Webinar: Venezuela – Eyewitness Accounts

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When

Where

Boorloo Activist Centre
15/5 Aberdeen St
Perth WA 6000
Australia

Why

Popular power in the face of US attacks with Chris Gilbert and Cira Pascual Marquina.

Chris Gilbert is a professor of political studies at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, contributing editor at Monthly Review magazine, and the author of Commune or Nothing!: Venezuela’s Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project (Monthly Review, 2023), among other books and articles.

Cira Pascual Marquina is a popular educator at the Pluriversidad, El Panal Commune’s educational initiative in the working-class barrio of 23 de Enero in Caracas. She is also a founder and member of the Communal Democracy Network.

Gilbert and Pascual Marquina are the creators and hosts of Escuela de Cuadros, a Marxist educational television program and podcast. They are coauthors of Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution (Monthly Review, 2020) and the book series Resistencia comunal frente al bloqueo imperialista (Observatorio Venezolano Antibloqueo, 2021–2025).

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Timezone schedule

Australia

12pm ACT, NSW, Vic & Tas
11:30am SA & Broken Hill
11am Qld
9am WA

Caracas, Venezuela

9pm on Friday 16 January Caracas local time

Webinar

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Contact

Rad Spark, Perth
[email protected]
red-spark.org
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Resources

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