The Canadian government has become the latest imperialist power to jump to the defence of the far-right protests in Venezuela.  Parliament has just passed a unanimous motion that places the responsibility for the current violence in the country on the shoulders of the Venezuelan government rather than the opposition gangs that initiated the unrest. Camilo Cahis (HOV Canada and Fightback) sets the record straight and exposes the position of the NDP MPs.

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Since the beginning of the middle class riots in Venezuela, the Hands of Venezuela campaign in Belgium started to inform on a daily basis on the lies and distortions of the media.

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The world's media is attempting to present the situation in Venezuela as one where a brutally repressive regime is facing peaceful student protests. Watch and share this video if you want to know what is really happening. 

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Tony Benn was a supporter and defender of the Bolivarian revolution from the very beginning. He collaborated with the Hands off Venezuela campaign and spoke on our platform on several occasions. Here is an audio file of what he said at the First National Conference of the Hands Off Venezuela Campaign in December 2005.

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We have received the following statements passed by student organisations in Britain and Italy in solidarity with the Bolivarian revolution and against the current reactionary mobilisations in Venezuela.

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On Saturday, March 8, Gisella Rubilar, 47, was shot dead and two other people suffered serious gunshot wounds when they were removing an opposition roadblock which prevented safe passage to their working class and poor neighbourhood of Pie del Tiro, in the Andean capital of Merida, Venezuela. You will not have heard about it in the mass media, but this incident was part of a growing trend of opposition violence against working class and poor neighbourhoods fighting back. 

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The February 2014 issue of the Hands Off Venezuela newsletter is out. It deals with the renewed attempts of the violent Venezuelan opposition to force the removal of the democratically elected government of Nicolás Maduro and put an end to the Bolivarian Revolution. You can download the PDF File here

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After days of violent opposition demonstrations in several cities of Venezuela, February 12 had been billed as the D Day of an offensive to overthrow the democratically elected Maduro government. In several cities there were opposition demonstrations which were allowed to proceed without repression. There were also bigger revolutionary , youth demos marking 200 years since the battle of La Victoria, during the independence war.

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