From: GERALD LEVY (gerald_a_levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2007 - 09:48:32 EST
The key question, imo, in the upcoming period in Venezuela will be whether the Chavistas can build _more_ popular support and consensus. This requires both a heightened education campaign (especially around the meaning of "21st Century Socialism") and a mobilization of the masses. Rather than call a tactical retreat, the way forward is by empowering the masses including the extension of land reform and workers' control. What the referendum results show, at the risk of over-simplifying, is how much organizing remains to be done. While the Chavistas re-group, no doubt US imperialism will heighten its efforts to destabilize the Venezuelan civil society and economy. This is not a time, therefore, for complacency: now, more than ever, socialists need to organize against (covert or other forms of) imperialist intervention. The referendum has failed. Long live the Bolivarian revolution! Long live the peoples' movement for 21st Century Socialism! In solidarity, Jerry
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