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      Popular protagonism becomes a mere slogan if people do not have the opportunity to make their opinions known and take decisions in areas where they participate: (geographic spaces, workplaces, educational establishments, interest groups). If the ...
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    • Friday, Mar 19, 2010
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      Venezuela has an election for its National Assembly in September, and the campaign has begun in earnest. I am referring to the international campaign. This is carried out largely through the international media, although some will spill over into ...
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    • Thursday, Mar 18, 2010
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      “I’m a woman with a new life since the Bolivarian Revolution knocked on my door”, said Pielrroc Montenegro, Maracaiban[i] by birth and Andean by tradition, with eyes full of nostalgia and gratitude. She described herself as a “dignified mother of ...
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    • Sunday, Mar 14, 2010
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      The Empire will stop at nothing to find mechanisms and techniques to achieve its final objective, and we cannot disregard the possibility of a military conflict in the near future. If the US places Venezuela on the “terrorist list” this year, we c...
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    • Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010
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      Following the passage of the new Law of the Federal Government Council last week, pro-government governors around the country expressed their support of the formation of a Federal Government Council, which will consist of governors, mayors, member...
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    • Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010
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      Decisive battles between the forces of revolution and counter-revolution loom on the horizon in Venezuela.
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    • Thursday, Feb 18, 2010
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      The government of Hugo Chavez was correct last week when a representative said Ottawa supports "coup plotters" and "destabilizers" in Venezuela.
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    • Thursday, Jan 21, 2010
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      To be a contender, “21st Century Socialist” vision needs elaboration, advocacy, and program. To improve focus and increase power, worldwide anti-capitalist organizations, projects, and movements need shared coherence and mutual solidarity. To ...
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    • Wednesday, Jan 20, 2010
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      In his annual address to the National Assembly, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced a 25% increase in the minimum wage this year, promised that funding to health care, education, and other anti-poverty programs will not be cut, and spoke of...
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    • Tuesday, Jan 05, 2010
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      At least eight U.S. citizens were killed on a CIA operations base in Afghanistan this past Wednesday, December 30. A suicide bomber infiltrated Forward Operating Base Chapman located in the eastern province of Khost, which was a CIA center of oper...
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    • Tuesday, Dec 08, 2009
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      The publication of The Lines of Chávez N° 50 is no mean feat. It coincides with the tenth anniversary of the great popular victory of December 6th, 1998. On this luminous and transcendental date, the sovereign will of the majority definitively f...
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    • Friday, Nov 27, 2009
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      Addressing delegates at the International Encounter of Left Parties held in Caracas, November 19-21, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez stated “the time has come for us to convoke the Fifth International.” Face with the capitalist crisis and the...
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    • Monday, Nov 23, 2009
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      I know Chavez well, and no one could be more reluctant than him to allow a showdown between the Venezuelan and Colombian peoples that leads to bloodshed. These are two fraternal peoples, the same as Cubans living in the east, center and west end o...
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    • Monday, Nov 16, 2009
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      Activists from the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) are preparing for the party’s second congress, scheduled to start on November 21.
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    • Saturday, Oct 31, 2009
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      Last week, Venezuelan officials arrested seven suspects in the deadly October 13th attack on an indigenous Yukpa community. However, the investigation was tainted with the arbitrary detention one of the victims, Yukpa Chief Sabino Romero, promptin...
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    • Monday, Oct 19, 2009
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      On Saturday Urban Land Committee spokespeople from across Venezuela met in Caracas to demand the approval of a reform to the Law of Regularisation of Urban Land Tenancy, which would transfer private housing to occupying families and recognise coll...
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    • Sunday, Sep 27, 2009
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      Creating a new Radio of the South, formalizing the Bank of the South, criticizing the make-up of the UN Security Council, and supporting Honduran President Manuel Zelaya were among the outcomes at the second Africa-South American Summit (ASA) that...
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    • Saturday, Aug 22, 2009
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      Venezuelan opposition activists allege that the new Education Law, which the National Assembly passed unanimously shortly after midnight on August 14th following an extended legislative session, is unconstitutional, anti-democratic, politicizes th...
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    • Friday, Aug 21, 2009
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      The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), the party which supports President Hugo Chavez and which currently has almost 7 million registered members, is reorganising itself into smaller units called "patrols," in order to increase participat...
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    • Wednesday, Aug 12, 2009
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      Denis MacShane attacks the British left for defending Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez against an onslaught from the media, "New Cold Warriors," and right-wing demagogues throughout the world. His rhetorical trick is to tar the left with a new med...
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    • Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009
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      In the name of the spirit of Liberty and Justice that in this supreme era of greatness gathers us in this luminous present, I wish to extend to you all my most sincere and fraternal greetings.
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    • Monday, Aug 03, 2009
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      For much of the 19th and 20th century, socialism was the hope of millions of working people around the globe, including the United States in the early part of the 20th century. This was the period of the growth of the Socialist Party and the Indus...
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    • Thursday, Jul 30, 2009
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      Reviewed: The New Latin American Left: Utopia Reborn, edited by Patrick Barrett, Daniel Chavez and Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito. Published by Pluto Press (2008), 320 pages.
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    • Tuesday, Jul 28, 2009
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      On June 28th, the Honduran military kidnapped Zelaya and deposited him in Costa Rica, and Roberto Michelleti, a fellow party member of Zelaya and head of the Congress at the time, took over as de facto president.
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    • Sunday, Jul 26, 2009
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      Far from embodying any dramatic changes, President Obama’s foreign policy has thus far tended toward continuity or worse in most major areas.
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    • Tuesday, Jul 21, 2009
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      Mérida, July 15th 2009 (Venezuelanalysis.com) -- The public debate over a law proposal in the Venezuelan National Assembly (AN) that would legalize same-sex civil unions intensified this week, as Venezuela's Episcopal Church publicly condemned th...
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    • Sunday, Jul 12, 2009
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      In this interview Lizardi Prada gives insight into the fight for women's rights in the Venezuelan context. Prada speaks about the union's creation and day-to-day functioning, it's agenda for homemakers' rights, it's relationship to the Catholic Ch...
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    • Friday, Jun 26, 2009
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      Greg Wilpert's book is important: important not only as an account of developments in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez between 1999-2007, but as a “critical interrogation” of Chávez' “socialism of the 21st Century,” which should make it impo...
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    • Tuesday, Jun 23, 2009
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      Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez has recently popularized the idea that we should re-imagine society on the basis of what he calls "21st Century Socialism." Unfortunately, while Chávez and his supporters provide a number of hints as to what thi...
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    • Wednesday, Jun 17, 2009
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      On Thursday evening Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez hosted the first of what will be a series of special episodes of his weekly presidential talk show, "Hello, President." The focus of these episodes is the theory of socialist change, in contras...
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    New Forms of Popular Power in Venezuela

    Excerpted from a full length discussion between Michael Albert and Vannia Lara conducted in April 2009.

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    • Thursday, Oct 01, 2009
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      Noam Chomsky's talk in Caracas, Venezuela, August 29
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    • Tuesday, Feb 17, 2009
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      Venezuelan Youth and the media
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    • Monday, Feb 16, 2009
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      It has been a long march to get to this date: February 15. It is a glorious, bright date to consolidate the full democratic rights and powers. Because it is the fate we have drawn up and we are willing to give our souls to reach it. It is a histor...
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    • Thursday, Feb 12, 2009
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      A detailed response to all of the errors found in a recent report by the council of Hemispheric Affairs on Venezuela.
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      My spirit was always conquered by the whipping and flamenco verb of Jesus, the redeemer Christ of the oppressed peoples, since the time I was an altar boy in the humble church of Sabaneta, when the stormy decade of the 60s started last century.
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    • Tuesday, Feb 10, 2009
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      February keeps moving on, always as a rebel. And the Bolivarian Government also keeps on its march, promoting the Simón Bolí­var National Project together with the people and workers.
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    • Monday, Feb 09, 2009
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      The fifth phase of the campaign is up and running. A real hurricane toured the people of Mariara, San Joaquí­n, Guacara and Los Guayos.
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    • Wednesday, Jan 28, 2009
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      My strongest hits as a baseball player always went to the right field.
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      Book panel at the Left Forum, March 2008.
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    • Monday, Dec 31, 2007
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      The referendum vote was about 50-50, and the slight negative outcome was immediately accepted by Chavez, a fact that should have caused some embarrassment in the editorial offices and among correspondents who have been having regular tantrums abou...
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    • Sunday, Apr 01, 2007
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      P . Sainath is an award-winning journalist who writes about India. He is Rural Affairs editor of the Hindu , one of India’s most important newspapers. “I cover the people who...
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    • Thursday, Mar 01, 2007
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      T he U.S. establishment takes a “pragmatic” view of the merits of elections, with approval or disapproval depending on how well it “works,” as perceived by the dominant inte...
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    • Friday, Nov 10, 2006
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      Interview with FRETECO representative By: Marie Trigona - Venezuelanalysis.com Latin America's occupied factories and enterprises represent the development of one of the most advanced strategies in defense of the working class and resistance aga...
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    • Wednesday, Mar 01, 2006
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      T ariq Ali was born in Lahore, then a part of British-ruled India, now in Pakistan. For many years he has been based in London where he is an editor of New Left Review. He’s written more than...
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      T he planning committee of the World Social Forum (WSF) 2005 decided that 2006 would be a year of “polycentric” (decentralized) meetings around the world. Gatherings were to be held in ...
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    • Sunday, Oct 30, 2005
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      In Venezuela, the US has tried even more drastic measures, like supporting a military coup that (briefly) overthrew the democratically elected government in 2002. The US had to back down in the face of enormous protest in Latin America, where d...
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      Take the US. In 1750… it was one of the richest societies on earth, but it was, of course, pre-industrial. If it had pursued its comparative advantage in accordance with market principles, it would now be exporting fish, fur, agricultural products...
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    • Friday, Jul 01, 2005
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      O ver one million people filled the streets along the historic route of Mexican social protest on May Day, marching from the Angel of Independence to the Zocalo and then filling the enormous square at the city’s ...
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    • Sunday, May 01, 2005
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      N ews reports indicate an official U.S. concern over Venezuelan President Chavez’s purchase of new weapons and the threat that this might set off a local arms race, help him support terrorists, and point to...
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      T here’s nothing quite as revolting as “left-liberal” Democrats struggling to identify themselves with United States imperialism. Take a look, for example, at the March 2005 issue of the avowedly pr...
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