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Stop the escalation of aggression against Cuba!: Joint Statement of Communist and Workers' Parties
Joint Statement «Stop the escalation of aggression against Cuba!» We firmly condemn US imperialism’s new escalation of aggression against the sovereignty and independence of Cuba and against the rights of the Cuban people. The US President’s Executive Order calling Cuba an «unusual and extraordinary threat» against its security is merely creating, based on a pack of falsehoods, a cynical pretext by US imperialism to try and prevent the supply of fuel to Cuba and to step up th

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Feb 103 min read


Russian and South African Communists condemn intensification of US blockade
Image via the PCC Via the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish On Saturday, January 31, 2026, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) both issued statements strongly condemning the new aggressive escalation of the United States government against Cuba by imposing a total blockade of fuel supplies. Energy offensive and "economic war": Both political organizations denounced the Trump's administration tig

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Jan 312 min read


From blockade to asphyxiation: the US war on Cuba enters its most brutal phase
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation Cuba's leaders head a traditional Torchlight March of tens-of-thousands in Havana in homage to National Hero José Martí, on the 173rd anniversary of his birth, January 27, 2026 -- image via X By Manolo De Los Santos, People's Dispatch In the stillness of a Havana night, the only sounds are the hum of a genera

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Jan 315 min read


Understanding Trump’s Interventions: How Regional Imperialism Generates World War
Trump, January 20, 2026 -- public domain image By Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service When Donald Trump was first elected U.S. president almost ten years ago, part of his appeal to many voters were his promises to reduce the level of US involvement in international conflicts and to avoid the costly “endless wars” fought by his predecessors. But his recent attack on Venezuela on the heels of U.S.-financed genocide in Gaza, as well as US air strikes in Somalia, Yeme

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Jan 297 min read


Attack on Venezuela is a Threat to Latin America and Brazil: Brazilian Communists
Paolostefano1412, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Resisting Imperialism with Popular Organization Attack on Venezuela is a Threat to Latin America and Brazil Political Statement by the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) The Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) expresses its unwavering solidarity with the Venezuelan people in the face of the criminal imperialist attack carried out by the United States against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and demands the freedom of Presiden

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Jan 196 min read


International Academic Statement Against US Bombing of Venezuela and Kidnapping of President Maduro
More than 420 researchers and scholars globally have signed a statement denouncing the U.S. attacks on January 3 and calling for reparations for Venezuela. We, the undersigned scholars, students, and academic workers, unequivocally condemn the Trump administration’s January 3 strikes against Venezuela and kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores. The attacks are a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter by a US president claiming, “I don’t n

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Jan 182 min read


Big Oil’s Big Win in Venezuela
Big Oil is a winner in the U.S. attack on Venezuela, even if they don’t extract a drop of oil from there. Donald Trump attends a roundtable with energy officials and executives from the oil industry in the East Room of the White House, Friday, January 9, 2026 -- public domain image By Basav Sen Is the illegal U.S. invasion of Venezuela, and kidnapping of its president, a “war for oil”? To some extent, this is a reductionist debate. There are often multiple motivations for war

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Jan 143 min read


WFTU calls for International Action Day in Solidarity with the people of Venezuela, January 22nd, 2026
Following the deployment of U.S. forces in the Caribbean with the pretext of war against drug trafficking and after the first land strike on a dock area inside the country, the USA uncontrollably escalates its aggression by conducting of a large-scale strike against Karakas, capturing of the President Nikolas Maduro and Cilia Flores. The US is intensifying its aggression against the sovereign people of Venezuela, threatening at the same time the whole region, reviving the Mon

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Jan 122 min read


Crucial Hours in Venezuela and Across the Continent
Venezuelans march in Caracas demanding the release of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, January 9 -- image via X By Manuel Bertoldi 10 Points for debate and political orientation of the popular forces of Our America One. The recent military aggression by the United States and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro constitute the most serious and explicit attack that US imperialism has carried out in the entire history of the Venezuelan nation. At the same time, they repres

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Jan 127 min read


The Kidnapping of Venezuela’s Sovereignty
By Atul Chandra and Tings Chak On January 3, 2026, the United States did not merely bomb a sovereign country and capture its president. It displayed, in the most unambiguous terms, a total defiance of the post-War international order that it helped create. When US special forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife and National Assembly deputy Cilia Flores from Caracas and transported them to a Brooklyn jail, they did not simply violate Venezuelan sover

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Jan 125 min read


AKEL stands in solidarity with the people of Venezuela against US imperialist aggression
Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL) of Cyprus statement and speech by General Secretary Stefanos Stefanou. Screenshot image from the January 5 protest in Nicosia Address by the General Secretary of AKEL Stefanos Stefanou at the protest event against the US intervention in Venezuela Monday, 5 January 2026, Outside US Embassy, Nicosia What brings us all here to this protest against the shameless and blatant US intervention in Venezuela and the abduction of the country’s

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Jan 96 min read


The Current Situation in Venezuela: A Government in Charge, a People Resilient
Delcy Rodriquez sworn in as acting Venezuelan president with Maduro's son as part of the ceremony -- image via video screenshot on X By Vijay Prashad and Carlos Ron On the early morning of January 3, the United States government launched a massive attack on Caracas, Venezuela, and three of the country’s states. Roughly 150 aircraft swarmed the skies, bombing with exceptional ferocity. Amongst these aircraft were EA-18 Growlers equipped with the most advanced electronic warfar

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Jan 76 min read


Canada must condemn U.S. imperialist aggression and kidnapping in Venezuela: Communists
Canadian PM Mark Carney and Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand meet with Trump at the White House in October, 2025 (Anand is in the row on the left) -- public domain image The Communist Party of Canada condemns in the strongest possible terms the criminal military attack launched by the United States against the sovereign nation of Venezuela. While many details remain unclear, what is unequivocally clear is that the bombing of Caracas and the kidnapping of the country’s

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Jan 73 min read


Declaration of the Communist Party of Cuba in solidarity with Venezuela
Declaration of the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish The Communist Party of Cuba condemns, in the strongest terms, the escalation of aggression by the fascist government of the United States against the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and its legitimate president Nicolás Maduro Moros. The aggressive deployment of American imperialist military forces in the Caribbean Sea blatantly violates International Law and the Proclamation of Latin America and t

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Dec 21, 20252 min read


China and the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Trump on December 13 -- public domain image By Tings Chak On 10 December 2025, U.S. forces seized the oil tanker Skipper off the coast of Venezuela, carrying over a million barrels of crude. “Well, we keep [the oil],” President Trump told reporters. Venezuela’s foreign ministry called it “blatant theft and an act of international piracy,” adding: “The true reasons for the prolonged aggression against Venezuela have finally been revealed. It has always been about our natural

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Dec 17, 20254 min read


Why Did Trump Send his Warships to Venezuela?
Trump aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, October 5, 2025 -- public domain image By Vijay Prashad Ever since Hugo Chávez came to power in 1998, the United States has attempted to overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution. They have tried everything short of a full-scale military invasion: a military coup, selecting a substitute president, cutting off access to the global financial system, imposing layers of sanctions, sabotaging the electricity grid, sending in merc

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Dec 13, 20254 min read


CPUSA condemns government’s illegal seizure of Venezuelan oil tanker
Screenshot from a Department of Homeland Security video of the attack helicopter approaching the tanker The Communist Party USA condemns in the strongest terms the U.S. government’s illegal seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker which reports indicate was en route to Cuba. This is an act of piracy and a brazen escalation of imperialist aggression against the people of Latin America. Under the fraudulent pretext of combating “terrorism” and “drugs,” this criminal action has two

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Dec 12, 20252 min read


US Acts of Imperial Piracy Must Be Denounced!
Image via the Communist Party of Cuba LET'S DENOUNCE THIS ACT OF IMPERIAL PIRACY! Declaration of the Cuban Delegation to the People's Assembly for Sovereignty and Peace in Our America The Cuban delegation participating in the People's Assembly for Sovereignty and Peace in Our America wants to publicly declare its support for the Communiqué of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela denouncing "the brazen theft and the act of international piracy" that was the assault and seizure

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Dec 11, 20251 min read


Vertières, with the V for Victory
Haitian monument honouring the battle By Guillermo Barreto This year marks the 222nd anniversary of the Battle of Vertières. It took place on November 18 south of Le Cap, in what was then known as Saint Domingue. In that battle, which lasted five hours, Napoleon Bonaparte’s elite troops were defeated by battalions of former slaves led by Jean Jacques Dessalines, who consolidated the independence of what would henceforth be called Ayti or Haiti. Haiti is always mentioned in th

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Nov 18, 20255 min read
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