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Llaneros resist the blockade: The Pancha Vásquez Commune (Part II)
When production dropped, Venezuelans from the plains region turned to the commune to find solutions.
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Organizing ranchers in the Venezuelan Llanos: The Pancha Vásquez Commune (Part I)
How communards in the Venezuelan plains region produce, organize, and resist the impact of the U.S. blockade.
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The dialectics of constituted and communal power: A conversation with Ángel Prado
The main spokesperson of El Maizal Commune is trying to put institutional power at the service of the commune.
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The commune is a comprehensive reworking of social relations: A conversation with Chris Gilbert
A new book exploring the theory, practice and history of socialist commune building in Venezuela.
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Campesinos as Scientists: PROINPA Combats seed dependency
PROINPA is a grassroots campesino organization promoting food sovereignty, endogenous seed production, and an agroecological transition.
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Agroecology for Life: Pueblo a Pueblo Builds Food Sovereignty (Part III)
A grassroots organization is building a new model for the production and distribution of food based on mutuality.
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‘News from Nowhere’ – building communal life in Venezuela
Chris Gilbert and Cira Pascual Marquina look at the Venezuelan communes as a key force in an extended process of national liberation and social emancipation.
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The ‘old-yet-new’: Past and present intermingle at the Hugo Chávez and Alí Primera communes
Communards from two rural communes in Yaracuy tell their story of a common struggle for the land.