Key Documents

December 17th 2009

President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez:

Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, Excellencies, friends, I promise that I will not talk more than most have spoken this afternoon.

I had hardly arrived and we were just sitting down when we heard the president of the previous session, the minister, saying that a document came about. I've asked for the document, but we still don’t have it, I think nobody knows of that top secret document.

Political parties and organizations from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe,Africa, Asia, and Oceania commemorate and celebrate the unity and solidarity that brought us together in Caracas, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and from this libertarian city we would like to express our revolutionary rebelliousness. We are glad of and committed to the proud presence of the forces of change in a special moment of history. Likewise, we are proud to reaffirm our conviction to definitively sow, grow and win Socialism of the 21st century.

15th February 2007
To view a series of graphs detailing various aspects of the Venezuelan economic situation
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This material is published in response to the erroneous claims made by this week by Australian Treasurer Peter Costello in relation to the Venezuelan economy.
Published by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network.

By Jorge Martin - In Defense of Marxism
Thursday, Nov 02, 2006

The campaign for Venezuela's presidential election on December 3rd is already well under way. But this is far from a normal election. On December 3rd what is really at stake is the future of the Bolivarian Revolution.

by Jorge Jorquera

Contents
Introduction

Venezuelan Politics and Class

Neoliberalism, the Erosion of Consensus and the Rise of a New Popular Movement*

The ‘Democratic Strategy’ of the Bolivarian Revolution

Capitalist Power

Beginning of a Counter-Power

Problem of Political Leadership

A New Era of Latin American Rebellion and Revolution

* The term popular is used here in the sense of the Spanish language word popular, which in English translates something more like “ordinary people”.

Appendices

Interview with Hugo Chavez

Bitter Lessons of Chile

(non-official translation)
NATIONAL CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
PREAMBLE

[Below, Links provides translations of the draft program and principles of the provisionally named United Socialist Party of Venezuela, which are
currently being discussed at its founding congress. The documents were drafted by the provisional leadership of the PSUV.

International Solidarity Forum resolution: Statement of Solidarity

We came and met together from many different countries.
We came because we are some of those who have to struggle.
We have to fight the capitalists. We have to fight and win.

To fight we need to meet, and talk about our problems.
The ways we get defeated, the ways in which we are winning.

The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Hugo Chavez Frias, presented to the Venezuelan People on the 15 August 2007, a proposal of the Constitutional Reform. This proposal modifies 10% of the articulated text, 33 out of 350 articles, without affecting its structure or its fundamental principles. Nevertheless, it introduces adjustments indispensable for the deepening of the Constitutional and Democratic Revolution initiated in 1999.

Jul 04, 2007 By: Marta Harnecker - Abiven