Reinaldo Iturriza López The exception imposed One of my working hypotheses is that when the previously anomic becomes the center of social dynamics, that is, when the anomic becomes a new rule of sociability (1), it is because a state of exception has been imposed. In this case, it is the capitalist economic agents, fundamentally…
Category: BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION
2020’s Tasks for Chavistas Looking to Build a Popular Movement
Gerardo Rojas Campesino and community forces led the battle for socialism in 2019. (Gerardo Rojas) A new year has begun, and once again in Bolivarian Venezuela we find it tremendously difficult to sustain our levels of joy and quality of life amid the attacks and contradictions. Alongside Chavez and Bolivar, the popular movement flies the…
Venezuela: Farmers Resist Economic Blockade by Increasing Food Production
Boaventura Monjane Due to the illegal sanctions imposed on the country by the United States (U.S.) and its allies, the import of food, seeds, fertilizers, machinery, and other basic necessities has been restricted in Venezuela. As a result, food production registered a 60 percent decrease at the national level, but small and medium-scale farmers in…
Productive Workers’ Army: “The Working Class is Called Upon to Take a Step Forward”
Ricardo Vaz “The success of our revolution depends on many things, and one of the most important is the role of the working class.” Hugo Chavez, August 31, 2012. The Productive Labor Army is defined as “an unconventional army to win an unconventional war”. In the midst of a crisis that has hit the Venezuelan…
Venezuela Celebrates 21 Years of the Bolivarian Revolution
Peoples Dispatch On February 2, 1999, Commander Hugo Chávez was first sworn in as the President of Venezuela and pledged to constitutionally transform the social reality of the country. This February 2 marked 21 years since Commander Hugo Chávez was first sworn in as the President of Venezuela and pledged to constitutionally transform the social…
February 4, 1992: a Warning of a New ‘Puntofijismo’ Consensus
Nino Pagliccia Can an event of the past give us a warning about current events today? The answer is affirmative if we believe that history is a teacher. When we look at an important historical event we usually tend to remember the factual information surrounding the event – the actual facts that took place at…
Venezuela, Globalistan and the Reconstruction of Chavismo: A Conversation with Lenin Brea
Cira Pascual Marquina and Lenin Brea Lenin Brea is a sociologist, a martial arts enthusiast, and an avid reader of alternative graphic novels. He is the author of a book about the 2017 fascist violence in Venezuela called “Crímenes de odio y violencia incendiaria” (“Hate Crimes and incendiary violence,” 2017). Brea is a member of…
Venezuela, Anti-Imperialist Champion
Ángel Guerra Why is Venezuela capable of successfully bringing together hundreds of important representatives of the main leftist parties and popular movements, women, youth, from our region and the world as it did this past week? It often manages to do so despite the obstacles imposed by the Yankee empire, which pressures foreign ministries not…
Venezuelan Communards Meet to Organize National Movement
Ricardo Vaz – Tatuy TV The center-west regional meeting of the Communard Union (Unión Comunera) took place on January 24 to 26 in Las Lomas farmstead, Villanueva, Morán Municipality, Lara State. The event was attended by some 300 people from 60 communes. They came from the heavily agricultural states of Lara, Portuguesa, Yaracuy, Cojedes and…
The New Society Will Emerge in the Commune: A Conversation with Angel Prado
Cira Pascual Marquina and Angel Prado El Maizal is a flagship rural commune between the centrally-located Venezuelan states of Lara and Portuguesa, which produces livestock, corn, and other foodstuffs. Communal production in El Maizal is based on socialized control of the means of production. The democratic processes at the core of its initiatives include collective…
Quarantine (VII): The Restless Neoliberal Dream
Reinaldo Iturriza López Neoliberalism from below In a very schematic way, I would say that the contribution of Veronica Gago in her extraordinary work La razón neoliberal, involves: the recovery of the concepts of governmentality and biopolitics (Foucault) as a starting point for thinking about the question of neoliberalism; the problematization of the concept of…
La Via Campesina in Venezuela: A Mission for the Brotherhood, Solidarity and Truth of the People
La Via Campesina Overthrowing the Bolivarian Revolution is one of the US government’s plans to regain its control, dominance and oppression of Latin America. Today, Venezuela is the target of a hybrid and multidimensional (economic, financial, diplomatic, media and military) aggression, which is seriously impacting the life of the country and its people. This offensive…
