Venezuela: The Suspension of the Recall Referendum, the Sharpening of Class...
In the face of right-wing coup efforts, the PSUV must abandon reformist conciliation and radicalize the revolutionary process, argues Lucha de Clases.
View ArticleA Not So Soft Coup in MERCOSUR: Suicide for Integration
Latin American integration analyst Rubén Armendáriz explores the regional implications of recent attempts to suspend Venezuela from MERCOSUR.
View ArticleSolidarity Gathering with Simon Planas Commune Movement, A Place of Popular...
In an exclusive article for Venezuelanalysis, local commune activist Gerardo Rojas reflects on a historic gathering of Venezuelan popular movements at the El Maizal commune in Lara state and its...
View ArticleThe Reality of Wages and Workers’ Struggle in Venezuela
Ricardo Vaz reports from a public conference held in Caracas by a number of social movements and trade union organisations.
View ArticleVenezuelan Elections Offer Insight into Regional Trends
This chronicle and analysis is brought to us by a Canadian delegation of labour organizers who were observers in the May 20 elections.
View ArticleVenezuela on the Verge of a Social Explosion?
Marxist analyst Jorge Martin examines the causes, responses and solution to Venezuela's current economic crisis.
View ArticleMarta Harnecker’s Venezuela — After the Elections: What Is to Be Done? and...
Stansfield Smith criticizes Marta Harnecker's recent article about the post-electoral situation.
View ArticlePopular Power: If Not Now, When?
Martha Lia Grajales, from the Unidos San Agustin Convive cooperative, argues that only an emphasis on popular power, communal production and social property will allow the Bolivarian Process to...
View ArticleHow to Reactivate Chavismo
Bolivarian University professor Chris Gilbert argues that recovering the socialist character of Venezuela's Bolivarian Process depends on activating its latent revolutionary content.
View ArticleVenezuelan Leftist Trade Union Grouping Protests Corruption, Urges Workers to...
Venezuela’s trade union confederation FNLCT issued a public statement critiquing the recent economic reforms as insufficient.
View ArticleThe Role of the Working Class in Venezuela’s Crisis: A Conversation with...
A key cadre of the Communist Party looks at how workers can help overcome the economic crisis in the face of threats by US imperialism.
View ArticleBuilding ‘Patria’: A Conversation with Sergio Requena of the Productive...
In this interview with Venezuelanalysis, we talk to a central figure in a voluntary workers’ initiative to jumpstart industrial plants, both state‐owned and worker‐controlled.
View ArticleTales of Resistance: 'So Much Work and Nothing to Show for It'
In the first installment of her monthly "Tales of Resistance" column, Jessica Dos Santos reflects on the upcoming Workers' Day and the struggles of the working class in the current crisis.
View ArticleIt's the Pig's Fault...
El Maizal spokesperson Angel Prado denounces government policies which benefit large scale pig farming industrialists to the detriment to small and communal production.
View ArticleWorkers’ Control in Venezuela Faces an Uncertain Future
Josep Maria Martorell looks at the prospects for workers’ control movements in present-day Venezuela.
View ArticleVenezuela Teachers' Strike: ‘Those of Us Who Continue to Teach Do So...
Community news portal Tatuy TV interviewed a local Chavista teacher about teachers’ lives in the current economic crisis and the recent strike.
View ArticleWorking-Class Struggle in Venezuela: A Conversation with Leander Perez
Small but important victories of the working class point the way to a revolutionary solution to Venezuela’s crisis.
View ArticlePedro Camejo: Another Victim of State-led Privatisation in Venezuela
Privatisation of state-run industries is becoming increasingly common in crisis-hit Venezuela. Here, Tatuy TV look at the dismantling of a key agricultural company.
View ArticleA New Revolutionary Alternative for the People of Venezuela
Ben Lunn and Paul Dobson report on a re-alignment of left forces in Venezuela
View ArticleVenezuela: From Nationalisation to Privatisation
Leander Perez looks at how Maduro’s government is backtracking on Chavez’s nationalisation policy.
View ArticleThe Crisis and the Venezuelan Working Class: A Conversation with Pedro Eusse
A political bureau member of the Communist Party of Venezuela talks about the current situation of the working class.
View ArticleThe Crisis in a Venezuelan Steel Mill: A Conversation with César Soto
A trade union organizer explains the difficult working conditions in the Sidor steelmaking complex
View ArticleThe Working Class in Its Labyrinth: A Conversation with Eduardo Sánchez
A union organizer talks about the challenges facing the Venezuelan working class today.
View ArticleThere’s No Bonus in Venezuela's New Salary Schemes
VA’s Paul Dobson takes a look at an upsurge in wage-replacing bonuses as part of wider anti-worker reforms.
View ArticleInternal Contradictions: A Conversation with Thaís Rodríguez
A Chavista filmmaker and organizer talks about the struggle to get imprisoned workers released.
View ArticleA Factory without Bosses: Voices from Indorca (Part I)
Indorca workers are the stuff of legend in Venezuela, but their experience teaches us that democratic self-management is a real possibility.
View ArticleWorker Control in a Capitalist Environment: Voices from Indorca (Part II)
Despite many challenges, Indorca workers are showing that democratic self-management is a real possibility.
View ArticleHow Workers Bypass the Blockade: Voices from Indorca (Part III)
Indorca workers teach us that democratic self-management and class solidarity can offer a way out of the current crisis.
View ArticleWorkers Take Control in the Face of Shutdowns: Calderys and Equipetrol
The struggle to gain democratic control and keep two factories running in Venezuela’s Guayana region.
View ArticlePolitics of the Commons: May Day at the Heart of Everything
VA columnist Reinaldo Iturriza sets his sights on the recent labor announcements amidst a complex economic scenario.
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