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.
From 29 to 31 of July, the Fourth National Meeting of Commune Members was held in the municipality of Torres, state of Lara, with over 300 delegates representing some 70 communes from 13 of Venezuela's states.
By Degnis Merlo – Venezuela de Verdad, Apr 5th 2011
Neighbours in the Antonio Jose de Sucre Commune work together, managing funding, projects, and training, and get results in an environment that can sometimes become hostile.
Venezuela’s National Assembly on Friday approved two of the five laws that make up the Laws of People’s Power designed and demanded by pro-Revolution activists nationwide.
Under President Hugo Chávez, Venezuela has been no stranger to controversy. However, one of Chávez’s proposals has evoked particularly strong emotions – the establishment of socialist communes (comunas socialistas) throughout the country.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez toured the states of Lara and Tachira last weekend, meeting with community activists and workers to strengthen local organization and promote productive socialist enterprises.
Yesterday, President Hugo Chavez announced the creation of a new bank card that can be used to purchase food at controlled prices in new community run supermarkets called “Biceabastos,” and to maintain accounts in a new system of communal banks linked to state owned banks.
By Susan Spronk, Jeffery R. Webber - The Bullet, Jul 7th 2010
We caught up with Wilder Marcano, director of the network of Comunas in Caracas, on the morning of June 18, 2010. He talked with us just before addressing a crowd of a few hundred representatives of different comunas from around the capital who had gathered to discuss issues related to building popular power from below in the poorest barrios.
By Susan Spronk, Jeffery R. Webber -Upside Down World, Jul 2nd 2010
An interview with Rosa Maria Gonzalez, a leading commune member, about how the communes work, how they help solve community problems, increase women's participation, raise consciousness, and their role in the Bolivarian revolution,
By Antenea Jimenez, Jeffery R. Webber, Susan Spronk, Jun 14th 2010
An interview with Antenea Jimenez, who is working with a national network of activists who are trying to strengthen Venezuela's communes. She discusses the important advances in the process, as well as the significant challenges that remain in the struggle to build a new form of popular power from below.
