Bolivarian Revolution
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Venezuela: Deconstructing the Largest Social Engineering Experiment on the Planet
A famous aphorism, associated with Abraham Lincoln, says the following: “You can fool everyone for a while. You can fool some all the time. But you can’t fool everyone all the time”. But is this really so? Continue reading
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Chavez, a Mirror of the People: A Conversation with Edgar Perez By Cira Pascual Marquina
Edgar Perez, better known as “Gordo Edgar,” participated in the most important events in recent Venezuelan history, from the Caracazo to the 4F insurrection to the anti‐coup mobilization that brought Chavez back to office in April 2002. A well-known personality in the popular movement, Edgar grew up in the 23 de Enero barrio in Caracas,… Continue reading
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Chavez the Radical XXIV: “The Land Belongs to Those Who Work It, not to the Large Landowners”
In this video Hugo Chavez discusses the fallacies of previous land reforms, the importance of democratic collective control over farmsteads, coexistence with nature, how the urban slums proliferated as peasants fled to the cities in the 20th century, and the struggle for control of the countryside as the large landowners organized armed groups to assassinate… Continue reading
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Book Launch, London: Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution By Richard Gott
BOOK LAUNCH: Thursday July 14, 18.30- 21.00. At the Marx Memorial Library, 37A Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU Continue reading
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Book Launch, London: Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution By Richard Gott
BOOK LAUNCH: Thursday July 14, 18.30- 21.00. At the Marx Memorial Library, 37A Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU Continue reading
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COHA: A Decade in Power: An Assessment of Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian Revolution
Regardless of what critics may report, most of the population has reaped some of the many rewards that nationalization has provided in the form of governmental surplus. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 