Book Launch: Venezuela In Crisis: Socialist Perspectives

Join us for a discussion with the editor of the Venezuela In Crisis: Socialist Perspectives anthology in conversation with two of the anthology's contributors! Dr. Anderson Bean will be joined by Simón Rodríguez and Gustavo Márquez Marín for a timely and worthwhile in-store talk.

Anderson Bean is a sociology professor at North Carolina A&T State University, a North Carolina–based activist, and a member of GRS and the Tempest Collective. He is a contributor and editor of Venezuela in Crisis: Socialist Perspectives as well as the author of the book Communes and the Venezuelan State: The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis.

Simón Rodríguez is a Venezuelan socialist writer and journalist, a founder of the Partido Socialismo y Libertad (PSL), and a former professor at the Universidad de los Andes. He is a founding member of Laclase.info and Venezuelanvoices.org and has published in NACLA, The New Arab, Rebelión, and numerous other outlets. His work has been translated into six languages, and he is coauthor, with Miguel Sorans, of Why Did Chavismo Fail? A Left-Opposition Balance Sheet.

Gustavo Márquez Marín is an electrical engineer, former university professor, and longtime Venezuelan political leader. He served as president of the Movement for Socialism (MAS), a deputy in the Venezuelan Congress, and held several positions in the Chávez government, including minister of Industry and Commerce and ambassador to Austria and Colombia. He is currently a member of the Citizen Platform for the Defense of the Constitution.

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