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Analysis: Social Movements

In Venezuela’s Difficult Times the Grassroots are Stronger

By Tamara Pearson - New International , Jul 4th 2016

Community members working in the La Columna community garden, Merida, Venezuela. (Tamara Pearson)

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.

 
 

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Calling All Venezuelans to the Table

By Lisa Sullivan – Counterpunch , Jun 13th 2016

Residents of Venezuela's housing mission take up urban agriculture. (Jonas Holldack/Venezuelanalysis)

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. 

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Venezuela – A Last Warning

By Jorge Martin – In Defense of Marxism , May 20th 2016

Imports dropped by 18.7% in 2015 due to collapsing oil prices, forcing Venezuelans to queue up for government-regulated goods or

Venezuela's crisis is the failure not of socialism but of reformist attempts to tame and humanize capitalism, argues Jorge Martin. 

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“We Will Defend the Revolutionary Process”: Afro-Venezuelan Youth and Today's Struggle for Freedom

By JEANETTE CHARLES AND ÁNGEL GÓNZALEZ – Venezuelanalysis.com, May 15th 2016

Afro-Venezuelan children practice traditional music at a cultural center in Barlovento, Miranda State. (Jeanette Charles)

VA’s Jeanette Charles speaks with one youth organizer about his movement's commitment to continue the revolutionary legacy of the Afro-Venezuelan people.

 

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The Fight for Justice, Truth and Peace in Venezuela

By Jeanette Charles – Venezuelanalysis.com , Apr 29th 2016

Photo caption: Luis Durán shares his personal testimony with the guarimbas that took his son's life. (Paola Martucci)

The Committee of Victims of the Guarimba and Ongoing Coup internationally denounces the Venezuelan opposition’s terror campaign and attempts to silence victims’ families through the Amnesty Law.

 

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Chavismo From Below

By Eva María & César Romero – Jacobin , Apr 15th 2016

(Archive)

Eva María talks to Trotskyist party Marea Socialista on why they've broken with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the path forward for the Bolivarian Revolution. 

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The 2002 Coup: Destabilization and Revolution in Today’s Venezuela

By Jeanette Charles and Katherine Castrillo – TeleSUR English , Apr 11th 2016

"Chávez Lives". (AVN)

Katherine Castrillo, writer and queer organizer, recalls the mass protests against the 2002 U.S.- backed coup and contextualizes people’s power in Venezuela today.

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Venezuela: ¡Comuna o Nada!

By George Ciccariello-Maher – Roar Magazine , Mar 22nd 2016

(Vero Canno)

In the face of surging right-wing counter-revolution and bureaucratic inaction on the part of the ruling socialist government, Venezuela's communes, George Ciccarielleo-Maher argues, are the only hope for radicalizing the country's seventeen year-long Bolivarian process.

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Is South America’s ‘Progressive Cycle’ At an End?

By Claudio Katz – Socialist Project, Mar 9th 2016

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. (Reuters)

Argentine political economist Claudio Katz analyzes the complex conjuncture faced by the Latin American left– ranging from the failure of neo-developmentalism to the resurgence of the neoliberal right– with the struggle to further radicalize Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution at the forefront. 

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A Bolivarian Bernie? The Latin American Roots of Sanders’ Social Democratic Populism

By Lucas Koerner – Venezuelanalysis.com , Mar 4th 2016

Bernie Sanders at a rally held by National Nurses United in support of his candidacy. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

VA's Lucas Koerner argues that the emergent movement surrounding Bernie Sander's presidential bid in the US is more at home in Caracas than Copenhagen– despite Sander's statements to the contrary.

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Venezuela’s Caracazo: State Repression and Neoliberal Misrule

By TeleSUR ENGLISH , Mar 1st 2016

The Venezuelan government deployed military personnel to the streets to repress the popular rebellion that began on February 27t

February 27th marked the 27th anniversary of the Caracazo. Here the author examines the deep roots of the uprising that saw "Venezuelan history split into two", overturning the oligarchic Fourth Republic and paving the way for the Bolivarian Revolution. 

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Remembering Ali Primera: The People's Singer of Venezuela

By Ryan Mallet – TeleSUR English , Feb 17th 2016

Ali Primera. (Archive)

Ryan Mallet pays tribute to revolutionary Venezuelan folk singer Ali Primera on the 31st anniversary of his death, hailing his living legacy as a champion of the oppressed and an icon for today's social movements. 

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Lessons We Can Learn from the Electoral Setback in Venezuela

By Stansfield Smith – Venezuelanalysis.com , Jan 11th 2016

Anti-imperialist mural in Caracas.

Chicago ALBA Solidarity Committee activist Stan Smith reflects on the Bolivarian Revolution in the wake of December 6th parliamentary elections, which he observed firsthand as part of a delegation organized by Task Force on the Americas and School of the Americas Watch. 

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Sixth Republic: How to Combat the Laws to Come

By José Roberto Duque – Misión Verdad , Jan 8th 2016

(Misión Verdad)

Renowned Venezuelan writer José Roberto Duque argues that in the face of a rightwing-controlled legislature, Chavismo must be prepared to disobey laws aimed at rolling back revolutionary advances and fortify communal power on the margins of the state. 

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Struggle Ahead for Venezuela Grassroots as Right-Wing Sworn In

By Tamara Pearson – TeleSUR English , Jan 8th 2016

After the electoral loss, Maduro called for street assemblies and meetings to reflect on changes needed and make proposals. (AVN

Facing possible austerity and a return to neoliberalism at the hands of a right wing parliament, will the millions involved in the Bolivarian revolution radicalize further and protect their 15 years of gains, or will this be the blow that finally dampens their revolutionary joy and collective ambition? 

 

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