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US Forces out of Latin America For workers’ unity and socialism By Tony Saunois (Committee For A Workers’ International) The kidnaping of Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Celia Flores, through the military assault by US imperialism has, in a dramatic fashion, ushered in 2026. This naked colonial attack by the Trump regime will have profound consequences in Venezuela, ...

Build mass workers’ parties to challenge the capitalist system In the days since Trump’s abduction and arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro shocked the world, the motivation for and planning of this attack have become clearer. Maduro is being held in New York facing a ‘trial’ on drug and weapons charges. All the rhetoric about ‘narco-terrorism’ won’t cover up the ...

We publish here a translation of a declaration by Izquierda Revolucionaria (IR)the Marxist organisation in Venezuela against both the US-backed coup and the corrupt Maduro government. IR is the sister party of the Socialist Party as an affiliate of the Committee For A Workers International (CWI). Thursday 24 January The situation in Venezuela has reached a critical point during the ...

The recent attempted assassination of Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro has once again focussed attention on the deepening economic, social and political crisis in the country. Izquierda Revolucionaria (CWI in Venezuela) in the following article explains that Maduro is using his party and the state bureaucracy not in defence of ‘socialism’ but instead to manage capitalism and retain power. By Izquierda ...

By Tony Saunois An international campaign by capitalist politicians and media has been unleashed against president Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuelan government. It has been used by Labour’s Blairista right wing to try to weaken Jeremy Corbyn. In Spain, the spectre of Venezuela has been held up as a warning of what a Podemos-led government would mean. The close links of Podemos ...

Only the working class taking power from capitalists and bureaucrats can defeat reaction Izquierda Revolucionaria Venezuela & Socialismo Revolucionario On 30 July elections were held to elect members of the “National Constituent Assembly” (ANC). In the days prior to the election, US imperialism and the MUD (the coalition which unites the right and far-right in Venezuela) backed a campaign of ...