Writer, activist, sociologist and director of the Centre for Studies for Socialist Democracy Reinaldo Antonio Iturriza LĆ³pez discusses the competing ā and inadequate ā…
A public meeting took place between President NicolĆ”s Maduro and Movimiento de Pobladoras y Pobladores [a housing platfrom, hetheforth Pobladoras] militants at…
Interview on the recently approved anti-blockade law and the debate it has generated, the electoral divisions that have opened up with the revolution, and the current state of Chavismo
A Chavista author and former minister talks about the Bolivarian Revolutionās innovations and internal tensions
A call for the international left to place itself firmly on the side of Venezuelaās popular struggles.
Achieving basic levels of connections and unity is vital for guaranteeing the continuity of the revolutionary process
The communal councils are spaces of common political construction
The following article was written by Reinaldo Iturriza, Venezuela’s minister for communes. On 10 August 2012, a little more than a year…
A couple of friends agreed that the close result of 14 April was equivalent to starting again. “It’s as if we were…
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