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- Valdez, Luis - .
- Value - Socially necessary labor time.
- Vanguard Party - A vanguard party is another name for a "revolutionary party" - which is a political party that is capable of leading and being at the forefront of a mass action, social movement, or revolution. A revolutionary party is a dynamic collective force working under a division of political labor that, when needed, can mobilize all sectors of our community as a united mass struggle. In modern times, there has not been a single successful and sustained revolutionary movement without the existence of a revolutionary party. A vanguard party is built upon the organizational structure and political principles of Democratic Centralism. What makes daily community work possibly lead towards revolution depends on it being connected to a democratically centralized revolutionary party capable of guiding our community work at the Base/ Local/ Regional/ National/ International levels, all at the same time. The idea of a vanguard party was developed by Vladimir Lenin.
- Vargas, Getúlio - .
- Vazquez Rojas, Genaro - .
- Vazquez, Tiburcio - Mexicano who fought against whites occupying California during the 1870s.
- Vendido - Sell-out (in Spanish). It refers to those how come out of our communities and get access to educational, political, or economic resources and then decide to turn their backs on their own communities in favor of the dollar bill. Most of them refused to identify themselves as raza, and act more in line with the system. The system often promotes vendidos through the media or through traditional politics in order to confuse our communities into thinking we are making progress.
- Venezuela - .
- V-E and V-J Day - V-E, May 8, 1945, The day of victory in Europe for the allies in World War II. V-J Day - August 14, 1945, The day Japan accepted the allied surrender terms in WWII, or September 2,1945, the day the surrender was signed.
- Vietnam - A country in Southeast Asia. It was divided into north Vietnam and south in 1954, and reunified in 1976 with the victory of the National Liberation Movement led by the communist leader Ho Chi Minh, after the military defeat of the United States. 64,000,000;126,104 sq. miles.
- Villa, Francisco - Also known as Pancho Villa, his original name was Doroteo Arango, and he became the leading general of the Revolutionary Forces of the North during the Mexican Revolution. He had demanded justice and dignity for the poor people of Mexico. Villa was one of the greatest military leaders Mexico ever had.
- Vision (political) - Being able to see "the big picture" when it comes to the world around us. Relates to ideological development.
- Voice - What you need to have when you have control over your own life.
- Vote/Voting - See procedural democracy.
- Voz Fronteriza - A famous student newspaper published by a collective of raza students at UCSD, it has been the most consistent raza student publication in Aztlán.
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