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Australians give greetings at Venezuela's May Day rally
The Australia Venezuela Solidarity Network Brigade to Venezuela is currently underway. Below is a message from brigade participant, Coral Wynter.
We have just attended a massive march of worker for May Day in Caracas. We estimate about 500,000 to 750,000 people all in red T shirts from all over the country. It was amazing and our brigade of 15 people were interviewed on three television stations, Telesur, VTV and VIve. We also gave numerous radio interviews. We were easily identified with our great banner. We danced and skipped along the route from La Bandera to Puente Laguno. It was very exciting and nothing like anybody has experienced before. YOu really feel the power of the working class. Also John Cleary and I made our way to the stage and gave greetings to the workers of Venezuela from Australian workers. We were greeted with a loud cheer. I think we were the only foreigners in the crowd as an organised group. So we were on national televsiion with our great T'shirts expressing Australia Venezuela solidarity. Unfortunately President Hugo HCavez didn´t speak on this occassion but yesterday he announced another 30% increase in the minimum wages of workers. A great day and we are all exhausted but very happy.
Greetings from the AVSN brigade
Chavez re-nationalises SIDOR – historic victory for the workers
Chavez re-nationalises SIDOR – historic victory for the workers Print E-mail
By Jorge Martin - www.marxist.com
Wednesday, 09 April 2008
US/Colombia hands off Venezuela and Ecuador! Act now to stop war in Latin America
What only a few days ago seemed like a remote prospect has suddenly become a real possibility. The Colombian military’s brutal massacre of 21 (at last count) guerrillas with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – Peoples Army (FARC-EP), including Raul Reyes, the FARC’s chief negotiator and spokesperson, in Ecuador on March 1 marks a dramatic leap in the United States’ plan to potentially trigger off an armed confrontation between Colombia and Venezuela. These events should be of major concern for all supporters of the Venezuelan revolution, and anti-war and peace activists the world over.
SIGN ON STATEMENT- STOP Exxon Mobil's THEFT FROM THE POOR
Support Venezuela’s right to sovereignty!
United States oil giant ExxonMobil Corporation has launched a major attack on the Venezuelan people’s right to independence and self-determination.
In January and February, ExxonMobil used the courts in Britain, the US and the Netherlands to get injunctions that freeze up to $12 billion in assets of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), in those countries. The British injunction, granted on January 24 without any prior notice to PDVSA, will be heard again on February 22. The US injunction was upheld by a February 13 ruling of the US Federal Court.
INVITATION TO THE PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA - sign up
Dear President Chávez,
We, the undersigned citizens of Australia, would like to extend a warm invitation for you to visit our country.
Bolivarian Government Confirms Sidor Nationalization
Privatized in 1997, Siderúrgica del Orinoco (Sidor) joins again the Venezuelan State’s strategic companies.
The decision of nationalizing Venezuela’s largest steelmaker Sidor was confirmed on Wednesday during a press conference offered by the Venezuelan Vice-president Ramón Carrizales.
“We want to inform that after a long negotiation process failing to find a solution to a conflict between Sidor and its workers, President Chávez made the decision (…) of taking control of Siderúrgica del Orinoco, a company privatized ten years ago,” he said.
He explained that the Venezuelan government and Sidor discussed three points on which no agreements were reached: the role of contractors, the adjustment of pensions and the workers’ wage. “We are going to negotiate as we have done with different companies without any violations,” Carrizales added.
So far, the Venezuelan State has owned just 20% of Sidor shares, other 20% has been owned by Sidor’s workers and former workers, and 60% by Ternium.
Sidor, privatized two years before the Bolivarian Revolution took office, joins again the Venezuelan State’s companies within the framework of the recovery of strategic sectors, such as electricity, oil, lands and cement, carried out by the Venezuelan government.
Presidential Press Office / April 09, 2008
London Court Rules in Favor of Venezuela in Dispute with Exxon
March 18th 2008, by James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com
$300 Million from Venezuela to Colombian Rebels a Fake
March 8th 2008, by Greg Palast - OurFuture.org
Do you believe this?
This past weekend, Colombia invaded Ecuador, killed a guerrilla chief in the jungle, opened his laptop – and what did the Colombians find? A message to Hugo Chavez that he’s sent the FARC guerrillas $300 million – which they’re using to obtain uranium to make a dirty bomb!
Venezuela: ‘Traditional Left’ prevails in United Socialist Party elections
March 10th 2008, by Kiraz Janicke Venezuelanalysis.com
Caracas, March 10, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com) - The so-called ‘traditional' or moderate leftwing prevailed in the elections for the provisional national executive of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's new United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) on Sunday.
Embassy Newsletter - Feb 27th 2008
Feature articles include
CARACAZO 27 FEBRUARY 1989 THE ROOTS OF THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION
To view the Bolivarian Newsletter produced by the Venezuelan Embassy in Australia
Sidor workers reject arbitration: continue industrial action
February 27th 2008, by Kiraz Janicke - Venezuelanalysis.com
Caracas, February 27, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com) - Thousands of workers at Venezuela's largest steel plant, the Argentine-controlled Ternium Sidor, activated staggered strikes today as part of an ongoing dispute for a collective contract, which has dragged on for more than a year.
REMEMBERING THE CARACAZCO 27 FEB 1989 - and it's international significance...
http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/caracazo_anniversary_19_years.htm
Venezuela: Danger signs for the revolution
Kiraz Janicke & Federico Fuentes, Caracas. 22 February 2008
In recent weeks, external and internal pressure against Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution, as the process of change led by socialist President Hugo Chavez is known — has intensified dramatically.
Venezuelans speak: Revolution changing people’s lives
Stuart Munckton & Tamara Pearson. 16 February 2008
Venezuela: Socialists discuss struggle for revolutionary party
Federico Fuentes, Caracas. 15 February 2008
Since January 12, more than 1600 delegates to the founding congress of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) — along with thousands of local socialist battalions (branches — have been discussing the new party’s program, principles and statutes, and in large part the future of the Bolivarian revolution.
International week of solidarity with Venezuela called.
February 20th 2008, by Kiraz Janicke Venezuelanalysis.com
SOME THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT EXXON MOBIL!
DID YOU KNOW…
• Exxon Mobil has broken the record for the biggest profit in US corporate history for 3 years in a row (2005, 2006, and 2007). In fact, as far back as May of 2003, after the invasion of Iraq forced gasoline prices sky high, Exxon broke the record for the biggest quarterly profit ever made by a US corporation.
Interview - Caracas on the Line - US declares economic warfare against Venezuela
3.9Mb. 64kbps mono 9 mins.
AVSN Statement - Oppose the US war plans for Colombia and Venezuela
Oppose the US war plans for Colombia and Venezuela
Venezuelan Government’s Strategies for Confronting Food Supply Shortages
February 7th 2008, by James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com
Venezuelan Minister: Oil Company Asset Freeze is “Judicial Terrorism”
Chavez Presents His Government’s Achievements for 9th Anniversary in Office
Venezuelan Government’s Strategies for Confronting Food Supply Shortages
February 7th 2008, by James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com
Venezuela: The struggle for a mass revolutionary party
Federico Fuentes, Caracas. 25 January 2008
Venezuelans most positive about country in Latin America
Stuart Munckton. 1 February 2008
Venezuela: Combatting food shortages
Federico Fuentes & Tamara Pearson, Caracas & Merida
1 February 2008
“We lack everything” Frances Buitrago, a small shopkeeper in the city of Merida, commented to Green Left Weekly. “There isn’t any milk, rice, mayonnaise, oil, wheat, or butter.”
