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Joint socialist statement on U.S. attacks on boats in Latin America

Joint statement by revolutionary socialist workers from Venezuela, Colombia, and the United States We, revolutionary socialist workers’ organizations from Venezuela, Colombia, and the United States, completely condemn the unjustifiable murders of sailors and fishermen from Venezuela, Colombia, and Trinidad by the U.S. Navy. Likewise, we condemn the disgusting, deadly threats and provocations by the Trump […]
Colombia

30 de out de 2025
No to Donald Trump's interventionist threats and U.S. imperialism! U.S. troops out of Venezuela and Latin America!

No to Donald Trump’s interventionist threats and U.S. imperialism! U.S. troops out of Venezuela and Latin America!
By Leonardo Arantes, Socialist Workers’ Unity (UST) — Venezuela In recent days, the U.S. government, led by far-right President Donald Trump, has made a series of announcements and taken actions aimed at launching a military operation in Latin American and Caribbean waters under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking. U.S. imperialism is threatening and baring […]
Featured

25 de ago de 2025

Stop the repression! No to the criminalization of protest! Down with the Maduro's dictatorship in Venezuela!

Stop the repression! No to the criminalization of protest! Down with the Maduro’s dictatorship in Venezuela!
The popular rebellion on Monday, July 29, 2024, was answered by the dictatorial government of Maduro with brutal repression, which so far has not ceased. By Leonardo Arantes – Unidad Socialista de los Trabajadores (Socialist Workers Unity) Maduro and his government have unleashed a brutal repression in response to the massive mobilizations of working people, […]
Featured

27 de ago de 2024

The Current Debates on Venezuela

The Current Debates on Venezuela
After the presidential elections of last July 28, the Venezuelan situation has been in the spotlight of the world press. Nicolás Maduro declared himself the winner against Edmundo González, candidate of the right-wing bourgeois opposition, after evident fraud in which the regime could not even make public the minutes of the polling stations. By Alejandro […]
Featured

18 de ago de 2024

On the Conflict Between Venezuela and Guyana over the Essequibo Region

On the Conflict Between Venezuela and Guyana over the Essequibo Region
Out with the multinationals and imperialism in the Essequibo region! We reject Venezuela’s consultative referendum. We are in favor of the unity of Venezuelan and Guyanese workers. By Unidad Socialista de los Trabajadores (UST), Venezuelan Section of the International Workers League (IWL-FI) Today, the political scenario in Venezuela is marked by the debate over the […]
Guyana

12 de dez de 2023

Venezuela | There is an Urgent Need to Build an Alternative for the Working Class and the People

Venezuela | There is an Urgent Need to Build an Alternative for the Working Class and the People
By: Leonardo Arantes, Socialist Unity of the Workers (UST), IWL On Sunday, October 22, primary elections were held in Venezuela. They were called by the parties of the Venezuelan bourgeois opposition organized in the so-called Platform for Democratic Unity (PUD). The purpose was to choose the candidacy of this pro-bourgeois political coalition for eventual presidential […]
Venezuela

24 de nov de 2023

Lula’s Reception of Maduro: The Real Narrative is that Maduro is a Dictator and Venezuela is a Capitalist Dictatorship.

Lula’s Reception of Maduro: The Real Narrative is that Maduro is a Dictator and Venezuela is a Capitalist Dictatorship.
When rolling out the red carpet for Nicolás Maduro in Brasilia, President Lula affirmed that Venezuela would be the victim of the false narrative that there is no dictatorship in that country. This position conceals and distorts Venezuelan reality today. Lula’s attitude is unacceptable, it does not represent the opinion of the Brazilian working class. […]
Brazil

08 de jun de 2023

Venezuela | Anti-worker and anti-popular austerity continues

Venezuela | Anti-worker and anti-popular austerity continues
Amid devaluation, the destruction of wages and the necessity of struggle. The government promotes accelerated devaluation. By Leonardo Arantes, of Socialist Workers United (UST, la Unidad Socialista de los Trabajadores) After the dollar maintained a relatively moderate growth dynamic for several months, the official exchange rate in Venezuela was quoted at 8.59 bs per dollar […]
Venezuela

08 de fev de 2023

Venezuela | Maduro's government accelerates re-privatization and plundering of country's resources

Venezuela | Maduro's government accelerates re-privatization and plundering of country's resources
Maduro announces partial privatization of state-owned companies During the evening of Monday, May 11, 2022, in a speech broadcast by the state-owned Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), Nicolás Maduro announced measures for the privatization of strategic state-owned companies, which would be carried out through the mechanism of offering shares of public companies in the country’s stock […]
Venezuela

18 de mai de 2022

Maduro's "anti-imperialism" advances towards the dollarization of the Venezuelan economy

Maduro's "anti-imperialism" advances towards the dollarization of the Venezuelan economy
  For several years now, approximately since 2017, when Venezuela entered fully into a hyperinflationary process, the debate has started on the relevance or not of dollarizing the economy, as a mechanism to solve the hyperinflation and brutal economic crisis hitting the country. By: Leonardo Arantes – Unidad Socialista de los Trabajadores (UST), Venezuela Translation: […]
Latin America

14 de mar de 2021

Venezuela: Diverse Organizations Appeal for Signatures in Rejection of the Anti-Blockade Law and Demanding a Popular Referendum

Venezuela: Diverse Organizations Appeal for Signatures in Rejection of the Anti-Blockade Law and Demanding a Popular Referendum
Recently, the self-proclaimed National Constituent Assembly approved a project of “Anti-Blockade Law”, presented by the national government on September 29, in which extraordinary powers are granted to the Executive to nullify a series of rights of the Venezuelan people and of national interests established in the National Constitution. Among other things, it would allow the […]
Venezuela

22 de out de 2020

Fight Back To Overthrow Maduro and Defeat Anti-worker Austerity Measures

Fight Back To Overthrow Maduro and Defeat Anti-worker Austerity Measures
The crisis that hits the country is far from being over, on the contrary, it continues to worsen, the government of  Nicolás Maduro has been unable to resolve it in favor of the workers; its measures to confront it have consisted in unloading brutal austerity measures against the workers and poor people, increasing their sufferings […]
Venezuela

10 de jul de 2019