By Federico Fuentes & Stalin Perez Borges - Green Left Weekly , Jun 13th 2017
Green Left Weekly’s Federico Fuentes interviews socialist activist Stalin Perez Borges from the United League of Chavista Socialists (LUCHAS) on the challenges facing the Bolivarian revolution.
By Revolutionary Communist Group – Venezuelanalysis.com , May 29th 2017
International solidarity activists demonstrated outside The Guardian’s offices in London to oppose the newspaper's media war against Venezuela and the Bolivarian revolution.
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.
By Tassos Tsakiroglou and Marta Harnecker - Efimerida ton Syntakton, Feb 1st 2017
Chilean scholar Marta Harnecker talks Marxism, Venezuela and the Latin American left with Greek journalist Tassos Tsakiroglou during her recent visit to Athens.
Stanfield Smith reviews George Ciccariello-Maher's latest book "Building the Commune," which theorises the construction of the communal state in Venezuela.
By Rachael Boothroyd Rojas - Alborada Magazine , Dec 31st 2016
Despite facing these everyday trials and tribulations, do those at the heart of Venezuela’s current storm believe, like the mainstream press, that the economic crisis means that the bell has tolled for Chavismo?
By Lucas Koerner & José Romero Losacco, Dec 2nd 2016
In this exclusive interview, the coordinator of Venezuela's first Decolonial School, Dr. José Losacco Romero, elaborates on the need to transcend the civilisational project inherent in 20th Century Socialism and explains how that space is being opened up from within the ranks of critical Chavismo.
By Tamara Pearson – Green Left Weekly , Nov 2nd 2016
Tamara Pearson reviews George Ciccariello-Maher's new book Building the Commune on Venezuela's commune movement, the largely ignored frontline of the Bolivarian experiment in radical grassroots democracy.
By Enrique Dussel and Clodovaldo Hernandez – La Iguana , Oct 21st 2016
Renowned Mexican-Argentine philosopher Enrique Dussel argues that progressive forces across the continent must take two steps forward and decolonize their revolutionary imaginary, breaking with Eurocentric paradigms.
By Steve Ellner and Lucas Koerner – Venezuelanalysis.com , Oct 17th 2016
Universidad de Oriente Professor Steve Ellner discusses a range of key issues in Venezuela, including the efficacy of state social programs such as the CLAPs, the Maduro government’s controversial Mining Arc, and the role of international solidarity.
Professor Julia Buxton argues that the Bolivarian Revolution's weakness was its inability to institutionalize the radical popular energies it unleashed in a new order, a failing that has led to the present crisis.
By Tamara Pearson - New International , Jul 4th 2016
The time has come for rural communities, who are organizing to produce food for their own consumption, to play an important role in the country, reports Tamara Pearson.
Long time Venezuela-based solidarity activist Lisa Sullivan analyzes the roots of Venezuela's crisis, arguing that solutions must come from beyond the country's government-opposition political polarization.
