bureaucracy

Some people try to classify this process here. It’s a useful exercise in terms of analysing what is going on, where it is going and which forces, classes and social groups really have the power and for whom this revolution is serving. Yet statements like ‘it’s a working class revolution’ or the Chavez government is totally ‘bourgeois’ or  ‘the PSUV is good’  or ‘bad’ do not work, because what is going on here is far more complex. It’s an un-won battle between a range of forces, many of which are confused and obscured by red t-shirts or sloganeering for one side or the other.

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Creation? No, Re-activation

My neck aches as I stand, stooped under the sagging roof of the packed bus to Fundo Comun, the local branch of the Local Presidential Commission for Popular Power. It is two days after the head of our building, J, told us of the old Community Council in La Independencia and we need to find out what currently exists in the community to discover what work remains to be done. It is three o'clock, Tuesday.

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