Venezuelan Ambassador in the UK warns of misinformation war which threatens

Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic, London. Speaking at a conference in London today, Saturday 1 December, at TUC congress house, the Venezuelan Ambassador to London, Samuel Moncada, raised concerns over misinformation surrounding Venezuela’s constitutional referendum which takes place tomorow.
Addresssing a packed hall, the Ambassador said the constitutional elections taking place the next day were “of [...]

Referendum day – the summoning of the faithfull

It is 4.30am on this Sunday morning, the day of the Referendum, and I feel groggy after only 4 hours sleep. I need more but it is impossible due to the noise outside in the street. The rockets and loud bangs of the fireworks have been going on intermittently all night but at 4.15am the [...]

Saturday, December 1st. Today is like the day after the night before.

The streets are quite quiet today yet people are fearing what could happen tomorrow and on Monday, the day after the referendum. There has been panic buying in the shops as people stock up on provisions. Powdered milk disappeared in a flash. Real milk has not been seen for months, yet you can easily find [...]

The U.S. Media and Government Launch an All-Out Campaign Against the Venezuelan Revolution

As the forces of revolution and counter-revolution collide once again in the country of Bolivar, the U.S. government and its servants in the mainstream media have launched yet another a blitzkrieg propaganda offensive against the Venezuelan people’s right to determine their own destiny.
This is no conspiracy. A detailed CIA plot called “Operation Pincers”, which aims [...]

Caracas red tide picture gallery

Red tide in Caracas

by Darrall Cozens – Hands off Venezuela

Oil transport workers will oppose sabotage

In a press release issued today, the drivers of oil tankers which transport fuel from the filling stations to the petrol stations have warned against any attempt to sabotage fuel supply.
The president of the National Unified Union of Workers in the Transport of Hydrocarbons and Associated products (SUNT-TRAHDVEN), Víctor Ovalle declared that “the country should [...]

Socialist Front of Oil Workers will guarantee operations in the industry

In a press release dated November 30th, the Socialist Front of Oil Workers (FSTP), declared its readiness to guarantee the normal function of the oil industry in the run up, during and after the Constitutional Reform referendum on Sunday.
Front spokesperson Manuel Perez declared that they had set up more than 500 “participation and organisation commandos” [...]

Pictures and videos of the massive YES YES march

Current estimates put the figure of people who attended the “red tide” march for a YES vote in the referendum at 1 million. The BBC, as was to be expected, is talking of “tens of thousands”, as opposed to “hundreds of thousands” they talked about the opposition demo.
Here we provide some pictures and videos so [...]

Construction companies in Anzoategui force workers to vote NO

According to reports in Aporrea, two construction companies in Anzoategui (Pedeca, C.A. and Lobatera) have issued orders to their workers to vote NO in the referendum or else they will be made redundant.
The workers who drive the asphalt trucks had put YES campaign stickers in the windscreen and were told to remove them or else [...]

Eyewitness report from Caracas march – the people has spoken

“It is only Friday evening and the results of Sunday’s referendum are already known. There has been no formal vote in a bourgeois sense and neither has the resut been fiddled, although there is no doubt that the media in the UK, along with the media internationally, will say after the result that there has [...]