En las últimas décadas, en América Latina emergieron movimientos sociopolíticos de sectores, pueblos y clases subalternas que reorientaron su acción organizativa y de movilización con novedosas formas de organización.

Une des réalisations les plus importantes du gouvernement chaviste du Venezuela a peut-être été de créer un espace dans lequel la Révolution Bolivarienne a pu s’épanouir. Mais cette révolution peut-elle survivre à la crise actuelle?

„The return to public assemblies and direct democratic methods in the wave of the global "squares movements" since 2011 has rejuvenated interest in forms of council organisation and action. The European council movements, which developed in the immediate post-First World War era, were the most impressive of a number of attempts to develop workers’ councils throughout the twentieth century. However, in spite of the recent challenges to liberal democracy, the question of council democracy has so far been neglected within democratic theory.

“Beşik dipsiz uçurumun üzerinde sallanıyor ve sağduyu bize varlığın iki karanlık ebediyet içinde anlık bir ışık kırılmasından ibaret olduğunu söylüyor” diyor Nabokov. Ama bir de kolektif hafıza var. Paul Fraisse’den aktaralım: “Hiçbir zaman yalnız değiliz... En şahsi hatıralarımız bile içinde yaşadığımız topluluğa sıkı sıkıya bağlı”. İşte şimdi o kolektif hafızaya kulak veriyoruz. Dario Azzellini’ye bağlanıp 1956 Macaristan ayaklanmasından başlayıp güncel Küba kooperatifçilik hareketine uzanan işçi kolektiflerini dinliyoruz.

“Las comunas deben ser el espacio sobre el cual vamos a parir el socialismo”, son palabras pronunciadas por Hugo Chávez en uno de sus famosos programas de radio “Aló presidente”. Hemos entrevistado a Dario Azzellini* para hablar de las comunas venezolanas y de las nuevas formas de participación, así como de sus éxitos, dificultades y contradicciones. Dario Azzellini ha investigado y documentado estos temas a lo largo de toda la Revolución Bolivariana. Haymarket Books acaba de publicar en edición de bolsillo su libro Communes and Workers’ Control in Venezuela.

“The communes should be the space in which we are going to give birth to socialism.” – these were the words of Hugo Chávez in one of his famous presidential broadcasts. To discuss the Venezuelan communes and the new forms of participation, as well as its successes, difficulties and contradictions, we have interviewed Dario Azzellini*. He has investigated and documented theses issues throughout the Bolivarian Revolution. His book Communes and Workers’ Control in Venezuela has recently been released in paperback by Haymarket Books.