From Caracas: What Are Venezuela's Communes?

Apr 25th 2018

Communes and Workers’ Control in Venezuela: Interview with Dario Azzellini

To discuss the Venezuelan communes and the new forms of participation, as well as its successes, difficulties and contradictions, Investig’Action ...

Mar 6th 2018

Solidarity Gathering with Simon Planas Commune Movement, A Place of Popular Unity

In an exclusive article for Venezuelanalysis, local commune activist Gerardo Rojas reflects on a historic gathering of Venezuelan popular movements at the El...

Feb 27th 2018

Declaration: Meeting in Solidarity with the Commune Movement of Simon Planas

"The historic moment demands that we unite, organize ourselves in order to be capable of reaffirming the radically democratic, communal, and socialist...

Feb 6th 2018

El Maizal Commune Leads by Example, Takes on Venezuela State Superstructure

The El Maizal Commune has been plunged into the public eye in Venezuela after a dispute regarding the winner of December's municipal elections, in which...

Nov 27th 2017

Venezuela’s Communes: A Great Social Achievement

In the face of economic crisis and US-led international encirclement, Venezuela's communes continue advancing in the struggle for socialism from the bottom...

Oct 6th 2017

Why Doesn't the Venezuelan Government Talk About the Communes Any More?

Is Venezuela’s government still supporting the commune movement?

Oct 4th 2017

Venezuelan Commune Activists, Campesinos and Chavistas Picket ANC for Action

Chavista groups demonstrated in Caracas’ Plaza Bolivar last week, demanding the ANC take action on issues such as the communal economy, corruption...

Jan 19th 2017

Land Occupation! Venezuelan Commune Negro Miguel Occupies Unproductive Ranch

On January 4, 2017, the Venezuelan commune Negro Miguel in Lara state exercised its legal right to occupy an unproductive ranch belonging to the presumptive...

Nov 2nd 2016

Venezuela’s Communes Form the Front Line of a Difficult Revolutionary Struggle

Tamara Pearson reviews George Ciccariello-Maher's new book Building the Commune on Venezuela's commune movement, the largely ignored frontline of the...