President Chávez: Nationalise Sanitarios Maracay!

We welcome the recent decisions of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez to ask for an Enabling Law that will allow for the renationalisation of all privatised companies. This represents a reversal of the economic policies followed by most governments around the world.

We would also like to express our support for the struggle of the workers at the Sanitarios Maracay ceramics factory in Aragua, who have run the factory under workers' control since November last year. We add our signatures to their appeal, and we ask from President Chávez: nationalise Sanitarios Maracay under workers' control!

Solidarity with Sanitarios Maracay workers

Those who sign this petition express our support for the workers of Sanitarios Maracay who, faced with the counter-revolutionary and saboteur behaviour of the employer, the coup plotter Alvaro Pocaterra (who abandoned the factory in an attempt to break the will of the workers' by hunger and desperation), have taken over the instalations and have made them run under workers control, including the sale of bathroom components directly to the communities.

Faced with this situation we ask from the Bolivarian Government, from the members of the National Assembly and those public institutions involved to fully support this struggle, to declare the company to be of public interest and to proceed to its expropriation and nationalisation under the control of the workers.

Send your signatures to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or fill in the form below! (click here for a printable PDF file and here to see the signatures we have received so far)

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For more information on the occupation of Sanitarios Maracay read a statement of the trade union leadership, their decision to form a factory committee, a report of the demo in Maracay, and a report of the mass workers meeting that elected the factory committee. See also the video of the demo.