Representatives from the trade union, peace and socialist movement in Wrexham gathered on Tuesday 29th November in a Miners' Club to hear about the struggles of the Venezuelan Revolution.

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HANDS OFF VENEZUELA!

This is the message that 27 cities from the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom are sending to the Bush administration and the United States government on December 2 ... the First International Venezuela Solidarity Day.

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Hands Off Venezuela participated in two very successful events in Calgary, Alberta recently. We have been working hard to promote the ideas of the Bolivarian Revolution to workers and youth in Alberta receiving endorsements from numerous notable organizations and unions including the Alberta Federation of Labour. With a strong foothold in Edmonton the campaign has now spread to Calgary starting with two events in one week.

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After the CFMEU trade union, now the Australian Council of Trade Unions also passed a resolution in solidarity with Venezuela. The resolution is broadly based on the ones passed earlier this year by a number of British trade unions and finally passed unanimously at the British Trades Union Congress (see Motion 79). We hope this resolution will spread even further throughout the Australian union movement.

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At its national conference in November, the anti-war Respect coalition passed the following resolution pledging solidarity with Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution and voted to affiliate to the Hands Off Venezuela campaign.

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The Chavez government is already directing hundreds of millions of dollars from its windfall petroleum profits to expand social programs for Venezuela's own poor, and it has begun providing cheap oil to more than a dozen poor Caribbean nations. To the people at the Bush White House and their buddies at the Big Oil companies, sharing the wealth with those less fortunate is a dangerous idea.

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Increasingly, Canadian workers are learning about the importance of the Venezuelan Revolution. The Ontario Federation of Labour, which represents over 700,000 workers, unanimously passed a resolution in support of Venezuela at its November 21st – 25th convention. This success is the culmination of several months of organizing activity by Hands Off Venezuela activists in Canada and is an important step forward for the Venezuela solidarity movement.

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On Thursday November 24th, 190 members of the Leicester Revenue Network Branch PCS Union held their Autumnal General Meeting. In a two-hour meeting with a very full agenda the guest speaker was Darrall Cozens, the Midlands representative of HoV.

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