By Venezuela Solidarity Campaign (UK), Dec 8th 2013
Venezuelans go to the polls this Sunday (8 December) to elect 335 Mayors. As the polls approach there are growing concerns that extremists in Venezuela’s right-wing opposition coalition are planning to use these elections as a focal point for further destabilisation. VSC looks at some of the key points surrounding the elections.
By Venezuela Solidarity Campaign (UK), Dec 6th 2013
Leading figures from across British society such as Grahame Morris MP (Labour Friends of Venezuela & Venezuela Solidarity Campaign,) filmmaker John Pilger, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady, Professor Ernesto Laclau & many others have signed a statement in solidarity with Venezuela.
By Gregory Wilpert - Venezuelanalysis.com, Dec 4th 2013
Though activists, academics, and other readers rely on Venezuelanalysis.com daily and weekly for contextual, thorough, on the ground, non corporate perspectives on the Bolivarian revolution, few people know the site’s story.
April: between peace and rage shows the political violence that took place earlier this year in Venezuela, in the aftermath of the presidential election in April. Alvaro Sanchez, chargé d’affaires at the Venezuelan Embassy UK argues here that it was a blatant attempt to oust the government of Nicolas Maduro before it was even sworn into office.
By Ewan Robertson - Venezuelanalysis.com, Nov 24th 2013
What are the stakes for both Chavismo and the opposition in the upcoming municipal elections, and is it accurate to see the elections as a type of “plebiscite” on the government?
By Correo del Orinoco International, Nov 22nd 2013
Duilliam Virigay. National Spokesman of the Simon Bolivar National Communal Front (FNCSB), describes the interesting yet difficult challenges faced by Venezuela’s radical experiment with participatory democracy.
By Tamara Pearson - Venezuelanalysis.com, Nov 19th 2013
The first national conference of commune members held on the weekend of 16 and 17 November was a demonstration of how the commune movement is slowly strengthening, and how it is these structures that are the antidote to many of Venezuela's ongoing problems of speculation, importation, bureaucracy, and corruption.
