Caribbean: The "Isla" oil refinery as a microcosm of a collapsing capitalism
Submitted by Fredo Corvo on Feb 12 2019 19:43
On the Caribbean Island of Curacao refinery workers strike against the closure of their enterprise under influence of the economic, political and human tragedy in Venezuela and the danger of inter-imperialist war.
Humanitarian Aid... for War
Submitted by Internationalis... on Feb 11 2019 10:44
War or no war, one thing is certain, and that is the bourgeoisie — Chavista or oppositionist — cannot take society anywhere. There is no viable solution based on the nation and certainly not a capitalist one.
The Venezuelan Crisis
Submitted by Internationalis... on Feb 7 2019 11:32
Recent political events in Venezuela have once again brought to the fore its devastating economic situation. The struggle for power between Maduro and Guaidò, or between a fraudulently re-elected president and an opposition candidate who has proclaimed himself president, besides giving Venezuela a grotesque image, hides the real scenario of an economic and political human tragedy.
Against All Capitalist Factions! For Proletarian Independence!
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 30 2019 13:28
Neither Maduro nor Guaidó have anything to offer the working-class in the face of this turmoil.
The working class strikes back
A review of a book published in 2018, The Class Strikes Back.
Neither Chavismo Nor Anti-Chavismo: For the Autonomous Struggle of the Working Class
Submitted by Internationalis... on Oct 21 2017 08:21
Contrary to the cries of the Venezuelan government and its hypocritical Opposition, Venezuela remains, as before, a state-capitalist economy based on the extraction of oil rents.
Venezuela: The dead-end of the "Bolivarian Road to Socialism"
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jun 15 2017 20:46
There was no revolution in Venezuela. Being against neo-liberalism is not the same as opposing capitalism but only one form of it. However, it does feed into the social democratic narrative of Corbynism. Today, in the middle of an election campaign, the assertion that “Venezuela is socialist” is happily repeated by right wing papers and politicians to gloat over the social disaster which Venezuela has become.
