Tag: Venezuela
Interview | Sanctions and ‘shock doctrine’ in Venezuela
In Venezuela, US sanctions are worsening a parlous economic situation and exacerbating a social crisis. What's the way forward?
Venezuela on the brink
Mike Gonzalez looks at the crisis unfolding in Venezuela and its roots in the political and economic developments of the last two decades
Anti-imperialist resistance against the coup
"From our many different countries, we will join in united anti-imperialist actions to condemn this attempted coup in Venezuela."
Video: The right in Latin America
Watch Mike Gonzalez, Neil Davidson and activists from ResistBrazil discuss the social and political situation in Latin America
Being honest about Venezuela
Mike Gonzalez writes on the crisis in Venezuela and the implosion of the Bolivarian project. This article was first published by Jacobin Magazine.
Venezuela descends deeper into a political and economic crisis every day. The death...
revolutionary reflections | Venezuela: for sale to the highest bidder?
The theory of state capitalism has played a critical role in the International Socialist tradition's critique of regimes claiming to be socialist. In the first of the new Revolutionary Reflections articles, Mike Gonzalez presents...
A response from Venezeula
Dan Gent, writes from Venezuela having witnessed the events surrounding the opposition riots. It is offered as a comradely response to Mike Gonzalez's Letters from Venezuela.
This piece was originally published on the Comrade Markin...
rs21 Political Weekend: How do we organise to change the world?
At the rs21 political weekend, one session followed the format of the BBC's Question Time. Panellists addressed the role of the revolutionary organisation and international politics.
Mike Gonzalez: Second letter from Caracas
The mass movements have saved the revolution over and over again – in their mobilisations, in their defence of production, in their massive electoral support, and in their solidarity.
Is Venezuela burning? A letter from Caracas
Caracas is seeing an uprising of the middle classes and the rich. The working class neighbourhoods remain loyal to the government, but also deeply cynical about the extraordinary corruption of the heirs of Chavez.