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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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Venezuela: Gov’t to launch China-backed anti-poverty program
The Social Equality and Happiness Mission will adapt the Chinese experience to the Caribbean country’s reality to alleviate poverty and inequality.
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Objective conditions in Venezuela: Maduro’s defensive strategy and contradictions among the people
Venezuelan history and politics professor Steve Ellner examines Maduro’s economic policies and the contradictions that have arisen among the left.
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Venezuela Condemns European Union’s ruling on illegal sanctions
The appeal was made against the European Union’s broad and far-reaching unilateral coercive measures that have impacted the entire Venezuelan population.
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Announcing ‘Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire’ by Anya Parampil
After four years of frontline reporting and research, The Grayzone’s Anya Parampil unveils her forthcoming book, Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire.
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‘Clear as the full Moon’: The revolution will not be defeated
Who doesn’t remember when Chávez announced on national television that Maduro should be the candidate to succeed him in case he died? It was December 8, 2012, and this was the first time he talked about dying, at least in public, and the first time we wondered if our revolutionary process could really continue without him.
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How U.S. Sanctions Are a Tool of War: The Case of Venezuela
The U.S. sanctions imposed on Venezuela are by no means an isolated case, though they are some of the most severe. If the U.S. can’t win with tanks and guns, it hopes that a campaign to suffocate the people will expedite regime change.
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Venezuela, the decolonial alternative: A conversation with Ramón Grosfoguel (Part I)
A distinguished author from the decolonial tradition discusses the relationship between colonialism and imperialism.
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The U.S. plot to finalize the theft of Venezuela’s oil
The U.S. has used its influence to steal another country’s oil revenues. Venezuela is in the crosshairs because it dares to be socialist in the hemisphere the U.S. claims as it’s “backyard.”
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Burkina Faso’s new president condemns imperialism, quotes Che Guevara, allies with Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba
Burkina Faso’s new President Ibrahim Traoré has vowed to fight imperialism and neocolonialism. Pledging a “refoundation of the nation”, invoking revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, and quoting Che Guevara, his government has allied with Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba.
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FAO report refutes Venezuelan food crisis narrative
The most recent report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has revealed positive news for Venezuela.
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Argentina: Repression against indigenous people in Jujuy (+human rights in Venezuela)
Police repression of mass protests regarding provincial constitution reforms—threatening the right to protest and land workers’ rights—have led to at least 68 people being arrested and 170 injured this Tuesday, June 20.
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Chávez, UNASUR and the end of unipolarity: A conversation with Judith Valencia
The Venezuelan researcher offers her reflections on Chávez’s geopolitics and the reactivation of the Union of South American Nations.
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Food for Thought: Pueblo a Pueblo Promotes Grassroots Food Sovereignty (Part IV)
An innovative form of food distribution has been key for schools and communes.
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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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Circumventing the Blockade: Pueblo a Pueblo Builds Grassroots Food Sovereignty (Part II)
An organization that brings together rural producers with urban consumers breaks with the dictates of the market.
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Venezuela: Food is not a commodity, it’s a human right: Pueblo a Pueblo Builds Food Sovereignty (Part I)
An organization that brings together rural producers with urban consumers breaks with the dictates of the market.
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An Interview with Michael A. Lebowitz on ‘Capital’, “Real Socialism,” and Venezuela
“While socialists need to begin with the existing concepts of fairness as reflected in the moral economy of the working class, to the extent that those concepts of fairness are contrary to the principle advanced in the Communist Manifesto that ‘the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all,’ they must be rejected.” —Michael Lebowitz
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U.S. invites authoritarian far-right regimes to ‘Summit for Democracy’
The Joe Biden administration invited numerous authoritarian far-right leaders to the U.S. State Department’s so-called “Summit for Democracy”, including Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, Poland’s Andrzej Duda, India’s Narendra Modi, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, and Pakistan’s coup regime.
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Review: Enrique S Rivera – “The Untold Story of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution”
Every May 10th marks Afro-Venezuelan Day and commemorates the 1795 Coro Rebellion. The May 1795 revolutionary events are the centerpiece of Enrique S. Rivera’s The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution.