Notes from the Editors, January 2008
January 1, 2008
The victory of the No vote in the Venezuelan constitutional reform referendum in December is being treated by Washington as a major defeat for Chávez’s efforts to promote a socialism… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Venezuela
Against the Market Economy: Advice to Venezuelan Friends
January 1, 2008
Robin Hahnel is professor of economics at American University in Washington DC and currently visiting professor at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. This article is adapted from a… READ MORE
Workplace Democracy and Collective Consciousness: An Empirical Study of Venezuelan Cooperatives
November 1, 2007
Camila Piñeiro Harnecker graduated from the Latin American studies masters program at the University of California, Berkeley. This article is part of a larger project on workplace democracy and social… READ MORE
Dual Power in the Venezuelan Revolution
September 1, 2007
George Ciccariello-Maher is a doctoral candidate in political theory at UC Berkeley, who is writing a dissertation on revolutionary subjectivity in Sorel, Negri, and Fanon. His work has appeared or… READ MORE
Venezuela: A Good Example of the Bad Left of Latin America
July 1, 2007
Michael A. Lebowitz is author of Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), Build It Now: Socialism for the Twenty-First Century (Monthly Review Press, 2006),… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, April 2007
April 1, 2007
The U.S. economy in early March 2007 appears to be rapidly decelerating. Orders for durable goods in manufacturing dropped 8 percent in January and the manufacturing sector as a whole… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 2006
November 1, 2006
Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez’s extraordinary speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations in September drew worldwide media attention not simply because he referred to the current occupant of… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 2005
November 1, 2005
Speaking in New York to the United Nations in September Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez delivered a fiery speech sharply critical of U.S. imperialism and what he called a “frightening neoliberal… READ MORE
Made in Venezuela: The Struggle to Reinvent Venezuelan Labor
June 1, 2005
Jonah Gindin is a Canadian journalist living and working in Venezuela. He writes regularly for Venezuelanalysis.com. Last month, the National Union of Venezuelan Workers (UNT) turned two. Since its inception… READ MORE