Down with the Imperialist boot in Venezuela and Latin America!

Below is the text of the joint declaration proposed by the Communist Party of Venezuela to the Communist and Workers’ Parties (Solidnet).

The undersigned Communist and Workers’ Parties strongly condemn the criminal bombings carried out by the United States against the city of Caracas and other areas of Venezuela in the early hours of 3 January. This military imperialist attack constitutes a serious violation of the sovereignty of an independent state and is directed against the interests of the people of Venezuela and other peoples of the region.

The operation included the illegal and violent arrest, transfer, and imprisonment in the USA of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, an unacceptable and reprehensible act that violates every concept of international law, effectively rendering it meaningless. Consequently, we demand his immediate release.

This attack is not an isolated incident, but rather the culmination of years of sanctions, threats, blockades, and destabilization efforts. The real objective was never the defence of human rights, nor the supposed fight against drug trafficking, nor the rhetoric of “democracy”, all of which serve merely as pretexts. The true aim has been the direct imposition of the geopolitical and economic interests of US imperialism in Venezuela and the region, within the context of the struggle among capitalist powers for control over energy resources, strategic raw materials, trade routes, and markets.

In a cynical and shameless manner, Donald Trump declared that the United States would “run” Venezuela until a so-called “transition” was completed. This statement exposes the imperialist nature of his plan and confirms the real motives behind this aggression: the control of Venezuela’s oil and natural resources and the imposition of his plan for economic, political, and military control over the entire continent. We categorically reject this plan of imposition and this so-called democracy enforced through the use of armed force.

We warn that Venezuela is being used as an example, and that a strong response is required to confront imperialist aggression, which has been carried out in such a brutal manner and with barbaric military means against the people of Venezuela and all the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.

We demand an immediate end to the military aggression against Venezuela, the withdrawal of US troops from the Caribbean, and full respect for the sovereignty, self-determination, and territorial integrity of the Venezuelan people.

We call upon the revolutionary, working-class, and popular forces of the world to mobilize and express active solidarity with Venezuela against this new bellicose escalation of attacks by US imperialism.

We condemn the direct threats issued by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio against Cuba following the intervention in Venezuela, and we express our solidarity with the people and the Communist Party of Cuba.

Unity of the peoples against imperialist barbarity! 

Proletarians of all countries, unite!

SolidNet Parties signing the Joint Statement

1. PADS, Algeria
2. Party of Labour of Austria
3. Communist Party of Bangladesh
4. Brazilian Communist Party
5. Communist Party of Britain
6. New Communist Party of Britain
7. Communist Party of Canada
8. Socialist Workers’ Party of Croatia
9. Communist Party of Denmark
10. Communist Party of Ecuador
11. Communist Party of El Salvador
12. Communist Party of Greece
13. Iraqi Communist Party
14. Communist party of Kurdistan-Iraq
15. Communist Party of Ireland
16. Workers Party of Ireland
17. Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
18. Communist Party of Mexico
19. New Communist Party of the Netherlands
20. Communist Party of Norway
21. Paraguayan Communist Party
22. Romanian Socialist Party
23. Communists of Serbia
24. Communist Party of the Workers of Spain
25. Sudanese Communist Party
26. Communist Party of Sweden
27. Swiss Communist Party
28. Syrian Communist Party
29. Communist Party USA
30. Communist Party of Venezuela

Other Parties signing the Joint Statement

1. Argentinian Communist Party
2. New Communist Party of Australia
3. Revolutionary Brazilian Communist Party
4. Patriotic Movement Manuel Rodríguez, Chile
5. National Commission for the Reorganization of the Communist Party of Ecuador
6. Communist Party (Germany)
7. Communist Front (Italy)
8. Communist Workers’ Platform USA

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