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A view from the Venezuelan Communist Party
JOHN FOSTER interviews Paul Dobson, a member of the International Department of the Venezuelan Communist Party and Committee of International Solidarity, and a journalist at venezuelanalysis.com about the ongoing coup attempt
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If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
ONE week after the attempted right-wing coup in Venezuela, Paul Dobson described the situation across Venezuela as “entirely normal.” All services were functioning. Buses continue to run. People go to work. Water supply continues. Electricity was as before — including, as before, interruptions in supply of perhaps half an hour a week.
Nor were there significant shortages of essential goods or medicines in the shops although a few categories of specialist cancer drugs were off the shelves as a result of the US blockade. The main problem was inflation — though wages were being increased.
The ongoing coup attempt which began the previous week had been contained to two or three neighbourhoods of Caracas with less than 40 fatalities.
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