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  Benjamin: Activists Protect DC Venezuelan Embassy from US-supported Coup

  Calling ourselves the Embassy Protection Collective, we have been working in the embassy during the day, holding educational events every evening, making banners and signs, and sleeping on couches at night
• Gilbert: Defending Venezuela: Two Approaches

  Internationalism can take the right-wing path of empty or formal defense, in which the content of the Bolivarian process is ignored, or it can take the left-wing path, in which sovereignty is defended along with the social project
• Collective: Can the Bolivarian revolution survive the Venezuelan crisis?

  Creating the space for and allowing the Bolivarian Revolution to flourish is perhaps the most important achievement of Venezuela’s Chavista government — but can it survive the current crisis?
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  Fuentes: Who are Venezuela’s colectivos?

  Demonised by the international media and targeted by the opposition, the colectivos have become a symbol of scorn for President Nicolas Maduro’s opponents
• Rodriguez: Socialism Has to Be Feminist or It Won’t Be Emancipatory

  Interview on how feminism intersects with the anti-imperialist and anticapitalist struggles
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  Cohn: US Takes Illegal, Dangerous Actions Toward Regime Change in Venezuela

  The United States is taking illegal and dangerous actions to...
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  Wilpert: The Origins of Venezuela’s Economic Crisis

  The roots of the crisis can be found in massive capital flight and the related effort to maintain a fixed but overvalued exchange rate
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  Dobson: Guaido’s Parliamentary Immunity Revoked

  Venezuela’s National Constituent Assembly (ANC) has lifted the parliamentary immunity of the self-declared “Interim President” Juan Guaido, opening the door for criminal charges to be brought against him
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  Fuentes: Venezuela: Why the US coup is failing

  For many, it is impossible to understand how, despite presiding...
• Striffler: Venezuela, US Solidarity, and the Future of Socialism

  The inability of the US left to frame how Venezuela was understood during the high point of Chavismo has left us largely helpless now, a failure of solidarity that has had ongoing consequences for Venezuela
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  Fuentes: Venezuela: Despite the crisis, Chavez’s legacy endures

  The refusal of Maduro’s opponents to acknowledge Chavismo’s existence goes a long way to explaining why, despite Venezuela’s profound crisis, Maduro remains in the presidential palace
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  Prashad: Venezuela’s future depends on China, Russia

  If China and Russia are able to withstand the US pressure – and build alternative financial mechanisms – then a multipolar order can come into being. If they fail, then the world will remain under unipolar dominance
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  Fuentes: Venezuelans: ‘We want to resolve our problems by ourselves’

  Why are governments of countries like Australia and the media refusing to speak to people living in Venezuela to find out what is really going on?
• Jackson: Exposure of Pro-War Lie Doesn’t Make Media More Skeptical

  The Venezuelan government has and does allow aid into their country—from countries that are not actively and vituperatively threatening to overthrow the elected president with an external coup
• Martín: Who’s to blame for the crisis in Venezuela?

  Can it be solved through negotiations? A response to Gabriel Hetland and “The Nation”
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  Prashad: Solidarity Isn’t a Slogan, It’s a Process

  Interview on how imperialism operates in our time and proposes specific forms of solidarity with Venezuela
• Iturriza: Giving a voice to the Venezuelan people

  A call for the international left to place itself firmly on the side of Venezuela’s popular struggles.
• Lander: Preventing civil war and US intervention in Venezuela

  Interview on the crisis in Venezuela and calls on the international left to recognize the complexity of the situation
• Parampil: The Neoliberal Brain Behind Juan Guaido’s Economic Agenda

  While online audiences know YouTube comedian Joanna Hausmann from her videos making the case for regime change, her economist father has flown below the radar. His record holds the key to understanding what the U.S. wants in Venezuela
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  Weisbrot: The Reality Behind Trump’s Coalition for Regime Change in Venezuela

  In the early 1970s, a handful of Sandinistas were in...
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  Weisbrot: Regime Change Via Sanctions?

  U.S. Uses International Finance System to Strangle Venezuelan Economy
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  Jackson: To help Venezuela, the U.S. must use diplomacy, not a military coup

  It is time for Congress to step up — to investigate exactly what the Trump administration is doing overtly and covertly, and to call for a return to diplomacy before it is too late.
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  Stedile: Venezuela is paramount because it is the battle of this century

  Interview on the recently concluded International Peoples’ Assembly, the assault on Venezuela, and the battles against imperialism and the right wing in Brazil and across the world
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  Chomsky: Chomsky & Nader

  Talking about the media, the Green New Deal, nuclear war, Gaza, and Venezuela
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  Greenwald: Saving Press Freedom

  U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been sent back to jail after refusing to answer questions before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange