The 'Hands Off Venezuela' conference will be taking place on Saturday November 24th. The event will present a number of speakers from both Venezuela and others from parliament as well as a number of other organistions.

You can get more information on the event from the facebook site, which can be found here.

The speakers list include:

Venezuelan Speakers

Guadalupe Rodrigez, Coordinaadora Simon Bolivar, 23 Enero,
Nelson Rodriguez, Inveval Factory Committee, FRETECO

Other Speakers:

John McDonnell MP
Jeremy Corbyn MP
Jeremy Dear, General Secretary, the National Union of Journalists
Matt Wrack, General Secretary, Fire Brigades Union
Alan Woods, Author of "The Venezuelan Revolution"
Derek Wall, a national spokesperson for the Green Party


I'd recommend any of my fellow comrades attend. It is extremely important to show solidarity with our Venezuelan comrades and the socialist government of Hugo Chavez. The emergence of a revolution is extremely rare and the progress of the Venezeualan government in securing a future for all the people of Venezuela has had unmeasureable success. The country is finally freed from the pseudo democratic rule of the bourgeois pro-capitalist political parties - and the people are, now given the choice, consciously supporting a socialist government. The government is using its massive resources (including oil) to support a progressive social program, rather than lining the pockets of the rich.

We have seen massive reforms in health and education - but there is still much left to do to ensure a better future for the people of Venezuela. We must ensure the 'revolution' continues and that the fervour does not die off in the face of American imperialism and global capitalism.

As socialists, therefore, we must support Venezuela. We must continue to fight for socialism and for real labour values, and we should not just fight for it in our own country, but globally as part of a bigger and greater and more powerful true labour movement.


In solidarity,


Lee Skevington
CLP Secretary