[Marxism] Venezuela and covid-19: statement and video (Green Left)

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Despite sanctions and threats, Venezuela shows the way:

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/despite-sanctions-and-threats-venezuela-shows-way-dark-times


Video:  How Venezuela did so well on covid-19:

https://www.greenleft.org.au/video/video-how-venezuela-did-so-well-covid-19




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[Marxism] Venezuela in the 2020 pandemic

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[Marxism] Venezuela faces covid-19 (interview with Maduro)

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[Marxism] Venezuela: community organisation key to fighting COVID-19 (Green Left)

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[Marxism] Venezuela: combating Covid 19 through solidarity (Green Left)

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[Marxism] Venezuela, January 2020: Hardship and Resistance (Counterpunch)

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https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/29/venezuela-january-2020-hardship-and-resistance/

"The economic war is certainly effective in making life more difficult for 
ordinary Venezuelans. But instead of dejection and despair, we observed a surge 
of grass roots organizing: communes, farmers’ markets, collective farms, 
city-country direct exchanges, community building in many forms. The activists 
we met this January share a cautious optimism, a sense that the Bolivarian 
process that Chávez initiated might survive this economic war. Meanwhile, a new 
kind of society, one based on communal values of cooperation, social 
solidarity, and mutual support, is emerging."
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[Marxism] Venezuela: US imposes full-fledged embargo (Green Left Weekly)

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[Marxism] Venezuela and History

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[Marxism] Venezuela speech

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The Venezuela Solidarity Campaign held a protest outside the Melbourne office 
of the Australian government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on July 
18.  Here is a speech I made.

Chris Slee



We are here to protest against the Australian government's complicity in the US 
attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government of Venezuela.

Last year Nicolas Maduro was elected president of Venezuela for a second time.  
International observers said the election was free and fair.

But in January this year right-wing politician Juan Guaido declared himself 
president.  The United States immediately recognised this claim - and Australia 
followed suit.

The US has imposed an economic blockade on Venezuela.  US allies such as 
Britain and Australlia are cooperating in this blockade.

The blockade has created shortages of many products.

For example, there are shortages of some medicines.  There are shortages of 
spare parts for water pumps, causing millions of people to lose access to 
running water.  There are shortages of spare parts for the oil industry, 
reducing oil production and damaging the economy.

The United States and its allies have confiscated Venezuelan assets, such as 
the US subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company.

We call on the Australian government to stop cooperating with the US blockade 
of Venezuela.

We call on the government to cease regarding the unelected Juan Guaido as 
president of Venezuela.  Instead Australia should once again recognise the 
government of democratically elected president Nicolas Maduro.



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[Marxism] Venezuela: amid crisis and sanctions, LGBTI activists continue to demand change (GLW)

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[Marxism] Venezuela and the setbacks of the Latin American Left: What does it all mean? – Canadian Dimension

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Steve Ellner interview.

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/venezuela-and-the-setbacks-of-the-latin-american-left-what-does-it-all-mean
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Re: [Marxism] Venezuela a right wing government: interview with Jose Bida’s

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On 4/6/19 8:55 AM, John Reimann via Marxism wrote:

Undoubtedly the Maduro supporters will respond to this interview with the
false claim that Bodas is in a bloc with the right. But what do the say to
the points Bodas makes - that Venezuelan oil workers wages are the lowest
on the planet? This is not due to sanctions, which only really affected the
industry in the last few years. What do the Maduro supporters say about the
ecocide in the Orinoco? Or the regime’s imprisonment of union leaders? Or
the “paquetazo?” Or it’s welcoming of imperialism? Or it’s support for
Assad, Putin and Rouhani? Is this all a lie?


What is this fucking baiting of people on Marxmail about? For the past 
two months at least, you are asking questions along the line of "Have 
you stopped beating your wife yet?" Once upon a time, we had the mirror 
image of you, a guy named Walter Lippmann who posted nothing but 
accolades of Cuba and Venezuela. We need critical thinkers on this 
mailing list but not people who hector and nag in the spirit of showing 
what a pure soul they are. Keep it up, John, and you are out of here.

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[Marxism] Venezuela a right wing government: interview with Jose Bida’s

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Undoubtedly the Maduro supporters will respond to this interview with the
false claim that Bodas is in a bloc with the right. But what do the say to
the points Bodas makes - that Venezuelan oil workers wages are the lowest
on the planet? This is not due to sanctions, which only really affected the
industry in the last few years. What do the Maduro supporters say about the
ecocide in the Orinoco? Or the regime’s imprisonment of union leaders? Or
the “paquetazo?” Or it’s welcoming of imperialism? Or it’s support for
Assad, Putin and Rouhani? Is this all a lie?
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[Marxism] Venezuela fact-finding mission reports on complex situation

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[Marxism] Venezuela and the struggle for sovereignty | Autonomous University of Social Movements

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Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: despite the crisis, Chavez's legacy endures (Green Left Weekly)

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On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 03:23, jgreen--- via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:

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> On 24 Mar 2019 at 10:21, Chris Slee via Marxism wrote:
>
>
>
> When the apologists of Maduro say that they have a criticism or two, or
> admit
> something about the economic and political crisis, it's not to take these
> criticisms
> seriously. It's to say, don't worry, we're taking care of everything.
>

Only Fred doesn't say anything like this.

>
> Hunger stalks Venezuela, and three million people have fled. That's about
> a tenth
> of the country. The apologists for Maduro generally won't say this
> directly. So they
> write the most absurd contradictions, such as that the shortages are over
> (which
> Fuentes says) and at the same time there's a deep economic crisis, and
> workers
> -- even skilled ones -- can't afford to buy these things (which Fuentes
> also admits,
> albeit in toned-down language). Then, after admitting a few things,
> Fuentes goes
> on to paint a glowing picture of how things are really quite good.These
> are
> Fuentes's contradictions; don't blame Reimann for them.
>

Fred has just been there to find out about all this. You may think he went
with preconceptions, I can't change your preconceptions on that, but I
spoke to Fred before and after and I know that isn't the case. He went to
find out how bad things were on the ground and found things very bad in
many ways, but not as bad as he feared in others. People are upset on here
he didn't speak to a few people without much base that they like, but he
spoke to people to the community organisers and people on the ground (not
PSUV hacks) because he wanted to get a real feel for things. For instance,
forget Gonzalo Gomez et al, he spoke to people in the poor barrios, places
were there have been significant protests, but which ended once the coup
started because people are sick of the problems and government inaction and
inability to solve things, but do not want Washington and the oligarch's
people in through a coup. And fair enough because the repression they face
will dwarf that from the existing government and their lives are on the
line.

Over the next period, Fred will write up interviews with a range of voices
excluded from both the corporate media and generally the pro-government
side too. You can complain that he didn't speak to which ever little group
you prefer, but these are voices not getting heard anywhere else. You cold
try listening to them and, at the very least, using their voices to add to
the picture, or you can just sit there complaining about how some comment
Fred made can be misunderstood or is not accurate enough on the scale of
shortages or the impact of inflation.

>
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Re: [Marxism] venezuela --- 'a model of socialism for the 21st century'

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Jgreen has responded to me by once again misunderstanding what I wrote. 
Rather than jump into an extensive exchange of  'he said, I said' 
quotations--- of interest, I assume. to a small set of site readers, 
let's go directly to the central issues.
    1. I believe that the Bolivarian Revolution (and what remains of it 
at this critical stage) must be defended against US imperialism, its 
allies and the Venezuelan oligarchy. Do you? If not, what is your 
proposal for revolutionaries?
    2. I believe that the Bolivarian Revolution has been deformed by a 
combination of capitalist and statist elements within the Chavist 
coalition (and that its disastrous economic policies reflect not simply 
mistakes but vested interests) but that it retains the (very) critical 
support of commune activists and the organised working classes, and I 
identify with their position. Do you not?


    As far as your unique reading of what I wrote, let two examples 
suffice:


So let's read what you wrote in 2016, that is, during Maduro's 
presidency, in thearticle titled "What Is Socialism for the 
Twenty-First Century?"


Consider the subsection labelled "The Key Link". It begins:

"So, let us explain what socialism for the twenty-first century is. 
There are lessons
to be learned from the experiences of the twentieth century, and the 
Bolivarian
Constitution of Venezuela adopted in 1999, reflects many of those 
lessons.
Are there lessons to be learned from the experiences of the twentieth 
century?
And do you reject the idea that they might be reflect in the Bolivarian 
Constitution?
(Incidentally, I should point out that the article in question was first 
published as a booklet in Cuba [as part of our programme there on 
socialism for the 21st century], and you would understand its meaning 
especially by reading it in that context.)

.

And in 2012, you wrote that:

"...The society we want to build is one that recognizes that 'the free 
development
of each is the condition for the free development of all.' How can we 
ensure,
though, that our communal, social productivity is directed to the free 
development
of *all* rather than used to satisfy the private goals of caitalists, 
groups of
indiiduals, or state bureaucrats? A second side of what President 
Chavez of

Venezuela called on his 'Alo Presidente' program in January 2007 the
'elementary triangle of socialism' concerns the distribution of the 
means of
production. 'Social ownership of the means of production' is that 
second side. Of
course, it is essential to understand that social ownership is not the 
same as state

ownership. Social ownership implies a profound democracy -- one in which
people function as subjects, both as producers and as members of 
society, in

determining the use of the results of our social labor."

This is from the introduction, entitled "New Wings for Socialism", of 
your book
"Contradictions of Real of Real Socialism: The Conductor and the 
Conducted", p.

19. Now, isn't the term "new wings" another way of referring to models?
As indicated in the poem from Brecht ['songs for children, Ulm 1592] 
with which that introduction begins, the reference to 'wings' is to the 
tailor who tries to fly 'with things that looked like wings' and is 
crushed. At the end of that introduction. I indicate that the book ['The 
Contradictions of "Real Socialism"] is 'about that attempt in the 
twentieth century to build an alternative to capitalism, an alternative 
that relied upon things that looked like wings and crashed.'
    Both of of these examples relate to lessons we need to learn from 
the experience of 'real socialism'.

   michael

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Re: [Marxism] venezuela --- 'a model of socialism for the 21st century'

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On 24 Mar 2019 at 9:42, michael a. lebowitz via Marxism wrote:

> J Green described my view of Venezuela and socialism as follows:
> 
> "This is
> the same Lebowitz who talks about about how Venezuela is a model of
> socialism for the 21st century and lauds its democracy as an alternative to
> the "real  socialism" of the Soviet model. ("What Is Socialism for the
> Twenty-First  Century?",
> https://monthlyreview.org/2016/10/01/what-is-socialism-for-the-twent
> y-first-century/)."
>      This is simply an idiotic distortion.  Green should try
> reading. 

So let's read what you wrote in 2016, that is, during Maduro's presidency, in 
the 
article titled "What Is Socialism for the Twenty-First Century?"

Consider the subsection labelled "The Key Link". It begins:

"So, let us explain what socialism for the twenty-first century is. There are 
lessons 
to be learned from the experiences of the twentieth century, and the Bolivarian 
Constitution of Venezuela adopted in 1999, reflects many of those lessons. They 
are evident in Article 299's emphasis upon 'ensuring overall human 
development,', in the focus of Article 102,...in Article 62's declaration  
They are 
present in the identification of democratic planning and participatory 
budgeting at 
all levels of society. They are visible in the focus in Article 70 on 
'self-management, co-management, cooperatives in all forms' as examples of 
'forms of association guided by the values of mutual cooperation and 
solidarity.' 
Lastly, they can be seen as obligations noted in Article 135..."
(https://monthlyreview.org/2016/10/01/what-is-socialism-for-the-twenty-first-centur
y/)

There is no qualification that Maduro is reversing this, or that the "top-down 
orientation" dominated in reality despite the words of the constitution.

And in 2012, you wrote that:

"...The society we want to build is one that recognizes that 'the free 
development 
of each is the condition for the free development of all.' How can we ensure, 
though, that our communal, social productivity is directed to the free 
development 
of *all* rather than used to satisfy the private goals of caitalists, groups of 
indiiduals, or state bureaucrats? A second side of what President Chavez of 
Venezuela called on his 'Alo Presidente' program in January 2007 the 
'elementary triangle of socialism' concerns the distribution of the means of 
production. 'Social ownership of the means of production' is that second side. 
Of 
course, it is essential to understand that social ownership is not the same as 
state 
ownership. Social ownership implies a profound democracy -- one in which 
people function as subjects, both as producers and as members of society, in 
determining the use of the results of our social labor."

This is from the introduction, entitled "New Wings for Socialism", of your book 
"Contradictions of Real of Real Socialism: The Conductor and the Conducted", p. 
19. Now, isn't the term "new wings" another way of referring to models? 
 
>I have never described Venezuela as a model of socialism; rather, I
> have  stressed that there has been a struggle for socialism within it

Unless one regards socialism as a platonic, changeless perfection, there is no 
contradiction between saying there are struggles within a certain society, and 
that 
it is a model of socialist progress in the present. Moreover, socialism is 
generally 
used at present to mean a society moving towards the final communist future.

Your argument reduces to that you didn't use the precise word "model" (I 
didn't say you had) , but used Venezuela as an example in describing the "new 
wings" of socialism and for understanding "what is socialism for the 21st 
century". 

 > 
> ... This is a process that has been described by Chavez as one of
> creating  the cells of a new socialist state. 

There it is again, in your own words.

 >      As for not bothering to meet with the 'critical chavistas'
> or PSOL  leaders, I assume Fred Fuente's interest was in exploring what was
> happening at the base rather than meeting [in the limited time 
> available] leaders with no followers whose positions are  well-known.

 You keep changing your story. Let's see. Now you claim that Fuentes couldn't 
find  any left-wing critics of Maduro at the base or any left-wing critics with 
any  
following,whereas before you said they were connected to imperialism. At a time 
 
where every serious account notes that discontent with Maduro, and 
participation  
in protests, has spread to some of the neighborhoods which were Chavista  
strongholds, Fuentes just couldn't find anyone worth talking to.

It's just nonsense. If Fuentes he 

[Marxism] venezuela --- 'a model of socialism for the 21st century'

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J Green described my view of Venezuela and socialism as follows:

"This is
the same Lebowitz who talks about about how Venezuela is a model of 
socialism

for the 21st century and lauds its democracy as an alternative to the "real
socialism" of the Soviet model. ("What Is Socialism for the Twenty-First
Century?",
https://monthlyreview.org/2016/10/01/what-is-socialism-for-the-twenty-first-century
/)."
    This is simply an idiotic distortion. Green should try reading. I 
have never described Venezuela as a model of socialism; rather, I have 
stressed that there has been a struggle for socialism within it. In an 
interview in a Serbian paper in 2012 on the prospects for Chavez's 4th 
election [reprinted in Links and Venezuelanalysis-- 
venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/7417], I noted the development of communal 
councils and continued:


This is a process that has been described by Chavez as one of creating 
the cells of a new socialist state. As well, there is a process of 
development of workers’ councils. Here again it is a process of 
transforming people, of creating the conditions in which they are able 
to develop all their capacities. In particular, the Bolivarian 
Revolution has been creating people with a sense of dignity and pride.


These are very important achievements. But they don’t happen smoothly, 
and it is important to recognise there are many contradictions within 
/Chavism/. There are three groups and tendencies within /Chavism/. One 
can be found at the base with the social movements, the communities and 
portions of the working class. Another is composed of those individuals 
and groups that have risen with Chavez but, having enriched themselves 
through their positions and through the continuation of corruption and 
clientalism, now think the revolution should be over – and it is for 
them. (They are often referred to as the “boli-bourgeoisie”.) A third 
group is committed to continuing the revolution but doing so entirely 
from the top down; its perspective is one of ordering the advance of 
socialism, and it does not want to leave decisions at the bottom.


While Chavez himself is very vocal about the theoretical importance of 
building at the base and allowing people to develop their capacities 
through their own protagonism, he is impatient and often supports those 
who don’t have the same orientation.


So, what will happen in Chavez’s next term of office? That depends on 
class struggle within the Chavez camp. It would be a struggle which 
revolves around Chavez’s party (the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, 
PSUV), which contains all these elements but in which the top-down 
orientation has dominated and at the same time dispirited many people at 
the base.


    As for not bothering to meet with the 'critical chavistas' or PSOL 
leaders, I assume Fred Fuente's interest was in exploring what was 
happening at the base rather than meeting [in the limited time 
available] leaders with no followers whose positions are well-known.


 michael



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Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: despite the crisis, Chavez's legacy endures (Green Left Weekly)

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On 24 Mar 2019 at 10:21, Chris Slee via Marxism wrote:
 
> John Reimann takes phrases out of context to give a misleading
> impression of what Federico Fuentes is saying.
> 
> Fuentes says that "hyperinflation has meant workers' wages have
> plummeted".  He says there is a "deep economic crisis" in
> Venezuela.
> 
> But the important point is that this crisis is to a large extent a
> result of the "economic war" waged by the US and its allies against
> Venezuela.

You're still defending the indefensible, Chris, namely Fuentes's article. 
Fuentes 
knows that there is an economic crisis, and himself says "Venezuela´s current 
minimum wage - the lowest in the region - stands at less than US$6 a month, 
or enough to buy one egg per day." But he doesn't care. The context is, Maduro 
-- 
right or wrong. 

When the apologists of Maduro say that they have a criticism or two, or admit 
something about the economic and political crisis, it's not to take these 
criticisms 
seriously. It's to say, don't worry, we're taking care of everything. It's to 
say, as 
Chris Slee points out, that the problems have to be put in a "context", namely, 
defense of Maduro. The imperialists have a saying about various of their 
allies, 
"he's a bastard, but he's our bastard". The apologists of Maduro are backing 
that 
type of "wisdom", but in sham "anti-imperialist" phraseology. 

Hunger stalks Venezuela, and three million people have fled. That's about a 
tenth 
of the country. The apologists for Maduro generally won't say this directly. So 
they 
write the most absurd contradictions, such as that the shortages are over 
(which 
Fuentes says) and at the same time there's a deep economic crisis, and workers 
-- even skilled ones -- can't afford to buy these things (which Fuentes also 
admits, 
albeit in toned-down language). Then, after admitting a few things, Fuentes 
goes 
on to paint a glowing picture of how things are really quite good.These are 
Fuentes's contradictions; don't blame Reimann for them.

Fuentes's article may admit a few things about the economic crisis, but does 
not 
go into the roots of it. Other sources have, and they have shown that this 
crisis 
began prior to sanctions starting to bite heavily. But Steve Ellner, whose 
article 
was debated on this list last month, wanted to show otherwise. According to to 
his 
account, "international sanctions" didn't begin until 2015. So to prove that 
some 
type of US sanctions had seriously harmed the economy earlier, he refers to a 
previous economic war but cites only one example:

"... the George W. Bush administration banned the sale of spare parts for the 
Venezuelan Air Force´s costly F-16 fighter jets in 2006, forcing the country to 
turn 
to Russia for the purchase of 24 Sukhoi SU-30 fighter planes." 
(https://consortiumnews.com/2019/02/15/how-much-of-venezuelas-crisis-is-really-
maduros-fault)

Did the Chavista government intend to fight imperialism with jet fighter 
planes? Or 
perhaps it's that these planes were instead for the purpose of keeping the 
Venezuelan military happy. <>















For the apologists of Maduro, it isn't important that hunger is stalking the 
land. It 
must be taken in context, that context means Maduro, right or wrong, with or 
without the working class, with or without sellouts to the multinationals, but 
Maduro forever . Let three million people flee Venezuela in economic 
desperation. It must be taken in context, say the apologists..



As I pointed out before, Fuentes says contradictory things in his article, 
because 
apologists for Maduro can accept any contradiction.

Fuentes admits that "Venezuela´s current minimum wage - the lowest in the 
region - stands at less than US$6 a month, or enough to buy one egg per day.



> 
> This is not to deny that economic mistakes have been made, or that
> corruption is a serious problem.  But for those of us who live in
> the Western imperialist countries, our priority should be
> campaigning against the blockade.
> 
> Chris Slee
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Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: despite the crisis, Chavez's legacy endures (Green Left Weekly)

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Chris Slee writes: "This is not to deny that economic mistakes have been
made, or that corruption is a serious problem.  But for those of us who
live in the Western imperialist countries, our priority should be
campaigning against the blockade."

First, as I pointed out originally, the GLW article leaves a false
impression for those who don't systematically think it through. Yes, there
is the comment about hyperinflation, but the "low prices" is completely
irrelevant, given that the working class does not have access to dollars.
The entire article is undeniably written to give a picture that things
really are not that bad for the working class in Venezuela.

It is no accident that this false impression is now linked to the idea that
we in countries like the US should simply campaign against the blockade.
(That's what the term "priority" really means.) And giving a false view of
the actual situation inside Venezuela is apparently necessary for that.

This is not a novel approach. I, personally, saw the same thing regarding
the liberation struggles in Africa, specifically regarding Mugabe in
Zimbabwe and the ANC in South Africa. Sure, I and my comrades of the time
supported them, but we didn't go along with the fact that no hint of
questioning their strategy and program was allowed. And look where those
regimes have ended up. Same with the guerrilla struggles in Central
America. Although some would deny it, Ortega has ended up just as
oppressive and corrupt as Maduro and the rest of those guerrilla struggles
have been defeated. What happened? "US imperialism" some say. But that's
like saying that the guy who fell from a cliff died because of gravity.
Yes, we know it's there. You'd better have a plan to defeat it.

Or we can go back a little further. Back in the 1930s the apologists for
Stalin - both the true believers and the liberals - said something similar.
They linked the call to limit ourselves to opposing imperialist
intervention to the denial of the reality that workers in the Soviet Union
faced. They made visits to the Soviet Union and returned completely denying
that reality. Trotsky did not let that stop him. He opposed imperialist
intervention, but he mercilessly criticized the regime. And as opposed to
Maduro, *that* wasn't even a capitalist regime! His method was right then
and it's right now.

We can either build another moralistic-based campaign against yet another
imperialist intervention, or we can try to base ourselves on the working
class rather than remaining inside our little left ghetto. Through that, we
can try to start to make real, serious direct links between workers here
and in Venezuela. Denialism will not enable us to do that.

John Reimann

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John Reimann takes phrases out of context to give a misleading impression of 
what Federico Fuentes is saying.

Fuentes says that "hyperinflation has meant workers' wages have plummeted".  He 
says there is a "deep economic crisis" in Venezuela.

But the important point is that this crisis is to a large extent a result of 
the "economic war" waged by the US and its allies against Venezuela.

This is not to deny that economic mistakes have been made, or that corruption 
is a serious problem.  But for those of us who live in the Western imperialist 
countries, our priority should be campaigning against the blockade.

Chris Slee

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First of all, as far as the relative "cheapness" of goods in Caracas: The
way it's put tends to deceive since people will remember better that the
goods are "cheap" than the qualifying comment. Completely aside from that,
the practical meaning is this: These goods are cheap in dollars but sky
high in bolivares.  Fuentes writes: "It is common to find street hawkers
with debit and credit card machines, and many happy to accept US dollars to
overcome this problem." The clear implication is that goods are easily
affordable, and that is true... for those who have access to US dollars!
But this "little detail" isn't mentioned by the author, so he leaves a
false impression. Who has access to dollars is the bolibourgeoisie, another
"little detail" not mentioned by Fuentes. In other words, the
bolibourgeoisie isn't seriously hurt by the collapse in the value of the
bolivar but the masses of Venezuelans are.

I find it hard to believe that the author was not aware of the effect on
the reader of leaving out of these key facts. Likewise, I find it peculiar
that he completely fails to mention the several million Venezuelan refugees
who have fled Venezuela.

I am guessing that the reporter didn't just go to Venezuela on their own
but that they were shown around, so the question is: "Who is it that showed
them around?" That little detail is left out, but I would bet it wasn't the
socialist opposition, for instance the Party for Socialism and Freedom
there. In fact, I would bet it was people associated with the PSUV, that is
to say, Maduro supporters. Were they told about the FAES (government
militia types) having murdered people? Were they told about how the food
supplements are given to the government supporters, not to the working
class as a whole?

A few days ago, I posted to this list an article from the Wall St. Journal
describing the desperate situation for Venezuela's poor, as well as the
repression the Maduro regime is carrying out against them. Chris Slee did
not deny the possibility that the article was accurate. So he is now left
in a difficult position, because that WSJ article and the Green Left Weekly
article cannot both be accurate. They present radically different pictures
of life in Venezuela. Given the subtle misrepresentations and the failure
to mention key facts (e.g. the millions of Venezuelan economic refugees) as
well as the descriptions from such left sources inside Venezuela as Simon
Rodriguez (laclase.info -- at the moment not working, for whatever reason),
I don't find the Green Left Weekly article credible.

One simple question

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Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: despite the crisis, Chavez's legacy endures (Green Left Weekly)

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On 23 Mar 2019 at 16:35, michael a. lebowitz wrote:

"Re Fred Fuentes' Green Left Weekly article, ... As it happens, Fred lived in 
Venezuela for a number of years  [eg., worked with me at Centro Internacional 
Miranda], had many links with working class organisations, worked with Marea 
Socialista and with trade  union leaders like Stalin Perez.  He has had 
continuing contacts with militants ..., has organised periodic tours from 
Australia 
and had a list of trade union and commune militants he was planning to contact 
this time. I haven't heard who he succeeded in seeing and interviewing when 
there ...  but I'm guessing it wasn't the 'party for socialism and  freedom' 
(which 
was so opposed to Chavez that it joined in a fron with  the CTV. the CIA labour 
fed) or the 'Critical Chavistas' who (including  gonzalo Gomez, Aporrea editor) 
met with Guaido, the CIA handpuppet, in early february."

So Lebowitz thinks it likely that the author of an article about Venezuela, who 
has 
"many links with working class organizations" and trade union leaders, wouldn't 
bother talking to Venezuelans who oppose Maduro, not even "critical Chavistas". 
 
He thinks this is entirely justified, because all critics are supposedly 
imperialist 
agents or have met with them; why, the critical Chavistas actually "met with 
Guaido, the CIA handpuppet". 

Other people might think that someone claiming to tell the truth about what's 
going on in Venezuela would talk to critics and opponents of the regime, as 
well 
as supporters. See what all the different trends say.  But not Lebowitz, who 
defends the article by supposing that  Fuentes wouldn't get his hands dirty by 
talking to the opposition, not even one-time comrades, not even long-time 
socialists, not even critics from within the Chavista ranks. 

Lebowitz justifies this attitude by smearing them all as imperialist agents. 
This is 
the same Lebowitz who talks about about how Venezuela is a model of socialism 
for the 21st century and lauds its democracy as an alternative to the "real 
socialism" of the Soviet model. ("What Is Socialism for the Twenty-First 
Century?", 
https://monthlyreview.org/2016/10/01/what-is-socialism-for-the-twenty-first-century
/).  But for Lebowitz, democracy doesn't extend to those who oppose Maduro. Not 
even to past comrades.

Lebowitz's viewpoint is an accurate reflection of the stand of the Maduro 
government, which is seeking to hold on to power at all costs, whether it has a 
majority or not. Democracy? The only criterion of the democracy, for the 
apologists of Maduro, is whether Maduro and the Chavistas cling to power. And 
if 
Fuentes wants to keep his good name with the GLW and the regime, it's probably 
best for him that Lebowitz continues to assure the world that he wouldn't think 
of 
talking to the critical Chavistas or the opposition.





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Re Fred Fuentes' Green Left Weekly article, John Reimann wrote

'I am guessing that the reporter didn't just go to Venezuela on their own
but that they were shown around, so the question is: "Who is it that showed
them around?" That little detail is left out, but I would bet it wasn't the
socialist opposition, for instance the Party for Socialism and Freedom
there. In fact, I would bet it was people associated with the PSUV, that is
to say, Maduro supporters.'

    As it happens, Fred lived in Venezuela for a number of years [eg., 
worked with me at Centro Internacional Miranda], had many links with 
working class organisations, worked with Marea Socialista and with trade 
union leaders like Stalin Perez. He had no need to be 'shown around' as 
he has had continuing contacts with militants, has organised periodic 
tours from Australia and had a list of trade union and commune militants 
he was planning to contact this time. I haven't heard who he succeeded 
in seeing and interviewing when there [and really look forward to more 
articles in GLW] but I'm guessing it wasn't the 'party for socialism and 
freedom' [which was so opposed to Chavez that it joined in a front with 
the CTV. the CIA labour fed] or the 'Critical Chavistas' who [including 
Gonzalo Gomez, Aporrea editor] met with Guaido, the CIA handpuppet, in 
early february. BTW, anyone who knows anything about PSUV knows there is 
a big difference between its leadership and the base.

        michael

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Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: despite the crisis, Chavez's legacy endures (Green Left Weekly)

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First of all, as far as the relative "cheapness" of goods in Caracas: The
way it's put tends to deceive since people will remember better that the
goods are "cheap" than the qualifying comment. Completely aside from that,
the practical meaning is this: These goods are cheap in dollars but sky
high in bolivares.  Fuentes writes: "It is common to find street hawkers
with debit and credit card machines, and many happy to accept US dollars to
overcome this problem." The clear implication is that goods are easily
affordable, and that is true... for those who have access to US dollars!
But this "little detail" isn't mentioned by the author, so he leaves a
false impression. Who has access to dollars is the bolibourgeoisie, another
"little detail" not mentioned by Fuentes. In other words, the
bolibourgeoisie isn't seriously hurt by the collapse in the value of the
bolivar but the masses of Venezuelans are.

I find it hard to believe that the author was not aware of the effect on
the reader of leaving out of these key facts. Likewise, I find it peculiar
that he completely fails to mention the several million Venezuelan refugees
who have fled Venezuela.

I am guessing that the reporter didn't just go to Venezuela on their own
but that they were shown around, so the question is: "Who is it that showed
them around?" That little detail is left out, but I would bet it wasn't the
socialist opposition, for instance the Party for Socialism and Freedom
there. In fact, I would bet it was people associated with the PSUV, that is
to say, Maduro supporters. Were they told about the FAES (government
militia types) having murdered people? Were they told about how the food
supplements are given to the government supporters, not to the working
class as a whole?

A few days ago, I posted to this list an article from the Wall St. Journal
describing the desperate situation for Venezuela's poor, as well as the
repression the Maduro regime is carrying out against them. Chris Slee did
not deny the possibility that the article was accurate. So he is now left
in a difficult position, because that WSJ article and the Green Left Weekly
article cannot both be accurate. They present radically different pictures
of life in Venezuela. Given the subtle misrepresentations and the failure
to mention key facts (e.g. the millions of Venezuelan economic refugees) as
well as the descriptions from such left sources inside Venezuela as Simon
Rodriguez (laclase.info -- at the moment not working, for whatever reason),
I don't find the Green Left Weekly article credible.

One simple question

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Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: despite the crisis, Chavez's legacy endures (Green Left Weekly)

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The article has been amended to make the meaning clearer:

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela-despite-crisis-chavez-legacy-endures

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The author should have said "relatively cheaply in US dollar terms".

The following sentence makes it clear that most things are "far from cheap for 
the majority".

Chris Slee

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The apologists for Maduro can believe anything, no matter how 
self-contradictory.

The article in "Green Left Weekly" cited by Chris Slee boasts that basic goods 
are very cheap in Caracas--cheaper than anywhere else in the world!!!--and 
easily available!!!. Except... oops ... that hyperinflation is so bad that 
workers' wages can't afford them. It is supposed to be easy to find goods at 
these very cheap prices, it's just that these very cheap prices are fabulously 
expensive in Venezuelan money, and more expensive by the day! If this seems 
contradictory,  well, we are told that "The Economist" said so! Would any 
serious, committed socialist doubt something that is supposed to come from an 
unnamed article in "The Economist"?

As GLW puts it:

"Today, it is again easy to find most of these goods — and relatively cheaply, 
as The Economist recently noted, ranking Caracas the cheapest city in the world.

"But hyperinflation has meant workers’ wages have plummeted, making most things 
far from cheap for the majority.

"Venezuela’s current minimum wage — the lowest in the region — stands at less 
than US$6 a month, or enough to buy one egg per day."

On 22 Mar 2019 at 10:22, Chris Slee via Marxism wrote:


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The apologists for Maduro can believe anything, no matter how 
self-contradictory.

The article in "Green Left Weekly" cited by Chris Slee boasts that basic goods 
are 
very cheap in Caracas--cheaper than anywhere else in the world!!!--and easily 
available!!!. Except... oops ... that hyperinflation is so bad that workers' 
wages 
can't afford them. It is supposed to be easy to find goods at these very cheap 
prices, it's just that these very cheap prices are fabulously expensive in 
Venezuelan money, and more expensive by the day! If this seems contradictory,  
well, we are told that "The Economist" said so! Would any serious, committed 
socialist doubt something that is supposed to come from an unnamed article in 
"The Economist"? 

As GLW puts it:

"Today, it is again easy to find most of these goods - and relatively cheaply, 
as 
The Economist recently noted, ranking Caracas the cheapest city in the world.

"But hyperinflation has meant workers´ wages have plummeted, making most 
things far from cheap for the majority.

"Venezuela´s current minimum wage - the lowest in the region - stands at less 
than US$6 a month, or enough to buy one egg per day."

On 22 Mar 2019 at 10:22, Chris Slee via Marxism wrote:

 
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Venezuela: despite the crisis, Chavez's legacy endures:

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Venezuelans: we want to solve our problems by ourselves:

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[Marxism] Venezuela: Despite the crisis, Chavez’s legacy endures

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Frederico Fuentes direct from Venezuela.

> "These issues were raised by activists, many of whom continue to identify
> with Chavismo, a political movement of the poor that — contrary to
> misconceptions in the media and even on the left — continues to include
> millions in its ranks and maintains the same self-critical stance and
> diversity of views it always has.
>
> It is perhaps here where Chávez’s greatest legacy can be found.
>
> Traditionally marginalised, Venezuela’s popular classes exploded onto the
> political scene in the late 1980s and dev.. See more
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"If Mexico is “so close to the United States; so far from god”, then
Venezuela is “so endowed with oil; so robbed of wealth”. In 1935, Venezuela
had the highest per capita GDP in all of Latin America. Yet today, there
are reports of a collapsing oil industry caused partly by the fact that oil
industry workers are too weak from hunger to actually be able to work.

"What happened? The different imperialist powers, especially US
imperialism, played their role robbing and plundering, just as they do all
around the world. And in the case of US imperialism, it not only plundered
Venezuela and Latin America as a whole, it directly supported both the 2002
attempted coup against Chavez; it also helped fund the reactionary
capitalist opposition to him. But the role of imperialism was integrated
into the capitalist “development” of Venezuela itself."

Venezuelan capitalism couldn't break up the latifundias, couldn't break the
grip of imperialism and couldn't modernize society. An attempt was made
based on the military, but there is no substitute for the organized working
class.

In fighting for their own interests at home, US workers must transform
their unions and link up with the workers in Venezuela and around the world.

read full article here:
https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/02/18/venezuela-the-theory-of-permanent-revolution-and-the-role-of-the-working-class/

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[Marxism] Venezuela Defines the Future of the Region

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The struggle for Venezuela will decide the destiny of Latin America, 
argues Claudio Katz. We must recognise global Right's hypocrisy in its 
attempts to topple Maduro. But it doesn't act alone: similar forces are 
alive inside a government that has failed to counteract economic collapse.


https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4235-venezuela-defines-the-future-of-the-region
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[Marxism] Venezuela

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https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/14304
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[Marxism] Venezuela

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Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: No to Intervention, No to Maduro - FPIF

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On 2019/01/31 8:05 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
... Patrick, Argentina and Brazil both benefited from the stand-off 
between rival imperialisms. Widely regarded as fascists, Juan Peron 
and Getúlio Vargas were both nationalists. In Mexico, you had the same 
thing with Lázaro Cárdenas who tilted left rather than right. Another 
economic nationalist who took advantage of big power rivalries was 
Mustafa Kemal. It is no accident that both Kemal and Cardenas offered 
political asylum to Trotsky. Another thing to keep in mind was the 
existence of the USSR that put pressure on the imperialists to back 
off from obvious colonial bullying...


I'm with you. All that looks very very good in comparison to the 
degeneration now underway.


But I'm getting at something different: global accumulation dynamics 
which give these national elites a chance to avoid dependency.




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Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: No to Intervention, No to Maduro - FPIF

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On 2019/01/31 3:28 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
... every time I hear this stuff about Venezuela functioning as a 
rentier state under Chavez, I wonder what the hell they are talking 
about. In Latin America, there are only 2 countries that ever 
"diversified": Argentina and Brazil. 


Louis, you mean during the 1930s-40s deglobalization era? If so, the 
interesting question is whether the era we entered since around 2008 can 
also be described as deglobalization by some optimists (like me) on the 
basis of lots of the trade, investment and financial data (the current 
Socialist Register has my argument, with Brazilian co-author Ana 
Garcia). In other words, is this era enough like the 1930s, that those 
of us in such sites (me in Johannesburg) can argue convincingly for a 
sensible retreat from world capitalism, in macro-economic policy? That 
would entail tight exchange controls, import protection and a 
redirection of state subsidies to redistributive ends, for example.


Have they been able to stave off economic collapse? 


When do you mean? In the 1930s-40s, they did, for sure. (South Africa 
had 8% annual GDP growth from 1933-45, and in spite of imminent 
apartheid it was quite balanced, with manufacturing prospering - just as 
in Latin America.)


But is the proper question here: did these two countries run out of 
economic steam by the 1960s as a result of the *luxury-oriented* version 
of import-substitution industrialization, plus the kind of 
super-exploitative and sub-imperialist positioning that dependencia ?


Also, I do agree with this point (and even discussed it with Chavez in 
2008)... not only because of the Dutch Disease problem and dependency on 
chaotic global capitalist commodity prices, but also in part because of 
climate change. Dennis Brutus asked Chavez to 'leave the oil in the 
soil' as they say. That pitch was not persuasive.


Venezuela’s economic miseries are largely homegrown, and they are 
particularly painful given the huge oil resources at the country’s 
command. But Maduro, and Hugo Chavez before him, failed to diversify 
Venezuela’s economy away from petroleum, which made Venezuela 
vulnerable when oil prices fell (and a drought paralyzed the country’s 
hydroelectric sector). Add corruption and gross mismanagement to the 
mix and the country’s economy shrank by half between 2013 and 2018.

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[Marxism] Venezuela: No to Intervention, No to Maduro - FPIF

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(Every time I hear this stuff about Venezuela functioning as a rentier 
state under Chavez, I wonder what the hell they are talking about. In 
Latin America, there are only 2 countries that ever "diversified": 
Argentina and Brazil. Have they been able to stave off economic 
collapse? What about emulating East Asian countries like Vietnam and 
Bangladesh that have sweat shops making the crap for sale in Banana 
Republic? Is that what Venezuela should have done? Okay, Mexico has been 
doing that ever since the maquila zones were created. A lot of good that 
has done. This "oil curse", "rentier state" business has gotten pretty 
stale. The problem is world capitalism, not a failure to become a more 
productive national capitalist state, god-damn it.)




Venezuela’s economic miseries are largely homegrown, and they are 
particularly painful given the huge oil resources at the country’s 
command. But Maduro, and Hugo Chavez before him, failed to diversify 
Venezuela’s economy away from petroleum, which made Venezuela vulnerable 
when oil prices fell (and a drought paralyzed the country’s 
hydroelectric sector). Add corruption and gross mismanagement to the mix 
and the country’s economy shrank by half between 2013 and 2018.


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[Marxism] Venezuela | Richard Seymour on Patreon

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First Bolton, now Abrams. A nationalist and a neoconservative, 
politicians of intrigue and death-squads. Passionate American 
imperialists, advocates of "regime change" in Iran and North Korea and 
confrontation with China. Veterans of the Iraq inferno. The trail of 
bodies stretches back decades, and over continents.


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[Marxism] Venezuela crisis: US announces billions in sanctions as White House says military options still 'on the table' (Independent)

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The United States is stepping up its economic war against Venezuela:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-sanctions-us-white-house-trump-guadio-maduro-latest-update-a8751351.html


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[Marxism] Venezuela at Another Crossroads | NACLA

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[Marxism] Venezuela: Is President Maduro 'illegitimate'? Ten facts to counter the lies (GLW)

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Re: [Marxism] Venezuela Military Backs Maduro, as Russia Warns U.S. Not to Intervene

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On 1/24/19 7:18 PM, John Edmundson via Marxism wrote:

So the economic hardship came with Maduro then. Did the NY Times ever refer
to Venezuela as prosperous under Chavez?


The NYT is awful on Venezuela. I only posted the article to show that 
there is some nervousness in elite circles about the prospects of 
"regime change".

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From the NY Times article:
". . . the oil-rich and formerly prosperous country upended by political
repression and severe economic
hardship under Mr. Maduro."

So the economic hardship came with Maduro then. Did the NY Times ever refer
to Venezuela as prosperous under Chavez?

John

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> > Still, it seems that Mr. Guaidó MUST have some backing in the military,
> police or other coercive apparatus.
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> Venezuela 'foils national guard rebellion' against Maduro
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On 1/24/19 3:57 PM, STEVEN ROBINSON via Marxism wrote:


Still, it seems that Mr. Guaidó MUST have some backing in the military, police 
or other coercive apparatus.


Venezuela 'foils national guard rebellion' against Maduro

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Still, it seems that Mr. Guaidó MUST have some backing in the military, police 
or other coercive apparatus.  Because in most places, somebody who has just 
done what Guaido did would either be arrested, in hiding or would have fled the 
country.  SR

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[Marxism] Venezuela Military Backs Maduro, as Russia Warns U.S. Not to Intervene

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NY Times, Jan. 24, 2019
Venezuela Military Backs Maduro, as Russia Warns U.S. Not to Intervene
By Ana Vanessa Herrero and Neil MacFarquhar

CARACAS, Venezuela — The leader of Venezuela’s armed forces declared 
loyalty to President Nicolás Maduro on Thursday and said the 
opposition’s effort to replace him with a transitional government 
amounted to an attempted coup.


The pronouncement by the defense minister, Vladimir Padrino López, came 
a day after an opposition lawmaker proclaimed himself the country’s 
rightful leader during nationwide protests and pleaded with the armed 
forces to abandon Mr. Maduro.


The defense minister’s declaration was a setback for the opposition 
leader, Juan Guaidó, whose claim to legitimacy has been backed by a 
number of countries, including the United States. In a further blow to 
the opposition, Russia warned the United States on Thursday against 
meddling in Venezuela, a longtime Kremlin ally that has received 
billions of dollars in Russian support.


President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia telephoned Mr. Maduro and 
“emphasized that destructive external interference is a gross violation 
of the fundamental norms of international law,” according to a statement 
on Mr. Putin’s official website.


Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ignored the admonitions and intensified 
the Trump administration’s call for other countries to accept Mr. Guaidó 
and renounce Mr. Maduro.


“His regime is morally bankrupt, it’s economically incompetent, and it 
is profoundly corrupt, and it is undemocratic to the core,” Mr. Pompeo 
told a meeting of the 35-member Organization of American States in 
Washington.


The United States also offered $20 million in emergency aid to Mr. 
Guaidó’s side and requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations 
Security Council on Saturday on the Venezuela crisis. Diplomats said Mr. 
Pompeo was expected to attend.


Taken together, the events escalated the confusion and conflict over who 
is the rightful president of Venezuela, the oil-rich and formerly 
prosperous country upended by political repression and severe economic 
hardship under Mr. Maduro.


Opposition leaders had hoped key members of the armed forces would break 
ranks with Mr. Maduro following large demonstrations across the country 
and international pledges of support for Mr. Guaidó, including the Trump 
administration’s repeated warnings that a “military option” is possible 
for restoring democracy in Venezuela.


But so far, senior military commanders appear to be siding with Mr. 
Maduro, even as they express alarm over the possible consequences of 
rival claims to power.


“We’re here to avoid a clash between Venezuelans,” Mr. Padrino, the 
defense minister, said in a televised address, flanked by high-ranking 
officers. “It’s not a civil war, a war among brothers, that will resolve 
Venezuelans’ problems.”


Mr. Padrino called Mr. Guaidó’s claim to power “laughable” and described 
him as a pawn of right wing factions subservient to the United States.


“It makes you want to laugh,” he said. “But I must alert the people of 
the danger this represents.”


Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Peru, 
Ecuador, Guatemala and the Organization of American States have also 
recognized Mr. Guaidó as the country’s leader. Others in the region, 
however, have not, including Mexico, as well as Cuba and Bolivia, 
longtime allies of Mr. Maduro.


Mr. Guaidó took an oath on Wednesday to lead Venezuela until fair 
elections can be held. He has argued that as the president of the 
National Assembly, an opposition-controlled legislative body, he has the 
constitutional authority to assume power after Mr. Maduro took office 
earlier this month following an election widely viewed as rigged.


After the Trump administration endorsed Mr. Guaidó’s claim to power, Mr. 
Maduro said Venezuela would sever diplomatic ties with the United States 
and gave American diplomats 72 hours to leave the country.


The State Department has said it will not heed the departure order 
because Mr. Guaidó has invited the United States to stay.


Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez, center, makes clear 
the armed forces’ “support of the constitutional president,” Nicolás 
Maduro, on Thursday.


Roberta Jacobson, a former assistant secretary of state who oversaw 
Latin America policy in the Obama administration, called the impasse 
over the diplomatic rupture untenable.


“I don’t think the administration has thought through all of the 
consequences of taking action as quickly as it did in recognizing 
Guaidó,” she said.


The military’s pledge of support for Mr. Maduro 

[Marxism] Venezuela - Cryptocurrency "Petro" created to Circumvent US Sanctions

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https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/13580

I have no idea about the implications of this policy, as I am not a
monetarist. I'd love everyone's take on this. Interesting tactic, but...

All best,

Craig Butosi, MA, MLIS, BMus Hons.
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[Marxism] Venezuela in Crisis

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We have to be clear from the start about the leading rightwing opposition
force the MUD (Democratic Unity Roundtable) – a cabal headed by Venezuela’s
old ruling families like the Capriles that are currently lynching Chavistas
in the streets and making veiled appeals for a military coup. But it is not
enough to oppose these reactionaries; we have to figure out the best way to
defeat them. Therefore, this is a preliminary attempt to define what a more
successful socialist political movement requires in Latin America.

Elected in 1998, Chavez was a left populist figure. For instance, his first
major social program – the Plan Bolivar


*The immense popularity of Chavez was due to his redistribution of the oil
wealth through programs such as this government subsidized food store
(photo: 2005). A reported 9 million turned out for Chavez’s funeral.*

2000 – mobilized the military to provide food aid, vaccinations, and basic
upgrades in sanitation in many working-class neighborhoods. Chavez’s
policies answered some of the material needs of a population that at that
time had a poverty rate of over 55%, but he did not directly challenge
capitalism as a political economy, nor did he completely cashier them out
of government, despite crafting a new Constitution. However, his programs
and he, himself, were hugely popular, and for good reason.


*Oil Nationalized*In 2001, Chavez began to nationalize the oil industry to
fund everything from public housing to adult literacy programs. It was then
that a concerted effort began on the part of Venezuela’s oil and mining
families, as well as the U.S. state department, to oust him from power.
They failed to remove him in a botched coup in 2002, and open economic
sabotage. It was these events that pushed Chavez to the left. In 2006
formed a new party, the PSUV to help build what he called “21st century
socialism”. By this time, he had already reduced poverty in the country by
at least 25%, and increased the number of doctors in Venezuela to 20,000,
up from just 1600 in 1999.

But the PSUV has not overthrown capitalism. While they have nationalized
the oil industry, and intermittently supported workers co-ops, they have
never moved toward a planned economy and the prerequisite public control of
the commanding heights of the economy and public control of investment. In
effect, the PSUV has been engaged in an 18-year New Deal. They are the
stewards of a messy, ad-hoc subsidization of the Venezuelan working-class
rather than a working-class party in-itself running the economy.

The oil dependency could only have been eliminated through a systematic
plan for the economy, one that was democratically managed and controlled by
the working class itself. But this would have required the complete
overthrow of the “free” market, meaning of capitalism itself. Nothing less,
no half-measures would do. Failing to do this, the regime’s social measures
were dependent on high oil prices.



*Oil Dependency*Chavismo has in fact been entirely dependent on oil revenue
to provide welfare, and here we come to the crux of the current economic
and political crisis. The PSUV is entirely dependent on a healthy global
oil market, including American consumption. Thus, while they present
themselves as a socialist bulwark against American imperialism, the
Chavistas actually pushed Venezuela toward even greater dependence on
global capital. Since world oil prices collapsed in 2013 – and have yet to
recover – the government has had to slash social spending and layoff
thousands of public employees, and reopen the country to greater foreign
investment through Special Economic Zones and prioritizing the repayment of
foreign debt.

It is a powerful example of the impossibility of socialism in a single
country.

There is also the question of whether, because of climate change, workers
themselves won’t be paying back what oil revenues gave them.

There is a related failure of Chavista economic policy that proves, to
quote a recent article

in
Jacobin, “the situation that prevails is not the result of too much
socialism, but too little.” For years the PSUV has maintained a complex
currency exchange system, that in effect allows people to purchase U.S.
dollars from the government below market value. The basic hope was that
through this exchange rate the government could indirectly control prices.
In fact, however, just the opposite has happened: the exchange rate has
allowed massive black markets to develop for nearly every conceivable good,
including food 

[Marxism] Venezuela: Right wing accelerates coup plans

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The right-wing opposition has put its foot down on the accelerator, it is
moving all of its pieces at once, and aims to shatter the balance of forces
through a coup. It has made it clear: the opposition has June and July to
achieve its objective.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela-right-wing-accelerates-coup-plans



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[Marxism] Venezuela and ground rent

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Spending a lot of time reading Marxist critiques of the Bolivarian 
revolution in Venezuela focused on the problems created by a development 
model centered on the exploitation of ground rent (i.e., oil). 
Ironically, they tend to reference a guy named Juan Inigo who was a 
rather colorful character in the early days of the Marxism list that 
preceded Marxmail. Inigo was notorious for writing very long messages 
that contained stilted attempts at sounding like they were written by 
Marx. This is typical:


"At first, Marx does not present any reason for starting the development 
of the historical specificity of capitalist society from commodities, 
other than the fact that he places them there, not even as a subject, 
but as a mere object. But, as soon as the analysis shows that 
commodities are the unity of use-value and value, the necessity inherent 
in the latter starts to be followed in its development. Commodities 
themselves come into the exposition as they develop their specificity as 
the materialized general social relation among private independent 
producers, their value-form; that is, the process in which society 
allocates its total labor-power among the different concrete modalities 
of labor by representing the socially necessary abstract labor embodied 
in the products of the concrete labors carried out by the independent 
private producers, as the capacity of these products for relating among 
themselves in exchange. In commodity production, material production 
produces, at the same time, the general social relation."


I will be writing something for Counterpunch tomorrow about a lot of 
this but will for now make the point that expecting Venezuela to depart 
from this mode of development is a lot easier said than done. Of course 
it is abc, when you are explaining this to fellow professors in a JSTOR 
journal.

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[Marxism] Venezuela: Maduro calls for popular constituent assembly to remake constitution

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be interesting to see what this means/amounts to, but seems an unexpectedly
bold move


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[Marxism] Venezuela: Military Trafficking Food as Country Goes Hungry

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Hello, anyone following this crisis? I'd like to read analyses from 
revolutionaries if possible.

via Venezuela: Military Trafficking Food as Country Goes Hungry - NBC News 
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[Marxism] Venezuela: Opposition, Chavistas march as right threatens violence

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[Marxism] Venezuela takes over closed glass factory; occupied factory restarts production

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Venezuelan labour minister Oswaldo Vera announced on August 10 that the
government had taken over another shut-down manufacturing firm, the Morning
Star said on August 12. Vera said the Guardian de Venezuela laminated glass
plant in Monagas state would be occupied and re-opened by its workers.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/62437


Venezuela's newly nationalised Kimberly-Clark factory has produced
2,068,800 sanitary towels its the first month since reopening following a
worker takeover in July, Venezuelanalysis.com said on August 10
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Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: Slave labour or just growing more food?

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 "you and the other leaders of SA in Australia to do so" is just a silly
distraction. Your reference originally to turn to industry shows you are
stuck in a bygone era and fighting old ghosts. I was a toddler at the time
of the "turn to industry", carried out by a party that no longer exists.

And the ghost fighting actually stops you from seeing the key point of the
story -- the western press pushing a bullshit tale over a pretty minor
program offered by the Venezuelan government among its other attempts to
get production going. This isn't any large scale use shift of urban labour
to rural labour, voluntary or not -- which is something that would beyond a
government hanging on by its fingernails, which does not control parliament
or much of the economy, that is wracked by internal divisions and is
struggling to find a way forward. But sure... maybe the New York Magazine
is right and said government is re-introducing slavery into the Americas.
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Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: Slave labour or just growing more food?

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Workers in "actually existing socialism". What actually existing socialism?
Where is it? It is not in Venezuela. Again, the idea that, the Maduro
government actually has the power to enforce some sort of forced labour
program is truly insane.

Venezuela quite clearly needs more food, encouraging people to go and grow
it by offering to guarantee their wages and jobs may or may not actually
help (like most things the Maduro government is doing I am going to guess
it is unlikely to actually make any difference to anything important,
however well - or even ill-intentioned it might be), but the idea it
involves any serious compulsion overstates the actual political capital the
government actually has.

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> workers were voluntarily keen to go till the soil
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> The serious point,  Stuart, is that there is a long history in the
> socialist movement of we who live in comparative ease being all to ready to
> accept that workers in "actually existing socialism" happily undergo all
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Yes I read the article and I thought it as likely that urban Venezuelan
workers were voluntarily keen to go till the soil
as it would be for you and the other leaders of SA in Australia to do so.
The serious point,  Stuart, is that there is a long history in the
socialist movement of we who live in comparative ease being all to ready to
accept that workers in "actually existing socialism" happily undergo all
sorts of crap that we never would and it always been poppycock and
dangerous poppycock at that.

























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I mean as much as anything, it severely overstates the actual power the
Maduro government has if you imagine it has the capacity to force anyone
who didn't want to to work in agriculture.

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their existing pay if they work in agriculture. The bizarre throw away line
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Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: Slave labour or just growing more food?

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I am imagining Stuart or any of the other heroes of socialist agrarian
labour in the leadership of the
Socialist Alliance being directed to a bit of "organic" farming. Oh the
humanity, oh the blisters it would make the
lamented turn to industry days pale against such stakhanovite endeavours. I
am sure that Venezuelan urban workers
turn to agriculture with nothing but voluntary enthusiasm.


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[Marxism] Venezuela: Slave labour or just growing more food?

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The United States media's latest offensive against Venezuela's socialist
President Nicolas Maduro targets a new sustainability program that
transplants urban workers to farmland. Some quarters of the mainstream
media have equated it with slave labour.

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[Marxism] Venezuela: Slave labour or just growing more food?

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The United States media's latest offensive against Venezuela's socialist
President Nicolas Maduro targets a new sustainability program that
transplants urban workers to farmland. Some quarters of the mainstream
media have equated it with slave labour.

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[Marxism] Venezuela: Seized US-owned factory was well-stocked, despite closure

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[Marxism] Venezuela hands US factory to its workers, Maduro announces new mission to tackle shortages

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The Venezuelan government announced on July 11 that it had seized a factory
of the US company Kimberly Clark Corporation — producer of numerous
personal, feminine, and baby care brands including Huggies, Kotex, and many
others, TeleSUR English said

that
day. The government will hand the factory to its workers to continue
manufacturing after the firm said it couldn't produce.

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Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: Mass civic-military mobilisations take place amid coup threat

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It looks like the Venezualan govt. is on its last legs.

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[Marxism] Venezuela: Opposition leader calls for coup as right-wing protests turn violent

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The national mobilisation came after right-wing leader Henrique Capriles
gave a press conference on May 17 in which he invoked violence and called
for the country's armed forces to “pick a side”.

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Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: Socialist Mayor Shot Dead

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This is the third assassination of leading leftist political figures in
Venezuela in a week.Counterrevolution increasingly combining institutional
warfare with extrajudical terror -- which is far from new but seems to be
worsening,

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[Marxism] Venezuela: Socialist Mayor Shot Dead

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In addition, the Union Patriotica in Colombia have denounced an
assassination attempt against Piedad Cordoba.

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[Marxism] Venezuela: Majority support socialist policies

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A recent poll conducted by Hinterlaces, a well-known and usually reliable
Venezuelan pollster, showed that Venezuelans, by a substantial majority,
oppose neoliberal solutions to their country's crisis.

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[Marxism] Venezuela: Remembering the Caracazo rebellion against neoliberalism

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Thousands of Venezuelans took the streets in February 1989 in a wave of
protests that highlighted the right-wing misrule in the South American
country. The protests came to be known as the *Caracazo* — an uprising that
began in the capital Caracas — and ultimately shaped the country's future.

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[Marxism] Venezuela: Working-class collectives hijack Polar trucks in Caracas, protest hoarding

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Protesters in working-class western Caracas hijacked trucks belonging to
Venezuela's number one private food chain, Polar, on February 18, demanding
the company cease hoarding essential goods.

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[Marxism] Venezuela: a turning point for Latin America?

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http://socialistresistance.org/8029/venezuela-a-turning-point-for-latin-america

All that said, there remains a hugely positive legacy which is far from over. 
Even more important than the impressive social gains, which most people on the 
left are aware of, there are political gains in Venezuela that are unlike any 
others on the planet. With all the inadequacies and frustrations of popular 
power as it exists, seventeen years of Bolivarian revolution have fostered a 
population that is mobilized and self organized to degree that is probably 
unique in the world today. The idea of socialism, and the belief that a 
transition to something called socialism was underway – strongly identified 
with the character of Hugo Chavez – is not dead. Nowhere else in recent history 
have millions of people actually believed that. And the belief in solidarity 
across the region, and a break with imperialism, is also uniquely strong in 
Latin America. Venezuela has been the crucible of that too.


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[Marxism] "'Venezuela defines the future of the progressive cycle" An interview with Claudio Katz

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http://lifeonleft.blogspot.ca/2015/12/a-new-political-situation-in-latin.html
See especially the last sections, on Venezuela and the responsibility of
the continental left
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[Marxism] Venezuela: why the counter revolution won and what it means for the revolution

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By Tamara Pearson

On Dec. 6 Venezuela held its 20th election in 17 years and one of its most
difficult yet. With the opposition upping the ante in terms of media
attacks and sabotage, 2.5 years of economic difficulties and since the
passing of revolutionary leader Hugo Chavez, not to mention a recent
right-wing victory in Argentina, the left and right around the world turned
anxious eyes to Venezuela.

Ultimately, the Bolivarian revolution -- the “Perfect Alliance” of the
governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and other supportive
parties and organizations -- lost at the polls

with the right-wing, US-backed opposition winning at least 99 seats, and 19
still to be decided. Eighty-seven is necessary for a simple majority.

But what does this electoral loss for the revolutionary forces mean,
politically, and given the current context in Venezuela, what will the
consequences of it be, going forward?

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[Marxism] Venezuela: Snowden exposes US oil espionage, Maduro to review relations

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The United States National Security Agency (NSA) accessed the internal
communications of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, PDVSA, and acquired
sensitive data it planned to exploit to spy on the company's top officials,
a highly classified NSA document has revealed. It shows the operation was
carried out in concert with the US Embassy in Caracas.

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[Marxism] Venezuela calls urgent LA-wide meeting over Ecuador coup plot

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called for an urgent meeting of the
Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to discuss
tensions and possible coup plots against the government of Ecuadorean
President Rafael Correa.

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[Marxism] Venezuela mourns Nora Castaneda, veteran feminist revolutionary

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An economist, university lecturer and much-loved revolutionary, Castaneda
is renowned for having founded and presided over Venezuela’s
internationally celebrated Women’s Development Bank, “Banmujer” since 2001.
She was also one of the chief protagonists of Venezuela's working-class
women’s movement that emerged in the 1980s.

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[Marxism] Venezuela: Huge May Day march amid new struggles, wage rises

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Braving the heat, more than 100,000 Venezuelans flooded the streets of
Caracas on May 1 to commemorate the International Workers' Day and gains
for working people under the Bolivarian Revolution.

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[Marxism] Venezuela: Thousands mark May Day, Maduro says 'workers must take over economic policies'

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Thousands of Venezuelans took part in May Day rallies
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Venezuelans-Rally-for-May-Day-20150501-0009.htmlon
May 1 to mark the international workers' day and commemorate the
achievements of the country's pro-poor Bolivarian revolution.

Speaking to May Day celebrations in Caracas, Venezuelan President Nicolas
Maduro said
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Venezuelan-President-Workers-Can-Now-Take-over-Economic-Policy-20150501-0021.html:
“Now is time for workers to lead the economic policy of the country.”

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[Marxism] Venezuela: US, elite launch new attacks on democracy

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To seek explanations for why the US and Venezuelan elite were so determined
to overthrow Maduro and destroy the Bolivarian revolution, Znet's *Michael
Albert* interviewed lawyer and investigate journalist, *Eva Golinger...*

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[Marxism] Venezuela: Asian socialists condemn new US-backed coup

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We, the undersigned organisations, strongly condemn the recent coup attempt
that sought to overthrow the democratically elected government of Venezuela
in order to reverse the achievements of the socialist Bolivarian process.

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[Marxism] Venezuela: Media attacks part of US-backed coup

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There is a coup underway in Venezuela. The pieces are all falling into
place like a bad CIA movie.

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[Marxism] Venezuela: Thousands mark uprising, protest economic war

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Thousands took to the streets of the Venezuelan capital of Caracas on
January 23 to commemorate the 57th anniversary of the toppling of the Perez
Jimenez dictatorship. Marchers also voiced their support for the government
of President Nicolas Maduro in the face of economic war and political
destabilisation.

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[Marxism] Venezuela offers SYRIZA 'complete solidarity and support'

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...A Venezuelan government statement said: “Venezuela warmly congratulates
the Syriza coalition party and Alexis Tsipras for their historic victory,
wishing them success and complete solidarity and support.”

Venezuelan communities minister Elias Jaua tweeted: “The Greek people,
after a long and historic battle against neoliberalism, has crowned itself
a wonderful victory. Syriza is fresh air for Europe!”

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[Marxism] Venezuela: US imposes new sanctions, Maduro rejects hypocrisy

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has angrily rejected new sanctions
against his nation signed into by US President Barack Obama on December 18.
The bill was passed by US Congress last week, authorising sanctions against
Venezuelan officials.

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[Marxism] Venezuela sends Gaza third aid shipment

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On November 2, the Venezuelan government sent its third shipment of aid to
Palestine as part of the measures ordered by President Nicolas Maduro to
help Palestinians after Israel’s war.

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[Marxism] Venezuela: Thousands of youth march against right-wing terror

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Thousands of Venezuelan youth and supporters of the United Socialist Party
of Venezuela (PSUV) government took part in a march on October 18 against
terrorism and for peace.

The youth march was organised in response to the assassination of Robert
Serra, a 27-year-old PSUV parliamentarian and Chavista. Serra was murdered
along with his partner Maria Herrera in their home on October 1.
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[Marxism] Venezuela: Socialist deputy and partner killed in their home

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Robert Serra, a 27-year-old legislator of the governing United Socialist
Party of Venezuela (PSUV), and the National Assembly's (AN) youngest
parliamentarian, was found dead in his Caracas home yesterday.

Authorities confirmed last night that Serra and his partner Maria Herrera
had been murdered in their residence. According to daily newspaper Ultimas
Noticias, unofficial reports say that Serra’s body showed signs of torture
before he was killed.

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[Marxism] Venezuela slams US racism

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Venezuela's communication minister Delcy Rodriguez has condemned “racial
discrimination” in the United States. Responding to the police shooting of
unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, Rodriguez said the incident was
symptomatic of a broader problem.

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[Marxism] Venezuela unveils 'Hugo Chavez' shelter for Gazan children

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The Venezuelan government has released images of the “Hugo Chavez” shelter,
where incoming Palestinian child refugees of the Israeli assault of the
Gaza Strip will be housed.

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[Marxism] Venezuela launches 'SOS Palestine' campaign

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Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has launched an “SOS Palestine”
campaign to demand an end to Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Palestine’s
Gaza strip, Venezuela Analysis http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/10788 said
on July 12.

“Enough already, I’ve joined the campaign,” he told supporters during a
televised broadcast. “#SOS Palestina, let’s launch it.”
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[Marxism] Venezuela: Activists form communard council

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Activists from across Venezuela met this month to form the National
Communard Council, which aims to coordinate the country’s commune movement
and present its demands to the national government.

The council was formed in the western state of Lara during a three-day
meeting of about 2000 communards (commune members) from around the country.
Most represented a particular commune.

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Re: [Marxism] Venezuela sanctions response?

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There already is a Venezuela petition which looks serviceable:
http://afgj.org/venezuela-solidarity-petition

Ideally, a functional left-wing coalition could mount protests in New York
or DC. However, I gather that's not a reality, and anyhow Kerry has staked
out an atrocious position and presumably would be near-impervious to
challenges from below. However, it seems that the motive force for
sanctions is coming from Florida, for familiar reasons and also probably
because it's become an outlet mall for rich Brazilians. A middle way
involving emails to Florida pols like Rick Scott telling them to back off
might potentially be productive.

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:06 AM, Joseph Catron jncat...@gmail.com wrote:

 Randomly, I've just come from a Gaza conference to support the Bolivarian
 revolution. I'm not much more of an attraction myself, but if an effort
 like this needed organizational endorsements, I could get some Palestinian
 ones with minimal effort. Just let me know.



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[Marxism] Venezuela to send oil to Palestinian Authority

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http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.591154

Venezuela will send oil and diesel fuel to the Palestinian Authority as
part of agreements made with Mahmoud Abbas during his visit to Caracas, AFP
reported.

One of the world's largest oil producers, Venezuela has pledged an initial
shipment of 240,000 barrels, however it is unclear how they will be
shipped.

Abbas arrived in the country Friday to seek backing from President Nicolas
Maduro for observer status in three Latin American regional organizations:
The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), the Bolivarian Alliance for
the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) and the Community of Latin American and
Caribbean States (CELAC).


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Re: [Marxism] Venezuela to send oil to Palestinian Authority

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Is this a good thing, or a bad one? Should we see it as Maduro assisting a
corrupt, Zionist collaborator regime, or a sign of said collaborator regime
becoming more independent by going to Venezuela?

- Amith


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 http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.591154

 Venezuela will send oil and diesel fuel to the Palestinian Authority as
 part of agreements made with Mahmoud Abbas during his visit to Caracas, AFP
 reported.

 One of the world's largest oil producers, Venezuela has pledged an initial
 shipment of 240,000 barrels, however it is unclear how they will be
 shipped.

 Abbas arrived in the country Friday to seek backing from President Nicolas
 Maduro for observer status in three Latin American regional organizations:
 The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), the Bolivarian Alliance for
 the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) and the Community of Latin American and
 Caribbean States (CELAC).



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