Hugo Chavez’s Death and the Way Forward for the Venezuelan Revolution

While Chavez hand-in-hand with Hu JinTao in April 2009 cut oil deals while trumpeting the “New 5^th International” and the building of “21^st Century Socialism” the Chinese Development Bank (CDB) had something else altogether  in mind.

 With the following observation from the thespec.com we hope we can dispense with the illusions of what  ‘Bolivarianism’ and ‘21^st Century Socialism’ are presented as and  identify the actual class character of the state that the Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV) administers,  what road-blocks still exist for workers on the path to socialism, and what defending and advancing the social gains already made in the anti-imperialist struggle means and how it can be done.

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