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ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Friday, Mar 19, 2010
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Thursday, Mar 18, 2010
ZNet Article “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 ... -
- Sunday, Mar 14, 2010
ZNet Article 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... -
- Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010
ZNet Article 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... -
- Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010
ZNet Article Decisive battles between the forces of revolution and counter-revolution loom on the horizon in Venezuela. -
- Thursday, Feb 18, 2010
Commentary The government of Hugo Chavez was correct last week when a representative said Ottawa supports "coup plotters" and "destabilizers" in Venezuela. -
- Thursday, Jan 21, 2010
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Wednesday, Jan 20, 2010
ZNet Article 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... -
- Tuesday, Jan 05, 2010
ZNet Article 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... -
- Tuesday, Dec 08, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Friday, Nov 27, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Monday, Nov 23, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Monday, Nov 16, 2009
ZNet Article Activists from the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) are preparing for the party’s second congress, scheduled to start on November 21. -
- Saturday, Oct 31, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Monday, Oct 19, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Sunday, Sep 27, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Saturday, Aug 22, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Friday, Aug 21, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Wednesday, Aug 12, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009
ZNet Article 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. -
- Monday, Aug 03, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Thursday, Jul 30, 2009
ZNet Article 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. -
- Tuesday, Jul 28, 2009
ZNet Article 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. -
- Sunday, Jul 26, 2009
ZNet Article Far from embodying any dramatic changes, President Obama’s foreign policy has thus far tended toward continuity or worse in most major areas. -
- Tuesday, Jul 21, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Sunday, Jul 12, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Friday, Jun 26, 2009
Book Review 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... -
- Tuesday, Jun 23, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Wednesday, Jun 17, 2009
ZNet Article 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... - All Newest ZNet
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Venezuela People's PowerNew Forms of Popular Power in Venezuela Excerpted from a full length discussion between Michael Albert and Vannia Lara conducted in April 2009. View Large Recent ZMag / Blogs
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- Thursday, Oct 01, 2009
ZMag Article Noam Chomsky's talk in Caracas, Venezuela, August 29 -
- Tuesday, Feb 17, 2009
Blog Post Venezuelan Youth and the media -
- Monday, Feb 16, 2009
Blog Post 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... -
- Thursday, Feb 12, 2009
Blog Post A detailed response to all of the errors found in a recent report by the council of Hemispheric Affairs on Venezuela. Blog Post 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. -
- Tuesday, Feb 10, 2009
Blog Post February keeps moving on, always as a rebel. And the Bolivarian Government also keeps on its march, promoting the Simón BolÃÂvar National Project together with the people and workers. -
- Monday, Feb 09, 2009
Blog Post The fifth phase of the campaign is up and running. A real hurricane toured the people of Mariara, San JoaquÃÂn, Guacara and Los Guayos. -
- Wednesday, Jan 28, 2009
Blog Post My strongest hits as a baseball player always went to the right field. -
- Saturday, Apr 12, 2008
Blog Post Book panel at the Left Forum, March 2008. -
- Monday, Dec 31, 2007
Blog Post 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... -
- Sunday, Apr 01, 2007
ZMag Article 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... -
- Thursday, Mar 01, 2007
ZMag Article 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... -
- Friday, Nov 10, 2006
Blog Post 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... -
- Wednesday, Mar 01, 2006
ZMag Article 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... ZMag Article 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 ... -
- Sunday, Oct 30, 2005
Blog Post 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... -
- Monday, Sep 19, 2005
Blog Post 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... -
- Friday, Jul 01, 2005
ZMag Article 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
ZMag Article 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... ZMag Article 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... - All Recent ZMag / Blogs
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- Monday, Feb 22, 2010
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- Thursday, Feb 18, 2010
Forum Post Good investigative work.I personally find the Canadian neo-liberal imperialist state (as opposed to those of the US, UK, Australia etc) particularly difficult to challenge in general blog or face-to-face exchanges.The Canadian state seems abl... -
- Sunday, Feb 14, 2010
Forum Post Peter Waterman sez: This is an edited extract from a piece by a well-known WSF and Trotskyist activist. But it seems to me relevant to Michael's proposal on a New International. For the complete text and footnotes, click on the CADTM URL below:&nb... -
- Wednesday, Feb 03, 2010
Forum Post No problem, Peter...hope it has been useful. -
- Tuesday, Feb 02, 2010
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