Venezuelan sociologist and former government minister Reinaldo Iturriza calls on the international left to place itself firmly on the side of Venezuela’s popular struggles.
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Who’s to blame for the crisis in Venezuela? A response to Gabriel Hetland
Jorge Martin takes recent Gabriel Hetland articles to task, questioning the liberal left’s assessment of the current situation and the solutions proposed.
Lawyer brings pieces of history back to Vietnam
American lawyer Nancy Hollander recently handed 450 documents, photographs and other memorabilia concerning the first meeting between the Vietnamese Women’s Union and the U.S. Women Strike for Peace Organisation in Jakarta in 1965, to the Vietnamese Women’s Museum.
Solidarity isn’t a slogan, it’s a process: a conversation with Vijay Prashad
In this exclusive interview, a prominent Indian intellectual examines how imperialism operates in our time and proposes specific forms of solidarity with Venezuela.
Venezuela coup leader’s oil plans revealed: Guaidó hopes to privatize state-controlled industry
U.S.-appointed coup leader Juan Guaidó and his right-wing economic advisers drafted plans to privatize Venezuela’s oil industry and open up the oil-rich country to foreign corporations, Reuters reported.
Map (and objectives) of the irregular war on energy in Venezuela
The cyber-attack against Corpoelec’s computerized centre in the Guri Complex hydroelectric plant and against the nervous centre in Caracas was followed by electromagnetic attacks and, simultaneously, sabotage of other backup infrastructure that reversed the recovery processes so as to ensure the general and irreversible collapse of the electricity supply.
Ricardo Hausmann’s “morning after” for Venezuela: the neoliberal brain behind Juan Guaido’s economic agenda
While online audiences know YouTube comedian Joanna Hausmann from her videos making the case for regime change, her economist father has flown below the radar. His record holds the key to understanding what the U.S. wants in Venezuela.
Venezuela under attack: 7 notes on electric shock (Special Edition)
A manoeuvre that lowers the curtains for Guaidó, who is trapped in an ill-conceived plan and dependent on the chain of command of the war cabinet against Venezuela in Washington, must be sacrificed in order to give way to war.
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The attack on climate justice movements
Strikes, demonstrations, direct action, and robust legal strategies are necessary because politicians are unlikely to enact needed changes without intense and unrelenting pressure.
Venezuela: Electricity recovery continues as U.S. withdraws diplomatic staff
U.S. officials have threatened new sanctions while Venezuelan authorities continue reactivating the electric grid.
Students, the Sixties, and How to ‘Fail Better’
With their wide range of styles and perspectives, these little memoirs give a good sense of the period and the issues, but their value is more than historic. As a new generation is being drawn to radical politics, today’s activists may be able to gain useful insights from the experiences of their predecessors.
Venezuelan social movements appeal to the World to condemn U.S. crimes against humanity
Social Movements Call for Denunciation of U.S. War Action Against Venezuela The Venezuelan people appeal for support from all the social organizations across the five continents, to denounce the U.S. government for launching cybernetic weapons and electromagnetic pulse weapons against our nation, causing a blackout throughout the country on March 7. This ruthless act of […]
Debate over labeling Omar obscures vital debate on Israel/Palestine
Though it was not their intention, Ilhan Omar’s critics did her a favor: They proved the very point she made at the Progressive Issues Town Hall at Busboys and Poets bookstore in Washington, DC, last week.
Venezuela suffers major power outages after alleged cyber attack
Venezuelan authorities denounced repeated attacks against the central control system of Venezuela’s electricity grid.
Venezuela blackouts: ‘straight from the cyberwar playbook’
A columnist at Forbes discusses the possibility of the blackout in Venezuela having been caused by cyberwarfare.
Venezuela in the dark: a chronicle of sabotage
Marco Rubio, U.S. Senator, was one of the first to announce the blackout, for which he blamed the “Maduro regime,” and stated something that only those involved in the sabotage operation could know.
‘Stay true to Chavismo,’ Maduro says as blackout continues
“We have overcome so many challenges, we’ll overcome this one,” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro told the crowd Sunday.
How Amnesty International is reinforcing Trump’s regime-change propaganda against Venezuela
All of the reasons above make a powerful case for questioning the integrity and objectivity of Amnesty when it comes to Venezuela. And for the sake of peace and justice, we should hold Amnesty to much higher standards.
Canadian support for intervention in Venezuela
The Liberal Party of Canada is ensnared in a scandal alleging high-level government intervention to shield a major engineering firm from criminal prosecution over its practices abroad. The timing of the scandal is note worthy. It has emerged after a high profile role taken by the governing Liberals in destabilizing Venezuela. Looking at the firms […]
Regime change is urgently needed…in Washington
It is not Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Iran that are in dire and crucial need of ‘regime change’. It is the United States of America, it is the entire European Union; in fact, the entire West.
