[Venezuelanalysis.com's Kiraz Janicke reports on a two day conference on Worker's
Management: Theory and Practice, as part of a program, "Human Development and
Transformative Praxis," run by Canadian Marxist academic Michael Lebowitz at the
International Miranda
Center in Caracas.] A worker at the worker-controlled Inveval factory, an hour eastof Caracas in the satellite town of Carrizal, state of Miranda. January 2006. Credit: Gustavo Marcano.
[Venezuelanalysis.com's Kiraz Janicke visits Inveval, one of Venezuela's new worker co-managed factories, to talk to
the workers and find out more about their struggle, their history,
their experience of workers control, the challenges they face as well
as the broader question of how they are strategising to transform
Venezuelan society in the struggle for ‘Socialism in the 21st Century’.]
[Venezuelanalysis.com's Chris Carlson reports on the call made by various leaders of Venezuela's primary pro-government labour union, the National Workers Union of Venezuela (UNT), for all sectors of the organisation to join together and hold elections later this year. --Ed] Orlando Chirino, coordinator of Venezuela´s National Workers Union (UNT) at a march in the state of Carabobo in 2006. Credit: Aporrea.org
[The following
interview was conducted with Orlando Chirino, national organiser of
Venezuela’s National Workers’ Union (UNT) federation and leader of
C-CURA (the United Autonomous Revolutionary Class Current) within the
UNT. --Ed]
[Venezuelanalysis.com'sChris Carlson reports on the protest held by SIDOR workers outside the
SIDOR steel plant in Puerto Ordaz on Tuesday demanding that the
government nationalise the company. Last Thursday, Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez warned that he might nationalise the Argentinian-owned
company. --Ed] Credit: Venezuelanalysis.com
[The solidarity group, Hands Off Venezuela, recently sent a delegation to Venezuela. During their stay the group visited Sanitarios Maracay, a factory in Venezuela under workers control, to
learn more about the revolutionary process taking place there, and to
offer solidarity to the workers. --Ed]
[Venezuelanalysis.com's
Steven Mather reports on the recent march by workers of the occupied factory Sanitarios Maracay to demand its nationalisation. Workers are demanding the nationalisation of the company, which produces
ceramic bathroom products, after they occupied their workplace on November 14
and restarted production for the local community. --Ed]
[Richard Gott responds to the recent claims by
the General Secretary of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Aidan White, which include the view that it is untenable to argue that "democratic rights, including freedom of the press, are better protected than ever before in Venezuela." --Ed]
[Below is an article by Steven Mather for Venezuelanalysis.com which reports on the first annual conference of the Co-managed and Occupied Factories’ Worker’s Revolutionary Front (Freteco), held last month in Caracas. --Ed]
[The following venezuelanalysis article by Michael Fox contains excerpts from a dialogue between workers at co-mananged and self-managed enterprises, upon viewing the screening of the documentary, 5 Factories - Worker Control in Venezuela. The workers discuss the problems and advantages of the transformation of their workplaces. --Ed]
A worker at the worker-controlled Inveval factory, an hour east of Caracas in the satellite town of Carrizal, state of Miranda. January 2006. Credit: Gustavo Marcano.
