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[VIDEO] Sanitarios Maracay under workers' control

05 December 2006
Written by Hands Off Venezuela delegation
Hands Off Venezuela tours Sanitarios Maracay, a factory in Venezuela under workers control, to learn more about the revolutionary process taking place there, and to offer solidarity to the workers. An impressive video which gives a taste of workers' democracy in action and how this is linked to the Bolivarian revolution

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Workers in Control: Venezuela’s Occupied Factories

10 November 2006
Written by Marie Trigona - Venezuelanalysis.com
In Venezuela it is estimated that 1,200 business and factories have been abandoned by bosses and owners and there is a growing movement of factory occupations. Marie Trigona talks to a representative of Venezuela's Co-managed and Occupied Factories movement about its history and prospects.

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Conference of Co-managed and Occupied Factories’ Workers’ Revolutionary Front

26 October 2006
Written by Steven Mather - Venezuelanalysis.com
Last weekend the Co-managed and Occupied Factories’ Worker’s Revolutionary Front (Freteco) held its annual conference in Caracas.  They are a small but vocal and radical movement for worker’s control of Venezuelan industry.

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Venezuelan Workers Seize and Blockade Coca-Cola Plants Across the Country

25 October 2006
Written by Steven Mather - Venezuelanalysis.com
Coca-Cola-Femsa workers in Venezuela have seized the factories where they work and are preventing distribution trucks from leaving in a bid to force the company to pay out agreed-upon compensation to ex-workers.

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The 2002 Coup in Venezuela: Was the AFL-CIO Involved?

25 September 2006
Written by Kim Scipes
Just released! A meticulously researched examination of the role of the AFL-CIO in the April 2002 coup against the democratically-elected government of Hugo Chavez. In light of this information, labor activists in the U.S. and around the world should multiply the pressure on the AFL-CIO to end its ties with the NED and to pursue genuine worker to worker solidarity with the workers of Venezuela and the world.

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