The Revolutionary Marxist Current ( es, Corriente Marxista Revolucionaria, CMR) is a

Trotskyist Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Ukrainian-Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and some other members of the Left Opposition and Fourth International. Trotsky self-identified as an orthodox Marxist, a rev ...

tendency within the

United Socialist Party of Venezuela The United Socialist Party of Venezuela ( es, Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela, PSUV) is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left Socialism, socialist political party which has been the ruling party of Venezuela since ...

(PSUV).

Ideology

The CMR's position is that of support for the

Bolivarian Revolution The Bolivarian Revolution is a political process in Venezuela that was led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, the founder of the Fifth Republic Movement and later the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). The Bolivarian Revolution i ...

, while pointing out that the only way forward for the revolution is the

nationalization Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state. Nationalization usually refers to pri ...

of the commanding heights of the economy under

workers' control Workers' control is participation in the management of factories and other commercial enterprises by the people who work there. It has been variously advocated by anarchists, socialists, communists, social democrats, distributists and Christian ...

. Also they think that a big section of the bureaucracy of the PSUV is the "

Fifth Column A fifth column is any group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or another nation. According to Harris Mylonas and Scott Radnitz, "fifth columns" are “domestic actors who work to un ...

" of the Bolivarian Revolution. The CMR is active in

factory occupations Occupation of factories is a method of the workers' movement used to prevent lock outs. They may sometimes lead to "recovered factories", in which the workers self-manage the factories. They have been used in many strike actions, including: *t ...

through FRETECO. It has led the struggles in Inveval and Mitsubishi, while it has a presence in the student and trade union movement. The CMR describes itself as "The Marxist Voice of the PSUV".

History

In 2010, the CMR, along with groups in Spain and Mexico, broke with the

International Marxist Tendency The International Marxist Tendency (IMT) is an international Trotskyism, Trotskyist Political international, political tendency founded by Ted Grant and his supporters following their break with the Committee for a Workers' International (1974) ...

and formed their own international grouping under the name (Revolutionary Left) also known by the name of their newspaper, . In 2016, announced joint work with the

Committee for a Workers International The Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) was an international association of Trotskyist political parties. Today, two groups claim to be the continuation of the CWI. History Founding The origins of the CWI can be traced to a group of ...

. In Venezuela they merged with the CWI section

Revolutionary Socialism (Venezuela) Revolutionary Socialism ( es, Socialismo Revolucionario) is a Trotskyist political party in Venezuela. It was formerly affiliated to the Committee for a Workers' International. The party publishes the newspaper ''El Militante''. Activities S ...

References

External links

Revolutionary Marxist Current Website
Bolivarian Revolution United Socialist Party of Venezuela

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

Trotskyist organizations in Venezuela {{Venezuela-party-stub