The Venezuelan youth has faced special hardships under the U.S. blockade. The new parliament could help.

Despite many obstacles, popular feminism is advancing grassroots struggles in Venezuela.

Under the auspices of the Bolivarian Revolution’s call for people’s power, a self-organized Indigenous commune looks for state support to enhance its traditional production methods.

An Indigenous commune in the Venezuelan Amazon that builds on Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ and other traditions.

The commune as both means and end in Venezuela’s socialist project.

Communards living by the Orinoco River talk about the impact of U.S. sanctions on their work and lives.

Venezuelan communards on the Orinoco River talk about their organizing processes in recent years.

As part of VA’s Communal Resistance series, fisherfolk explain the challenges of building a commune in a country under siege.

With President Maduro’s third term about to begin, we discuss an organizational network that promotes continental integration from below.

A theologian from Cuba’s Martin Luther King Center talks about how Chávez celebrated life.

A theologian from Cuba’s Martin Luther King Center talks about Chávez as a revolutionary man of faith.

How an Indigenous commune in the Venezuelan Amazon has resisted the U.S. blockade.

A Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ community in the Venezuelan Amazon discusses their culture and organization as well as the Indigenous peoples’ rights established in the 1999 constitution.

A socialist commune in the Venezuelan Amazon draws inspiration from the collective practices of its Indigenous members.

The head of a prestigious research center talks about knowledge production in the Bolivarian Revolution.

For the Caracas-based La Minka collective, culture and bread-baking go hand in hand with the project of making a socialist commune.

The second National Popular Consultation saw Venezuelans choose community projects to be funded by the state.

Located on the outskirts of Biruaca, in Apure state, Nacidos para Vencer con Chávez [Born to Triumph with Chávez] is a women-led commune in a rural context that has a long history of patriarchal oppression. This fledgling commune seized upon Chávez’s idea as a way forward in difficult times, attempting to build community and increase production, while connecting with other communes through the Communard Union.

Coporo Indigena is an Indigenous community in Apure state that has resisted settler violence, displacement from their land… and now the U.S. blockade.

When production dropped, Venezuelans from the plains region turned to the commune to find solutions.