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Venezuelan government mulls plan for socialism classes at work
The Associated Press
Published: April 19, 2007
CARACAS, Venezuela: Venezuelan businesses could be required to set aside four hours a week for workers to attend optional classes on socialism under a law being considered by President Hugo Chavez's government, the labor minister said according to a Venezuelan news report.
As part of a "pilot project," the Labor Ministry will begin offering training to workers next week, Jose Ramon Rivero said in comments published Wednesday by the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal.
"We aren't saying that the four hours should be mandatory," Rivero was quoted as saying. "It's a challenge that we may choose not to accept, but the reality will demand it of us. We need to train ourselves for what is coming."
Officials at the Labor Ministry did not respond to a call seeking comment.
According to El Universal, Rivero said businesses would be required to form workers councils in the workplace that would have a role in the classes.
The state-run Bolivarian News Agency reported that under the proposed the law, businesses would eventually be required "to permit a space during work for the training of workers."
Few details about the classes were available. However, the Bolivarian News Agency said that during the trial phase the classes will teach "the evolution of Venezuela," and "historical materialism," a Marxist approach to the study of history, economics and society.
Chavez often refers to Marxist ideology but insists his government does not intend to indoctrinate anyone. He has announced a new emphasis on instilling "socialist values" in schools and society, but says personal freedoms will be respected.
His critics, however, accuse him of imposing his ideology ever more forcefully across Venezuelan society and have been alarmed by his recent comments demanding loyalty from the armed forces to his socialist revolution.
Chavez last week told the military that those who disagree with his government's socialist leanings should "ask for you discharge and go do something else," and that every commander was obliged to "repeat from the soul" the slogan made famous by his communist mentor, Cuba's Fidel Castro: "Fatherland, Socialism, or Death!"
Defense Minister Raul Isaias Baduel on Thursday denied local media reports that 49 officers have requested early leave from the military for ideological or political reasons.
"I think those are biased opinions when they try to show that our institution is being politicized," he said.
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