It is over a week now since the death of Hugo Chávez and there are still kilometer long queues of people coming from all over the Venezuela to pay their last respects. Presidential elections have been called for April 14 and the mood is turning angry at the provocations of the oligarchy. Jorge Martin looks at the latest events in Venezuela and the future for the Bolivarian Revolution.

Alan Woods, Marxist author and writer for Socialist Appeal, appeared on BBC’s Newsnight on Wednesday 6th March to speak about the late Hugo Chavez and the Venezuealan Revolution. We publish here links to this interview along with a letter from a supporter of Socialist Appeal.

The Arab Revolution brought down several despotic regimes, but due to the lack of a clear revolutionary workers’ alternative, the vacuum was filled by Islamist parties. But once in power, these forces soon began to expose their true reactionary nature, and thus prepared the ground for a second wave of mobilisations.