Venezuelan communes – where productive activities are controlled by a range of community assemblies – are fascinating examples of socialist forces experimenting…
Chris Gilbert
Last year, the much-watched YouTuber Luis Villar Sudek, also known as “Luisito Comunica,” arrived with his team, camera, and checkbook in hand…
In 2012 Venezuela’s progressive Labor Law was about to be passed in the National Assembly. Since the law was set to amplify workers’ rights…
A look at an emergent grassroots movement in Venezuela
A Socialist Holdout in the Venezuelan Andes
What clearly sets the Venezuelan people apart from most other peoples in the world is the recent memory of having participated in politics and of having had a government intervening on their behalf.
The pattern of how capitalist countries respond to the crisis – namely, by putting private profit over shared wellbeing and overemphasizing individual responsibility while avoiding controls on profit-making activities that are the key sources of contagion
Internationalism can take the right-wing path of empty or formal defense, in which the content of the Bolivarian process is ignored, or it can take the left-wing path, in which sovereignty is defended along with the social project
Much more than being sold on a better future, it’s those romantic “blasts from the past” that bind people to a project and its values