The following article was written in December 2025 by the Venezuelan section prior to the U.S. intervention in Venezuela in January of this year.

Without even keeping up appearances, the Venezuelan bourgeois government, through its Minister of Labor and President Maduro himself, called for a “Union Constituent Assembly” and a Workers’ Congress to be held in December. The convocation aims to reform the Bolivarian Socialist Workers’ Central (CBST), which is the most recent example of “yellow unionism” that has developed from the highest levels of government.

Such is the cynicism of these representatives of the bourgeoisie that they have declared that yellow and employer unions must be eliminated (!). So far, they have stated that unions must adapt to current circumstances and to the government’s plans and policies, that they must organize entrepreneurs (a figure promoted by the government so that sectors of workers take on the role of small business owners) and “comuneros” (workers who are part of government-promoted communes and who do not necessarily work as salaried employees but as small entrepreneurs in small-scale projects). They also want unions to be aligned with the defense of the homeland and the territory and to organize workers’ militias for this purpose. The government has also emphasized the role of unions in ensuring the operational continuity of companies and supporting the smooth functioning of the national economy.

It remains to be seen to what extent the government will achieve significant progress with this political move, which also seeks to put it in the best position to curb or manage a possible social uprising, arising not from the schemes of opponents or “conspirators” or “terrorists”, but from the spontaneous reaction of the masses burdened by low wages, unemployment, and poverty.