Dear friends and comrades,
Please allow me to introduce listmembers to /Links - International
Journal of Socialist Renewal . Links /carries regular in-depth articles
on the unfolding revolution in Venezuela, as well as developments in
Latin America and the world. Here are some of its more recent Venezuela
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Terry Townsend,
Editor.
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Federico Fuentes, part of the Green Left Weekly/Links
Caracas bureau, spoke to two of the key leaders of Socialist Tide (Marea Socialista),
asking them their opinions on the PSUV and its founding congress,
particularly in light of the defeat of the December 2, 2007, referendum
on Chavez's proposed constitutional reform.
Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network
March
5, 2008 -- What only a few days ago seemed like a remote prospect has
suddenly become a real possibility. The Colombian military's brutal
massacre of 21 (at last count) guerrillas with the Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia -– Peoples Army (FARC-EP), including Raul Reyes, the
FARC's chief negotiator and spokesperson, in Ecuador on March 1 marks a
dramatic leap in the United States' plan to potentially trigger off an
armed confrontation between Colombia and Venezuela.
Venezuela: Draft program and principles of the United Socialist
Party of Venezuela (PSUV)
<http://www.links.org.au/node/261>
[Below,
/Links/ <http://www.links.org.au/links> provides translations of
the draft program and principles of the provisionally named United
Socialist Party of Venezuela, which are currently being discussed at its
founding congress. The documents were drafted by the provisional
leadership of the PSUV.
* Read more
<http://www.links.org.au/node/261>
Venezuela: Assembly of Socialists activists on the referendum defeat
and the PSUV
<http://www.links.org.au/node/285>
*Federico Fuentes*, a member of the
/Green Left Weekly/
<http://www.greenleft.org.au>//Links/ Caracas bureau, interviewed a
number of elected spokespeople from the local grassroots units and
delegates to the founding congress of the United Socialist Party of
Venezuela. This is the first in a number of interviews that will appear
in /Links -- International Journal of Socialist Renewal./
* Read more
<http://www.links.org.au/node/285>
Venezuelan left debates the PSUV: The importance of the Communist
Party as a revolutionary organisation
<http://www.links.org.au/node/283>
By
*Carolus Wimmer*, Communist Party of Venezuela
* Read more
<http://www.links.org.au/node/283>
PSUV delegates condemn US-Exxon attacks on revolution
<http://www.links.org.au/node/282>
*Caracas bloc of delegates to PSUV Founding Congress*
Caracas, February 13, 2008 -- In the face of the [US] empire's
counterrevolutionary campaign, and that of the anti-patriotic and lackey
oligarchy, that threatens the Bolivarian socialist revolution and the
Venezuelan people, the PSUV expresses its support for the Bolivarian
government and Commandante Chavez.
* Read more
<http://www.links.org.au/node/282>
Oppose the US war plans for Colombia and Venezuela
<http://www.links.org.au/node/281>
Statement by the
*Australia Venezuela Solidarity Network*
<http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org/>
* Read more
<http://www.links.org.au/node/281>
Greetings to delegates at the PSUV founding congress
<http://www.links.org.au/node/280>
Dear comrades,
We in the Democratic Socialist Perspective
<http://www.dsp.org.au> (DSP)
— a Marxist organisation in Australia — wish to offer our greetings and
revolutionary solidarity to the delegates at the founding congress of
the provisionally named United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).
* Read more
<http://www.links.org.au/node/280>
Video: Venezuela April 13 - How youth of the barrios fought to
restore democracy
<http://www.links.org.au/node/277>
Venezuela suffered a US-backed coup d'etat on April 11, 2002. This is
the story of the youth of the barrios who fought to restore democracy
and president Hugo Chávez.With Hip Hop group Área 23. Produced by
Ávila TV. Directed by David Segarra and Ángela Mimiaga. Click here to
watch:
http://links.org.au/node/276
Malaysia: PSM supports Chavez in building socialism; inspires the
people's movement worldwide
<http://www.links.org.au/node/271>
February 6, 2008 -- This morning, Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM)
leaders met with Venezuela mbassador, Manuel Guzm'an and first
secretary, Carlos J. Paez to express our continued support for the
revolutionary efforts undertaken by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in
his move to build ``socialism in the 21st century.
* Read more
<http://www.links.org.au/node/271>
Video: Chavez on food sovereignty
<http://www.links.org.au/node/263>
Click here to see and hear Venezela's President Hugo Chavez discuss food
sovereignty in Latin America, Africa and the world.
http://www.links.org.au/node/262
The Battle for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela
<http://www.links.org.au/node/242>
By
*Kiraz Janicke* Venezuelanalysis.com December 1, 2007 -- As the
struggle to deepen Venezuela's revolution intensifies, so too does the
battle to create the new United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).
Over the past four months some 14,500 "socialist battalions" of the PSUV
have been discussing and debating the constitutional reforms and have
formed the grassroots battalions of the Commando Zamora, created as a
broad front to campaign for the reforms in the lead-up to the
referendum. This
* Read more
<http://www.links.org.au/node/242>
'Without worker-management, there is no socialism'
<http://www.links.org.au/node/241>
[A talk given at the two-day seminar "Workers Management: Theory and
Practise", held on October 26 and 27, 2007, organised by the Human
Development and Transformative Praxis Program at the Caracas-based
Miranda International
* Read more
<http://www.links.org.au/node/241>
`Socialisms' in the 21st Century
<http://www.links.org.au/node/239>
*Haiman El Troudi *has occupied many positions in Venezuela's
revolutionary government. He was the director of the Office of President
(2005–2006) under Hugo Chavez and secretary of the Maisanta
* Read more
<http://www.links.org.au/node/239>
Venezuela: Building popular power through Communal Councils
<http://www.links.org.au/node/231>
By
*Jim** McIlroy*
* Read more
<http://www.links.org.au/node/231>