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We Don't Need Bosses: Venezuela's Growing Worker Control Movement
Introduction On Sunday 22 May Spanish-language Windsor/Canada-based radio program Cayapa broadcast a program discussing the social and political changes underway in Venezuela, in the context of a recent solidarity brigade to the country by activists from the English-speaking world, and the country’s growing worker control movement. This article provides an overview of the program in English, followed [...]
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CHAVEZ! Y U NO GIVE US INTERNETZ?!
NO! Hugo Chavez is going down the line of filtering Venezuela’s internet! The parliament has passed the law on filtering any messages which have incement or hateful material (politically or religious). This seems like a fabulous idea at first, but it is the opposite. Developing countries like Venezuela need freedom of access to all information [...]
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President Chavez does more cool shit
Allo Presidente!! It’s no secret that me, Lydia, loves Hugo Chavez. Although, it seems that there is massively split opinions of Chavez on the left in Scotland. However, Chavez just keeps doing cool shit that no one can deny is totally fucking awesome. In Venezuela right now, horrible flooding has claimed the lives of over [...]
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Venezuela: Socialists win the election, but you wouldn't know it from our media
Sunday saw a key test of the strength of the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela, with elections to the National Assembly. The opposition to the revolution, which is composed of the middle and bosses classes who are angry about losing their monopoly over Venezuela’s wealth and political power, and who are funded by US imperialism, had [...]
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They've done it again! Another week, another bullshit inquiry
When Israel announced that they were holding their own inquiry into their massacre of aid activists on the Gaza Flotilla, which happened at the end of May, it wasn’t a massive surprise when their ‘impartial panel’ proved to be a total sham. As we reported at the time, Israel predictably hand-picked a panel mostly consisting of [...]
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The revolution will be tweeted.
In a stunning victory for the working classes in both Scotland and Venezuela, and much to the chagrin of the imperialist pigdogs that control the media, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has announced that he is to employ 200 new staff members to help him deal with the daily deluge of twitter @replies he is [...]
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Family Guy try to legalize cannabis; Venezuela try to ban Family Guy.
The Venezuelan government has attempted to ban Family Guy because they think it promotes Marijuana use. Cable TV stations which don’t stop airing the show will be given hefty fines. Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami said the programme should be pulled from the airwaves after being outraged by a recent episode in which the show’s [...]
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