Rowan Lubbock is a PhD candidate at Birkbeck University whose research focuses on the role of Venezuelan social movements in the formation of the regional institution Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (ALBA).
For those of us living in a land of economic austerity and political atrophy, seeing a country demonstrate that there is an alternative remains an indispensible component of our long-term struggle to rejuvenate our society.