Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Radical Cause (La Causa Radical or La Causa ) is a working class political party in Venezuela, part of the Venezuelan opposition to president Hugo Chavez. Although La Causa R no longer has a true national presence, it remains influential in its home region of Guayana. La Causa R was founded as a revolutionary socialist political party of syndicalist tendencies. It was formed in 1971 by Alfredo Maneiro, an intellectual and one-time Communist Party of Venezuela guerrilla who believed that the Communists and the Movement towards Socialism were not serious enough about organizing the working class as a revolutionary force.