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Venezuelan communes: Building people power – Documentary

A new RCG documentary now available on YouTube


Since the 1998 election of the late Hugo Chavez, the Bolivarian Revolution has fought to wrest control of Venezuela’s huge oil reserves and channel them into social housing, healthcare, education and poverty busting social projects. 

Since then the Bolivarian Revolution has presided over an explosion of popular participatory democracy through an expanding network of communes and communal councils. Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan revolutionaries have constructed a parallel system of communal democracy and production – the building blocks for a future socialist society.

In the face of economic crisis and the asphyxiating blockade, the communes have restructured production to put people before profit and meet the needs of their communities. This documentary interviews leading communal activists and showcases concrete advances won through this process. We have so much to learn from this important movement.

Viva Venezuela! Comuna o nada!

FIGHT RACISM! FIGHT IMPERIALISM! 305 April/May 2025

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