may day and worker autonomy:
(...) However, the president clarified, the working class must be autonomous in its decisions and its capacity to choose its own leaders. “Now the PSUV [United Socialist Party of Venezuela] is being born, it must contribute to the unity and struggle of the working class, the struggle of the campesinos, the youth, the students, and the women’s movement. But the party should never aim to take the reigns of the worker’s movement. It should never aim to supervise or subordinate it. Long live the working class, the workers movement!” he declared to a standing ovation.
(...) The opposition aligned Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV), largely discredited for its role in the April 2002 military coup against the Chavez government, held a significantly smaller demonstration of around 1,000 people across town, opposing the presidential decree increasing the minimum wage saying it would contribute to inflation.