Do the Bolivarian Circles work with the trade unions?
As I mentioned before, many members of the Bolivarian Circles are unionised workers and union leaders. The Bolivarian Circles provide a forum to integrate union members and the rest of the community — in fact, making the labour movement and the people’s movement one. It’s not that we don’t perceive differences between the labour movement’s struggles and, for example, the struggle of the community for better education, but we have been able to identify the commonalities rather than differences between the different movements. The integration of the struggles and demands of the labour movement with those of the community are a fundamental factor in the current trend to form a new kind of labour movement. In fact, most important labour unions have abandoned the pro-coup Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) to form the recently created Union of Workers (UNETE) in response to the corruption of the CTV. What motivates you to organise and fight for the self-determination of the Venezuela
