An activist from REVOLUTION spent one month in Venezuela and wrote a number of reports about the class struggle there. He visited workers’ protests and factory occupations, and discussed with Chavistas, Trotskyists and also “socialist” capitalists. These reports were published in the Summer 2008 issue of Permanent Revolution. They were also translated to German by the Revolutionary Socialist Organization and published on Indymedia Germany.

• SIDOR’s steel workers fight owners and Chavez police (March 31, 2008)
• Impressions of a socialist batallion meeting of the PSUV (April 6, 2008)
• A lunch with Venezuela’s “socialist businessmen” (April 13, 2008)
• The nationalization of the Venezuelan steel works SIDOR is a victory of the workers (April 20, 2008)
• The struggle at Sanitarios Maracay continues (in PR journal)
• The Socialist Unity of the Left (in PR journal)
• Interview with trade union leader Orlando Chirino (in PR journal)