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10:00am CDT

Crisis in Venezuela: Socialist Perspectives

Saturday September 5, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT

This session features contributors to the book Venezuela in Crisis, presenting Venezuelan socialist analyses of the country’s collapse and advancing an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and anti-authoritarian critique of the Maduro regime. It will also assess the post–January 3 U.S. military intervention and the reconfiguration of power, sovereignty, and class relations in its aftermath.

Speakers

Simón Rodríguez

Simón Rodríguez, Venezuelan socialist, member of Partido Socialismo y Libertad, and author of Por Qué Fracasó el Chavismo

Anderson Bean

Anderson Bean is a North Carolina–based activist and editor and contributor of the book Venezuela in Crisis: Socialist Perspectives from Haymarket Books, and the author of Communes and the Venezuelan State: The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis from Lexington... Read More →

Gonzalo Gómez

Gonzalo Gómez is a Venezuelan socialist activist and writer who played a key role in the regroupment of Trotskyism in Venezuela and provided critical support to the Bolivarian Revolution during the Chavez era. He is a cofounder of both Aporrea and Marea Socialista, a current that... Read More →

Saturday September 5, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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International Politics

Socialism 2026

10:00am CDT

Simón Rodríguez

Anderson Bean

Gonzalo Gómez

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