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Analysis: Labor and Workers' Control

Observations on a Venezuelan Workplace Struggle

By Paul Lafrack - Solidarity, May 29th 2009

Serving lunch at the comedor.
The perception of “here the people lead” is what’s crucial. With Mayela’s firing, that was initially taken away, but then reasserted. It's the mere fact that people expect to be in control that makes a real difference.

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The Mentality of Resistance to Political Violence in Venezuela

By George Gabriel, Dec 11th 2008

The assassination of three labour leaders belonging to the largely pro-PSUV UNT has been analyzed as the spreading of rural political violence to urbanised forms targeting labour leaders and social workers. What has not been discussed is the emotional response of leftists against such crimes.

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Venezuela's Inveval Workers Protest Against Bureaucratic Sabotage

By El Militante, Dec 9th 2008

Interview with José Quintero, member of the INVEVAL Factory Committee, by El Militante, newspaper of the Revolutionary Marxist Current (CMR). Inveval is a Venezuelan valve factory that workers took over a few years ago.

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Venezuelan Workers Take Over Vivex Factory and Demand Nationalisation

By Jorge Martín - In Defense of Marxism, Dec 6th 2008

On Friday, November 21, as part of a protracted conflict, 360 workers of Vivex occupied their factory in the industrial district Los Montones in Barcelona (Anzoategui). The plant makes windscreens for the car industry, and the workers are demanding of President Chavez that he should nationalise it.

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After Venezuelan Elections, Workers Propose a Cleaning Out and More Revolution

By Stalin Perez Borges, Nov 29th 2008

Stalin Perez Borges, a national coordinator of the National Union of Workers (UNT)

It’s time to calm down and sit down together in order to evaluate in depth with the comrades, and draw conclusions that truly reflect reality. It is necessary to open a profound debate within the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), to reflect and proceed with self-criticism, as President Chávez indicated on Sunday night.

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Venezuelan Labor Leader: "Our Votes are for Chavez and the Revolution"

By Federico Fuentes - Green Left Weekly, Nov 3rd 2008

“On November 23, we will not just be voting for this or that governorship, we will be deciding the destiny of this revolutionary process”, says Stalin Perez Borges, a national coordinator of the National Union of Workers (UNT) and United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) militant.

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Interview On Venezuelan Workplaces with Carlos Lanz

By Michael Albert - ZNet, Oct 7th 2008

An interview with Carlos Lanz, one of Venezuela's main socialist intellectuals and leaders, who pioneered worker management in one of Venezuela's largest state-owned companies, the Aluminum processing plant Alcasa. He talks to Michael Albert about how the workplace of the future would be organized, among other things.

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The Struggle for Industry to Serve the Venezuelan People

By Federico Fuentes - Green Left Weekly, Sep 1st 2008

On August 27, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced the end of negotiations with former owners Ternium over the nationalisation of the Sidor steel factory, stating that the government would “take over all the companies that it has here”, insisting Ternium “can leave”.

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Boss's Campaign of Terror Against Venezuelan Unionists

By Federico Fuentes & Kiraz Janicke - Green Left Weekly, Aug 25th 2008

The owner of Fundimeca, an air conditioning factory in Valencia, Carabobo, is waging an intense campaign of terror and intimidation against the factory’s work force, which is fighting to ensure that the company complies with Venezuela’s constitution and labour laws.

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State Alliance with Employers Puts Brakes on March Towards Socialism

By Stalin Perez Borges, Aug 8th 2008

On June 11, President Chavez, accompanied by several of his principal ministers, met with the 500 most important employers in Venezuela. He called there for "national unity". The socialist journal Marea Socialista asked Stalin Perez Borges to evaluate this meeting in the present Venezuelan context.

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Encouraging Steps Forward for Venezuela's Union Movement

By Federico Fuentes - Green Left Weekly, Jul 22nd 2008

A series of recent events has opened up a new phase in Venezuela's labor movement. One of the most significant was the government’s decision to re-nationalise the Sidor steel works, one of the most important in Latin America, after an 18-month struggle by its work force.

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Venezuelan Recycling Workers Struggle for Justice

By Tamara Pearson - Green Left Weekly, Jul 1st 2008

“Once they got their wages, [the workers] occupied the installations and demanded that the company go, then they occupied the offices and demanded that the administration of Sincreba [Merida Waste Incineration and Recycling System] retire”, Simon Rodriguez told Green Left Weekly.

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"This Year May Day is Very Special"

By Stalin Perez and Marcos Garcia, Apr 30th 2008

As May Day approaches once again, Federico Fuentes from www.greenleft.org.au interviews Stalin Pérez Borges (SPB), national coordinator of the National Union of Workers (UNT) and member of the editorial board of the newspaper Marea Socialista and Marcos Garcia (MG), national coordinator of the public sector federation, FENTRASEP and member also of Marea Socialista.

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Venezuela’s Labor Movement at the Crossroads

By Kiraz Janicke & Federico Fuentes - Venezuelanalysis.com, Apr 29th 2008

The recent replacement of the labor minister and the nationalization of Sidor have once again brought to the fore the question of the role of workers in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, whose participation as an organized class has been sporadic at best, in this process aimed at constructing ‘Socialism of the 21st Century.’

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Venezuelan Steel Nationalisation Marks "New Revolution Within Revolution"

By Green Left Weekly, Apr 22nd 2008

Denouncing the “coloniser attitude” and “barbarous exploitation” of workers by the management of the Sidor steel company, Venezuelan Vice President Ramon Carrizalez announced at 1.30am on April 9 that President Hugo Chavez had decided to nationalise the company.

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