After the criminal attack perpetrated against the country in the early hours of January 3, 2026, Donald Trump, head of US imperialism, made several announcements making clear his real intentions and the true reasons why he maintained months of military siege and finally carried out the military incursion into Venezuela, kidnapping the then head of […]

The end of 2025 brought with it three important strategic documents drafted by the planners of US imperialism. These are the president’s National Security Strategy (NSS) for 2025, Report No. 83 from the Council on Foreign Relations’ Task Force on Economic Security, entitled “Winning the Race for Tomorrow’s Technologies,” and the Department of Defense/War’s “Annual […]

Editorial Board, IWL-FI, September 2014 The Cuban and Venezuelan governments have the support of most left-wing organizations around the world. However, that support peaked in the last decade and is now in decline, with those governments experiencing a heightened situation of crisis. The international weight of this support—which we will call Castro-Chavism—is very important. But […]

Francisco Cuartas (PST, Colombia) Trump’s military aggression against Venezuela has reached its peak with the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and the demand that Chavismo collaborate with him to impose a colonial regime as a model for the imperialist domination of Latin America. This logic has led to U.S. imperialist domination of Colombia, a country that […]

The U.S.’s unjustifiable invasion of Venezuela and detention of Nicolás Maduro has unleashed an unprecedented crisis for Venezuela and the region more broadly. To better understand the political economy of the country and its history, we are publishing a special edition of our International Courier, including new and old pieces on the nature of Venezuelan politics, past and present.

Trump’s new “National Security Strategy” has begun with the kidnapping of Maduro. What’s changed, and what’s stayed the same in imperialist policy?

While the mass sickout and protest did not bring the economy to a grinding halt, talk about organizing a real political general strike is now on the table.

Trump’s threats against Greenland have been a startling break with historical allies of US imperialism, but their arrogance and disdain for indigenous peoples are a longstanding tradition for the imperialists.