Socialist Appeal - International Marxist Tendency
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It is over a week now since the death of Hugo Chávez and there are still kilometer long queues of people coming from all over the Venezuela to pay their last respects. Presidential elections have been called for April 14 and the mood is turning angry at the provocations of the oligarchy. Jorge Martin looks at the latest events in Venezuela and the future for the Bolivarian Revolution.
Alan Woods, Marxist author and writer for Socialist Appeal, appeared on BBC's Newsnight on Wednesday 6th March to speak about the late Hugo Chavez and the Venezuealan Revolution. We publish here links to this interview along with a letter from a supporter of Socialist Appeal.
Hugo Chavez is no more. The President was just 58, and had been 14 years in power. He has been battling cancer for the last two years, but when news of his death was announced, it came as a shock. The cause of freedom, socialism and humanity has lost a courageous champion.
Yesterday, March 5, at 4.25 pm local time, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez died after battling cancer for the last two years. This was announced by Vice President Maduro. We publish here a short statement by the Hands Off Venezuela campaign.
On January 23, Caracas was once again the scene of a huge mass mobilization in defence of the revolution. January 23 is a national day of struggle in Venezuela. It was the day that the infamous Marcos Pérez Jímenez dictatorship fell in 1958, overthrown by the mass movement from below. The opposition tried to cynically take advantage of Chávez illness and called for a demonstration to protest against “the unconstitutional situation”, i.e. against the postponement of the swearing in of Chávez. The PSUV leaders responded by calling on the masses to take the streets on the same day.