Interview with Miguel Angel Hernández of the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSL) Picture: View of Los Magallanes de Catia, Oswaldo Pacheco What is the popular perception in Venezuela of US military threats? Is it a central concern for most people or is popular attention more focused on other issues? There is undoubtedly a real threat … Continue reading Venezuelan socialists reject Trump’s threats without supporting Maduro
Michael Karrer interviews Atenea Jiménez and Simón Rodríguez Interview originally published in German by Analyse und Kritik. This is an expanded version translated by Venezuelanvoices.org. Pictures: Federico Parra Conflicts continue in Venezuela over the controversial results of the July 28 presidential elections. Incumbent President Nicolas Maduro was officially declared the winner by the National Electoral … Continue reading “This is not a left-wing government”
Laclase.info August 17, 2024. “Workers from different PDVSA areas in the country are calling to inform us of the massive layoffs being carried out by the board of directors. This is a political retaliation against numerous workers who, in the framework of the recent electoral process, demonstrated against Maduro's government through social networks, in whatsapp … Continue reading Socialist union leader José Bodas denounces political persecution, layoffs and evictions against workers in the oil industry
Statements by the Socialism and Freedom Party and the Communist Party of Venezuela Note by Venezuelanvoices: The Freedom and Socialism Party and the Communist Party of Venezuela come from very different political traditions and have had different positions in the face of the Chavista regime. While the Freedom and Socialism Party is a trotskyist party, … Continue reading Venezuelan leftist parties reject the dictatorship’s fraud and repression
Socialism and Freedom Party (PSL) Caracas, March 25, 2024. If there was any doubt about the authoritarian character and suppression of democratic freedoms by the government, this has been dispelled in the last few days, in the period established by the National Electoral Council for the registration of presidential candidates, which expires today. Without any … Continue reading Government forges undemocratic elections with proscriptive measures
An answer to Clifton Ross' article The leftist backlash against the Democratic Socialists' fun trip to Venezuela Image: Laclase.info, 2010 workers and left opposition protest in Maracay By Venezuelan Workers Solidarity The trip by members of the DSA International Committee (DSA-IC) to Venezuela in June stirred up important controversy. Prior to the trip itself, Venezuelan … Continue reading About the Venezuelan left opposition
By Simon Rodriguez Picture by Carlos Ramírez. Operation Liberation of the People, Caracas, 2017. On December 6 took place the election of the members of the National Assembly (AN), the unicameral Venezuelan parliament. The campaign was almost non-existent in much of the country and few voters went to the polls. In many places the lines … Continue reading How did Chavismo win 92% of the National Assembly?
More information about Venezuelan Workers Solidarity in their website. We are a group of Venezuelan socialists residing in the United States, bound by our unconditional solidarity towards the working people of our country. We support workers’ and popular struggles against oppression and exploitation, and we sympathize with the fights carried out by independent socialists, feminists, … Continue reading Venezuelan Workers Solidarity: Statement of Principles
By Partido Socialismo y LibertadPhoto credit: laclase.info The worldwide spread of the Coronavirus (Covid 19), turning what began as an epidemic in China into a pandemic, is exposing the deep crisis of the world capitalist system. There is real capitalist global chaos. Stock markets around the world have fallen precipitously; the world's major economies have … Continue reading Coronavirus: the government, businessmen and transnationals should pay for the crisis, not the working people
Interview by David Turpin with national union leader of C-cura, Orlando Chirino, about the current situation of the workers' movement in Venezuela. David Turpin belongs to the Antiwar Committees, an anti-imperialist leftist organization in the US initially driven by activists who moved away from the pro-Assad positions on the Syrian war raised by most anti-war … Continue reading ‘Neither Maduro nor Guaidó represent an alternative for the people’ says Orlando Chirino, Venezuelan union leader of C-cura
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