Venezuela

The United Left Platform knows that the battle against U.S. imperialism and the battle against ICE must become one battle.

As worldwide protests, including many across the UK, demand ‘hands-off Venezuela’, that the Venezuelan people govern themselves, the ISL fully support the demands of the protests and further demands the British government condemn the invasion as well as the capture of president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.

The only way to beat U.S. imperialism in Venezuela today is to throw the Chavista dictatorship out with it

The fates of workers, students, and oppressed people in Venezuela and in the United States are intimately connected. Just as the U.S. invaded Venezuela for the benefit of Big Oil and the banks, those same ruling-class forces are decimating the gains of the civil rights, labor, and other social movements in this country.

The U.S. kidnapping of Maduro is an attack on all of Latin America, and a threat to the working class everywhere. We must mobilize and stand up against imperialism

Trump's attacks on Venezuela and Colombia already include acts of war. Anti-imperialists must unite to stop this offensive with mass mobilizations across the Americas. Joint statement by the IWL, IWU, and RCIT.

The US War on Drugs has been the framework for imperialist intervention in Latin America since the Reagan era. Now, Trump doubles down on empty claims of combating the drug trade to retrench US interests and far right forces across the continent.

The US government, led by the far-right Donald Trump, continues to increase its warmongering and interventionist offensive in Latin America in general and against Venezuela in particular. 
On December 16, the U.S. declared a total blockade on oil tankers entering or leaving the country. This comes after issuing warnings about the dangers of flying to […]

Hernández has been convicted, with evidence, of the crimes that the Trump administration has baselessly accused Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro of committing. But Hernández walked free from jail on Dec. 2, and the U.S. invasion of Venezuela seems poised to begin at any moment. This hypocrisy is obscene, but it's also a consistent pattern of the US-instigated "war on drugs"

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 […]

The Unidad Socialista de los Trabajadores (Socialist Workers’ Unity, UST) condemns the US military escalation against Venezuela but warns thata defending sovereignty does not mean supporting Maduro’s government. By: Socialist Workers’ Unity (UST), the Venezuelan section of the International Workers’ League – Fourth International (IWL-FI). The US government, led by far-right leader Donald Trump, continues […]

By ERWIN FREED In a matter of weeks, the United States struck three boats in international waters near the coast of Venezuela. Trump has claimed, without presenting evidence, that 17 “narco-terrorists” were killed in the attacks and that the boats were trafficking fentanyl and cocaine to the United States. In reality, U.S. imperialism is attempting […]

By JAMES MARSH The War on Drugs, like the War on Terror, has proven itself to be a war on a construct abstract enough to provide rhetorical backing for a wide array of U.S. imperialist policies. President Donald Trump, in the latest use of War on Drugs rhetoric as cover for pursuing military objectives, is […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]