Stand with Venezuela! No U.S. Invasion of Venezuela!
- Stop Donald Trump’s fascistic imperialist war-drive to re-colonize Latin America!
- Nicolas Maduro and his wife must be released now and returned to Venezuela
- No war with Venezuela! No invasion of Iran! No invasion of Cuba!
- No more deportations! No more immigrant concentration camps!
- Victory to the Palestinian Struggle!
- Trump must go by any means necessary!
Donald Trump has escalated his fascist agenda in Latin America with the invasion of Venezuela and with it begun an attempt at a new phase of brutally racist, imperialist recolonizing of Latin America. This morning, Saturday January 3, 2026, what all of Latin America and the world feared has happened: the U.S. military has invaded Venezuela, bombarding Venezuela’s capital Caracas and other cities around the country in an operation that led to the arrest and forceful physical removal of Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro out of the country. Despite overwhelming opposition from people in Venezuela and most Latin American countries, Trump has made the removal of Maduro a priority of his fascist program and global imperialist war-drive. Trump’s fascist aspirations of reasserting American imperialist domination in Latin America and around the world through military force has taken a dangerous step forward and must be stopped in its tracks now.
The real aim of this attack is for two reasons: 1) to wrestle control of the world’s largest oil reserves from the people of Venezuela to the US oil companies; 2) to re-assert U.S. imperialist control in Latin America over against the growing Chinese influence in Latin America and in favor of US imperialist competition with China in general.
Trump does not care about democracy. He is trying to impose a fascist regime in the U.S. and is supporting pro-U.S. fascist dictators and authoritarian regimes around the world through direct military interventions or other actions.
The international movement against fascism must vehemently oppose any attempts of the Trump administration to impose a CIA/U.S.- backed dictatorship on the people of Venezuela, – a dictatorship aimed at diverting oil production and trading with Russia and China, and instead ensuring that oil is exclusively destined for the U.S. under the control of American oil companies.
Trump aims to make Latin America an oppressed colonial region to oppress and super- exploit the people of Latin America, while pursuing a domestic policy of scapegoating Latinos through ICE attacks and deportations. It is important for the movement to condemn this military attack and defend the sovereignty and independence of every Latin American country.
For months now, Trump has carried out escalating military provocations under the excuse of fighting “drug cartels” in the Atlantic-Caribbean Coast of Venezuela. The amassing of U.S. military ships, like the biggest naval aircraft carrier the USS Gerald Ford, is the greatest concentration of American naval forces in any region since the Gulf War, and accompanies increasing naval and air military presence in Caribbean nations like Trinidad and Tobago, and Puerto Rico. The bombings have targeted small fishing boats off the Atlantic coast of Venezuela and off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Colombia and have killed over 100 people and injured many others, with no evidence whatsoever of drugs. In the past weeks, U.S. naval forces surrounded Venezuela’s coast creating a naval blockade, targeting and pirating three oil carrier ships likely bound for China. If the naval blockade wasn’t enough, U.S. military drones bombed a port facility on December 29, 2025 claiming it to be a port for drug operations. Rather, this was the latest indication of the upcoming attack and an effort to shake Maduro’s inner circle.
For decades, the U.S. has imposed a set of ongoing and escalating economic sanctions, similar to those imposed on Cuba, in order to starve out the people of Venezuela and create a national crisis that would lead to internal opposition and removal of the so-called “socialist” government. This practice, supported by both Republic and Democratic parties in the U.S., has largely been a failure. The country’s economy plummeted following the decrease of oil production and trading on which the overwhelming majority of the economy is based. The starvation of the population, lack of medicines and other basic products, in addition to the abuses of a despotic government led to the biggest exodus in the western hemisphere with nearly eight million Venezuelans fleeing the country. Recently, in part because of the increasing economic investment of China and Russia, oil production and trading increased, helping to stabilize the economy. China’s economic investment has also boosted the rise of the mining sector of rare metals and gold. Migration out of the country almost stopped, and support for the Maduro regime increased with each racist blunder of Donald Trump’s immigration policies, like the end of humanitarian visas, parole, and right to asylum for Venezuelan immigrants and the first mass waves of deportations of Venezuelan refugees – not to mention the increasing military threats of occupation and bombing of fishing boats.
Trump’s military intervention is bound to worsen the economic crisis, create a prolonged period of political and social instability, which will once again set off the forced mass migration of the Venezuelan people to other embattled Latin American economies and to the U.S. The Colombian government has already placed military personnel at its borders to prevent Venezuelan migrants from crossing the border to Colombia.
As it stands, mass mobilizations of the people of Venezuela are taking place in every major city. Maduro’s party is still in power and maintains their support for him and are vowing to mobilize armed resistance, including a popular armed force, which had been growing along with the growing threat of U.S. military intervention. There is no way the U.S. will succeed in “running the country” (Trump’s declared intention) against the wishes of the majority of the people of Venezuela without U.S. military occupation. It is one thing for Trump’s CIA and far-right Trump supporters to corrupt the Nobel “peace-prize” process to promote a would-be U.S. agent as an opposition replacement for Maduro. It is an entirely more difficult thing to force this weak, unpopular agent down the throats of the people of Venezuela. Trump himself has already had to acknowledge that this “Nobel Laureate” Maria Corina Machado cannot replace Maduro because she does not have the respect of the people of Venezuela. Latin American nations like Mexico, Chile and Colombia have already expressed their opposition to Trump’s intervention.
No, Trump does not have the right to dictate the policies and who controls the resources of Latin American countries. We cannot allow Trump’s fascist government to return the American continent to the colonial period. Workers and oppressed people in Venezuela have a right to sort out their own internal affairs.
The Democratic Party’ s weak criticisms of Trump have not by and large expressed opposition to clearly undemocratic fascist attack on the democratic rights of a sovereign nation, but rather have been primarily from the standpoint of a concern for the formalistic Congressional processes, which Presidents of both parties have ignored over and over since World War II. The truth of the matter is that this fascist attack abroad can only be carried out on an undemocratic basis at home by a fascist government. Fascism at home is necessary for fascist war mongering around the world.
Trump’s fascist policies mean increasing militarism around the world and the support of dictatorship, despotism, and authoritarianism, not democracy. Under Trump, U.S. international policy is based on the constant intimidation of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and the constant threat of U.S. military invasion and nuclear war for those who dare to oppose Trump and U.S. imperialist domination worldwide.
Venezuela cannot become the next Iraq, Afghanistan, or Vietnam War in Latin America. Only the power of an independent anti-war, anti-fascist, anti-imperialist mass movement – in America and internationally – can stop Trump’s imperialist war drive to World War III. Our anti-Trump, pro-Palestine, and pro-immigrant movement must be a movement against Trump’s fasicst foreign policies and U.S. imperialism and for the defeat and removal of Trump and his government.
Our movement has already forced a temporary ceasefire in Gaza, as broken as this ceasefire has been, and most recently, our mass mobilizations around the country have dealt real defeats against his fascist ICE thugs, running them out of our cities, and most recently, forcing a retreat of national guard troops. It is this failure of his policy of mass deportations that is forcing Trump to overreach in foreign policy in order to maintain his appeal to his fascist base.
