US multinational Kimberly-Clark has filed a formal request to take Venezuela to court regarding the expropriation of its abandoned factory by the government of Nicolas Maduro in July 2016. The legal basis of the action is unclear as Venezuela withdrew from the World Bank arbitration body in (...)
Trump’s draconian sanctions against Venezuela will hit the country’s workers and poor the hardest.
In what at this point can only be assumed to be part of a quest to inflame chaos and disorder the world over, the Trump administration has in recent months imposed a series of sanctions against (...)
The political crisis that has been shaking Venezuela for months is at the heart of a war of information and propaganda, which is even inviting itself, albeit for other purposes, into the French political debate. Beyond binary discourses, we wanted to take the risk of complexity with Fabrice (...)
AGAINST INTERVENTIONISM AND IMPERIALIST MILITARY THREATS
US President Donald Trump has just announced that he is considering the “military option” to remove President Nicolas Maduro from power. The threat of a possible military operation against Venezuela has been preceded by the adoption of (...)
By threatening Venezuela with a “possible military option”, the grotesque and dangerous Donald Trump has thrown even more oil on the fire of the very serious economic, social and political crisis that this country is going through. Even if all Latin American governments, including the closest (...)
Venezuela is passing through a period of acute political, economic and social turmoil, which has intensified the debate within the regional and global left about the nature, the legacy and the prospects of the Bolivarian process.
What structural or historical factors have conditioned the (...)
We congratulate the Venezuelan people for the high participation in the election of the National Constituent Assembly
Now what we need is ¡Change of Course… to the left!
The high electoral participation of more than 8 million voters, over 41% of the electoral register, gives a clear legitimacy (...)
Faced with the political crisis in Venezuela, Anticapitalistas wish to declare:
1) Our rejection of the offensive of the opposition against the Bolivarian government. The Venezuelan opposition is led by deeply anti-democratic sectors linked to the ruling classes. These sectors are preparing a (...)
Mike Gonzalez : Being Honest About Venezuela
As Nicolás Maduro’s increasingly antidemocratic government battles violent right-wing forces, ordinary Venezuelans are watching the gains of Chavismo slip away.
Venezuela descends deeper into a political and economic crisis every day. The death toll (...)
Chávez: My First Life by Hugo Chávez and Ignacio Ramonet, translated by Ann Wright. Verso, 544 pp, £30.00, August 2016, ISBN 978 1 78478 383 9
By the end of the last century, Venezuela’s old constitutional order, which for four decades had rotated power between two ideologically indistinguishable (...)
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 (...)
An important debate has opened up among the left, both within Venezuela and internationally, as a result of the recent turmoil in the country.
In an attempt to bring the views of grassroots Venezuelan militants to an English-speaking audience, Green Left Weekly’s Federico Fuentes interviewed (...)
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 (...)
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