Murderous USA: Hands Off Venezuela
Maduro Must Be Returned Immediately
3 January 2026 marks a paradigm shift. American imperialism attacked the legitimate government of Venezuela and kidnapped its president and his wife, a member of the Venezuelan parliament.
US President Donald Trump had published a new security strategy. What happened today in Venezuela was announced by Trump with great fanfare under the new so-called “Monroe +Donald =Donroe doctrine”. Trump made it clear that he intends to bring the “Western Hemisphere” back under US control.
Many describe this unprecedented act of state terrorism as a “flagrant violation of international law.” What international law? Using this definition is downright cynical. It, too, has become an instrument of imperialism, deployed whenever countries or organisations that refuse to bow to US imperialism need to be brought into line. The recent history has examples of this; Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya…
These abductions are not about Venezuela’s oil reserves, which are the largest in the world. Of course, US corporations would like to regain unrestricted access to Venezuela’s oil, as they had before Hugo Chávez came to power. But the main issue here is the US attempt to restore its faltering hegemony. Among other things, this is also about economic dominance.
China has dared to achieve a much larger trade balance with Latin American countries—such as Mexico—than the US, in what Washington considers its own “backyard.” With this blow against Venezuela, the US is once again targeting China. The same applies to Greenland, which the US also seeks to acquire, among other reasons. This is because Greenland is of great geopolitical importance for China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
Judging by Trump’s threats, it will not stop with Venezuela, and Greenland is not the only candidate for intervention. Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Cuba… Iran, Gaza… The US seeks to brutally enforce its hegemonic interests.
Imperialism
We cannot emphasise this enough. There may be numerous secondary contradictions in the world. But the decisive factor, the principal contradiction, remains the contradiction between the peoples of the world and US imperialism.
The Lessons of the Past
Neither Maduro, nor Hugo Chávez, nor other reformist governments in Latin America have learned the lessons of the coup against Salvador Allende in Chile. What lessons should be learned? We cannot say it often enough.
Imperialism cannot be defeated through reforms. Reforms may serve for partial improvement of the people’s lives but will not stop exploitation. If a radical, total overthrow is not carried out—if monopolies and oligarchs continue to coexist—then sooner or later a coup will follow. Those who do not carry out a revolution with the participation of the people will themselves be overthrown.
There can only be one solution to imperialism: to expel imperialism from the country, together with all its institutions, monopolies, and collaborators. Imperialism can only be resisted by relying exclusively on one’s own people. In concrete terms, this means revolution. Without a revolution, imperialism cannot be confronted.
The Front
If the last two years have taught us one valuable lesson, it is that we must learn from the resistance of the people and their model of organisation in Gaza, where different perspectives and cultures have been successfully united to form an active front.
In light of the kidnapping of the legitimate president of a sovereign state, all representatives of the democratic, popular, and socialist movement must now unite in a common front against our main enemy: US imperialism and NATO. Anyone who rejects this front is not only sectarian, but also a collaborator, because whoever does not confront imperialism ultimately serves imperialism.
Resistance
The images of Maduro in handcuffs and blindfolded have exposed the brutal reality of imperialist democracy and revealed what it truly is. They show what class struggle is and what the balance of power looks like today. They show the violence and arrogance of the ruling class—from Palestine to Venezuela, from Africa to the ghettos of the imperialist metropolises.
They reveal the necessity of defending the existing democratic space. However, we must never succumb to the illusion that this space is protected by nature; rather, it exists only as a result of class struggle. Although the scope for action may appear large, it has been restricted by our class enemy to an ever-shrinking legal space, and that should give us pause for thought.
The images that have reached us from Venezuela must make all popular, democratic, and socialist organisations aware that it is their duty to resist imperialism by all necessary means.
Resistance will prevail.
Imperialism will be defeated.
The people will win.
Anti-Imperialist Front
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