comes to the Delcy Rodríguez’s government makes little sense.

Ana Gabriela Salazar — What is at stake now in Venezuela is sovereignty, not as an abstraction but as a real and concrete exercise that impacts our present and future.

Luis Fernando Marquez discusses recent developments in Venezuela, the people’s reactions and challenges for the left.

Malfred Gerig — The problem with the it’s “all about oil” thesis is that it obscures the other economic and geopolitical objectives of Washington’s regime change operation in Venezuela.

Franck Gaudichaud — The attack against Venezuela in early January are part of the new US strategy within the broader reorganization of the world and of inter-imperialist power relations.

Rafael Ramírez reflects on the trajectory of Venezuela’s resource economy, its changing geopolitical orientation, and the future of the Bolivarian cause.

Álvaro García Linera — US invasions and bombings are not going to disappear, but they will become shorter in duration, devastating in their technical effectiveness, and without prolonged military occupations.

The pace at which the counter-revolution in Venezuelan politics has unfolded since January 3 is incredible. Luís Bonilla-Molina summarise what has happened so far.

Michael Roberts — “Venezuela in Crisis” brings together “some of the most important Marxist, socialist, and anti-capitalist thinkers in Venezuela, representing a range of left political traditions and organizations.”

Luís Bonilla-Molina — The new unified capitalist class has gone further than even the capitalist class of the Fourth Republic in shedding any nationalist character and accepting the colonial protectorate status that the US seeks to impose.