The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, during a video-conference with the popular base of the Bolivarian Militia, reported that there are currently 51,360 Integral Defense Units activated throughout the country, which represent the people’s military power because they are deployed in all the communities nationwide. He stressed that this military corps has more than 4.5…
Category: BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION
Peace is the Only Path
Jorge Arreaza MontserratIn Venezuela, we have been resisting different phases of the same plan of aggression for more than two decades. The accumulation of failures, rudeness and clumsiness, far from discouraging the imperial forces — it does not matter whether they suit up as Republicans or Democrats — seems to irritate the arrogant and quarrelsome…
The Difference Between the US and China’s Response to COVID-19 is Staggering
Vijay Prashad, John Ross A medical worker guides people at a nucleic acid testing site in Tongzhou District of Beijing, capital of China, June 22, 2020. China contained the spread of COVID-19 to other provinces through mass testing, early lockdown measures and an overall focus on saving people’s lives. Photo: Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin. In Washington Post…
The Strategic Aspects of the Great AgroVenezuela Mission
Clara Sánchez Researchers, academics and Andean families are working on strategies to recampesinize food choices. Photo: Ministry of People’s Power for Science and Technology “…on the agricultural issue, which is of high national interest, we have been fighting a hard battle since the very beginning of the Revolution”. – Hugo Chavez. Presentation of Memory and…
Pursuing National Liberation and Socialism: A Conversation with Oscar Figuera
Cira Pascual Marquina Oscar Figuera is the general secretary of the Venezuelan Communist Party [PCV]. As a 17-year-old metal worker in Aragua state, he cut his teeth as a union organizer in the Venezuelan Worker’s Unitary Central [CUTV, the PCV-led union federation], becoming the union’s general secretary in 1986. Today, Figuera is a member of…
Venezuela: Reasons for the Unavoidable End of Guaidó and Opposition Extremism
Jesus Inojosa The parliamentary elections have posed a dilemma for the Venezuelan right that is committed to a reshaping based on its participation in this process, which will give life to the new National Assembly for the period 2021-2025. Along the way of this commitment to the democratic path, they find themselves with the diatribe…
Venezuela Launches Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples
On Sunday, September 6, 205 years since the publication of the Jamaica Letter, the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity among Peoples was inaugurated as a new space for the research, dissemination, debate, solidarity and strengthening of international relations. The inauguration took place via YouTube on the Institute’s Spanish and English channels. “Our institute…
Venezuelan Women are the Hardest Hit by the Blockade: Overburdened, Exploited and Carrying the Emotional Cost
María Mercedes Cobo In patriarchal worlds, and in times of need, deprivation and challenge, women are the most affected, the most held back and the most likely to be sacrificed. They are also the most overburdened, seeking solutions and taking on survival challenges stemming from the inequality of macho culture. US imperialist and colonial policies…
Venezuela: Popular Revolutionary Alternative for a Revolutionary Solution to the Crisis!
In the framework of a great effort of collective political construction, the organizations that sign this communiqué have constituted the Popular Revolutionary Alternative, an anti-imperialist and truly socialist alliance, aimed at providing a new reference point of the left for Venezuelans. This initiative arises from the need to guide a political expression and response to…
Venezuela: The Real Enemy
Pascualina Curcio We became an unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. imperialism in 1999. From that moment on, our enemy declared war, not a conventional war, but war nonetheless. At the beginning they covered their faces with the masks of the Meritocrats of PDVSA, Fedecamaras, the CTV and the political forces of the opposition. Today,…
Class Struggle and Human Rights in the Bolivarian Revolution
Cira Pascual Marquina Ana Barrios has been a social worker and human rights activist for some thirty years. She is a member of the Surgentes collective, an Chavista organization that works to democratize society and strengthen popular power initiatives. She is also part of San Agustin Convive, a mostly women’s cooperative in the San Agustin…
In Commune: The Panal 2021 Commune (Part 2)
Katrina Kozarek Outside of Venezuela, communes are a little known aspect of the Bolivarian Revolution, yet the development of the communal state is integral to the vision of 21st century socialism laid out by former President Hugo Chavez. In this series, In Commune, Venezuelanalysis will explore different experiences of rural and urban communes to help…
