During the last two months Venezuela has been faced with a terrible wave of violence. It has already resulted in more than 60 deaths along with looted schools, burned public buildings, destroyed public transportation and emptied hospitals. The major media, however, simply engage in a running (...)
The Bolivarian Revolution went too far for capitalism but not far enough for socialism.
There can be no doubt that Venezuela is going through a profound crisis. A group of socialists in the country who defend the legacy of Hugo Chávez paint a bleak picture of everyday life there:
"Nearly (...)
Venezuela is once again dominating international headlines as violent opposition protests bent on toppling the elected Maduro government enter their seventh week. The demonstrations have claimed to date at least 54 lives since April 4 , surpassing the previous wave of violent anti-government (...)
Anderson Bean examines the social and economic crisis that has jeopardized the advances of the Chávez era—and traces the roots of the crisis to their sources.
VENEZUELA IS facing the largest political and economic crisis since the 1998 election of Hugo Chávez began the Bolivarian Revolution . (...)
In its editorial, issued on Sunday May 7, the revolutionary organisation Marea Socialista (Socialist Tide), which is identified with what is known in Venezuela as “critical Chavismo” evaluates the situation in the country over the last few days, highlighting the occurrence of deaths and looting (...)
Activists in the Liga Unitaria Chavista Socialista LUCHAS are giving their opinion on the call for a National Constituent Assembly made by President Nicolás Maduro on May 1, 2017 in his speech at the celebration of International Workers’ Day.
They hope that comrades from other revolutionary (...)
It is not possible to understand the current crisis in Venezuela without analysing the factors that develop “from within” and are not entirely explained by the mainstream media. We offer here seven keys to the current crisis, emphasizing that understanding what is happening in Venezuela requires (...)
THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE in Venezuela, and the appalling social crisis and desintegration of the “Bolivarian Revolution,” is widely reported but only thinly analyzed in the media. We explore here some of the background and dynamics of the disaster.
Jeffery R. Webber was interviewed by George (...)
The current crisis of the Bolivarian project is due to its failure to question the rentier petro-state model. Far from accepting that an alternative to capitalism necessarily had to be a departure from the destructive development model of unlimited growth, the government of President Chávez (...)
On the anniversary of the birth of Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias, we present to our fellow Venezuelans and to the rebellious peoples and comrades from different parts of the globe the Unitary Chavista Socialist League (LUCHAS), a tool that we hope will contribute to the organization and rebellious (...)
For almost 10 years we have shared the same road with the comrades who today make up the organization known as Marea Socialista, and the dream of the Socialist, Chavista, Bolivarian Revolution. We were loyal to Chavez and his legacy, and for that reason we didn’t hesitate to raise our critical (...)
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Marea Socialista is a socialist organization in Venezuela whose members have contributed often to SocialistWorker.org. It has been part of the revolutionary process in Veneuzela since the late 1990s and joined the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) when it was founded by (...)
The third anniversary of the death of the late President Hugo Chávez on March 5 was the occasion for several articles assessing 18 years of Chavista government in Venezuela—15 of them with Chávez in power and the last three under his successor, Nicolás Maduro.
César Romero is a member of the youth (...)
The Right’s recent success in Venezuela shows how vital it is to reclaim and democratize Hugo Chávez’s project.
The December elections to Venezuela’s National Assembly completely changed the balance of power within the chamber. Where once Chavistas had an absolute majority, this time 112 of the (...)
“They hit us in the stomach. The revolution, and we as social movements, haven’t been able to deal with the problem of food.” Marisa, community activist in La Vega, a day after the election.
Confrontation inside and outside parliament
On the morning of Tuesday, 5 January, a few thousand (...)
New Parliamentarian Candidates Announced in Venezuela Amid Controversy
Santa Elena, August 5, 2015. (venezuelanalysis.com)- On Monday, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro announced that a former political opponent and two former opposition activists would appear on the ballot of the socialist (...)
Venezuela’s failure to develop an effective strategy to reduce its economy’s dependence on gas and oil threatens the social successes and future viability of the Bolivarian project.
Over the 15 years of the Bolivarian government in Venezuela, significant changes have taken place in the political (...)
One of the most important public debates over the future of Venezuela’s revolutionary process has opened up after the publication of a document by recently ousted planning minister Jorge Giordani.
In it, Giordani launched a series of scathing criticisms of the “new path” he says the government (...)
The publication of a document highly critical of the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, authored by one of the longest-serving ministers in former president Hugo Chavez’s government, has triggered an unprecedented debate among Venezuelan revolutionaries.
Jorge Giordani dropped (...)
Who Can Stop the Drums?. Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela. By Sujatha Fernandes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010, 336 pages, $24.95 paper.
FOR THOSE WHO want a more equitable and democratic world, 21st-century Venezuela has featured some exciting experiments. The late Hugo (...)
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