Coral Wynter reviews Chris Gilbert’s 2023 book, Commune or Nothing: Venezuela’s communal movement and its socialist project, one of the best available accounts of Venezuela’s communal movement.
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In the second of our two-part interview, Green Left’s Federico Fuentes speaks to Elias Jaua — Chavista, socialist and former vice-president of Venezuela under President Hugo Chávez — about the response inside the country to the January 3 US military assault, the Nicolás Maduro government, the state of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela and popular participation today.
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Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Elias Jaua, who explained how Venezuela came to be “militarily occupied and subjected to a policy of coercive tutelage” and why Venezuelans will need to wage a struggle for national liberation.
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Santiago Mayor speaks to Venezuelan sociologist Reinaldo Iturriza about the political significance of Venezuela’s communes and where they stand today.
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Santiago Mayor interviews Reinaldo Iturriza, a Venezuelan sociologist, writer and political activist, about the state of Chavismo following the United States’s attacks on Venezuela.
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In this interview with Ricardo Vaz, Venezuelan economist Carlos Mendoza Potellá offers his analysis on the recent reform of the Hydrocarbon Law and the struggle for sovereignty in Venezuela.
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The Green Left Show’s Isaac Nellist speaks to Federico Fuentes, socialist journalist and editor of LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, about the United States’ January 3 attack on Venezuela and the importance of solidarity.
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Salvador De León is a member of the Autonomous and Independent Workers’ Committee in Venezuela. In the second of our two-part interview, Green Left’s Federico Fuentes speaks to De León about the situation facing Venezuelan workers and trade unions.
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Salvador De León — a member of the Autonomous and Independent Workers’ Committee in Venezuela — spoke to Green Left’s Federico Fuentes about the Nicolás Maduro government’s economic policies.
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Federico Fuentes sat down with Venezuelan sociologist Atenea Jiménez, co-founder of the Alliance for Sovereignty and Democracy, which is bringing together Venezuelan left-wing movements and activists.
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Green Left’s Federico Fuentes sat down with Malfred Gerig, a sociologist from the Central University of Venezuela, to discuss what he calls Maduro’s “neoliberalism with patrimonialist characteristics”. This is the final in a three-part interview.
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In the second of a three-part interview, Green Left’s Federico Fuentes sat down with sociologist Malfred Gerig to discuss Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro’s economic policy response to what he terms the country’s “Long Depression”.