By Shamus Cooke – Venezuelanalysis.com , Aug 15th 2017
International leftists must support Venezuelan revolutionaries' efforts to radicalize the Bolivarian process via the National Constituent Assembly, argues Shamus Cooke.
By George Ciccariello-Maher – Jacobin, Jul 30th 2017
George Ciccariello-Maher argues that the only way out of the Venezuelan crisis lies decisively to the Left, namely the construction of a real socialist alternative that will emerge alongside the Maduro government if possible, but without it if necessary
By Reinaldo Iturriza & Federico Fuentes – Green Left Weekly , Jul 6th 2017
Working class unity behind the National Constituent Assembly is the condition for both its success and the survival of the Bolivarian Revolution, argues the former communes minister.
By Greg Grandin – London Review of Books , Jun 26th 2017
Hugo Chávez never wavered in his commitment to Venezuela's popular movements, argues historian Greg Grandin in his review of Ignacio Ramonet's new Chávez biography My First Life.
By The Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity , Jun 10th 2017
The Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity (REDH) responds to a recent statement released by leftist academics criticising Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution as "authoritarian". The REDH accuses the signees of fetishising liberal democracy and of overlooking the importance of class struggle and US imperialism in their critique.
Bolivarian University Professor Chris Gilbert argues that Hugo Chávez is the heir to Lenin's political legacy in espousing a strategic vision for transition to socialism on the basis of the commune.
Bolivarian University Professor Chris Gilbert analyzes the balance of forces underlying the Maduro government's bid to draft a new constitution as a solution to the country's current revolutionary impasse.
Merida communal councils and popular movements denounce the murder of two state government workers by opposition snipers on April 24 as an act of terror against the Bolivarian project.
By Rachael Boothroyd Rojas & Francisco Tovar, Mar 24th 2017
On the 163rd anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Venezuela, Francisco Tovar, Executive Director of the Institute of African Diaspora Studies (IEA) talks to VA about systemic racism, the challenges facing the Afro-Venezuelan population today, and his new book on comparative abolitionist processes in Venezuela, Colombia and the US.
