This week, a CIA memo has been discovered that confirms the existence of a coup plan, which is code-named Operation Pliers. On Sunday, we will be rallying against the CIA coup attempt outside Bolivar Hall, where the Venezuelan community in London will be voting, from 5pm once the poll has closed.

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The Venezuelan government has uncovered a confidential CIA memo dated November 20 2007 which details plans for a forthcoming coup attempt against President Chávez using this Sunday's referendum on constitutional reform as a pretext. This is a smoking gun that has not yet been fired and should be used to shame the US government into retreat.

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On Saturday November 24th, around two hundred people attended the third national Hands Off Venezuela conference in Britain. The whole day was a great success and left everyone inspired to carry on the struggle to defend the Venezuelan people and their Bolivarian revolution.

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This World on the BBC dedicated its most recent programme to Venezuela. Unfortunately, it portrayed a vision of Venezuela that has no basis in reality and totally misrepresented the process of change happening in the country. It was neither fair nor accurate and was littered with dishonest smears that would be laughable if they weren't so dangerous.

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LABOUR MP John McDonnell demanded that the Brown government make "a choice between democracy or oligarchy" at the weekend. At Saturday's Hands Off Venezuela national conference in London, he condemned new Labour's ongoing hostility towards Venezuela and pledged to make solidarity with the Bolivarian revolution an issue that "no MP would be allowed to dodge."

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They came in their tens of thousands, in their hundreds of thousands. They came from schools, from colleges, from universities, from teachers unions and trade unions, and from the Social Missions concerned with education. They came in their red shirts with different names but all saying the same thing, Si in the referendum. Eyewitness report from Caracas.

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LEFTWING lawmakers in Britain are urging their government to "improve diplomatic relations" with Venezuela after Labour MP John McDonnell raised a parliamentary motion on the subject of constitutional reform.

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HOV activist Darrall Cozens reports from Caracas on his personal experience of the Misión Barrio Adentro.

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