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Grafitos del Orinoco: building and defending workers’ control

16 September 2010
Written by Carlos Rondón
The Bolivarian Revolution has suffered from the beginning from the economic sabotage of the employers. Workers, following Chavez’s call, have responded by occupying some of these factories and running them under workers’ control. This is one of the conquests of the revolution that workers will be defending on September 26. Here is a short account of one such experience of workers’ control.

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Venezuela: The Big Lie - Venezuela and Labor

02 September 2010
Written by Daniel Kovalik
Daniel Kovalik looks at the attempt to portray Venezuela as a country where trade unionists are under threat from the government and analyses the real situation of workers rights in comparison with that of Colombia

 

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Venezuela: Chávez Appoints Workers to Lead Factories in Guayana

14 June 2010
Written by Patrick Larsen

On May 15th, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez took a bold and historic initiative, when he decided at a meeting in Puerto Ordáz in Guayana, Bolívar state, to put workers at the forefront of the running of the primary industries located in this region.

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Electric Workers Kick out Bureaucratic Management in Valencia State

26 October 2009
Written by Aporrea.org
Valencia, October 24th, 2009 (Aporrea.org) – Electrical sector workers, after a just struggle against the managerial bureaucracy of Corpoelec [the state owned National Electricity Corporation] conveyed their satisfaction with the announcements by Chavez regarding the electrical sector. The Corpoelec bureaucracy has revealed itself in the large failures in the electrical service, and in the violation of the rights of workers.

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Venezuela: Toyota union leader murdered

08 May 2009
Written by Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria (Venezuela)
On Tuesday, May 5, Argenis Vázquez, Secretary of the Toyota union SINTRATOYOTA, was murdered as he was leaving his home in Los Chaimas de Cumaná; in the state of Sucre, to attend a scheduled meeting at Toyota headquarters.

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