Sixty years of the Bolivian revolution – what lessons can be learned?
Category: Latin America Published Date Written by Jorge Martín
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Venezuela: Workers’ Control, Challenges and the Revolutionary Government: An Interview with Elio Sayago, President of CVG Alcasa
Category: Latin America Published Date Written by Lucha de Clases
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Venezuela: Revolutionary vignettes. Part 1: Workers' control vs bureaucrats, Mafia and multinationals in Bolivar
Category: Latin America Published Date Written by Jorge Martín
At the end of June I had the opportunity of visiting Venezuela where I attended the national conference of “Class Struggle” (Lucha de Clases), the Venezuelan section of the International Marxist Tendency. What I witnessed is an increased polarisation between left and right, but above all an open clash between the revolutionary wing of the Bolivarian movement and the reformists and bureaucrats. In a series of articles I will attempt to illustrate this.
Jesús PinoOne of the most important industrial centres of Venezuela is in the southern state of Bolivar, around the CVG complex of basic industries, producing and processing coal, iron, steel, aluminium, etc. Most of these giant companies are state-owned or have been recently nationalised or re-nationalised by the Chavez government.
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Venezuela: Revolutionary vignettes. Part 2: Workers' councils sabotaged by the bureaucracy
Category: Latin America Published Date Written by Jorge Martín
As part of my recent trip to Venezuela I was invited to speak about the world crisis of capitalism and the class struggle in Europe at two meetings of PDVSA oil workers in Monagas, in the east of the country. One of the meetings took place in Maturín, the capital of the state and where the PDVSA management for the Eastern Region is based, and the other one in the PDVSA installations in Punta de Mata, a city built around a massive oil field.
29 May, PDVSA rally. Photo: artemuestraThe comrades who invited me to speak work at different levels of the healthcare management division of PDVSA and joined the company after the sabotage of the industry during the bosses' lock out in 2002/2003. At that time thousands of managers, engineers and techinicians participated in the counter-revolutionary attempt to overthrow president Chavez by stopping production at PDVSA, the state-owned oil company. Ordinary oil workers, helped by some who had been kicked out of the industry because of their political and trade union activity, the local communities and revolutionary sections of the national guard, responded by taking over the industry, overcame the sabotage and got it running again under workers' control. Monagas was the site of some of the most advanced examples of workers' control at that time, in places like Orocual and Morichal, for instance.
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El Salvador: Urgent Action Required – Free Atilio Jaimes Pérez, General Secretary of the SELSA Union
Category: Latin America Published Date Written by SELSA
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