Alan Woods’ stirring speech and coherent argument at a meeting of about 150 people at the UEA massively boosted the interest of students and youth in the Venezuelan Revolution, thus proving the huge potential in this 21st century revolution for invigorating and giving hope to the workers and youth of the world.

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More than 80 people attended the joint Hands Off Venezuela - Cine Urgente commemoration meeting of the 18th anniversary of the Caracazo in Bolivar Hall at the Venezuelan Embassy in London.

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On July 5th 2006, the Venezuela Solidarity Network launched a public campaign to stop the distribution of the video game “Mercenaries 2: World in Flames”, the game that depicts the virtual invasion of Venezuela, the overthrow of the government, the destruction of major Venezuelan cities and rural areas, and the takeover of the oil industry. We publish here VSN's new appeal.

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This week marks the anniversary of the events known as the "Caracazo", where the government of President Carlos Andrés Pérez called on the army to put down a mass uprising. HoV London has organised a screening of the film documentary "Llaguno Bridge, keys to massacre", dealing with these events.

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Hands off Venezuela Denmark has organised a speaking tour with Patrick Larsen, an eyewitness to the revolutionary events in Venezuela. To date four meetings have been organised across the country with three more planned for this week.

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First ever meeting on Bolivarian revolution held in Luxemburg. At the end of the meeting left and trade union activists committed themselves to building solidarity with the Venezuelan Revolution.

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On Tuesday the HOV delegation that went to Venezuela during the December elections, showed video-clips and slides from their visit and spoke about their experience. The most striking part was their visit to the Sanitarios Maracay factory now being run by the workers after they occupied it back in November. John McDonnell MP and Alan Woods, founder of the HOV campaign, were among the main speakers, as was the Venezuelan Ambassador, Alfredo Toro Hardy.

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"What's the rationale for allowing Chavez to govern by decree?" Why such a "precipitous approach"? As the apparent resident apologist (or, let's just say, on-site interpreter) for the Bolivarian Revolution, I get questions like this regularly from friends who don't know much about Venezuela but do know what they don't like (from reading the always unbiased and objective capitalist press). Mike Lebowitz.

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