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Venezuela Page
Venezuela has been for years a country in turmoil. What has been termed a “socialist Bolivarian revolution” has occurred there. Is this really a socialist revolution? We will try to locate and post documents from both Venezuela and internationally which bear on this important question.
Even if it is considered that this “Bolivarian revolution” is not really a socialist revolution, and the new regime is not really socialism, it is still definitely a fact that it has an anti-imperialist aspect to it, and that it has been severely attacked by U.S. imperialism. We will also try to post difficult to locate information from various sources about this international political struggle.
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If you know of other difficult to find or suppressed documents, news reports or international commentary that should be posted here, contact us at: freespeech@bannedthought.net
Documents About the “Bolivarian Revolution”
- “República Bolivariana de Venezuela Constitución de 1999” [Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, 1999], 95 pages. English: Searchable PDF format [757 KB] Spanish: Searchable PDF format [848 KB]
Foreign Support for the Bolivarian Regime in Venezuela
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Foreign Revolutionary Criticism of the Bolivarian Regime in Venezuela
- “Venezuela en la Encrucijada”, a collection of articles from Unión Obrera Comunista (marxista-leninista-maoísta) criticizing Venezuela's program of "Socialism of the 21st Century", August 2019, 80 pages. Spanish: Searchable PDF format [475 KB]
Other Documents from Revolutionary Groups in Venezuela
- “La lucha por el pan y la tierra. Manifiesto del Partido Comunista al pueblo trabajador de Venezuela” [The fight for bread and land. The Manifesto of the Communist Party to the working people of Venezuela.], 1931, 6 pages. The Communist Party of Venezuela was founded in the Comintern era, and launched an unsuccessful guerrilla war inspired by the Cuban Revolution in the 1960s through its armed wing the FALN. They failed to win support of the peasantry. In 1971 a majority faction, disillusioned with armed struggle, split and formed a reformist party. Then another faction based in the trade unions split, and the PCV was a husk of its former organization. During the Chavez period the PCV supported the Bolivarian revolution and adopted a gradualist approach to socialism, and as part of the Chavista coalition has regained some strength. Since 2020 they have distanced themselves from Maduro due mainly to his economic policies and are the largest component of electoral socialist/leftist opposition. Spanish: Searchable PDF format [115 KB]
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