Voices from Venezuela on Worker Control and Bureaucracy in the Bolivarian...
Jeffery R. Webber and Susan Spronk - Against the Current Three Venezuelan revolutionary socialist activists, Gonzalo Gómez, Stalin Pérez Borges, and Luis Primo, discuss their views on the...
View ArticleTwo Day Worker Summit Expresses Content and Discontent
Steven Mather - Correo Del Orinoco International The Venezuelan labor union confederation, the National Union of Workers (UNETE), organized a two-day meeting in Caracas on radical workplace...
View ArticleVenezuelan Unions March to Control Companies, Throw Out “Reformist” State...
James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com Worker unions from a range of state-owned and private companies in Venezuela plan to march on November 9th in favor of a new labor law, the resolution of...
View ArticleVenezuela: Thousands Demand Passing of Radical Labour Law
JANET DUCKWORTH – GREEN LEFT WEEKLY More than 5,000 workers from across Venezuela marched to the Venezuelan National Assembly in Caracas, demanding a new labour law that would, "place in the hands of...
View ArticleSocialists from U.S. Meet with Venezuelan Workers
Naomi Craine Three communist workers from the United States met with factory workers here November 16 during a two-day visit to the state of Aragua just west of the capital, Caracas. We were in...
View ArticleWorkers Take over Mérida Newspapers, Appeal to Chávez for Support
Marcy Rein, Clifton Ross The fate of the only media company in Venezuela to be taken over by its workers now rests in the hands of President Hugo Chávez and his administration. read more
View ArticleStatement: Dismissal of President of the Radio of the South
Workers’ Collective of the Radio of the South In light of the dismissal of the president of the Radio of the South, the Workers’ Collective of the Radio of the South has, in a meeting, agreed on the...
View ArticleDiscussing Venezuela and the Worker Control Movement: An Interview with...
Ewan Robertson - AlertaQueCamina The Windsor/Canada-based radio program Cayapa recently broadcast a program discussing the social and political changes underway in Venezuela, in the context of a...
View ArticleVenezuela & Revolutionary Vignettes. Part 1: Workers' Control vs Bureaucrats,...
Jorge Martín - In Defence of Marxism In the first of a series of articles, José Martín discusses and analyses the challenges facing the worker's control movement in the state of Bolivar. Having...
View ArticleBuilding Socialism through People’s Economic Participation in Venezuela
Ina Alleco R. Silverio - Bulatlat.com In this analysis published by Philippines-based Bulatlat.com, writer Ina Alleco R. Silverio shares ideas with Venezuelan educator and activist Alexis Adarfio on...
View ArticleVenezuela: Translating the Revolution - Socialism and Voluntary Labour
Neftali Reyes - Debate Socialista The following is an article from the Socialist Debate website about the role of voluntary labour in Venezuela's housing construction program, Mision Vivienda,...
View ArticleRevolutionary Vignettes. Part 2: Venezuelan Workers' Councils Sabotaged by...
Jorge Martín - In Defence of Marxism In the second part of Revolutionary Vignettes, José Martín discusses bureaucracy as an obstacle to the advancement of the worker's control movement, particularly...
View ArticleThe Criminalisation of the Popular Struggle: An Interview with Félix Martínez
Aporrea.org and Félix Martínez In this interview, Martínez discusses the recently formed "Committee Against the Criminalisation of the Popular Struggle", in reference to the attacks and murders...
View ArticleAn Initial Assessment of the Trade Union Elections at SIDOR
Corriente Marxista Internacional SIDOR workers, independently of which revolutionary candidates they prefer, are clearly revolutionary and opposed to any opposition current. Furthermore, the recent...
View ArticlePraxis, Learning, and New Cooperativism in Venezuela: An Initial Look at...
Manuel Larrabure In this paper, I address the question as to the extent to which the participatory and democratic processes taking place as part of Venezuela's new cooperative movement can be said to...
View ArticleVenezuelan Government Incorporates 1,723 Subcontracted Workers into Sidor,...
Ewan Robertson - Venezuelanalysis.com A further 1,723 subcontracted workers are to be incorporated onto the state payroll in Venezuela´s nationalised steel plant Sidor, Venezuelan Vice-president Elias...
View ArticleWorkers’ Control, Challenges and the Revolutionary Government: An Interview...
Lucha de Clases In this important interview, Worker-President of aliminium factory CVG Alcasa, Elio Sayago, details the history of workers' control at the plant, the attempts made by government...
View ArticleA Multiple Socialist Administration Model and Enterprises of Social Property...
Rafael Enciso Patiño - workerscontrol.net Based on the analysis of the historic experience of what we call the Soviet mode of production – to differentiate it from the socialist mode of production...
View ArticleInterview: Stalin Perez Borges: “A Referendum is Necessary so the Working...
Marea Socialista Press We conducted this interview in order to convey the opinion of Stalin Perez Borges, national coordinator of Marea Socialista [Socialist Tide] in relation to the creation of the...
View ArticleChapter by Chapter Summary of Venezuela’s New Labour Law
Venezuelanalysis.com Venezuelanalysis.com brings readers this detailed, chapter by chapter summary of the new Organic Law of Work and Workers (LOTTT), a law which has been under discussion in both the...
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