Solidarity With Venezuelan Workers!

After months of open preparations, terror attacks on innocent fishermen, public threats, and personal accusations against President Nicolás Maduro, the US has kidnapped the president of a sovereign state.

This was not a limited military action. US imperialism did not merely strike military infrastructure; it deliberately attacked symbols, morale, and historical memory. Imperialist war is always psychological as well as physical. The timing alone exposes intent as 2026 marks the centenary of Fidel Castro, one of the principal architects of the Bolivarian revolutionary project. It is no coincidence that one of the missile strikes was aimed at the site of Hugo Chávez’s mausoleum. Had Chávez not mattered—had he not lived, organised, and inspired—they would not have bombed his grave.
Venezuela has never threatened any nation. Its only crime has been its refusal to submit to imperial diktat. For that refusal, it was designated a military target. No sovereign nation can rest easy. This is not simply an act of aggression against Venezuela but an open declaration of war against Latin America as a whole, an attempt to push the continent back a century to the era when the Monroe Doctrine was in full throes and Washington installed its Somozas and Guaidós on banana thrones. The response of many Latin American governments so far has been, at best, shameful—at worst, complicit.

Europe’s half-hearted murmurs about “respect for international law” convince no one. This silence is not accidental. It is the silence of imperial alignment. From Ukraine to Myanmar, from Cambodia to Nigeria, from Venezuela to Iran, the same pattern is visible: fires ignited, conflicts sustained, governments destabilised—sometimes directly, more often through proxies. Western governments are not innocent bystanders to this process; they are active participants.

Che Guevara once called US imperialism the “worst enemy of humanity.” Today’s US regime has merely reminded us all what (Anglo) US imperialism has always been. There can be no negotiation with imperialism. It cannot be persuaded, restrained, or moralised into submission. It must be defeated. A weakened beast it may be—but a wounded beast is the most dangerous of all as we have witnessed.

This reckless, lawless act demonstrates to every nation that sovereignty and international law are meaningless when confronted with imperial power. US imperialism is fighting openly for the preservation of its global domination, and it will employ any means necessary—direct force or proxy war—to destroy those who resist. Venezuela is one front. Russia, Iran, and China are others. The Sahel states too. The war is already underway, whether acknowledged or not.

The peoples of the world must recognise that the US imperialism and its equally parasitic allies are the greatest threat to humanity. Venezuela has shown, once again, that imperialism will tolerate no assertion of sovereignty. While we must give unwavering solidarity to all nations resisting imperialist domination, our decisive responsibility lies at home. Imperialism cannot be defeated from its periphery alone; it must be confronted and overthrown in its own heartlands. Only American workers can finally destroy US imperialism as it is their enemy as much as it is the enemy of Venezuelans, Iranians or Russians. For British workers, that means breaking the power of British imperialism itself — in the belly of the beast. Only when the workers of the west overthrow the imperialist ruling classes of their nations will we be free of this rotten, parasitic system.