Leading Venezuelan trade unionist victimised
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Venezuelan trade union leader Orlando Chirino has been sacked from his job in the state-owned oil company PDVSA.
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Hands Off Venezuela – repeating the mistakes of the past
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The new Hands Off Venezuela film No Volverán (Never Again) is misnomer, because inspite of its title, it repeats the mistakes of earlier lefts.
Venezuelan workers balk at Chávez’s plan
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Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, lost his referendum on constitutional reform by a tiny margin, with 4.5m votes against (50.7%) and 4.4m (49.3%) in favour. Chávez has accepted the results, saying that the proposals had not been approved “for now”, but that he would continue to struggle for his version of “socialism”.
Chavez loses the referendum in Venezuela
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Hugo Chávez lost his referendum on constitutional reform by a tiny margin, with 4.5m votes against (50.7%) and 4.4m (49.3%) in favour.
Review of Greg Wilpert, Changing Venezuela By Taking Power
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Greg Wilpert, Changing Venezuela By Taking Power: The Policies of the Chávez Presidency 1999-2006, Verso 2007
Workers Power – rrr hot air
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I had an interesting altercation with some rrr-revolutionary “anti-imperialists” Workers’ Power people at a post support group meeting yesterday.
Workers News Roundup
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Iranian sugar workers strike
Workers Control at Venezuela’s Sanitarios Maracay under Attack
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There is a useful article on workers’ control in Venezuela, explaining in detail the recent struggles of workers at bathroom manufacturer Sanitarios Maracay, as well as the difficulties they face.
Workers are organising in Venezuela — the question now is: with what politics?
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There are signs of a revival in worker organising in Venezuela, but it is not clear whether it will be independent of Chávez.
Last week a “unification commission” of the two major factions within the UNT union federation met to organise elections for the leadership, which are long overdue. Leaders of the pro-Chávez Colectivo de Trabajadores en Revolución (CTR) and the more independent Corriente Clasista Unitaria Revolucionaria y Autónoma (CCURA) said they want to organise elections later this year.
Workers’ news round-up By Pablo Velasco
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By Milton D Lein of the Juventud de Izquierda Revolucionaria group in Venezuela