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By Visha Gopal
In a left-wing culture where the normal method of “debate” is either to slanderously misrepresent your opponent or ignore her existence, the discussion on Venezuela at this year’s No Sweat conference was a welcome change.
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The UNT demands the nationalisation of bankrupt factories and cogestion, translated as co-management or worker participation.
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By alan porter
Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has claimed victory in his encounter with George Bush at November’s Summit of the Americas.
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The most promising political development in Venezuela this year was the formation of the Party of Revolution and Socialism (PRS). Four hundred people met in Caracas to found the party in July.
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Much of the discussion about Venezuela has focused on the role and policies of the Hugo Chávez government. But the emergence of the Unión Nacional de Trabajadores (National Workers’ Union, UNT) may in the long-run be more important for the workers of Venezuela. Paul Hampton reports.
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“By Bonapartism we mean a regime in which the economically dominant class, having the qualities necessary for democratic methods of government, finds itself compelled to tolerate – in order to preserve its possessions – the uncontrolled command of a military and police apparatus over it, of a crowned ‘saviour’. This kind of situation is created in periods when the class contradictions have become particularly acute; the aim of Bonapartism is to prevent explosions.”
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By Pablo Velasco
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A former textile worker who posted online reports about a protest demonstrations by steel workers in Chongqing has disappeared and is believed to be in police custody.
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Paul Hampton reviews Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution by Richard Gott (Verso, 2005)
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A letter from Venezuela by Alex hammond
Upon arriving in Caracas last month I have found myself encountering many Venezuelan bourgeois who have come across hard times since the rise of the new order.
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Four hundred people met in the Caracas Venezuela on 9 July to found a new socialist party by January 2006, when the World Social Forum will meet in the city.
The name currently proposed for the party is the PTRS, the Workers Party for the Socialist Revolution.
