Venezuela: Armed employees learn to defend themselves

[cyu]

I wouldn't say everything in the article sounds good, but to accentuate the positive, here are the policies I would encourage others to spread.

Excerpts from http://links.org.au/node/1088

Chavez announced plans to implement a series of radical measures, largely drawn from proposals coming from the workers’ discussion that day.

Chavez said: “The proposals made have emerged from the depths of the working class. I did not come here to tell you what to do! It is you who are proposing this.”

Chavez also said it was necessary for there to be workers’ control along “the entire productive chain”. Plans for the industrial complex had to be “nourished with the ideas of the working class”.

Chavez also called for workers to organise an armed militia. Worker battalions in each factory should be equipped with weapons “in case anyone makes the mistake of messing with us”.

INTI said it would review tens of thousands more hectares as part of its drive to ensure fertile land is directed towards food production for social needs, rather than corporate profits.

When the corporate-owned media in Australia next repeat the standard lie that the repeatedly elected Chavez government is a dictatorship, remember that the media is not a disinterested bystander. The Australian capitalist class has lost out due to Chavez’s policies.

[Bright Banana Beard]

I wonder what kind of weapon will they hold and how much training do they need. Either way, armed workers is progressive.

[Qayin]

Im loving Chavez more and more

[Marxist]

What a nice day today :D

[scarletghoul]

His cool maoist style has been shining through recently, this is very good.

[NecroCommie]

Wow! Where did the reformism go?

[Rusty Shackleford]

what a nice step ^_^
hopefully he leaves the control of these militias to the workers themselves and not to the government.

isnt a quarter of the population already armed with concealed pistols? if so, i can imagine a bit more of a serious arsenal for the workers. im sure a rifle or something that has a fighting capacity.

[redarmyfaction38]

I wouldn't say everything in the article sounds good, but to accentuate the positive, here are the policies I would encourage others to spread.

Excerpts from http://links.org.au/node/1088

Chavez announced plans to implement a series of radical measures, largely drawn from proposals coming from the workers’ discussion that day.

Chavez said: “The proposals made have emerged from the depths of the working class. I did not come here to tell you what to do! It is you who are proposing this.”

Chavez also said it was necessary for there to be workers’ control along “the entire productive chain”. Plans for the industrial complex had to be “nourished with the ideas of the working class”.

Chavez also called for workers to organise an armed militia. Worker battalions in each factory should be equipped with weapons “in case anyone makes the mistake of messing with us”.

INTI said it would review tens of thousands more hectares as part of its drive to ensure fertile land is directed towards food production for social needs, rather than corporate profits.

When the corporate-owned media in Australia next repeat the standard lie that the repeatedly elected Chavez government is a dictatorship, remember that the media is not a disinterested bystander. The Australian capitalist class has lost out due to Chavez’s policies.
i might be confusing this with other countries but, in practice, chavez revolutionary edicts are being defied by both the govt. beurocracy and capitalist land lords.
trade union leaders are being assassinated, ordinary workers are being killed by right wing squads determined to derail chavez revolution, arming the proletariat is one thing, allowing them to carry through the workers revolution is another.
chavez is walking a thin line, revolution or reform?
eventual collapse of any revolutionary ambition combined with compromise with u.s. and international corporate aggression that reformism will bring is one prospect.
allowing and supporting workers that "take matters into their own hands" is another....somethng the estasblished govt, beaurocracy has managed to block so far.
chavez has relied on the political system, relied on unlected beurocracy to carry through the edicts he has issued to the benefit of the working class.
when those edicts have failed, he has offered no support or encouragement to those workers that have taken matters into their own hands and actually, physically fought the international corporations and their pet administrations in the usa.