Analysis: Law and Justice

Chapter by Chapter Summary of Venezuela’s New Labour Law

By Venezuelanalysis.com, May 9th 2012

Venezuelanalysis.com brings readers this detailed, chapter by chapter summary of the new Organic Law of Work and Workers (LOTTT), a law which has been under discussion in both the national assembly and by workers and movements since 2003. The law contains 554 articles.

Venezuela’s New Labour Law: Promoting Mutual Parental Responsibility

By Lady Gomez - Ciudad CCS , Apr 30th 2012

The rights of fathers were not well supported in the previous labour law (Jesus Castillo).

Venezuelan newspaper Ciudad CCS explores how the country's new Labour Law will improve the labour rights of parents and promote a greater role for fathers in the upbringing of their children.

Adriana Gregson: We Must De-mystify the Pathology of Crime in Adolescents

By Adriana Gregson and Akaida Libertad Orozco Díaz - Encontrarte, Feb 20th 2012

Adriana Gregson (Encontrarte)

In this interview, Adriana Gregson talks about the pilot initiative which she set up at a young offenders' institute in Caracas. The project, which was set up with government funding, allows incarcerated youths to produce radio programmes with a political content for the community.

Impunity for Venezuela's Big Landowners

By Joe Emersberger and Jeb Sprague , Nov 14th 2011

In this piece, Joe Emersberger and Jeb Sprague discuss filmaker Edward Ellis' documentary "Tierras Libres". The documentary explores the assassinations of peasant-activists killed by hired assassins for trying to implement the government's land reform project and their families' quest for justice within a judicial system that is still controlled in large part by the national elite.

Security in Venezuela: Between State Politics and Political Manipulation

By Jesse Chacon, Rebelion, Oct 27th 2011

How do you rate the following in their response to the issue of crime and insecurity? (President Chavez, National Guard, ministr

We’ve seen in previous articles how political manipulation of the issue of security attempts to show an increase in murders as a specific factor of the Bolivarian revolution. However, we can see how violence has been dramatically increasing for a long time now, since the opposition of today was the government

A Summary of a Massive Financial Fraud Campaign Against the Venezuelan State and People

By Arturo Rosales - Axis of Logic, Sep 22nd 2011

As a political actor against the Venezuelan government mainly via its editorials Veneconomy has just published a shameful piece trying to justify the actions of stockbrokers who did irreparable damage to the Venezuelan economy since exchange controls were imposed on January 17th 2003.

Anti-Corruption Laws Ban Opposition Candidate from Ofﬁce; Inter-American Court Intervenes

By Correo del Orinoco, Sep 16th 2011

This week Venezuela’s top legal ofﬁcial reiterated his assertion that any decision by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) must respect the country’s "constitutionally-based judicial order" in the case of Leopoldo Lopez, the opposition politician barred from holding public ofﬁce for acts of corruption and administrative irregularities.

Communes in Caracas: Communal Organization Includes the City

By Karla Ron - Ciudad CCS, Sep 16th 2011

Among the aims of community organization is that of building the communal State, where power is exercised directly by the people, through self-government, with an economic model of social property and endogenous development.

WikiLeaks: How the U.S. Shot Down a Czech-Venezuelan Plane Deal

By Chris Johnstone - Czechposition.com, Sep 8th 2011

A Czech-built plane, which featured in the James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies,” was subject to frantic US diplomatic activity to block a lease deal with the leftist Venezuelan regime of Hugo Chávez, according to US diplomatic cables over recent years published last week by WikiLeaks.

The Criminalisation of the Popular Struggle: An Interview with Félix Martínez

By Aporrea.org and Félix Martínez, Sep 5th 2011

In this interview, Martínez discusses the recently formed "Committee Against the Criminalisation of the Popular Struggle", in reference to the attacks and murders carried out against social activists, often with impunity.

Revolutionary Vignettes. Part 3: Chirino and Chomsky, Ultraleft and Bourgeois Critics of the Bolivarian Revolution

By Jorge Martín - In Defence of Marxism, Aug 26th 2011

While I was in Venezuela a number of comrades asked me about some manifesto against “Chavez's attacks on trade union rights” and also about the controversy over a letter Noam Chomsky had signed which the bourgeois media had used in their campaign in defence of “human rights” in Venezuela.

US: $20 Million for the Venezuelan Opposition in 2012

By Eva Golinger - Postcards from the Revolution, Aug 12th 2011

Since Hugo Chavez won his first presidential elections in 1998, the US government has been trying to remove him from power. With multimillion-dollar investments, every year Washington’s agencies advise and aid anti-Chavez groups with their campaigns and strategies against the government.

Remembering Injustice: Venezuelan Activist Jorge Rodriguez Assassinated by Government Forces in 1976

By Correo del Orinoco International, Jul 29th 2011

Jorge Rodriguez helped establish Venezuela's Socialist League in 1973 (Archive).

This week Venezuelans commemorated the life and legacy of Jorge Antonio Rodriguez, the popular socialist leader brutally murdered on 25 July 1976 by forces loyal to then president Carlos Andres Perez (Democratic Action, or AD).

Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba Are Changing the World’s Conception of Health Care

By Steve Brouwer - Monthly Review Press, Jul 21st 2011

Revolutionary Doctors, a new book published by Monthly Review Press, gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela’s innovative and inspiring program of community health care, designed to serve—and largely carried out by—the poor themselves. Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth research, author Steve Brouwer tells the story of Venezuela’s Integral Community Medicine program, in which doctor-teachers move into the countryside and poor urban areas to recruit and train doctors from among peasants and workers.

Chomsky: Good Intentions, but Wrong on Facts in Case of Judge Afiuni

By Edward Ellis - Correo del Orinoco International, Jul 17th 2011

Academic life in the United States can be very agreeable. The life of a professional scholar normally implies good pay, not overly strenuous hours and job security. Do your job, don’t make too many waves and enjoy the ride into a solid upper-middle class retirement. Perhaps it’s the fear of threatening this comfortable existence that has kept so many intellectuals over the years in the US from taking up causes of social justice... A glaring exception to this trend, of course, has been the MIT linguistics professor Noam Chomsky.