Venezuela The Present As Struggle

Author : Cira Pascual Marquina,Chris Gilbert
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583678657

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Venezuela, the Present as Struggle by Cira Pascual Marquina,Chris Gilbert Pdf

Reveals the revolutionary power of the Chavista grassroots movement Venezuela has been the stuff of frontpage news extravaganzas, especially since the death of Hugo Chavez. With predictable bias, mainstream media focus on violent clashes between opposition and government, coup attempts, hyperinflation, U.S. sanctions, and massive immigration. What is less known, however, is the story of what the Venezuelan people – especially the Chavista masses – do and think in these times of social emergency. Denying us their stories comes at a high price to people everywhere, because the Chavista bases are the real motors of the Bolivarian revolution. This revolutionary grassroots movement still aspires to the communal path to socialism that Chavez refined in his last years. Venezuela, the Present as Struggle is an eloquent testament to their lives. Comprised of a series of compelling interviews conducted by Cira Pascual Marquina, professor at the Bolivarian University, and contextualized by author Chris Gilbert, the book seeks to open a window on grassroots Chavismo itself in the wake of Chavez’s death. Feminist and housing activists, communards, organic intellectuals, and campesinos from around the country speak up in their own voices, defending the socialist project and pointing to what they see as revolutionary solutions to Venezuela’s current crisis. If the Venezuelan government has shown an impressive capacity to resist imperialism, it is the Chavista grassroots movement, as this book shows, that actually defends socialism as the only coherent project of national liberation.

Author : Cira Pascual Marquina,Chris Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Socialist parties
ISBN : 1583678670

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Venezuela, the Present As Struggle by Cira Pascual Marquina,Chris Gilbert Pdf

Author : Jorge Joquera
Publisher : Resistance Books
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1876646276

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Venezuela by Jorge Joquera Pdf

"Each day the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean will be increasiongly convinced that there is no other road but revolution. For us there is no other road but revolution." (Hugo Chavez)A revolutionary process is unfolding in Venezuela, part of a continental rebellion unparalleled since the 1960s and '70s. Bourgeois power is being challenged by the emergence of a counter-power of the working classes. The reforms of the Chavez government have re-ignited the class struggle after years of defeat and decay of the left. This is not a simple replay of the Salvador Allende government in Chile 30 years ago. The Venezuelan army is deeply divided and within it there is a revolutionary current of officers and soldiers. Chavez himself has radicalised and fallen back not on the institutions of bourgeois democracy but the revolutionary power of the working masses.Internationally the left has become all too accustomed to analysing defeat and unfamiliar with the measure of a revolution. The development of the Venezuelan class struggle is an important opportunity to re-acquaint ourselves with the real-world development of class consciousness and the tactical complexities of a life-and-death struggle for power.This publication is only a condensed introduction to the evolution of the struggle and its key challenges but we hope that it might inspire others to study the Venezuelan revolution and draw from it the inspiration now feeding rebellion across Latin America.

Author : Geo Maher
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822354529

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We Created Chávez by Geo Maher Pdf

This history of Venezuelan politics from below tells how militants, students, women, Afro-indigeneous peoples, and the working-class brought about Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution and, ultimately, brought Hugo Chávez to power.

Author : Simon Bolivar
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789604894

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The Bolivarian Revolution by Simon Bolivar Pdf

Known throughout Latin America as El Libertador, Venezuelan revolutionary Simn Bolvar was one of the most important leaders in the wars of independence from Spain. Recently revived by Venezuelan president Hugo Chvez for his own political program-which he has called 'the Bolvarian Revolution'-these galvanizing words remain as relevant for current political and social struggles as they were in Bolivar's own day.

Author : Rafael Uzcategui
Publisher : See Sharp Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781937276164

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Venezuela by Rafael Uzcategui Pdf

A critical look at the Chavez regime from a leftist Venezuelan perspective, this account debunks claims made by Venezuelan and U.S. rightists that the regime is antidemocratic and dictatorial. Instead, the book argues that the Chavez government is one of a long line of Latin American populist organizations that have been ultimately subservient to the United States as well as multinational corporations. Explaining how autonomous Venezuelan social, labor, and environmental movements have been systematically disempowered by the Chavez regime, this analysis contends that these movements are the basis of a truly democratic, revolutionary alternative.

Author : Alan Woods
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781913026042

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The Venezuelan Revolution - a Marxist perspective by Alan Woods Pdf

This book, originally published in May 2005, is a collection of articles written by Alan Woods and covers the momentous events of the Bolivarian revolution from the April 2002 coup which was defeated by the masses, up until 2005 when president Chavez declared that the aims of the Venezuelan revolution could only be achieved by abolishing capitalism. Alan Woods writes not from the point of view of an outside observer, but also from the point of view of someone who has energetically engaged in the defence of the Bolivarian revolution, visited the country often where he has spoken at large meetings of workers and peasants and held meetings and discussions with president Chávez. More than a decade has passed since the publication of the book and the warnings contained within it have come true: the failure to move towards socialism is at the bottom of the crisis facing the Bolivarian revolution today. The analysis put forward in this collection of articles therefore remains relevant and contain many lessons for revolutionary activists, in Venezuela and beyond.

Author : Anderson Bean
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1793640866

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Communes and the Venezuelan State by Anderson Bean Pdf

In Communes and the Venezuelan State: The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis, Anderson Bean examines the communal movement in Venezuela, its origins, contradictory relationship to the state, and the challenges it faces amid Venezuela's largest economic and political crisis.

Author : Richard Gott
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781844677115

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Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution by Richard Gott Pdf

The authoritative first-hand account of contemporary Venezuela, Hugo Chávez places the country’s controversial and charismatic president in historical perspective, and examines his plans and programs. Welcomed in 1999 by the inhabitants of the teeming shanty towns of Caracas as their potential savior, and greeted by Washington with considerable alarm, this former golpista-turned-democrat took up the aims and ambitions of Venezuela’s liberator, Simón Bolívar. Now in office for over a decade, President Chávez has undertaken the most wide-ranging transformation of oil-rich Venezuela for half a century, and dramatically affected the political debate throughout Latin America. In this updated edition, Richard Gott reflects on the achievements of the Bolivarian revolution, and the challenges that lie ahead.

Author : Cristobal Valencia
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816531561

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We Are the State! by Cristobal Valencia Pdf

"This book is about Hugo Châavez's supporters: the Chavistas, the life-blood of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution. "We are the State!" examines the race, class, and gender subjective experiences of the Chavistas in everyday processes of state formation and in establishing democracy"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Justin Podur,Joe Emersberger
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781583679166

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Extraordinary Threat by Justin Podur,Joe Emersberger Pdf

The US foreign policy decisions behind six coup attempts against the Venezuelan government – and Venezuela's heightening precarity In March 2015, President Obama initiated sanctions against Venezuela, declaring a “national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the situation in Venezuela.” Each year, the US administration has repeated this claim. But, as Joe Emersberger and Justin Podur argue in their timely book, Extraordinary Threat, the opposite is true: It is the US policy of regime change in Venezuela that constitutes an “extraordinary threat” to Venezuelans. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans continue to die because of these ever-tightening US sanctions, denying people daily food, medicine, and fuel. On top of this, Venezuela has, since 2002, been subjected to repeated coup attempts by US-backed forces. In Extraordinary Threat, Emersberger and Podur tell the story of six coup attempts against Venezuela. This book deflates the myths propagated about the Venezuelan government’s purported lack of electoral legitimacy, scant human rights, and disastrous economic development record. Contrary to accounts lobbed by the corporate media, the real target of sustained U.S. assault on Venezuela is not the country’s claimed authoritarianism or its supposed corruption. It is Chavismo, the prospect that twenty-first century socialism could be brought about through electoral and constitutional means. This is what the US empire must not allow to succeed.

Author : Hugo Chávez Frías,Marta Harnecker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004903637

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Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution by Hugo Chávez Frías,Marta Harnecker Pdf

This work brings together, in an extended dialogue, the ongoing transformation of Venezuelan society and its growing role in global and regional politics. In the course of this discussion, Chavez sets out his politics in his own words, enabling the reader to grasp the rationale behind them and the charisma of the man.

Author : Sujatha Fernandes
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822391708

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Who Can Stop the Drums? by Sujatha Fernandes Pdf

In this vivid ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Sujatha Fernandes reveals a significant dimension of political life in Venezuela since President Hugo Chávez was elected. Fernandes traces the histories of the barrios, from the guerrilla insurgency, movements against displacement, and cultural resistance of the 1960s and 1970s, through the debt crisis of the early 1980s and the neoliberal reforms that followed, to the Chávez period. She weaves barrio residents’ life stories into her account of movements for social and economic justice. Who Can Stop the Drums? demonstrates that the transformations under way in Venezuela are shaped by negotiations between the Chávez government and social movements with their own forms of historical memory, local organization, and consciousness. Fernandes portrays everyday life and politics in the shantytowns of Caracas through accounts of community-based radio, barrio assemblies, and popular fiestas, and the many interviews she conducted with activists and government officials. Most of the barrio activists she presents are Chávez supporters. They see the leftist president as someone who understands their precarious lives and has made important changes to the state system to redistribute resources. Yet they must balance receiving state resources, which are necessary to fund their community-based projects, with their desire to retain a sense of agency. Fernandes locates the struggles of the urban poor within Venezuela’s transition from neoliberalism to what she calls “post-neoliberalism.” She contends that in contemporary Venezuela we find a hybrid state; while Chávez is actively challenging neoliberalism, the state remains subject to the constraints and logics of global capital.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004501201

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Sanctions as War by Anonim Pdf

Sanctions as War is the first critical analysis of economic sanctions from a global perspective. Featuring case studies from 11 sanctioned countries and theoretical essays, it will be of immediate interest to those interested in understanding how sanctions became the common sense of American foreign policy.

Author : M. Brown
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0230341314

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The Struggle for Power in Post-Independence Colombia and Venezuela by M. Brown Pdf

A collective biography of the veterans of the battle of El Santuario (1829), this book uses the untold stories of ordinary lives to examine the history of the imperial conflicts that shaped politics and society in Colombia and Venezuela after independence from colonial rule.