Venezuela's government will require workers to spend four hours a week in "socialist formation" classes, and is mandating employers form "Bolivarian Work Councils" to run courses on the job, El Universal reported, citing Labor and Social Security Minister Jose Ramon Rivero.
The classes will first be held only in public sector jobs, beginning with a pilot program at the nation's Labor Ministry, and will later spread to private businesses, after President Hugo Chavez decrees a law outlining re-education guidelines and rules, the newspaper said.
Topics to be addressed in the four-hour classes include Venezuelan history and "basic tools for analyzing reality, the environment, the role of the state and socialist scheme," to speed the transition from capitalism to socialism, Rivero said, according to the newspaper.
Chavez has asked that socialist education, the so-called "Third Motor" of his Bolivarian revolution, be carried out beyond schools, in factories, workshops, offices and fields, the newspaper reported. |