Economy
Workers of Guayana's iron, steel and aluminum companies drafted a document, called Guayana's 2019 Socialist Plan the building block of which is achieving "direct control of production by workers."

The bulky text, which was supervised by members of President Hugo Chávez's Cabinet, was the result of a long discussion on the socialist model and its feasibility in Guayana's heavy industry. Some findings were disclosed in a nationwide mandatory radio and TV broadcast, on May 21, by spokesmen of the industrial plants located in the southern part of Venezuela.

The plan provides for a "comprehensive vision of the iron-steel and aluminum production processes," and "ideological-political training as well as technical and production courses for workers."

In the draft plan, which will be forwarded to President Chávez, workers highlight the role of labor organizations. They propose the "elimination of trade unions as a form of association because they are not a mechanism to participate but an instrument to fight."

According to the proposal, managers should be appointed by workers, "based on criteria that are not detrimental to teamwork and group effectiveness."

This plan, which is actually for the 2009-2012 period, establishes "as mandatory that all the management staff of state enterprises shall attend indoctrination and ideologization workshops related to the socialist model."

The draft plan also calls for "transfer to Cosial (the Socialist Integrated Aluminum Compound) the shares of the CVG's aluminum companies."

Translated by Gerardo Cárdenas

Mariela León
EL UNIVERSAL