Venezuela - November 19, 2025

After Trump launched a fierce attack on 30 million Hispano immigrants in USA…

Now, the imperialist US pirates are pointing their warships at Venezuela to steal its oil…

USA out of Venezuela, the Caribbean and all of Latin America!

In late August, Trump, under the pretext of "combating drug trafficking," ordered the deployment of more than 4,000 military personnel, 8 missile-equipped warships, 1 nuclear-powered submarine, and surveillance aircraft to the Caribbean Sea from the Pentagon. Also 5 F-35 fighter jets and 1 Boeing C-5 logistics aircraft from Puerto Rico landed there, joining 10 more F-35 fighter jets already stationed in the country.
With the recent deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, the largest in the world, the biggest military deployment of US imperialism in the region in decades is complete, with 12,000 soldiers on almost a dozen Navy ships, in what US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has called "Operation Southern Spear".
Thus, through a real military invasion of the seas, Trump has taken control of the Caribbean, where USA have already carried out 20 attacks against small boats, and summarily murdered 80 people.

We are facing a real military offensive by USA against Venezuela to seize its oil reserves, which are the largest in the world, even five times larger than those of the US.

France has also joined this military aggression by sending ships to its territories in the region, justifying its naval reinforcement as “part of an international cooperation strategy against criminal networks operating in the area.” What is clear is that it is reinforcing its military presence in Latin America to protect its overseas territories such as French Guiana and the French Antilles, including Guadeloupe and Martinique.

Faced with this US military aggression, we unconditionally stand in defense of Venezuela, because if USA invade and seize Venezuela's oil, gold, and all its resources, it will not bring more "democracy," but rather impose a regime of terror and fascism on the masses, worse than Maduro's, and impose triple chains on the nation as part of their offensive to colonize Latin America and seize lithium, oil, minerals, land, and all our natural resources, just as former Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Command, Laura Richardson, stated years ago.
This offensive is a punishment and an attack on all of Latin America. We cannot allow it! If it succeeds, this attack will create the perfect conditions for a larger offensive, and if any oppressed nation fights against imperialism, the US will be able to invade it swiftly.

Maduro and the "Bolivarian" movement surrendered the anti-imperialist struggle of the Latin American masses... Now USA is coming for everything.

The cowardly “Bolivarian” bourgeoisie applied the US plan to the letter, because with the oil that the supposed “anti-imperialist” Maduro guarantees to USA, its war machine is fed to supply Zionism with bombs and arms to massacre Palestine.
Maduro, supported by the armed forces that control the oil business, not only guaranteed the oil and gold of the Orinoco to USA, but also paid U$D 70 billion to Wall Street in 2019 for the fraudulent external debt, which reached U$D 161 billion by 2023. They did this while leaving a bankrupt country with 85% poverty, millions scavenging for food in the garbage, more than 8 million emigrants around the world, wages of U$D 1.50, and a devastated oil industry.
Maduro did not touch a single dollar belonging to the transnational corporations and bankers, while the US seized Venezuela's funds abroad and are now about to auction off and keep the CITGO (PdVSA) refineries and service stations in USA that Maduro had put up as collateral for the payment of the external debt.

 
To prevent another “Caracazo,” Maduro and the generals of the Armed Forces imposed a policial Bonapartist regime against the masses, repressing every uprising. But his government also relied heavily on the State-ization of unions, effectively dismantling all democratic freedoms, because he did not only eliminate labor rights, represses every workers' protest, and persecute and imprison union leaders, but in mid-August of this year, he proposed to eliminate unions through a new Constitution, placing “workers' movements” under its complete control.

With the scam of the “Bolivarian Revolution” capitalism was restored in Cuba and the “gringo-bent left” protected all the businesses of imperialism from the onslaught of the masses.

This is the “Bolivarian” bourgeoisie that proved courageous in attacking the masses and cowardly in confronting imperialism. Thus, one of its greatest betrayals was that, in the name of “socialism” and alongside the new entrepreneurial bourgeoisie of the Cuban Communist Party, they restored capitalism in Cuba. And now, having used them like “squeezed lemons,” USA is getting rid of them i'm order to install governments that are direct agents of imperialism and its current colonization plan. The “Bolivarians”  have already played their part in expropriating and disorganizing the anti-imperialist struggle of the Latin American masses.

But the working class and the exploited in Latin America never stopped fighting. To contain the rise of 2019-2023, the union bureaucracies and the reformist left supported the so-called “progressive” bourgeoisies on their shoulders, and they once again took the masses off the streets, as in Colombia with Petro’s “reconciliation plan,” as in Chile with Boric, or Arce in Bolivia, the best implementer of IMF plans in recent years.

In the various waves of fighting of Latin American workers and peasants, the masses tirelessly sought a way to defeat the imperialist offensive on the subcontinent. Every time it was the leadership what diverted this struggle putting it under the sway of the “leftist” lackeys of Wall Street. They consistently desynchronized the struggle of Latin American workers from the struggles of the North American working class.
It was a lot of colossal betrayals of these enormous battles what allowed the current imperialist counter-offensive across the continent.

This is how the Milei government in Argentina came about, as well as Noboa in Ecuador, or  Rodrigo Paz in Bolivia, plus the one being prepared by Kast in Chile, or the crisis that opened with the Petro government in Colombia,.
Why would the masses defend Morales' MAS in Bolivia, Peronism in Argentina, or Boric in Chile? They have left millions unemployed and hungry, rampant inflation, a high cost of living, and all this to subject oppressed peoples to imperialism and transnational corporations.
The pendulum has now swung to the right. Due to the betrayal of its leadership, the working class was unable to lead the ruined middle classes, the peasantry, and all the popular sectors brought to ruin by imperialist plunder.
Amid this crisis, big capital strikes, saying "the blame for all the current ruin of the peoples of Latin America lies with the working class for fighting, and with its fighting organizations," since their leadership made them trail behind governments that ended up being hated by the masses, as we had stated earlier.
This is what the Maduro government in Venezuela is all about, now relying exclusively on the Armed Forces, a government that has ended up being hated by the masses, who were subjected to unprecedented suffering, while the government was guaranteeing all imperialist business deals…

Here you have Brazil, where Lula just met with Trump and received a pat on the back. "Together we can do good business," Trump told him. Meanwhile, at the same time, the fascist police of Rio de Janeiro and Bolsonaro's armed gangs were massacring more than 100 oppressed people in the favelas.

And the worst is yet to come. We have already seen coup attempts —which were defeated or weakened by the masses—, as in Bolivia and Peru, which left dozens dead…
The current wave of semi-Bonapartist governments under the orders of the US warships that are already targeting Latin America will increasingly explore the conditions for fascism and for imposing a strategic defeat on the proletariat of the Americas, from USA to Tierra del Fuego.

The fight against imperialism and for national liberation must pass into the firm hands of the Venezuelan and continental working class!

It is clear that with these despicable bourgeois like Maduro, who did not touch a hair of transnational corporations, it is impossible to confront imperialism consistently.
The only way out is through the working class in alliance with the poor peasantry. In confronting imperialism, the masses must maintain absolute political independence from the government and all bourgeois gangs.
Like the Sidor workers denounced and shouted: “We don’t believe in HUMMER-owning socialists, nor in Rolex-carrying communists… We believe in the workers’ revolution!” Imperialism must be confronted with the method of revolution!

The US Navy already controls the Caribbean and all maritime traffic there. Its cannons are pointed at Venezuela, but in reality, they are a gun to the head of the entire Latin American working class, aiming at forcing them to surrender.

The fight to defeat imperialism must pass into the hands of the working class with a program of military unity of action to defend the oppressed nation, but with political independence, which proposes as a first immediate measure against the siege and the military threat by USA: the expropriation without compensation and under workers' control of all the assets of imperialism, and the immediate break with the IMF, to which the Maduro government continues  repaying a fraudulent external debt.
Imperialist banks must be expropriated quickly without compensation, and all oil exploitation concessions granted by the Maduro government to imperialist companies, and to US companies in particular, such as Chevron, must be interrupted and seized .
Workers' control of PdVSA must be imposed without delay, and Fedecámaras (Federation of Chambers and Associations of Commerce and Production of Venezuela) business owners  and the opposition oligarchy must be expropriated without compensation so that the people can eat and arm themselves to confront imperialism.

Against inflation and poverty wages: breaking with imperialism, expropriating the coup-plotting oligarchy, and establishing consumer and supply committees —will pave the way to achieving fair jobs and wages.
The struggle to refound the Venezuelan trade union center, the Unión Nacional de los Trabajadores Venezolanos (National Union of Venezuelan Workers —theUNT), freeing it from any subordination to the "Bolivarian bourgeoisie", would quickly strengthen Venezuela in its fight against imperialism.
It is in the hands of the workers of Venezuela to achieve the broadest anti-imperialist unity of action and combat with all the workers of the continent.
With a call to establish international coordination with the sectors rebelling “against King” Trump in USA, the Anti-War Movement, and the committees defending the Palestinian masses fighting in the streets of New York, Venezuela would be able to break the isolation that the US warships want to impose on it, and would advance in paralyzing the imperialist war machine .
The fight against the expulsion of migrants in USA, which has opened up huge struggles in Los Angeles, Chicago and dozens of cities in the US, puts unity with all the poor workers and peasants of Latin America on the agenda.

Recovering the wealth stolen by imperialism and the oligarchy from the Venezuelan nation would allow millions of Venezuelan migrants, who fled in terror from the misery imposed by the "Bolivarian bourgeoisie"—who preferred to enrich themselves and save the businesses of imperialism rather than feed their own people with dignity—to return home with work and decent wages.

There is no time to lose. Before it is too late, the workers' militia and committees of armed soldiers must be established under the control of the trade unions and workers' organizations.
For committees of rank-and-file soldiers who elect their leaders and remove them at any time and place, starting with the officers who will not hesitate to quickly join the ranks of imperialism and surrender. We already saw it in the Malvinas War: the young men fought; the high command gave them out.

We must put an end once and for all to the gangs of lumpen organized by the so-called "Colectivos Bolivarianos", with which all independent struggle of the exploited is repressed and stifled.

Under the pretext of attacking the coup-plotting bourgeoisie and the oligarchy, thousands of political prisoners are incarcerated for opposing the regime in Venezuela. Freedom now for the political prisoners taken by the government among the masses! For workers' and people's tribunals to punish the oppressors and murderers of the people, and to liberate the fighters!

Editorial Committee of “The International Workers' Organizer”