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Food Card to Combat Scarcity Unveiled

Mar 19th 2014, by ZOE CLARA DUTKA Santa Elena de Uairén, 19th March 2014 (venezuelanalysis.com)- Workers marched to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Misión Alimentación on Sunday, Venezuela’s vastly accessible nutritional program, launched by Hugo Chavez in 2003. During that time the program created more than 22,000 distribution points ranging from supermarket-sized stores to … Continue reading

Bolivian VP to European Left: Fight on, fight on, fight on!

“What we need is not a Europe that watches from a distance what is happening in far off places of the world but a Europe that lights up again the destiny of the continent and of the world.” Álvaro García Linera,  Vice President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, spoke at the Congress of the European … Continue reading

A new stage for ecosocialist unity and action

At an organizing meeting in New York, the System Change Not Climate Change coalition adopted plans to reach out to other groups, strengthen environmental activism, and work with capitalism’s victims by Zach Zill and Michael Ware After roughly a year of organizing as the Ecosocialist Contingent and then System Change Not Climate Change, organizers in our coalition … Continue reading

Venezuela to Continue Land Expropriations for “Agrarian Socialism”

Ewan Robertson (VA) , – This year the Venezuelan government plans to continue its pace of land expropriations in order to move towards what it terms “agrarian socialism”. According to the 2014 national budget, the government’s National Land Institute (INTI) aims to expropriate 350,000 hectares of land this year.  The latest land occupation facilitated by … Continue reading

The new revolutionaries: Climate scientists demand radical change

To prevent catastrophic climate change, Britain’s top experts call for emissions cuts that require “revolutionary change to the political and economic hegemony” by Renfrey Clarke “Today, after two decades of bluff and lies, the remaining 2°C budget demands revolutionary change to the political and economic hegemony.”[1] That was in a blog posting last year by Kevin Anderson, … Continue reading

Should socialists support degrowth?

by Don Fitz The question is not should we advocate reducing production within capitalist society but rather: How do we best relate to those struggles that are already occurring?  Activists across the globe are challenging economic expansion which threatens the survival of humanity.  It has never been more urgent to provide a vision of a new society that … Continue reading

Ecosocialism as a Human Phenomenon

~by Joel Kovel~ This was delivered as the Keynote Address at the International Ecosocialist Conference Quito, Ecuador, June 2013 (modified, July 2013) Dedicated to Chico Mendes We live in an epoch of radical crisis. From the economic side, we see intractable stagnation and vicious class polarization. And from another side, which I shall call the … Continue reading

(Alba-TCP) Region adopts plan to eradicate hunger and poverty

CARACAS—The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says a group of South American and Caribbean countries have adopted a common plan of action to eradicate hunger and poverty, designed with FAO support. The FAO says the agreement was announced during the Second Extraordinary Summit of the Petrocaribe oil bloc and the Bolivarian Alliance for the … Continue reading

Bolivia’s Indigenous Future: A Balance of Preservation, Protection and Connection

Evo Morales, Indigenous Current President of Bolivia (Photo Credit: Joel Alvarez) By Courtney Parker Evo Morales’s very name seems to suggest his destiny of leading Bolivia in a valiant attempt at ‘moral evolution’ with all other Nation States in tow. Tasked with the difficult role of representing his Indigenous roots at the national and international levels … Continue reading

VENEZUELA AND THE BATTLE AGAINST TRANSGENIC SEEDS

By: Frederick B. Mills, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs and Professor of Philosophy at Bowie State University and William Camacaro, MFA, Member of the Bolivarian Circle of New York “Alberto Lovera” December 6, 2013 · in COHA Research, Economic, Venezuela Over the past two months, efforts to introduce a bill in the Venezuelan National Assembly … Continue reading

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