Thursday 29 August, 7pm (British summer time)
Venezuela’s presidential elections on 28 July offered the electorate a choice between a right-wing opposition backed by US imperialism, or Nicolas Maduro, leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), whose progressive government continues to defend the gains of the Bolivarian Revolution in the most difficult conditions. President Maduro’s victory has been denounced by the opposition as a fraud; the United States and its allies refuse to recognise the result. The opposition has fomented violent uprisings while the defeated candidate of the opposition United Democratic Platform (PUD), Edmundo Gonzalez, had declared himself president and called on the armed forces to support him. The mainstream media is on manipulation overdrive.
Come and find out what is really happening in Venezuela.
Speakers:
Jorge Vilalta - Movimiento Otro Beta and Alba Movimientos, Venezuela
Carolina Graterol - Venezuelan journalist and documentary maker
Sam McGill - Revolutionary Communist Group
And video contributions from:
Alan MacLeod - Senior staff writer at Mint Press News and author of 'Bad news from Venezuela - Twenty years of fake news and misreporting'
Roger Jiminez - President of the National Bolivarian Postal workers union
Organised by Rock around the Blockade and the Revolutionary Communist Group. www.ratb.org.uk www.revolutionarycommunist.org