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Written by Tamara Pearson - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Thursday, 07 October 2010 00:00 |
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On Tuesday Mitsubishi workers in Venezuela protested 307 new dismissal requests by the company. This follows long strikes, occupations, and the killing of two union members last year.
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Written by Hands Off Venezuela
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Thursday, 16 September 2010 14:16 |
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The leaders of British trade unions representing more than 5 million workers sign Hands Off Venezuela appeal in support of the Bolivarian revolution and the PSUV candidates for the National Assembly elections.
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Written by Carlos Rondón
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Thursday, 16 September 2010 13:42 |
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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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Written by Daniel Kovalik
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 16:07 |
 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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Written by Patrick Larsen
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Monday, 14 June 2010 13:20 |
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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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Written by Aporrea.org
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Monday, 26 October 2009 07:25 |
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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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Written by Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria (Venezuela)
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Friday, 08 May 2009 04:49 |
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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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Written by By Federico Fuentes - Green Left Weekly - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Friday, 25 July 2008 11:43 |
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Venezuela's National Union of Workers (UNT) to hold National Conference, and internal elections. |
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Written by Kiraz Janicke - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 05:11 |
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More than 14,000 workers at Venezuela's largest steel plant, the
Argentine-controlled Ternium Sidor, look set to extend a 48 hour strike
Friday night, after negotiations for a collective contract, which has
dragged on for almost a year, broke down.
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Written by Kiraz Janicke – Venezuelanalysis.com
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Thursday, 01 November 2007 08:20 |
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Over the weekend of October 26
to 27, several hundred people attended 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.
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Written by Hands Off Venezuela - Ireland
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Tuesday, 30 October 2007 13:00 |
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The conference of Irish Labour Youth passed a motion (no.
37) in support of the Venezuelan Revolution last Saturday, 27th October. The
motion also called on Labour Youth "to build links with the Irish branch
of the ‘Hands Off Venezuela Campaign’."
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Written by Hands Off Venezuela
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Friday, 14 September 2007 09:35 |
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Britain's national Trades Union Congress (TUC) reaffirmed its
solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution at its annual conference
yesterday and backed Venezuela's decision not to renew the
public-broadcast licence of the private TV station RCTV .
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Written by Megan Hise in Maracay
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Saturday, 18 August 2007 08:02 |
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Megan Hise reports from Maracay on the latest attempt to destroy the struggle of the workers at Sanitarios Maracay for expropriation under workers' control.
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Written by Kiraz Janicke – Venezuelanalysis.com
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Saturday, 28 July 2007 05:06 |
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An excellent article explaining the current situation of Inveval, the Venezuelan valve factory producing under workers' control, where the workers are facing the problems of operating in a capitalist market but also the sabotage of the state bureaucracy.
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Written by Chris Carlson - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Thursday, 10 May 2007 06:10 |
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Workers held protests outside the
SIDOR steel plant in Puerto Ordaz yesterday, demanding that the
government nationalize the company. Last Thursday, Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez had warned that he might nationalize the Argentinian-owned
company.
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Written by Gregory Wilpert – Venezuelanalysis.com
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Thursday, 03 May 2007 05:52 |
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Just as in previous years, two
Venezuelan union federations organized competing demonstrations in
support of the May 1 International Workers’ Day. While the
pro-government demonstration attracted more marchers, it appeared more
divided than the smaller anti-Chavez demonstration.
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Written by Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria - venezuela.elmilitante.org
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Friday, 15 December 2006 11:58 |
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One thousand people marched yesterday through the
main streets of Caracas, in what was the largest
demonstration in favour of the expropriation of an occupied factory that has
ever taken place in Venezuela.
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Written by Hands Off Venezuela delegation
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Tuesday, 05 December 2006 09:28 |
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Hands Off Venezuela tours 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. An impressive video which gives a taste of workers' democracy in action and how this is linked to the Bolivarian revolution |
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Written by Marie Trigona - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Friday, 10 November 2006 04:50 |
In Venezuela it is
estimated that 1,200 business and factories have been abandoned by bosses and owners and there is a growing movement of factory occupations. Marie Trigona talks to
a representative of Venezuela's Co-managed and Occupied Factories
movement about its history and prospects.
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Written by Steven Mather - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Thursday, 26 October 2006 09:15 |
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Last weekend the Co-managed and Occupied Factories’ Worker’s
Revolutionary Front (Freteco) held its annual conference in Caracas.
They are a small but vocal and radical movement for worker’s control of
Venezuelan industry.
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Written by Steven Mather - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:10 |
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Coca-Cola-Femsa workers in Venezuela have seized the factories where
they work and are preventing distribution trucks from leaving in a bid
to force the company to pay out agreed-upon compensation to ex-workers.
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Written by Kim Scipes
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Monday, 25 September 2006 10:20 |
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Just released! A meticulously researched examination of the role of the AFL-CIO in the April 2002 coup against the democratically-elected government of Hugo Chavez. In light of this information, labor activists in the U.S. and around the world should multiply the pressure on the AFL-CIO to end its ties with the NED and to pursue genuine worker to worker solidarity with the workers of Venezuela and the world. |
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Written by Jeremy Dear
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Thursday, 14 September 2006 07:11 |
This is a transcript of the intervention by Jeremy Dear (general secretary of the National Union of Journalists and co-president of Hands Off Venezuela) at the British Trade Union Congress 2006. He spoke on the need for solidarity with Venezuela and defended motion 73, advocating the setting up of a united campaign body sponsored by the TUC. This was known as the "unity motion", but there was opposition from other unions to this idea and the motion was remmitted to allow for further discussion. See also the text of motion 73.
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Written by National Union of Journalists
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Thursday, 14 September 2006 07:01 |
This is the text of the NUJ motion to the 2006 British Trade Union Congress. This was also known as the "unity motion" since it seeked to establish a TUC body to coordinate the work of the three existing solidarity campaigns in order to deliver more effective assistance to trade unions in Venezuela and further the solidarity work. The TUC General Council asked for the resolution to be remmitted.
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Written by Rodrigo Trompiz
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Thursday, 14 September 2006 05:38 |
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Hands Off Venezuela held a fringe meeting in Brighton for the TUC on the evening of Wednesday, September 13, which also included a screening of the documentary “Venezuela Today, the World Tomorrow?” |
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Written by Steven Mather - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Wednesday, 13 September 2006 08:00 |
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A largescale protest
last week by workers from the Sidor steelworks secured the release of
five of their co-workers after they were arrested by the National Guard
on charges of undue expropriation and seizure of plant machinery. The
protest, supported by the unions at the plant, partially closed down
the steelworks and brought the city of Puerto Ordaz, in Venezuela’s
Bolívar state to a standstill.
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Written by Hands Off Venezuela
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Tuesday, 12 September 2006 12:10 |
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More than 120 people packed the Latin America fringe meeting at the TUC on Monday, September 11, where a lively debate took place on the Venezuelan revolution, including such questions as workers’ control in the factories. |
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Written by Steve Mather – Venezuelanalysis.com
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Tuesday, 12 September 2006 05:44 |
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Under
the surface of the different factions or currents within the National Union of
Workers, a more dangerous quarrel is simmering away that could have
consequences for the government and its revolutionary credentials.
What is up for grabs is the meaning of XXI century Socialism and the
UNT’s role within it.
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Written by Hands Off Venezuela Belgium
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Monday, 14 August 2006 10:51 |
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Two union branches
affiliated to the Hands off Venezuela
campaign in the Belgian socialist union ABVV/FGTB succeeded in harnessing some
important support for a motion of solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela.
This motion also asked for the recognition of the new trade union movement UNT.
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Written by Paul Pollack - UpsideDownWorld.org
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Thursday, 13 July 2006 10:43 |
Another analysis of the recent congress of Venezuela's National Union of Workers and the debates in its recent national congress.
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Written by Chris Kraul - Los Angeles Times
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Wednesday, 12 July 2006 05:12 |
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Venezuela's government is using a 1936 Chaplin film to educate workers about their
rights. Employers are not applauding. We reproduce this article from the Los Angeles Times.
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Written by Jeremy Dear - www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:29 |
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As reported earlier,
National Union of Journalists general secretary Jeremy Dear gave a
debriefing to solidarity activists, on Wednesday June 14 2006 at the union's
headquarters in London, of the first official TUC delegation to Venezuela. Apart from a transcipt of his speech, now we have a video of the event available too.
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Written by Jeremy Dear - www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Saturday, 17 June 2006 06:01 |
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National Union of Journalists general secretary Jeremy Dear gave a
debriefing to solidarity activists, on Wednesday June 14 2006 at the union's
headquarters in London, of the first official TUC delegation to Venezuela.
This is the full text of his speech, which was followed by a question and
answer session.
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Written by Hands Off Venezuela
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Monday, 12 June 2006 07:15 |
Two weeks ago, the TUC sent its first official delegation to Venezuela, which met with President Chávez and trade union leaders, as well as other representatives of the country's social movements. Jeremy Dear, general secretary of the NUJ, was part of the delegation and will be reporting back at a meeting in London on Wednesday June 14th.
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Written by Andy Goodall - www.venezuelasolidarity.org.uk
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Tuesday, 06 June 2006 08:47 |
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Last week the second national UNT congress took place in Caracas. We reproduce this report from Andy Goodall from Venezuela Solidarity UK. We will have another report ready soon.
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Written by Hands Off Venezuela
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Friday, 26 May 2006 11:46 |
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Jeremy Dear, General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists and
member of the British Hands Off Venezuela steering committee, met with
President Chavez as part of a trade union delegation from Britain.
Jeremy discussed the campaign of disinformation in the mainstream media
abroad. We will report more on this next week together with reports of
the UNT conference taking place now. For now we link to two articles from Aporrea.org and a video where Jeremy is interviewed by state channel VTV.
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Written by Hands Off Venezuela
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Wednesday, 03 May 2006 06:41 |
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Three weeks ago, the Scottish passed a resolution pledging support with Venezuela. We are republishing it here.
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Written by Hands Off Venezuela
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Sunday, 19 March 2006 13:39 |
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A report on the first day of Luis Primo's West Coast tour.
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Written by Alex Holland – Venezuelanalysis.com
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Friday, 17 March 2006 05:39 |
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A newly created organization, the
Revolutionary Workers Front of Occupied and Co-Managed Companies
demonstrated for more government expropriations of idle factories today.
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Written by Darrall Cozens, Hands off Venezuela and NATFHE, West Midlands
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Tuesday, 14 March 2006 07:36 |
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Darrall Cozens, a member of NATFHE West Midlands Region and of the Hands
Off Venezuela Steering Committee spoke to a meeting of NATFHE Regional Council
Members on Saturday 4th February. Here we publish his speech.
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Written by Jorge Martín
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Thursday, 09 March 2006 10:52 |
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The early origins of International Women’s Day are closely linked to
the struggle of women textile workers. This year’s International
Women’s Day finds 240 textile workers, mainly women, occupying the
premises of the Sel-Fex company in Caracas. Their struggle is no longer
just a struggle against the bosses for concrete demands, but a struggle
to defend the Bolivarian revolution and to build a better future for
Venezuelan working women and all working people in general.
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Written by William Sanabria and Jorge Martín
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Thursday, 09 March 2006 08:59 |
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On Saturday, February 25th a meeting of representatives of the workers
in factories that have been expropriated or are occupied took place in
the premises of Inveval, in El Carrizal, not far from the Venezuelan
capital Caracas. Dozens of workers took part in the meeting, the main
aim of which was to set up a national Revolutionary Front of Occupied
Factories.
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Written by Hands Off Venezuela
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Friday, 10 February 2006 10:39 |
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The Amicus North West Regional Council decided to affiliate to the Hands Off Venezuela (HOV) campaign at its February monthly meeting. Great interest was shown for what is happening in Venezuela and a generous donation was made to HOV. |
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Written by Hands Off Venezuela, London
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Tuesday, 13 December 2005 11:31 |
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Ruben Linares, UNT National Coordinator member, held an interview with Hassan Juma, president of the South Oil Basra Union, in London, on Tuesday 6th of December. Both trade unionists shared their experiences in their particular fights against US imperialism. |
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Written by Australian Council of Trade Unions
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Wednesday, 30 November 2005 06:58 |
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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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