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 Monroe Doctrine, and putting in the crosshair other areas such as Greenland.

This illegal kidnap of the President of a sovereign country, constitutes an unprecedented aggressive act that violates every fundamental principle of international law and practice, opening yet another war front in the unstable global scene. This intervention confirming the chaotic phase into which imperialist aggression has entered with unforeseen consequences.

The World Federation of Trade Unions condemns unequivocally the imperialist intervention in Venezuela aiming the control of the mineral and energy wealth of the country in the framework of the inter-imperialistic antagonism for domination.

The WFTU secretariat, following solidarity initiatives of the class-oriented trade union movement that have been developed from the very first moment, decided to initiate an International Action Day in Solidarity with the people of Venezuela on January 22nd, 2026. The WFTU calls upon its members to actively participate in the International Action Day, organizing militant initiatives before the US embassies under the slogans “US Imperialism Hands off Venezuela” “Release President Maduro and Cilia Flores.”

Let us tangibly extend, until the end, internationalist solidarity, condemning the unacceptable and unprecedented intervention against the people of Venezuela.

Let us send a loud and clear message:

The class-oriented and militant unions support the non-negotiable right of the peoples in Latin America and all over the world to determine freely and democratically their own present and future.

US Imperialism Hands off Venezuela

Release President Maduro and Cilia Flores.