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Unite union leader on the struggle against climate change, and for socialism
Mike Treen on the picket line.
Venezuela: Maduro, workers act to end big business' 'economic war'
Trade unionists marched against Venezuela’s main b
Russell Brand is right, we need a revolution (but his sexism is wrong)
Russell Brand versus Jeremy Paxman.
By Stuart Munckton
Venezuela: Revolution brings substantial improvements to working-class neighbourhoods
Hillside barrios in Caracas.
Venezuela: A day with Nicolas Maduro
Nicolas Maduro interviewed by Spain's El Viejo Topo's Víctor Ríos and Miguel Riera, translated by by Tamara Pearson for Venezuelanalysis.com
September 26, 2013 -- Very little is known about Nicolas Maduro, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in Spain. [There’s] scarcely four lines, mainly contributed by the mass media which is hostile to the revolutionary process. Spain's El Viejo Topo wanted to get to know him, and the Venezuelan president accepted the interview without any hassles.
The legacy of Chilean socialism and Salvador Allende
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By Roger Burbach
September 11, 2013 -- Futuresocialism.org -- The coup d’etat by General Augusto Pinochet in Chile on September 11, 1973, transformed the history of socialism. Almost a thousand days before, Salvador Allende and the Popular Unity coalition had taken office promising a “Chilean Road to Socialism” based on democratic principles. The government launched an agrarian reform program, recognised the right of workers to take over factories and run them collectively, took control of most of the country’s banks and expropriated multinational corporations like Kennecott and ITT, all within the framework of the Chilean constitution.