An exciting new radical film festival Seeing Red: a festival of subversive cinema takes place this weekend and the organisers are to be congratulated on choosing to show the ground breaking docu-film about the temporarily successful 2002 coup against the left-wing government in Venezuela, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. This unique film came about as a […]
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The coup they televised: Venezuela, Chavez and a cinematic masterpiece
Nov 14th, 2013 by Matt Willgress.
Social progress deepens in Venezuela
Oct 30th, 2013 by Matt Willgress.Former trade union leader, Nicolas Maduro, marks six months as Venezuela’s President in October, a period marked by measures to consolidate and deepen the remarkable social progress that took place in Venezuela under President Hugo Chávez. Since becoming President, Maduro has faced the formidable task of both leading the government and facing an emboldened, anti-democratic […]
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Solidarity with Victor Crespo
Sep 23rd, 2013 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.While we play silly buggers with union links and Westminster watching, it is worth remembering that many of our comrades elsewhere risk their lives to defend working people. This fromLabourStart’s Eric Lee via Howie’s Corner. I urge readers to take a moment to send a message of support. Last Friday, armed men attempted to force their way […]
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Springsteen pays tribute to Victor Jara
Sep 14th, 2013 by Conrad Landin.In what is apparently pretty good Spanish, here’s Bruce Springsteen paying tribute to Victor Jara, the great Chilean guitarist murdered by the Pinochet regime shortly after the coup of 1973, the 30th anniversary of which was marked the other on 11th September.
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Lecture: national liberation and socialism in Latin America
Sep 9th, 2013 by Newsdesk.The second Redmond ‘Neill memorial lecture is happening Wednesday next week (18 September at 6:30pm) in London, entitled From Martí & Bolívar to Castro & Chávez: national liberation & socialism in Latin America. Richard Gott, journalist and historian, is the main speaker and is well qualified to speak on the subject being the author of four related […]
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Eywitness to the Bolivarian Revolution: Report back from a delegation to Venezuela
Jul 23rd, 2013 by Dominic Curran.The first thing that strikes you as you drive into Caracas is how the skyline is punctuated by tall blocks of government housing missions often bearing the signature of Hugo Chavez painted on their side: a testament to the social progress and investment in human need in Venezuela. On our fifth day we went to […]
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When memory, disorientation and Kafka came to Brazil
Jul 13th, 2013 by Frances Docx.Before me is a thin volume, and its title is a precursor of the brevity to come. Yet despite this, K isn’t a short story, a novella, or a collection of fragments stuffed together in aspiration to one of these forms. It is a selection of glimpses into thoughts and states of mind, each fading […]
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Up Close in Race to Replace Chávez
May 9th, 2013 by Adrian Weir.Although a reasonably frequent visitor to Cuba, this trip, as part of the Acompañamiento Internacional team of election monitors, was my first to the Latin American mainland.Driving into town from Caracas Airport two points struck me: First, the barrios, the working class quarters, perched precariously on the hillsides sloping upwards from the plain of Caracas […]
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Venezuela and the new Latin America – the Chavez legacy
Apr 23rd, 2013 by Matt Willgress.As Hugo Chavez predicted, much of Latin America is a now seen as a progressive beacon in the world for people looking for alternatives to neo-liberalism. And, in many ways – following his sad death from cancer so brilliantly covered in last month’s (Original) Briefing – I think that is the main legacy of Hugo […]
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Chavismo lives!
Mar 9th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.The death of Hugo Chavez removes a rumbustious and all-prevasive personality from the scene, but what he stood for will still have a decisive impact on the whole American continent for decades to come. He empowered the poor by including them in the political process from which they had always been excluded. He deepened democracy and […]
