Communists denounce hypocritical stance of the Dutch government towards US Venezuela attack

Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof with the Trump at the NATO Summit in June, 2025 -- public domain image

The unacceptable, hypocritical stance of the Dutch government and House of Representatives towards the imperialist intervention of the US in Venezuela

International Commission of the Central Committee of the New Communist Party of the Netherlands

On 8 January, the bankrupt outgoing Schoof cabinet held a debate with the House of Representatives on the imperialist intervention by the United States, in which President Maduro was kidnapped under the pretext of ‘drug trafficking’.

Van Weel, Minister of Foreign Affairs, dropped the mask of the fairy tale of ‘international law’ in chilling words. Apparently, this is only used, or rather set aside, when ‘our own’ monopolies and imperialist alliances can make a profit somewhere. When it comes to the profits of American, European and Dutch monopolies, apparently anything goes.

The hypocrisy of the government regarding the pretexts for the intervention is shocking. On the one hand, it is widely known that enormous quantities of drugs flow into Europe via the port of Rotterdam. On the other hand, the false pretext of ‘drug trafficking’ is used to justify American intervention, when in reality this intervention only took place in order to bring Venezuela's oil fields, the largest in the world, completely under the control of the American oil giants and to deny China and Russia access to these fields.

The attitude of the other bourgeois parties in the House of Representatives is equally deplorable. The reactionary, so-called ‘anti-system’ PVV presents itself as the lapdog of the United States, which once again demonstrates whose interests this party really represents. Another ‘anti-system’ party, FVD, argued that the intervention should not be condemned, and even linked this to the view that the EU and NATO should abandon all pretensions to international law in the context of ‘reality’. Opposition parties such as DENK, GroenLinks-PvdA and the SP criticised the current American administration, or Trump himself, but not the underlying system of imperialist alliances – often defending them, or concluding that the EU's military power should be strengthened in light of the contradictions that have arisen between the EU and the US.

While American capital seeks a new target for its bloodlust, the Dutch government and the parties in the House of Representatives are involving the Netherlands in these dangerous, criminal plans. The NCPN therefore calls on the Dutch people to be vigilant, to condemn the criminal intervention of the US in Venezuela, to express solidarity with the Venezuelan people, and to oppose all plans for militarisation and war.