Venezuela on the Verge of a Social Explosion?
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Marxist analyst Jorge Martin examines the causes, responses and solution to Venezuela's current economic crisis.
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El Maizal Commune in Lara state, where grassroots protestors resist a landowners' counteroffensive. (Archive)
By Jorge Martin – In Defence of Marxism
The aggravation of the economic crisis is making life unbearable for working people in Venezuela. The destruction of the purchasing power of wages has been combined with the collapse of all basic infrastructure (water, electricity and public transport). Workers in different sectors have started to organise and protest, demanding higher wages; while peasants in the countryside are fighting attempts to destroy Chavez's agrarian revolution.
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