Communist parties in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Spain and South Africa condemn US imperialist assault on Venezuela
- The Left Chapter
- Jan 4
- 7 min read
Kidnapping and an act of war. That’s the only way to describe the attack on Venezuela and President Nicolás Maduro’s removal by U.S. military forces. It’s unjust, illegal, and it’s yet another act of state terror against not only Venezuela but any country that refuses to submit to the Trump Doctrine.
All of this comes from an administration that not only sees itself as above the law but has been granted carte blanche, or immunity, from prosecution by the fascist-minded “Justices” of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Let’s be clear: The bombings and special forces operations — like the oil tanker seizures before them — have nothing to do with alleged drug trafficking but everything to do with the vast oil reserves that lie beneath Venezuela’s soil. And make no mistake, the oil corporations of the U.S. and other imperialist countries aim to seize that, too.
Yesterday it was Nigeria, today it’s Venezuela, and, if we’re not actively resisting, tomorrow it’ll be Cuba or Brazil.
Trump’s criminality will be rightly condemned, not only in the U.S. but all around the world. But at the end of the day, the path toward justice rests with us. And the first step is mass public protest. It’s time again to demonstrate, sit in, occupy, and put on our marching shoes. It’s also time to get ready to vote.
Trump and MAGA are growing weaker by the day. The administration, riven by splits and defections, has entered Lame Duck territory. But that makes it all the more dangerous.
But don’t despair, there’s a way towards justice. They might temporarily jail the Maduros, but you can’t jail the Venezuelan revolution. Nor can our right to put the U.S. on a different path be blocked.
Call Congress, hit the streets, protest in every way possible, today, tomorrow, until justice is done. Free the Maduros, end the U.S. intervention in Venezuela, impeach Donald Trump and his enablers now!”
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 president constitute a flagrant act of imperialist aggression and a grave violation of the United Nations Charter.
This assault, justified with cynical pretexts, represents a dangerous escalation aimed at seizing control of Venezuela and the region’s resources and crushing the right of its people to self-determination. It is an act of terror directed at the peoples of Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia and all of the Americas. This escalating pattern of lawlessness, which also manifests in attacks on Canadian sovereignty, nevertheless finds the Canadian government actively complicit.
The attack revives the most brutal traditions of the Monroe Doctrine, treating Latin America as a backyard for imperial plunder. While this objective has always defined U.S. strategy in the Americas, these barbaric tactics mark a new stage of lawlessness in Washington’s pursuit of imperialist hegemony. Trump’s claim that the U.S. is going to “run the country” of Venezuela “until a proper transition can take place” confirms that this attack is only the beginning of a deeper assault on Venezuelan sovereignty, making solidarity and action for peace urgently necessary.
The response of the Canadian government, articulated by Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, is itself an attack on international law and provides direct political cover for Washington’s aggression. Her statement declares, “Since 2019… we have refused to recognize any legitimacy of the Maduro regime,” and “calls on all parties to respect international law.” By reiterating Canada’s pre-existing regime-change policy at the precise moment of an overt U.S. attack, Minister Anand’s formulation obscures the primary criminal act and serves as a de facto endorsement of U.S. piracy, murder, and kidnapping. Her words ignore the fundamental principle that all peoples have the right to determine their own political systems free from foreign intervention and military terror. The struggles for democratic and labour rights in Venezuela are the internal struggles of the Venezuelan people themselves. Canada, the U.S., and other imperialist powers must not be allowed to intervene.
This posture of the Canadian government is consistent with past policy. In the fall of 2025, when asked if previous U.S. missile strikes on boats violated international law, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand abdicated all responsibility, stating it was “within the purview of U.S. authorities” to make that determination. This remains Canada’s complicit position.
The aggression against Venezuela is part of a dangerous global trend, seen also in the ongoing genocide in Palestine and other acts of imperialist violence, which reflects the decline of U.S. imperialism economically and an increasing reliance in using barbaric military means. As international law is torn apart, the world is pushed closer to a wider, and potentially nuclear, war. Despite frequent attacks on Canada’s own sovereignty, the Canadian government is actively complicit in this drive, embarking on its largest militarization campaign since WWII at the behest of U.S. and NATO demands, while imposing austerity to shift resources from social needs to war spending.
The fight for Venezuela’s sovereignty is thus a front-line battle in the global struggle for peace and for the rights of working people everywhere. The Communist Party of Canada pledges to mobilize and calls on the labour movement, people’s organizations, and all peace-loving people to demand that Canada immediately and unequivocally condemn the U.S. attack, terminate its own sanctions on Venezuela, and pursue an independent foreign policy based on peace, disarmament, and solidarity.
Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada
South African Communist Party
Saturday, 3 January 2026:- The South African Communist Party (SACP) condemns and denounces in the strongest terms possible, the Trump administration's criminal military invasion of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, an act in complete violation of international law.
The SACP has also learnt with shock and horror of the Trump administration's brazen act of international piracy of abducting Venezuela's democratically elected president Nicolás Maduro together with his wife.
The US’s latest criminal aggression in Venezuela is the culmination of a series of threats and political rhetoric by Donald Trump towards Venezuela and its president and deserves only the strongest condemnation. This dastardly banditry act constitutes a criminal and flagrant violation of the United Nations articles 1 and 2 which enshrine respect for sovereignty, legal equality of states and the prohibition of the use of force. It is a violation of international peace and stability in Latin America and the Caribbean and puts the lives of millions of people at serious risk.
The objective of the predatory Trump administration is imperial regime change in order to seize the strategic resources of Venezuela, in particular its oil and minerals.
The SACP fully supports Venezuela's right to defend and protect its people, its territory and its independence. The SACP further supports Venezuela's just call on the peoples and governments of Latin America, the Caribbean and the World to mobilise in active solidarity in the face of the Trump led administration's criminal imperialist aggression.
The Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) strongly denounces the US shelling and military attacks against Venezuela, a new and serious imperialist aggression against the sovereignty of a people and a dangerous military escalation with unpredictable results for Latin American as well as the working class and the peoples of the world.
US President Donald Trump has even publicly announced the alleged “capture” of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro — an extremely serious statement that confirms the openly putschist nature of the aggression.
US imperialism intends once again to justify this aggression by resorting to the pretext of drug trafficking. This is a conscious lie. A country is not bombed, infrastructures are not destroyed, not millions of people are threatened to fight drug trafficking. This argument only serves as a propaganda alibi in order to conceal an operation for political, economic, and military domination.
This aggression is to be added to years of economic blockade, sanctions, threats, and suffocating policies. The aim of these was not the defense of human rights nor the struggle against organized crime, but the enforcement of the strategic interests of US imperialism, the control of resources, and the subordination of Latin America.
The PCTE condemns the shelling and any form of military intervention against Venezuela, which violate the international law and are directly punishing the Venezuelan working people.
The Spanish State is not neutral. The Government has military agreements with the United States, it houses US military bases in its territory and is part of the political-military structure that make these attacks possible. As long as the territory, the air space, and the military infrastructures of the Spanish State are at the service of US imperialism, Spain is co-responsible.
For all of this, the PCTE demands the Spanish Government:
The immediate condemnation of the shelling and the military intervention against Venezuela.
The break of the military agreements with the United States
The closure of the US military bases in Spanish territory and the withdrawal of any logistic, political, or military support to the imperialist aggression.
Against the war, the blockade, and the imperialist interference, the PCTE restates its commitment with the Venezuelan working people and its class organizations — quite especially the Communist Party of Venezuela, in its struggle for national sovereignty, social rights, and the political independence of the working class.
No to the imperialist aggression in Venezuela!
No land, no sea, no air for imperialists!
Solidarity with the Venezuelan people.
Solidarity with the Communist Party of Venezuela.
The Communist Party of Mexico condemns the aggression of the United States against Venezuela, ordered by Trump.
We condemn the bombings of Caracas and other cities and towns in the early hours of January 3. We reject the violation of Venezuela’s sovereignty.
We condemn the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and the unacceptable path of so-called “surgical strikes,” which annihilates what remains of international law and renders national sovereignty a dead letter.
The pretexts put forward fail to conceal the true and predatory intentions behind this imperialist aggression: oil and natural resources. This aggression also unfolds within the framework of the acute imperialist rivalry between the United States and capitalist China, which is driving the world toward the generalization of war.
Both the pretext of drug trafficking and that of electoral fraud are utterly lacking in credibility when invoked by U.S. imperialism, which is characterized by its ominous use of the drug trade and by its promotion of coups against peoples and its support for bloodstained dictatorships.
The Communist Party of Mexico expresses its solidarity with the people of Venezuela and with their right to resist military aggression. Only the people of Venezuela have the right to decide their own path.
U.S. military presence in the Caribbean is the basis of the aggression against the Venezuelan people and a threat to all the peoples of the region, first and foremost Cuba. It is a task of the highest priority for the peoples to struggle for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Caribbean.
The Communist Party of Mexico will mobilize against this imperialist aggression against the Venezuelan people and against the threats of the United States against the peoples.
Workers of all countries, unite!
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