VENEZUELA’S grassroots activists stepped into power as the first National Communal Parliament was inaugurated on Tuesday.
National Assembly president Diosdado Cabello presided as the self-administering communal councils encouraged and financed by late revolutionary leader Hugo Chavez came together for the first time.
The decision to hold the parliament in the National Assembly premises showed that President Nicolas Maduro and the Bolivarian revolutionary forces would not fold in the face of inclement election results last week.
Concessions to Washington by the post-Maduro leadership in Caracas are designed to preserve the core of the Bolivarian Revolution not betray it, argue Roger D Harris, Francisco Dominguez and Mara Paez Victor. How the solidarity movement responds is critical
The US attack on Venezuela raises grave threats to Cuba and the region, writes NATASHA HICKMAN of Cuba Solidarity Campaign
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE



