Venezuela

US and imperialist forces out of the Caribbean, Central and South America! US imperialism, headed by Donald Trump, has launched a military build up in the Caribbean not seen for decades. The deployment of the USS Gerald R Ford […]

The social, political and economic crisis which is currently rocking Venezuela poses crucial questions and lessons for socialists and the international working class.

Counter-revolution gaining ground

First electoral defeat suffered by the Chavistas since Hugo Chávez was first elected president in 1998 In the first electoral defeat suffered by the Chavistas since Hugo Chávez was first elected president in 1998, the […]

Victory for the right wing reflects popular discontent

No to union discrimination and repression!

Urgent need for international solidarity

Who is sabotaging who?

Photo report of march

Urgent need for a revolutionary alternative

International Solidarity needed!

Commemorations in context of new crisis

Ten days after the violence that started on ’Youth Day’ a situation of high polarization and, in some parts of the country, violence continues…

On 12F, three people (two right wing supporters and one government supporter) were killed in Caracas and dozens injured and arrested in the protests and demonstrations that took place around Venezuela to commemorate the annual […]

Workers in conflict with management over unpaid wages

Workers must take urgent steps to defeat capitalism and the right-wing.

Just over a month since the death of Chavez and with less than a week till the presidential elections, Venezuelans are experiencing the highest level of political polarization seen in years.

Radical, populist policies and anti-imperialism helped transform the political situation This article was first published in Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). After a long battle with cancer, Venezuelan president […]

“Bourgeois, make no mistake – here are a revolutionary people!”

Millions of Venezuelan workers, the poor and youth will mourn the death of Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez

But socialist policies needed.

Elections will take place amid political polarization and economic uncertainty

The Current Political Context

With almost 3 million people participating in the process of primary elections, the coalition of right-wing parties in opposition to the Chavez government, elected a united candidate for the Presidential elections in October.

Part of struggle against bureaucratisation of union

Protesters lobby Kazakh embassy in Germany

Ainur Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbayev to address OSCE Human Rights Conference

Mass campaign and threat of general strike sees persecuted workers’ leader released

Economic crisis sees clawing back of reforms for women

The threat of counter revolution stronger!

Repression and criminalisation of struggle is not socialism!

Nationalise Mitsubishi under workers’ control!

Joe Higgins MEP criticises the hypocritical condemnation of Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, by right-wing MEPs.

Which way forward?

Defend the right to strike and protest

Appeal by Frente de Obreros de FOGADE for pension rights.

14 million people came out early in the morning and went to the ballot boxes to elect governors, mayors and regional representatives

Tasks facing Marxists in Venezuela

On 2 December 2007, Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, unfortunately suffered his first electoral defeat since winning power in 1998. Hugo Chávez’s defeat in December’s referendum marks a key point in Venezuela’s revolution. The high […]

Armed threats ends action

The non-renewal of the RCTV license has become the subject of worldwide debate.

Step up class struggle and democratisation of unions!

There is great interest in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela, Eva Morales’ Bolivia and Fidel Castro’s Cuba among workers and young people, worldwide.

Continued threat of counter-revolution

Solidarity appeal for Venezuelan fishermen in struggle

Juan Baretto threatens to seize golf greens

Workers ‘self-management’ and socialism

Stop the repression of Trade Union rights in the pharmaceutical company RACE

We seek the support of the international workers’ movement

The horrendous assassination of three people in Caracas has been used by the opposition to Hugo Chavez as an excuse to start an offensive against the government. After the brutal murder of the Faddoul brothers […]

On Friday 7 April the CWI in Venezuela held a successful public meeting about the situation in France

Forbidden to forget

For the past 6 weeks, a group of around 40 women have led a struggle for jobs and pay at the Selfex factory in the south east of Caracas.

Right-wing opposition mobilizes only a few thousand

Workers win trade union recognition

Homeless occupy empty city buildings

Hugo Chávez has won his eleventh election victory since becoming president of Venezuela in 1998.

Stop the repression of trade unionists!

protest message to RACE Management

How to advance the Venezuelan revolution

On 15 August 2004, a recall referendum aimed at ousting Venezuelan president Chávez was resoundingly defeated by a mobilisation of the masses – particularly in poor shantytowns, through electoral ‘battle units’ and other organisations of […]

Successful cwi intervention at the world youth festival

The threat of counter revolution has once again raised its head in Venezuela as the struggle between revolution and reaction seems to be entering a new phase.

The Venezuelan right wing went to great lengths to impose a recall referendum.

Across Venezuela hundreds of thousands have celebrated the defeat of the attempt to “recall” the radical President Hugo Chávez. The overwhelming referendum result is a huge blow against US President Bush’s policies and the Venezuelan […]

The referendum called on August 15 to try and remove Hugo Chávez from power has backfired on the rightwing reactionary forces led by the capitalist class with the support of US imperialism.

Venezuela was never as important for the Spanish empire as its other colonies. Colombia was vital for its coffee, Peru for its gold and Bolivia for its silver; they all assumed a greater importance than […]

The revolutionary crisis in Venezuela has entered a new and critical phase. The left-populist regime of President Hugo Chávez appears to have taken a left turn in the face of a renewed threat from reaction.

In a surprise announcement, the radical left-populist Venezuelan President, Hugo Chávez, has accepted the decision of the National electoral Commission, (CNE), and will face a recall referendum.

Right wing plotters threat

TWO PREVIOUS attempts by Venezuela’s right-wing opposition to overthrow the twice elected radical national government of President Hugo Chávez have failed.

ON A recent Miami television programme, a group of Venezuelan ex-military officers openly called for a US invasion to overthrow the twice-elected radical, nationalist government of President Hugo Chavez.

THE REACTIONARY ’STRIKE’ is the most serious crisis Chávez has faced since the failed coup attempt in April 2002. That coup was defeated by a spontaneous mass movement of the poor from the shantytowns with […]

In the midst of Venezuela’s worst economic crisis for decades, severe flooding killed thousands of people and brought air and sea ports to a standstill. Tony Saunois evaluates the effects of the disaster against the […]

Following the defeat of the coup in April the CWI warned: "…it is now essential that the working class and oppressed in Venezuela seize the initiative and take the necessary steps to overthrow capitalism and […]

The celebrations by the ruling elite in Venezuela and the White House on Saturday 14 April following the removal of Hugo Chávez from power by a military coup were premature. Within a matter of hours […]

Hugo Chávez, elected president of Venezuela in 1998, heads the most radical populist government currently in power. Now, after four years, his regime is at a crossroads as social turmoil and conflict continues.