Once again, US imperialism is threatening to invade Venezuela, this time under the pretext that Nicolás Maduro is involved in international drug trafficking through the so-called "Los Soles" cartel - a pure invention of Donald Trump and the CIA. 

 

Contrary to international maritime agreements, since the beginning of September, the US has carried out at least six attacks on boats in Venezuelan waters, killing over 30 people after accusing them of transporting drugs. In addition, Trump sent three destroyers into the waters off Venezuela, a nuclear-powered submarine and several reconnaissance aircraft. A criminal threatening gesture shortly before a military intervention. 

 

Unfortunately for him, the world knows him only too well and knows that he is capable of the most implausible lies in his efforts to demoralize heads of state and governments hostile to him. America and the world remember only too well the invasion of Panama and the arrest of Manuel Antonio Noriega in 1989. Today, Trump is imitating the methods of President George H. W. Bush, whose accusations about Noriega’s links to drug trafficking served as a pretext for the invasion of Panama. Furthermore, his arguments collapse when one considers the trail of blood left by the dictators the US has supported, from Batista in Cuba, Augusto Pinochet in Chile, and Videla in Argentina  to Netanyahu in Israel. 

 

There is no doubt that the United States' interest in these maneuvers is not simply to overthrow Nicolás Maduro, their goal is to control the oil and other natural resources of this rich South American country. Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world and significant deposits of gold, iron, diamonds, copper and many other minerals, making the country one of the richest in the world in terms of natural resources. The presence of US imperialism in the Caribbean is not only a threat to Venezuela, but to the whole of Latin America, especially countries with progressive governments such as Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia and Brazil. 

 

With this move, US imperialism is also trying to suppress any attempt at rebellion that might arise in any of the countries under its tutelage in the region. It also wants to warn China and Russia, who are competing with it for influence and markets in the region, that it is still alive. 

 

Stopping the interventionist aspirations of fascist Donald Trump and imperialism on Venezuelan territory is therefore a revolutionary obligation. Therefore, the International Coordination of Revolutionary Organizations and Parties (ICOR) urgently calls on the entire worldwide revolutionary movement to make the defense of Venezuela's sovereignty a current task in the face of the ongoing threats of invasion by US imperialism in the waters of the Caribbean. We also call for the strengthening of the anti-fascist and anti-imperialist united front as the only guarantee to stop the expansionist greed of the imperialist countries.

 

Yankees, get out of the Caribbean waters!

No Yankee presence among other peoples of the world!

Resist the fascism of Donald Trump and all fascists!

Imperialism is war! Down with all imperialists!

Long live the self-determination of the peoples!

 

Present signatories, further signatures possible. Current list of signatories at www.icor.info

1. PCPCI   Parti Communiste Proletarien de Côte d'Ivoire (Proletarian Communist Party of Ivory Coast)

2. ORC   Organisation Révolutionnaire du Congo (Revolutionary Organization of Congo), Democratic Republic of the Congo

3. UPC-Manidem   Union des Populations du Cameroun - Manifeste National pour l’Instauration de la Démocratie (Union of Populations of Cameroon - National Manifesto for the Establishment of Democracy)

4. CPSA (ML)   Communist Party of South Africa (Marxist-Leninist)

5. PCT   Parti Comuniste du Togo (Communist Party of Togo)

6. PPDS   Parti Patriotique Démocratique Socialiste (Patriotic Democratic Socialist Party), Tunisia

7. NCP (Mashal)   Nepal Communist Party (Mashal)

8. RUFN   Revolutionary United Front of Nepal

9. CPA/ML   Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)

10. Krasnyj Klin   Аб'яднання беларускіх камуністаў «Чырвоны Клін» (Association of Belarusian Communists «Red Wedge»), Belarus

11. БКП   Българска Комунистическа Партия (Bulgarian Communist Party)

12. PR-ByH   Partija Rada - ByH (Party of Labor - Bosnia and Herzegovina)

13. MLPD   Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany)

14. UPML   Union Prolétarienne Marxiste-Léniniste (Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Union), France

15. KOL   Kommunistische Organisation Luxemburg (Communist Organization of Luxemburg)

16. RM   Rode Morgen (Red Dawn), Netherlands

17. UMLP   União Marxista-Leninista Portuguesa (Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Union)

18. RMP   Российская маоистская партия (Rossijskaya maoistskaya partiya) (Russian Maoist Party)

19. MLGS   Marxistisch-Leninistische Gruppe Schweiz (Marxist-Leninist Group of Switzerland)

20. MLKP   Marksist Leninist Komünist Parti Türkiye / Kürdistan (Marxist Leninist Communist Party Turkey / Kurdistan)

21. KSRD   Koordinazionnyj Sowjet Rabotschewo Dvizhenija (Coordination Council of the Workers Class Movement), Ukraine

22. UoC   Union of Cypriots, Cyprus

23. PCP (independiente)   Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente) (Paraguayan  Communist Party (independent))

24. PC (ML)   Partido Comunista (Marxista Leninista) (Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)), Dominican Republic

25. SUCI (C)   Socialist Unity Center of India (Communist)