
No Volverán – The Venezuelan Revolution Now
Hugo Chavez's Venezuela is in the middle of a mass movement trying to build what organizers call socialism of the 21st century, and this film follows it into the barrios and onto factory floors to see what that looks like in practice. Its central case study is Sanitarios Maracay, a factory where workers are campaigning for full nationalization under workers' control, fighting what they describe as sabotage and corruption from the old ownership. Interviews with those workers, community organizers, and other revolutionary figures lay out how neighborhood councils and workplace takeovers are meant to shift power away from owners and toward the people doing the work. The film also puts the criticism on record, addressing accusations of authoritarianism and economic mismanagement leveled at the Chavez government, and looks at outside efforts to destabilize it. Shot in Spanish and English with English subtitles, it stays close to the people living the experiment rather than the politicians running it, treating Sanitarios Maracay as the test case for whether the wider revolution can actually work.