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Tag: Juan Guaidó

  • Venezuela’s crisis: A view from the communes

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    fitzdon

    Within hours of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó calling for street mobilisations to back his attempted military coup against President Nicolás Maduro on April 30, Guaidó’s supporters had looted and set fire to the headquarters of the Indio Caricuao Commune in south-west Caracas. The building was used for local residents’ meetings and housed a commune-run…

  • How Spain’s ‘socialist’ government backs the US coup in Venezuela

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    fitzdon

    On February 15, 2003, in the face of the looming US-led war against Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, the Spanish state saw the biggest demonstrations in its history. Part of an immense worldwide anti-war outpouring, about 4 million people turned out. Leaders of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) were among those at the head of these…