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The Venezuelan people stay with the Bolivarian revolution
About half of Venezuela’s voting population is reliably wedded to the Bolivarian project. No other political project in Venezuela has the kind of election machine built by the forces of the Bolivarian revolution, argues VIJAY PRASHAD
OVERWHELMING JOY: Government supporters rally in defense of President Nicolas Maduro’s reelection in Caracas on Wednesday, three days after the country’s presidential election
ROGER McKENZIE pays tribute to a communist, internationalist and organiser, who endures, 50 years after his death, not just as a towering artist but as a master teacher of struggle
Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY reflects on 2025, tracing how war, imperialism, shrinking democratic spaces and neoliberal restructuring shaped global and Indian politics – pointing towards the urgent task of building a more democratic and just future
RAMZY BAROUD sees Gaza abandoned while the genocide continues
ANDREW MURRAY offers some troubling thoughts on pressing political issues
Tensions have once again escalated between Egypt and Ethiopia over GERD, Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, and now Trump has offered to mediate. NICHOLAS MWANGI reports
ON JULY 28, the 70th birthday of Hugo Chavez (1954-2013), Nicolas Maduro Moros won the Venezuelan presidential election, the fifth since the Bolivarian constitution was ratified in 1999.
In January 2025, Maduro will start his third six-year term as president. He took over the reins of the Bolivarian revolution after the death of Chavez from pelvic cancer in 2013.
Since the death of Chavez, Maduro has faced several challenges: to build his own legitimacy as president in the place of a charismatic man who came to define the Bolivarian revolution; to tackle the collapse of oil prices in mid-2014, which negatively affected Venezuela’s state revenues (over 90 per cent of which were from oil exports); and to manage a response to the unilateral, illegal sanctions deepened on Venezuela by the United States as oil prices declined.
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