Maracaibo Lake: zone of environmental sacrifice

Lake Maracaibo is being depleted, both by the exploitation of various commodities, from oil and coal to crab and shrimp, and by the construction of fluvial-lacustrine infrastructure at the service of continental extractivist megaprojects; all this, of course, with the complicit permissiveness of public institutions, or what is the same to say, by the failure…

Gender gap in science and technology

Marcela Storm Cyberactivist It is unacceptable that even in 2023, after more than a century of struggle for social equality, girls and women still have to face systemic and cultural barriers that limit their participation and progress in the field of science and technology.  The gap between men and women in the scientific-technological area is…

Venezuelan trade union movement in solidarity with the Peruvian people

CUTV PRESS.- The Unitary Central of Workers of Venezuela (CUTV) developed a protest picket in front of the Consulate of Peru in Caracas, as part of the campaign of international solidarity with the Peruvian people, convened by the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU).  The CUTV and various revolutionary social and political organizations consigned an…

Dozens of communist parties condemn plan to intervene in the PCV

TRIBUNA POPULAR- More than 40 communist and workers' parties around the world have repudiated "the public and malicious intention of Mr. Diosdado Cabello, vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), to promote and execute a plan aimed at assaulting the Party Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) and usurp its initials and legal-electoral…

Olga Margarita Luzardo Finol: Passion and ideology

Jorge Perez Mancebo.  Economist  Dear Olga was born in Paraguaipoa, Zulia state, on February 29, 1916. Although her daughter Yguaraya has a birth certificate dated 1918, there are three pieces of information that make the first date more likely to be the correct one: first, Olga herself always referred to 1916 as her year of…

Current challenges for the prevention delegates’ movement

The year 2023 is still shaping up as a year of great class struggles between capital and labor. And this evolution of the class struggle in Venezuela is logical, since the dramatic picture of social inequality created by the neo-liberal economic package applied by the government of Nicolás Maduro, could have no other answer than…

Judicial maneuvering against peasant families in Guárico

TRIBUNA POPULAR - Some 25 peasant families of the Mar Azul sector, San José de Unare parish, Zaraza municipality, Guárico state, face the threat of being evicted from the lands they have occupied for several years, as a result of a legal action filed by the landowner and representative of the local bourgeoisie before the…

Maiz slept under a bag of excrement in one detention center

One of "La Vega Five" dies TRIBUNA POPULAR.- José Félix Maiz, who had been unjustly detained for more than a year and a half at the San Agustín del Sur Police Detention Center in Caracas, died on January 31. Maiz was arrested on June 12, 2021, during a massive police operation in the La Vega…

We must organize the National Committee for the Struggle for Decent Wages

National Committee for the Workers' and Trade Union Movement The teachers and other education workers, active and retired, have stood up in struggle for decent salaries and for the reestablishment of economic, social and professional rights pulverized as a consequence of the pernicious neoliberal policies of the government of Nicolás Maduro, which, through memorandum-circular 2792…