24 April 2007

The workers of Sanitarios Maracay, a company in Aragua, Venezuela, which has been occupied and run under workers' control for more than 5 months, have been subject to brutal repression today, Tuesday, April 24 as they were travelling by bus to Caracas in order to participate in a national march in defence of workers' control and the process of expropriations launched by president Chavez in 2005.

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09 April 2007

Hands off Venezuela interviewed CMR member Yonie Moreno on the current situation in Venezuela. Yonie discusses a range of issues, from the question of the PSUV to the question of workers’ control and the struggle at Sanitarios Maracay.

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08 August 2007

After 8 months of occupation, the struggle of the workers at Sanitarios Maracay is more alive than ever before, despite the problems they are facing. On July 18^th, a delegation from Hands off Venezuela and the Revolutionary Marxist Current went to Maracay to hand over the 1,318,000 Bolivars collected in the last weeks by Hands off Venezuela, Britain.

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20 November 2006

As part of the campaign against the Bolivarian Revolution and President Chavez, the owner of Sanitarios Maracay has announced the closure of the factory. The workers, in defence of their jobs and the revolution, have occupied the factory and demanding that the Bolivarian government nationalise it under workers'control.

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17 December 2006

The courageous workers of Sanitarios Maracay march on the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, to campaign for the expropriation and nationalisation of their factory. This has become an important struggle for the workers movement in Venezuela, and is developing international support.

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19 February 2007

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18 February 2007

Here are the latest signatures to Hands Off Venezuela's petition campaign for the nationalisation of Sanitarios Maracay. Up till now, we have received more than 750 signatures coming from 41 different countries. Please keep the signatures coming and sign here!

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25 January 2007

After the first video on the struggle at Sanitarios Maracay, a factory in Venezuela under workers' control, Hands Off Venezuela has produced a second video showing how the workers are holding a workers' assembly and how they discuss and vote on issues such as nationalisation. Topics covered include the previous boss's acts of sabotage, logistics of workers' control and socialism of the 21st century.

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