Bolivarian Revolution
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Oct 28, 2026
TomHOST
Well, Chavez's enemies were some of the worst people on the planet, right? And so this is why Chavez overwhelmingly won in 1998 with 56% of the vote.
TomHOST
He named the mass movement that had brought him to power, the Bolivarian Revolution.
TomHOST
And he explicitly said, it does not stand for socialism.
TomHOST
It stands for Bolivarianism.
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TomHOST
And Chavez was coming to more and more radical conclusions alongside the masses.
TomHOST
Every time that Chavez took a step forward, the masses did so as well, and vice versa.
TomHOST
And so in 2004, he declared that the Bolivarian Revolution was an anti-imperialist revolution.
TomHOST
In 2005, he said that the problems of Venezuelan society cannot be solved on the basis of capitalism.
DiegoHOST
There are some dynamics that are very present today.
DiegoHOST
And indeed, the roots of what we have today are a mix of very old communist groups and recent... neo-communist movements that were essentially very intertwined with the Bolivarian regimes in Latin America.
DiegoHOST
So what you get today on the far left is both the heritage of the old commies with the younger Chavismo-funded groups that popped up very successfully in Spain more than 10 years ago and still are relevant players, although minor.
RasheedHOST
Exactly.
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RasheedHOST
And I think that is where you can see a lot more of this transatlantic communist interaction happening after that seizure happened with the Soviet bloc.
RasheedHOST
Because now you're seeing Latin American reach and Latin American links becoming a bit more strong at this time.
RasheedHOST
With Castro, for example, and the other Latin American guerrilla left-wing Bolivarian leaders.
RasheedHOST
from this period of time.
Egberto WilliesHOST
whatever created the planet america says let the oil companies drill and keep all the profits most of the profits from the oil it's our oil it's the oil of the indigenous it's the oil of the united states it's the oil of all of us that live on the land But the corporatist gets most of the spoils.
Egberto WilliesHOST
And if Venezuela succeeded under Hugo Chavez with the Bolivarian Revolution saying that the oil and the natural resources should belong to everybody, That puts America's minds into question.
Egberto WilliesHOST
That puts America's oil into question.
Egberto WilliesHOST
That puts America's fisheries into question.
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Charlie Taylor, from the Revolutionary Communist Group, RCG, reported on her experience on an international brigade to Cuba, seeing how healthcare, education and development are prioritised in Cuban society, all while it is under the most severe state of US imperialist economic siege in its history.
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Daniel O'Brien from Our Party, CPGBML, gave an overview of Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution, how the Bolivarian process has been working for almost three decades to develop Venezuela and provide for the people, only to be met with increasing hostility from the USA, economic siege, coup attempts and outright military aggression, culminating in the bombing of Caracas and the capture of Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, National Assembly member Cilia Flores.
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Unfortunately, journalist and human rights activist Craig Murray, who had agreed to speak on his recent visit to Venezuela, was ill and unable to attend.
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His articles on Venezuela, Palestine and Zionism are well worth reading.
Radhika DesaiHOST
I think that the fact that he had to retain Delcy Rodriguez...
Radhika DesaiHOST
And I would say that Delcy is doing whatever she can in very, very difficult circumstances to preserve the Bolivarian revolution.
Radhika DesaiHOST
Do you think
David GibbsGUEST
so? I wondered if she...
Silvana SolanoGUEST
Muchas gracias por, por este espacio.
Silvana SolanoGUEST
Eh, y bueno, agradezco mucho a "Venezuela Análisis" por darme la oportunidad de ser parte de, del equipo, porque realmente es un medio que, que en toda esta trayectoria ha logrado visibilizar como las luchas sociales y políticas de Venezuela en medio de una mediática internacional que siempre ha estado dejando en vergüenza, este, lo, la revolución bolivariana en Venezuela, ¿no? Entonces, bueno, son bastantes años desde Chávez y eso es realmente algo que se tiene que apreciar.
Ricardo VazHOST
Sí, bueno, Silvana también, ah, integrante del colectivo mediático muy cercano a nosotros, Tatui TV con quien hemos, hemos colaborado.
Ricardo VazHOST
Silvana, así como de primeras impresiones, ah, trabajando para un, un medio que habla a un público internacional, ¿qué, qué retos ha, ha asumido eso para ti?
Lucas KoernerGUEST
Y bueno, saludando a nuestras compañeras que, que están aquí presentes con nosotros.
Lucas KoernerGUEST
Muy feliz por estar aquí.
Lucas KoernerGUEST
Bueno, yo creo que hay que partir reconociendo que, bueno, estamos en guerra, que Vene-- la Revolución Bolivariana ha sido-- ha, ha estado en guerra desde sus inicios y bueno, co-como también señaló Silvana, que, eh, una, una guerra mediática, o sea, una guerra que, que se ha caracterizado por, eh, intentar deslegitimar la, la Revolución Bolivariana.
Lucas KoernerGUEST
O sea, to-- o sea, o sea, todos nosotros sabemos todas las cosas que han dicho de que Chávez es un dictador igual que Maduro y que bueno, por eso habría que bombardear el país, que realmente vimos el 3 de enero.
TomHOST
But over time, as I studied the history of revolutions and as I saw one exhilarating revolution after another sort of burst into flame around the world only to be extinguished precisely because of the failure of the leadership to understand the question of the state, the practical applications of this little book became increasingly clear.
TomHOST
Over a long period that we studied and followed and participated in, the Venezuelan revolution, you know, that was a very clear and ultimately tragic sort of case study.
TomHOST
Then, of course, we had the rise of the Occupy movement and the re-emergence of DSA, which made questions of anarchism and reformism much more concrete.
TomHOST
In recent years, we've had the concerns over the deep state that have been in the media and Donald Trump's been talking about it.
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TomHOST
And if you want to understand the whole trajectory of that process in even more detail and even later into the 20th century, Russia from Revolution to Counter-Revolution by Ted Grant is also very important.
TomHOST
Now, towards the end of his life, Ted Grant was living in a nursing home.
TomHOST
And Alan Woods once asked them, he said, you know, this was at the height of the Venezuelan Revolution, and at the nursing home, he said to Ted, what would you tell, what would you say to Hugo Chavez if you had the chance to speak with him? And Ted didn't hesitate, and he said immediately that he'd say, you should take power.
TomHOST
You should take power.
Nicolás MaduroSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There were many irregularities and violence.
Nicolás MaduroSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You have a position against the Bolivarian Revolution.
Nicolás MaduroSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You are a far-right opponent who lives in the United States.
Nicolás MaduroSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Very anti-revolutionary.
Giselle PerdomoGUEST
It's a good question.
Giselle PerdomoGUEST
See, grassroots activists in Venezuela are doing what they have been doing all the time, which is creating the Bolivarian revolution.
Giselle PerdomoGUEST
And so we still have work on our hands.
Giselle PerdomoGUEST
We need to do what we need to do.
Orlando PerezGUEST
He is what is known in Venezuela as a bolichico.
Orlando PerezGUEST
Bolichicos are, you know, it's the Bolivarian, comes from Bolivarian revolution.
Mike MauceliHOST
I see.
Orlando PerezGUEST
Named after Simón Bolívar, the great liberator in, in, in, in South America.
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