Red Pepper's Venezuela Blog

Book Review: Cowboy in Caracas by Charles Hardy (Charley Allan)

[The Morning Star's Charley Allan reviews Cowboy in Caracas by Charles Hardy, a US Catholic priest who spent 20 years living in the slum-covered hills of Caracas. --Ed]

Green Venezuela

[Derek Wall, Green Party Principal Speaker and author of Babylon and Beyond: The Economics of Anti-capitalist, Anti-globalist and Radical Green Movements, argues that capitalism is ecologically unsustainable and that Venezuela’s green policies should be applauded. --Ed]

Human Development and Practice

[Michael Lebowitz, who heads the Transformative Practice and Human Development programme at the Centro Internacional Miranda (CIM), a Caracas-based foundation for analysis and discussion of Venezuela’s Bolivarian process, argues that a process of demonstrating that human beings develop through their own activity points the way beyond the despotism of capitalism (in which the only real practice in which people engage is shopping) to a new socialist society. --Ed]  

Event: Challenging The Media War Against Venezuela (VIC)

[On Saturday April 14th the Venezuela Information Centre (VIC) will hold an event entitled "Challenging the Media War Against Venezuela". With guest speaker from Venezuela, Jacobo Torres, the event will look at how to build effective solidarity with Venezuela. --Ed]

Event: 5th Anniversary of the Defeat of the Coup Celebration, London (Hands Off Venezuela)

[On Friday April 13th the Hands Off Venezuela campaign are holding 
an event entitled "The Revolution Was Not Televised" in London. 
The event is in celebration of the 5th anniversary of the defeat 
of the coup against the Bolivarian Government in Venezuela. --Ed]