What is the mood of the population in Venezuela?
What is the context in which Delcy Rodriguez’s government has made concessions to the US?
How do the people view these actions?
Where is Venezuela’s communal movement in this unfolding situation?
How can the rest of the world provide solidarity?
In this video, Cira Pascual Marquina is interviewed by Dae-Han Song and presents her view on these and other questions.
Cira Pascual Marquina is a popular educator at the Pluriversidad Patria Grande, the educational initiative of El Panal Commune and professor of political studies at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela. She is also the co-founder and co-host of the Marxist education program and podcast Escuela de Cuadros (http://www.youtube.com/escueacuadros).
Cira is a member of the International Communal Democracy Network, Pascual Marquina is co-author of Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution (Monthly Review Press) and of the book series Resistencia comunal frente al bloqueo imperialista (Observatorio Venezolano Antibloqueo).
Together with Chris Gilbert, she served as guest editor for a special issue of Monthly Review titled “Communes and Socialist Construction” (July-August 2025) and the recent book Protagonist’s: construcción comunal en tiempos de bloqueo imperialista (PT).
Cira’s column at Monthly Review is here: https://mronline.org/author/cira-pascual-marquina/. The book referred to in the video is ‘Commune or Nothing! Venezuela’s Communal Movement and its Socialist Project’ by Chris Gilbert, which can be found here: https://chrisgilbert.site/commune-or-nothing/
Dae-Han Song is a writer and organizer based in South Korea, a nation technically still at war. He works at the International Strategy Center in Seoul, and focuses on building people-to-people solidarity and challenging the logic of militarism and empire on the Korean Peninsula. He is actively involved in movements for peace, reunification, and against the presence of foreign military bases. He is also an associate of the Korea Policy Institute. He is also a member of the international No Cold War collective.
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