Post #2018

📝 INTERVIEW | Juan Lenzo: ‘We Need to Integrate the Communal Economy to Face the Capitalist Maelstrom’ Juan Lenzo, a Venezuelan activist, takes stock of the Communard Union’s current strengths and challenges, with a particular focus on consolidating the communal economy. Today, 117 communes are part of the Union. To strengthen economic planning, the organization is mapping grassroots productive activity and identifying opportunities to rebuild the communal economy after years of crisis. One of its flagship efforts is the “Patria Grande del Sur” project in Bolívar state: a 187,000-hectare initiative developed with Brazil’s MST and local campesino communities. The goal is to build a communal agroecological system in phases, from infrastructure to production and education. “We’re not trying to strengthen the old state, we’re building a communal one,” he said. 🔗 Read the full interview here: https://shorturl.at/wejdV #CommunardUnion#Communes