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1/8/2026 U.S. IMPERIALISM DRIVES ICE TERROR AND WARS OF AGGRESSION! JUSTICE FOR RENEE NICOLE GOOD AND ALL VICTIMS OF TRUMPS WAR ON MIGRANTS!Read Now U.S. imperialism drives ICE terror and wars of aggression! Justice for Renee Nicole Good and all victims of Trump's war on migrants!
The Resist US-Led War Movement condemns in the strongest terms the vile shooting and murder of Renee Nicole Good by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on January 7th in Minneapolis. Renee was courageously acting as a legal observer during ICE raids, standing in solidarity with and attempting to protect her migrant neighbors. This brutal assassination occurred amidst the Trump regime’s deployment of thousands of federal agents to Minneapolis and many other cities in the US, a move that further escalates its ongoing campaign of terror against migrant communities. This killing is not an isolated incident, but another chapter in the centuries-long war waged by the US state against the migrant, Indigenous and Black working class. In this war, since its invention after 2001, ICE has consistently functioned as a domestic enforcement arm of imperial policy, utilizing tactics from tear gas and kidnapping to mass detention and assassinations. In fact, the weapon that killed Renee is part of a broader arsenal funded by the $1 trillion US military budget, a budget that fuels global counterinsurgency operations and military aid to US puppet governments, from the fascist regimes of India and the Philippines to the Zionist entity occupying Palestine. It is this same militarized logic that drives Trump's openly fascist immigration policies that target migrants and left-leaning movements equally as "enemies of the state." By enacting state repression, criminalization repression, criminalization of migrants and activists, and an "anti-terror" narrative, the regime builds on the Bush and Obama "War on Terror" doctrine that killed millions worldwide. These wars of aggression, referred to by the US as "counter insurgency" wars and "wars on terror," are used to further enhance ICE capabilities. The surveillance and tracking technologies employed by ICE are battle-tested in Gaza and the West Bank. The media tactics of scapegoating migrants for economic crises are refined through propaganda wars against revolutionary movements in the Philippines and India as well as to justify the invasion of Venezuela. Imperial violence abroad informs and sharpens state repression inside US borders, and the profits reaped by weapons and war corporations fuel further aggression on all fronts. The empire's concept of “peace” which they wield to justify endless wars exists for the maintenance of a status-quo of day-to-day exploitation imposed through terror and subjugation for the benefit of the ruling classes. As Trump threatens Iran by saying the US is "locked and loaded" if "Iran shoots peaceful protestors" in the country, his regime's ICE paramilitary force assassinates a legal observer standing with migrants in Minneapolis. The US's actions continue to expose the fact that all of these wars, abroad and domestically, serve the ruling capitalist class. It covers itself in the language of "human rights" to justify aggression abroad whenever it fits their profit-making motives while unleashing its most brutal violence against the oppressed nationalities and working classes within its own borders. Fighting for just and lasting peace means standing in solidarity with migrant families in the US resisting state violence and fighting for liberation back in our home countries! Migrant and Anti-war movements must be united arm in arm against the US militarism that fuels wars on our homelands and inside the US and fight for a future of the hands of the war profiteers and fascist strongmen! SHUT DOWN ICE STOP US COUNTERINSURGENCY CAMPAIGNS AND FASCISM DEFEND PEOPLES" STRUGGLES STOP THE US WAR ON MIGRANTS 1/8/2026 Stop the bombings in the Philippines! Release Chantal Anicoche! Justice for the Mangyan 5!Read Now Stop the bombings in the Philippines! Release Chantal Anicoche! Justice for the Mangyan 5!
On January 1, the Armed Forces of the Philippines launched a major attack on Barangay Cabacao in Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro. In a clear violation of international humanitarian law, four attack helicopters dropped at least twelve bombs, followed by hours of aerial strafing, terrorizing the peasant and Indigenous Mangyan communities. The AFP’s attacks killed 3 Mangyan children, injured their mother, and forcibly displaced 188 families from the area. It also led to the death of at least 2 student researchers who had been integrating with the Mangyan community to more deeply understand their conditions. One of these youth was Jerlyn Rose Doydora, a leader with Kabataan Partylist, who died from an illness while trying to escape from the relentless bombing in the area. According to Mindoro Youth for Environment and Nation, the AFP is the “main threat to Mindoro’s environment and people.” “Militarization is a grave attack on the people’s rights for a safe, balanced, and sustainable environment,” the group said in its statement. “Military presence is repeatedly being used not to protect the people but to secure disingenuous projects like mining, renewable energy projects, and eco-tourism that only serves the interests of the few.” We have learned from media reports that Chantal Anicoche, the 24-year-old Filipina community leader from the United States, who was reported missing at the time of the military attacks in Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro, has been surfaced. She traveled to the Philippines to learn from Indigenous communities and participate in volunteer and relief activities related to environmental disasters and rural poverty. Chantal should be safely returned to her family, she should be immediately released from the custody of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and she should be protected from any form of torture, interrogation, threat, harassment, and intimidation from any unit of the AFP. This treatment is consistent with military counterinsurgency campaigns like President Marcos' “National Action Plan for Unity, Peace, and Development” (NAP-UPD) recently adopted May 2, 2025. These counterinsurgency campaigns are deceptively-worded fascist policies that have only led to increased human rights violations against the Filipino people and fail to address the root causes of the ongoing armed conflict in the Philippines. At least 16,733 individuals were victims of alleged human rights abuses in Mindoro from January to November 2025. The NAP-UPD has intensified political repression to attack anyone who is critical of the Marcos regime. These state-sponsored acts of psychological warfare sow confusion and fear among those who support change from the rotten political system and fight for a genuine just and lasting peace. The NAP-UPD comes right off the US playbook for counterinsurgency while being fully funded and backed by this imperialist power. Its legacy, like in the recent case in Mindoro, is one of harassment, the militarization of the civilian bureaucracy as part of counterinsurgency operations, direct attacks on activists, and increased protection of the interests for the local elite and foreign domination. The US National Defense Authorization act just passed the PERA Act which will fund 2.5 billion in military aid to the AFP which commits these gross human rights violations. The US does this to maintain its colonial control over the country in partnership with the local ruling classes, to use its land and people in its wars of aggression against its rivals, namely China, and exploit the labor and natural resources of the country. Right now, the military blockade continues in the area. We urgently demand that a humanitarian corridor be opened, allow a fact finding mission in to investigate and expose the extent of the bombing and strafing, and that Chantal Anicoche be released from AFP custody! Release Chantal! Palayain si Chantal! Stop the bombings! Defend Mindoro! Justice for the Mangyan 5! Justice for Jerlyn Doydora! Justice for the 188 families displaced by the bombings! El Movimiento de Resistencia a la Guerra Americana se Solidariza con Venezuela
El Movimiento de Resistencia a la Guerra Americana se solidariza con el pueblo de Venezuela, la revolución Bolivariana y el derecho del pueblo venezolano a resistir y defender su soberanía. El bombardeo criminal de Caracas por parte de EE. UU. y el secuestro del presidente Nicolás Maduro bajo el pretexto inventado del «narcoterrorismo» es una violación flagrante de la soberanía nacional y la independencia de Venezuela. Esta madrugada, Estados Unidos perpetró una grave agresión militar contra el territorio venezolano y su pueblo en las zonas civiles y militares de la ciudad de Caracas, capital de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, y en los estados de Miranda, Aragua y La Guaira, en un acto flagrante de invasión. Esta última intervención de Estados Unidos, como tantas otras anteriores en América Latina, no tiene nada que ver con el narcotráfico ni con la «defensa de los derechos humanos». El verdadero motivo es el éxito de la Revolución Bolivariana a romper el dominio que Washington ha ejercido durante décadas sobre Venezuela y la recuperación de sus recursos naturales para su propio pueblo. La declaración de Trump de que «vamos a gobernar el país hasta que podamos garantizar una transición de poder segura, adecuada y juiciosa», seguida del anuncio de que las empresas petroleras estadounidenses entrarán en Venezuela para «ganar dinero», expone la verdadera intención de Washington: apoderarse de una nación soberana que se negó a entregar sus recursos a los monopolios estadounidenses e implementar una ocupación colonial del país. Desde los albores del imperialismo estadounidense en América Latina, Estados Unidos ha considerado la tierra de la región, sus frutos, sus profundidades ricas en minerales, la población y su capacidad de trabajo y consumo, toda la riqueza de los recursos naturales y humanos, como nada más que oportunidades para obtener beneficios. La historia de las docenas de operaciones de intervención estadounidense en América Latina y el Caribe está marcada por la muerte, la devastación, la tortura y la explotación despiadada. En el caso de Venezuela, esto es la culminación de una operación de guerra híbrida que lleva décadas contra la victoria de la Revolución Bolivariana en 1999. El imperialismo estadounidense ha atacado sin descanso a Venezuela con sanciones, intentos de intervención y guerra mediática dirigidos no solo al Gobierno, sino a toda la nación. En su primer mandato, la administración Trump intensificó drásticamente esta agresión al imponer devastadoras sanciones petroleras en 2019, reconoció unilateralmente al líder golpista Juan Guaidó como el llamado «presidente interino» y congeló las fuerzas estatales venezolanos en el extranjero. Estas medidas, que continuaron bajo Biden, atacaron al pueblo y han paralizado gravemente la economía de Venezuela, bloqueando el acceso a alimentos, medicinas y productos básicos, al tiempo que estrangularon la capacidad del país para participar en el comercio internacional. Al igual que Estados Unidos ha llevado a cabo una guerra contra el pueblo venezolano durante décadas, el pueblo ha resistido en defensa de su soberanía y autodeterminación. Mientras Estados Unidos anuncia sus planes de enviar tropas a la República Bolivariana en un ataque flagrante a la soberanía del país, el pueblo ya ha salido a las calles para exigir la libertad del presidente Maduro y condenar el ataque unilateral y criminal de Estados Unidos contra su territorio. A pesar de las amenazas de Estados Unidos de ocupar el país, el pueblo venezolano se mantiene valientemente unido, a pesar del riesgo de una invasión a gran escala por parte del ejército más grande del mundo y del saqueo total de su territorio. Es urgente movilizar la solidaridad incondicional del pueblo del mundo con su causa. Ante esta agresión imperialista, el Movimiento de Resistencia a la Guerra Americana expresa su plena solidaridad con el pueblo venezolano y su lucha que continua por defender su soberanía. Mientras la gente sale a las calles de Caracas y se une a la Revolución Bolivariana, hacemos un llamamiento a nuestros miembros y a todos los pueblos para que se sumen a las manifestaciones de emergencia en todo el mundo y refuercen un movimiento de resistencia urgente y coordinado que exige: ¡Alto a la guerra con Venezuela! ¡Alto a los bombardeos! ¡No a las guerras de Estados Unidos para cambiar regímenes! ¡Liberen al presidente Maduro y a Cilia Flores ahora mismo! ¡Defiendan la soberanía venezolana y el derecho a resistir! ¡Opónganse a la ofensiva imperialista liderada por Estados Unidos en América Latina y el Caribe!  Resist US-Led War Movement Stands with Venezuela The Resist US-Led War Movement stands in solidarity with the people of Venezuela, the Bolivarian revolution and the Venezuelan people's right to resist and defend their sovereignty! The US' criminal bombardment of Caracas and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro under the fabricated pretext of "narco-terrorism" is a blatant violation of Venezuela's national sovereignty and independence. Early this morning, the US perpetrated serious military aggression against Venezuelan territory and its people in the civilian and military areas of the city of Caracas, the capital of the Venezuelan Republic, and the states of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira in a blatant act of invasion. This latest intervention by the US, like so many before it in Latin America, has nothing to do with drug trafficking or "defense of human rights." The true motive is the success of the Bolivarian Revolution in breaking Washington's decades-long stranglehold over Venezuela and taking back its natural resources for its own people. Trump’s statement that, “We are going to run the country until such time that we can ensure a safe, proper, and judicious transition of power,” followed by the announcement that US oil corporations will enter Venezuela to, "make money," lays bare Washington’s true intention: to seize a sovereign nation that refused to hand over its resources to US monopolies and implement a colonial occupation of the country. From the very dawn of American imperialism in Latin America, the US has viewed the region's land, its fruits, its mineral-rich depths, the people and their capacity for labor and consumption, the entire wealth of natural and human resources, as nothing but opportunities for profit. The history of the dozens of US intervention operations in Latin American and the Caribbean is one followed by death, devastation, torture, and ruthless exploitation. In the case of Venezuela this is a culmination of a decades long hybrid warfare operation against the victory of the Bolivarian Revolution in 1999. US imperialism has relentlessly targeted Venezuela through sanctions, intervention attempts, and media warfare aimed not only at the government but at the entire nation. In his first term the Trump administration dramatically escalated this aggression by imposing devastating oil sanctions in 2019, unilaterally recognizing coup leader Juan Guaidó as so-called “interim president,” and freezing Venezuelan state assets abroad. These measures, continued under Biden, attacked the people and have severely crippled Venezuela’s economy, blocking access to food, medicine, and basic commodities while strangling the nation’s ability to participate in international trade. Just as the US has waged war on the Venezuelan people for decades, the people have resisted in defending their sovereignty and self determination. As the US announces its plans to put its boots on the ground of the Bolivarian republic in a blatant attack to the country's sovereignty the people have already taken the streets to demand the freedom of President Maduro and condemn unilateral and criminal US attack on their land. Despite threats by the US to occupy the country, the Venezuelan people bravely stand united despite the risk of a full-blown invasion by the largest military in the world and the full scale plunder of their land. The full unconditional solidarity of the people of the world must be urgently rallied to their cause. In the face of this imperial aggression, the Resist US-Led War Movement expresses full solidarity with the Venezuelan people and their ongoing struggle to defend their sovereignty. As people take the streets in Caracas and stand with the Bolivarian Revolution we call on our members and all people to join emergency demonstrations world wide and strengthen an urgent and coordinated resistance movement that calls for: Stop the war on Venezuela! Stop the bombing! No to U.S. wars for regime change! Free Pres. Maduro and Cilia Flores Now! Defend Venezuelan Sovereignty and Right to Resist Stand Against the US-Led Imperialist Offensive in Latin America and the Caribbean! 1/3/2026 Firma la Declaración colectiva: ¡Alto a la guerra con Venezuela! ¡Defienda la Soberanía y el Derecho a Resistir de Venezuela!Read Now ¡Alto a la guerra con Venezuela! ¡Defienda la Soberanía y el Derecho a Resistir de Venezuela!
3 de enero de 2026 — Las organizaciones antiimperialistas y anti-guerra firmados abajo firmantes condenamos los violentos ataques de Estados Unidos contra los derechos de los venezolanos y las violaciones de la soberanía de Venezuela. Los Estados Unidos bombardearon zonas civiles y militares de la ciudad de Caracas, capital de la República, y de los estados de Miranda, Aragua y La Guaira en la madrugada del sábado 3 de enero, al amparo de la oscuridad, con el fin de sembrar el terror en el país, matando a civiles y destruyendo la infraestructura venezolana en el proceso. Haciéndose eco de la invasión imperialista de Haití en 2004 y del secuestro del presidente haitiano Jean-Bertrand Aristide, el imperio rebelde también ha secuestrado al presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro y a la primera dama Cilia Flores y, al parecer, los está llevando a Nueva York para perseguirlos en los tribunales estadounidenses. En su rueda de prensa, el presidente Donald Trump afirmó que Estados Unidos tomaría el control de Venezuela para instaurar un nuevo gobierno. «No podemos arriesgarnos a que alguien que no tenga en mente el bien del pueblo venezolano se haga con el control de Venezuela», declaró Trump. Esta amenaza está respaldada por un despliegue masivo de fuerzas navales, terrestres y aéreas estadounidenses en el Caribe, el mayor desde la invasión de Haití. Sin embargo, sabemos que Estados Unidos no está gobernando Venezuela en este momento. Esto forma parte de la guerra psicológica de Estados Unidos y no será aceptado por el pueblo venezolano. Se trata de la clásica estrategia, desde Irak hasta Palestina y Venezuela: debemos rechazar las mentiras imperialistas y la propaganda mediática diseñada para confundirnos y dividirnos. Ante estos ataques, los movimientos populares de Venezuela han salido a las calles en apoyo a su Revolución Bolivariana. Fuera de Venezuela, los movimientos y organizaciones antiimperialistas, antiguerra y pro paz deben continuar defendiendo y apoyando al valiente pueblo venezolano contra el terrorismo y la desestabilización de Estados Unidos. Debemos coordinar y organizar la resistencia contra la guerra imperialista. Entendemos que no se trata de un momento aislado, sino de la continuación de la guerra que se libra desde hace décadas contra la Revolución Bolivariana para destruir la soberanía de Venezuela, bloquear las alianzas económicas y militares del país y aislar al Gobierno venezolano para impedir que forme alianzas con otros países del Sur Global en sus propios términos. La renovada «Estrategia América Primero» de Estados Unidos tiene como objetivo superar a sus rivales, como China y Rusia, al tiempo que reafirma su dominio exclusivo sobre el hemisferio occidental, en línea con la tradición de la Doctrina Monroe. El pueblo venezolano está resistiendo y debemos apoyarlo. Moviliza y coordina la resistencia masiva contra esta violencia. Sal a las calles, organiza manifestaciones y charlas informativas en los campus universitarios, moviliza a tus sindicatos para paralizar las cadenas de suministro del imperialismo, incluyendo piquetes y protestas frente a las fábricas de armas y los puertos que suministran las armas para esta agresión. Para aquellos que están fuera de los Estados Unidos, los movimientos y organizaciones venezolanos están pidiendo movilizaciones frente a las embajadas estadounidenses, las bases militares estadounidenses y las instalaciones diplomáticas de todo el mundo. ¡Alto a la guerra contra Venezuela! ¡No a las guerras estadounidenses para cambiar el régimen! ¡Liberen al presidente Maduro y a Cilia Flores! ¡Abajo el imperialismo estadounidense! ¡Venezuela se defiende! ¡No se rinde! ¡Venceremos! Añade tu organización a los firmantes de la declaración: bit.ly/SignOn-VenezuelaSolidarity Materiales para Solidaridad con Venezuela: linktr.ee/handsoffvenezuela Firmado: Black Alliance for Peace, National Students for Justice in Palestine, United National Antiwar Coalition, Venezuela Solidarity Network, US Peace Council, All-African People’s Party-GC, All-Africans People’s Revolutionary Party, Alliance for Global Justice, Code Pink, Chicago ALBA Solidarity, Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, Peace and Solidarity Commission of the Communist Party USA, School of the Americas Watch, Task Force on the Americas, Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Solidarity Committee on the Americas, Sanctions Kill Campaign, Workers World Party, Periodismo de Verdad, Resist U.S. Led War, Honduras Solidarity Network, Cross Border Network, National Network on Cuba, Anti War Action Network, Women Against Military Madness, Kawsachun News, Popular Resistance, International Action Center, Casa Baltimore Limay, Friends of Latin America. Veterans For Peace, Orinoco Tribune, Los Ronderos de las Redes, Diáspora Pa’lante Collective, Peoples Power Assembly, Rochester Committee on Latin America (ROCLA), Green Renaissance-Sovereign Rights Movement, Struggle for Socialism Party, Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice, International League of Peoples’ Struggles, US 17 Basområden Action LA Network Advocates 4 Justice Al-Ahrar Palestinian Prisoner Support Albany Progressive Action Network AlgeriaRevolt American Party of Labor American Party of Labor Amsterdam Peace Vigil Anti-Displacement NYC Asociación Americana de Juristas Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests ATTAC Hungary Australia Solidarity with Latin America AWMR Italia Donne della Regione Mediterranea Baltimore Nonviolence Center Baltimore,MD,USA Chapter Veterans For Peace Basil Al-Araj Prisoner's Committee Bellingham Peace Vigil Binghamton Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine Binghamton Solidarity for Palestine Building Bridges & Equal Rights & Justice radio productions Cafe Palestina Cardinurgroupllc.com cascadia magical activists Catholic Church, Franciscan And Jesuit supporting Pope Leo XIII Chicago Anti War Coalition Church Women United in New York State Climate crisis movement COC CWA for Palestine DISABILITY PEOPLES FORUM UGANDA Displaced Faith Health Caucus fem-noNATO Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice (Canada) Fox Valley Citizens for Peace& Justice (Illinois) Frente Antiimperialista Internacionalista Friends of Chilama Friendship Office Gabriela PDX GENERATION Z RDC et Membre de la LUCHA Gesellschaft für Frieden und internationale Solidarität (GeFiS e.V.) Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space Global Strategy of Nonviolence Gray Panthers Global Union Green Party of California Gulf Coast Humanists Haiti Action Committee Heat waves International Association of Democratic Lawyers international human rights association of american minorities Jemez Peacemakers Justin Allen La Voz de Richmond Leuven Movement of Peace Leuven.peace movement Malcolm X Center for Self Determination Milwaukee Anti-war Committee Mississippi Rising Coalition Mississippi Veterans for Peace chapter 184 MIssissippi Veterans For Peace Chapter 184 Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO) Montreal for a World Beyond War MovimientoEscuela Mujeres por Palestina National Immigrant Solidarity Network National Students for Justice in Palestine North Country Peace Group, Setauket, NY NYC Labor for Palestine Organic Arts, Ltd. Our Wisconsin Revolution PARC Against DARC Peace Movement Leuven, Belgium Peace- and Future Workshop, Germany (Friedens- und Zukunfts Werkstadt) Portland Gray Panthers Prutehi Guåhan Public Intellectuals for Social and Spare Change RD/SOB Resist US-Led War Movement Rochdale & Littleborough Peace Group SAFES San Diego Veterans For Peace San Jose Against War Seattle Against War seattle no war coalition South Asian Left (SALAM) SUNY BDS Textile Conservation The Coalition for the Elimination of Imperialism in Africa U.S. Marxist-Leninist Organization Union de Vecinos Veterans For Peace Veterans for Peace - Uruguay Chapter Veterans For Peace Ch. 61 St. Louis Veterans for Peace Chapter 25, Madison Wisconsin Veterans For Peace chapter 55, Santa Fe NM Veterans for Peace-Hawai'i (Don Matsuda Chapter-113) Veterans For Peace, Ireland Chapter Victoria Peace Coalition Vigil For Gaza, Port Jefferson NY Vrede Leuven Vrede leuven Vrede Met Venezuela NL Vredesbeweging Leuven western Mass CODEPINK WILPF-US Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement Women for Peace - Finland Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, DC Chapter Womens International League for Peace and Freedom Milwaukee branch World BEYOND War World Beyond War NZ 1/3/2026 Sign the Collective Statement: Stop the War on Venezuela! Defend Venezuela’s Sovereignty and Right To Resist!Read Now Stop the War on Venezuela! Defend Venezuela’s Sovereignty and Right To Resist!
January 3, 2026 — We, the undersigned anti-imperialist and anti-war organizations, condemn the U.S. violent attacks on the rights of Venezuelans, and violations of Venezuela’s sovereignty. The U.S. bombed civilian and military areas of the city of Caracas, the capital of the Republic, and the states of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira in the early morning of Saturday January 3rd under the cover of darkness to sow terror in the country, killing civilians and destroying Venezuelan infrastructure in the process. Echoing the 2004 imperialist invasion of Haiti and kidnapping of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the rogue empire has also kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores and is allegedly taking them to New York to persecute them in U.S. courts. In his press conference, President Donald Trump said the U.S. would take control of Venezuela to usher in a new government. “We can’t take a chance that somebody else takes over Venezuela that doesn’t have the good of the Venezuelan people in mind,” Trump said.This threat is backed up by a massive deployment of U.S. naval, ground and aerial forces in the Caribbean, the largest since the invasion of Haiti. Yet, we know that the U.S. is not running Venezuela at the moment. This is part of the U.S.’s psychological warfare and will not be accepted by the people of Venezuela. This is the classic playbook, from Iraq to Palestine to Venezuela: we must reject imperialist lies and media propaganda designed to confuse and divide us. In the face of these attacks, the and popular movements of Venezuela have taken to the streets in support of their Bolivarian Revolution. Outside of Venezuela, anti-imperialist anti-war, and pro-peace movements and organizations must continue to defend and stand alongside the brave people of Venezuela, against U.S. terrorism and destabilization. We must have coordinated and organized resistance against imperialist war. We understand that this is not a singular moment but a continuation of the decades-long war on the Bolivarian Revolution to destroy Venezuela’s sovereignty, blockade the country’s economic and military alliances, and isolate the Venezuelan government from forming alliances with other Global South countries on their own terms. The U.S. revamped “America First Strategy” aims to outcompete its rivals such as China and Russia, while reasserting exclusive dominance over the western hemisphere, in line with the Monroe Doctrine tradition. The Venezuelan people are resisting and we must support them. Mobilize and coordinate mass resistance against this violence. Take to the streets, organize rallies and teach-ins on your university campuses, mobilize in your unions to shut down the supply chains of imperialism, including pickets and protests outside of arms factories and ports that are providing the weapons for this aggression. For those outside the U.S., Venezuelan movements and organizations are asking for mobilizations outside of U.S. embassies, U.S. military bases and diplomatic installations around the world. Stop The War on Venezuela! No to U.S. Wars for Regime Change! Free President Maduro and Cilia Flores! Down with U.S. Imperialism! Venezuela Se Defiende! No Se Rinde! Venceremos! Add your organization to the statement signatories: bit.ly/SignOn-VenezuelaSolidarity Hands Off Venezuela Resources: linktr.ee/handsoffvenezuela Signed, Black Alliance for Peace, National Students for Justice in Palestine, United National Antiwar Coalition, Venezuela Solidarity Network, US Peace Council, All-African People’s Party-GC, All-Africans People’s Revolutionary Party, Alliance for Global Justice, Code Pink, Chicago ALBA Solidarity, Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, Peace and Solidarity Commission of the Communist Party USA, School of the Americas Watch, Task Force on the Americas, Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Solidarity Committee on the Americas, Sanctions Kill Campaign, Workers World Party, Periodismo de Verdad, Resist U.S. Led War, Honduras Solidarity Network, Cross Border Network, National Network on Cuba, Anti War Action Network, Women Against Military Madness, Kawsachun News, Popular Resistance, International Action Center, Casa Baltimore Limay, Friends of Latin America. Veterans For Peace, Orinoco Tribune, Los Ronderos de las Redes, Diáspora Pa’lante Collective, Peoples Power Assembly, Rochester Committee on Latin America (ROCLA), Green Renaissance-Sovereign Rights Movement, Struggle for Socialism Party, Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice, International League of Peoples’ Struggles, US 17 Basområden Action LA Network Advocates 4 Justice Al-Ahrar Palestinian Prisoner Support Albany Progressive Action Network AlgeriaRevolt American Party of Labor American Party of Labor Amsterdam Peace Vigil Anti-Displacement NYC Asociación Americana de Juristas Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests ATTAC Hungary Australia Solidarity with Latin America AWMR Italia Donne della Regione Mediterranea Baltimore Nonviolence Center Baltimore,MD,USA Chapter Veterans For Peace Basil Al-Araj Prisoner's Committee Bellingham Peace Vigil Binghamton Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine Binghamton Solidarity for Palestine Building Bridges & Equal Rights & Justice radio productions Cafe Palestina Cardinurgroupllc.com cascadia magical activists Catholic Church, Franciscan And Jesuit supporting Pope Leo XIII Chicago Anti War Coalition Church Women United in New York State Climate crisis movement COC CWA for Palestine DISABILITY PEOPLES FORUM UGANDA Displaced Faith Health Caucus fem-noNATO Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice (Canada) Fox Valley Citizens for Peace& Justice (Illinois) Frente Antiimperialista Internacionalista Friends of Chilama Friendship Office Gabriela PDX GENERATION Z RDC et Membre de la LUCHA Gesellschaft für Frieden und internationale Solidarität (GeFiS e.V.) Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space Global Strategy of Nonviolence Gray Panthers Global Union Green Party of California Gulf Coast Humanists Haiti Action Committee Heat waves International Association of Democratic Lawyers international human rights association of american minorities Jemez Peacemakers Justin Allen La Voz de Richmond Leuven Movement of Peace Leuven.peace movement Malcolm X Center for Self Determination Milwaukee Anti-war Committee Mississippi Rising Coalition Mississippi Veterans for Peace chapter 184 MIssissippi Veterans For Peace Chapter 184 Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO) Montreal for a World Beyond War MovimientoEscuela Mujeres por Palestina National Immigrant Solidarity Network National Students for Justice in Palestine North Country Peace Group, Setauket, NY NYC Labor for Palestine Organic Arts, Ltd. Our Wisconsin Revolution PARC Against DARC Peace Movement Leuven, Belgium Peace- and Future Workshop, Germany (Friedens- und Zukunfts Werkstadt) Portland Gray Panthers Prutehi Guåhan Public Intellectuals for Social and Spare Change RD/SOB Resist US-Led War Movement Rochdale & Littleborough Peace Group SAFES San Diego Veterans For Peace San Jose Against War Seattle Against War seattle no war coalition South Asian Left (SALAM) SUNY BDS Textile Conservation The Coalition for the Elimination of Imperialism in Africa U.S. Marxist-Leninist Organization Union de Vecinos Veterans For Peace Veterans for Peace - Uruguay Chapter Veterans For Peace Ch. 61 St. Louis Veterans for Peace Chapter 25, Madison Wisconsin Veterans For Peace chapter 55, Santa Fe NM Veterans for Peace-Hawai'i (Don Matsuda Chapter-113) Veterans For Peace, Ireland Chapter Victoria Peace Coalition Vigil For Gaza, Port Jefferson NY Vrede Leuven Vrede leuven Vrede Met Venezuela NL Vredesbeweging Leuven western Mass CODEPINK WILPF-US Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement Women for Peace - Finland Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, DC Chapter Womens International League for Peace and Freedom Milwaukee branch World BEYOND War World Beyond War NZ 1/2/2026 The US Has been at war with Venezuela for decades. Stand Against the US-Led Imperialist Offensive in Latin America and the Caribbean!Read Now Stand Against the US-Led Imperialist Offensive in Latin America and the Caribbean!
Resist US-Led War condemns the hybrid-war against Venezuela and new "Trump Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine. US hands off Venezuela! US Out of Latin America! The US has been at war with Venezuela for decades The US has pursued a systematic and decades long war against the Venezuelan people and the Bolivarian Revolution, a campaign waged through many different forms of aggression. While initial strategies relied heavily on economic warfare and covert subversion, the current escalation has brought the threat of direct military intervention and invasion as a possibility at any moment. The ultimate aim of this imperialist offensive remains the overthrow of the legitimately elected representatives of the Bolivarian republic, first President Hugo Chávez and now President Nicolás Maduro, to be replaced by a client regime wholly subservient to the US geopolitical and economic interests. This aggression against Venezuela is a critical component of a broader US strategy to reassert uncontested dominance over Latin America and the Caribbean, as the US desperately attempts to cling to its dominance in the region as it competes with strategic competitors, namely China. This hegemonic design is grounded in the framework of the 1823 Monroe Doctrine. The particular referencing of the Monroe Doctrine, the declaration by US President Monroe in 1823 declaring that the rising imperialist US was the only state with the right to shape the future of all other countries in the Western Hemisphere, is exemplary of the desire to carve out a particular sphere of influence for the United States. This doctrine has been historically enforced through military invasions such as the Spanish American War when the US took colonial control of Cuba and Puerto Rico. The 1904 Roosevelt Corollary, which self-proclaimed the US in the role of an international police power, formalized a lasting pattern of overt and covert intervention in US foreign policy. That tradition has been explicitly revived in the 2025 US National Security Strategy (NSS) released in November, which states “After years of neglect, the United States will reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere, and to protect our homeland and our access to key geographies throughout the region. We will deny non-Hemispheric competitors the ability to position forces or other threatening capabilities, or to own or control strategically vital assets, in our Hemisphere.” This “Trump Corollary” as mentioned in the NSS, signals a formal return to even more aggressive hemispheric domination attempts through overt means rather than mostly covert and economic warfare. This is a direct response to US imperialism's crisis and China's rise as the main economic and military challenge to the US. China's economic presence in Venezuela, particularly in the oil sector, has injected a new geopolitical urgency into US efforts to orchestrate a coup, aiming to both seize strategic resources and contain its main global economic rival. This statement aims to expose the different forms of warfare the US has employed on Venezuela and the resistance of both the Bolivarian Republic and the Venezuelan people in their fight against US intervention as they defend and struggle for their independence and a just and lasting peace in the Americas. On the Political and Diplomatic front From the first days of the current Trump regime, executive orders laid the groundwork for militarized responses, including measures to designate Venezuelan gangs as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. This manufactured legal pretext was followed by overt military actions, such as naval deployments and lethal airstrikes on Venezuelan territory, falsely packaged as counter narcotics operations. These acts represent a mix of the War on Terror doctrine that justified the killing of millions in West Asia with the War on Drugs doctrine, utilizing drone warfare to carry out extrajudicial killings absent any due process or transparent evidence. This long-running imperialist propaganda campaign to falsely paint the Venezuelan government as a "narco-state" is a lie propagated by US officials and the US media to justify its military actions against Venezuela. This slander created by the US dates back to the times of President Hugo Chávez and has been aggressively intensified against President Maduro. There exists no credible evidence of cocaine production or processing on Venezuelan soil for well over a decade. Venezuela's geographic position, like that of many nations in the region, may make it a transit route for the flow of narcotics, but the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) itself reports that a mere 5% of drugs produced in Latin America transit through Venezuela, debunking the central US allegation. If the goal were genuinely to combat major drug trafficking routes, focus would logically fall on other nations with far more severe and documented roles in production and transit. However, the political calculus of US imperialism overrules facts. It targets Venezuela not for narcotics, but for its sovereignty and refusal to follow US dictates. On the other hand the US "excuses" allied regimes with documented trafficking challenges, if those regimes submit to US geopolitical interests. This political warfare is complemented by the promotion of figures like María Corina Machado, a key architect of the violent 2014 guarimba protests, (guarimba is a form of street protest marked by the blocking of public roads and avenues using improvised barricades) funded and supported by the US, aimed at paralyzing the government of Venezuela. Her Western-backed endorsement and awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025 exemplify how the US manipulates international institutions to lend a false sense of legitimacy to its regime change operations, following a discredited tradition that includes honoring war criminals such as Henry Kissinger and Barack Obama. These diplomatic maneuvers follow a long standing US pattern of intervention in West Asia and North Africa. During the "Arab Spring" the US funded opposition groups and nongovernmental organizations to foment unrest, arming them to create a proxy ground force, and finally exploiting the resulting chaos as a pretext for direct or NATO-led invasion. This model was deployed in Libya and Syria. However, the Venezuelan people, armed with the political consciousness forged by the Bolivarian Revolution and a historical memory of imperialist intervention, have proven resilient in identifying and countering these very tactics. On the Economic Front The US wages war not only with drones and bombers but also through economic sanctions. Marketed under the deceptive banner of a "targeted" or "humane" policy, sanctions are in reality a form of collective punishment and economic warfare designed to cripple sovereign nations that refuse to bend to US economic and political will. Their primary victims are never the political leaders they claim to target, but the civilian population, most brutally the working class and the poor. By systematically blocking a nation's access to the global financial system and trade, sanctions create artificial shortages of life’s essentials: food, medicine, vaccines, and the resources required for clean water and functioning healthcare. The result is social unrest and humanitarian crisis where people suffer and even die from preventable disease, starvation, and deprivation. By fomenting economic desperation, imperialism creates the very instability it then uses to demonize the targeted government. This chaos created by the imperialists provides the pretext for further intervention, whether through support for violent opposition groups or direct military action, under the false pretext of "restoring order" or "protecting human rights." In the case of Venezuela, the current siege by the US began with the so-called Venezuela Human Rights Defense Act and the 2015 executive order that falsely declared the Bolivarian Republic an "extraordinary threat." It was escalated dramatically by Trump’s Executive Order 13808 in 2017, which launched a financial blockade designed to asphyxiate the Venezuelan economy. This order weaponized the global dollar system, prohibiting transactions with Venezuela using the US dollar and severing Venezuela’s access to international credit and markets, with the explicit goal of crippling its main source of income, oil exports. By outlawing the use of the US dollar to be used with Venezuela, it has forced the nation to incur over $20 billion dollars in extortionate exchange costs. It has transformed international commerce into a logistical nightmare, stretching payment processing from 48 hours to up to 20 days. Furthermore, through the threat of secondary sanctions, it holds a gun to the head of any third country or entity that dares to trade with Venezuela, attempting to enforce a total global isolation of the sovereign state. This economic warfare explicitly barred transactions on Venezuelan foreign debt, blocking all avenues for refinancing and economic relief. In a blatant act of international piracy, control of the US-based subsidiary Citgo was seized in January 2019 and handed to the US-appointed puppet, Juan Guaidó. This theft directly prevented the state oil company PDVSA from obtaining letters of credit for shipments, securing tanker insurance, maintaining infrastructure, and conducting transactions with any party fearing Washington's retribution. The human cost of this imperialist economic terror is genocidal in scale and intent. Venezuela has suffered a near-total collapse in foreign currency earnings, plummeting from approximately $56 billion to roughly $1.7 billion annually within the sanctions' first five years, a catastrophic loss of over 95%. In an economy where imported goods were essential for basic consumption the sanctions target every facet of Venezuelans' lives, destroying the country's purchasing power for basic goods. Imports from Europe dropped by 65% between 2015 and 2019, while delivery times for vital goods increased by 33%. The total direct financial damage inflicted is estimated at a staggering $37 billion. The US sanctions have caused one of the most severe peacetime economic contractions in modern history, contributing directly to a public health crisis. This economic warfare is a primary driver of the displacement of more than 7 million Venezuelans, creating the Western hemisphere's largest migration crisis. Based on a number of different studies the report by The Washington DC-based Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) estimates that sanctions were responsible for 40,000 deaths just between 2017-2018, while over 300,000 people were at immediate risk due to denied access to treatment of preventable or treatable diseases. This includes approximately 80,000 people with HIV denied antiretroviral drugs, 16,000 needing dialysis, 16,000 with cancer, and 4 million with diabetes and hypertension who cannot reliably obtain life-saving medicine. On the Military Front Extrajudicial violence marks the current escalation against Venezuela. The Trump administration ordered unilateral military strikes against private vessels near the Venezuelan coast, allegedly to prevent drug trafficking. To carry out these attacks, the US Armed Forces deployed a massive naval force comprising warships, drones, and special operations units. Since these attacks started, the US has conducted the summary execution of at least 107 people, at the moment this article is being released. The Trump regime has characterized the victims, without reliable evidence, as drug traffickers and "terrorists," an allegation that, even if true, does not grant the US president the legal authority to execute whomever he decides. The vast majority of those killed in this way were fisherfolk simply trying to fish in sovereign Venezuelan waters. This campaign of terror is accompanied by a massive and provocative deployment of US military equipment and around 15.000 troops in the Caribbean. This includes the USS Gerald R. Ford, the US Navy's newest and most destructive aircraft carrier. Its capability to unleash its wing of approximately seventy-five advanced warplanes positions it as a primary platform for inflicting devastating aerial bombardments against the Venezuelan people. This carrier operates in coordination with an Iwo Jima-class Amphibious Ready Group, a flotilla designed for invasion, containing vessels capable of landing 2,200 marines along with their tanks and artillery in Venezuelan land. The naval siege is further reinforced by six destroyers and two cruisers, armed with hundreds of missiles for offensive bombardment and "defensive" cover. The region is also poised by the presence of an AC-130 "Spooky" gunship, an aircraft designed for concentrated fire against populated areas. The special operations vessel Ocean Trader supports covert interventions, while the threat of at least one attack submarine equipped with nuclear power capacity lurks in the Caribbean sea. Furthermore, the US has reactivated the Roosevelt Roads Naval Base in occupied Puerto Rico, transforming it into a fortified launching pad for aggression. Satellite imagery exposes the staging of deadly weaponry at this base, including F-35 jets, helicopters, and the AC-130 gunship, solidifying it as the tip of the spear for the ongoing military siege against a sovereign nation. This concentration of US military assets in the region represents the largest such deployment since the 1994 intervention in Haiti, known as "Operation Uphold Democracy." The impact and stage setting for this war reveals the continental control aims of US imperialism. On December 15th Trinidad and Tobago's government announced it would allow the US military to use its airports, with equipment described as combat-ready and "far beyond anti-smuggling", putting yet another country in the cross hairs of a US made war and using a puppet government to attack Venezuela. Furthermore, Trump ‘decertified’ Colombia in its ‘war on drugs,’ falsely claiming it had failed its commitments, with Trump publicly accusing President Gustavo Petro of being a drugs leader" while conducting strikes that resulted in extrajudicial killings off of the pacific coast of Colombia. In the Dominican Republic US aircraft and personnel will be “temporarily deployed” to the country for refueling and moving equipment. The War on Drugs allows the ultimate financial beneficiaries of the drugs trade to continue their business in the US and elsewhere, while the poorest peasant farmers, fisherfolk, workers and the environment pay the highest price. The Venezuelan people and the Bolivarian Republic stand strong and continue to fight for a just and lasting peace These imperialist attacks aim to roll back the historic achievements of the Bolivarian Revolution. Under President Chávez, Venezuela eradicated illiteracy, constructed a massive public healthcare system with Cuban solidarity, and built millions of homes for the poor. The process deepened democracy through popular power, fostering over one thousand self-governing communes and thirty thousand Local Supply and Production Committees to ensure mass political participation and food sovereignty. Despite the immense hardships induced by the economic war and hybrid attacks of the US, the Venezuelan people and their institutions continue to resist and adapt. Today Venezuela is able to produce 97% of the food it consumes, while domestic medicine manufacturing has reached 80%, despite the sanctions. In response to escalating military threats, the Venezuelan government has convened an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. This diplomatic move follows a strong international condemnation of recent US attacks. Domestically, the focus has shifted to a massive, organized mobilization for national defense. A clear signal of popular resistance and support for the Bolivarian revolution, government reports indicate that 8.2 million citizens participated in the initial two-day readiness exercises of the Bolivarian Militia. In Puerto Rico, an anti-bases protest movement is growing in response to US use of its land as the outpost to wage invasion on Venezuela. The protests draw strength from the historic anti-militarism resistance that expelled the US Navy from Vieques in 2003. Such as the people in the Venezuela, the people of the world see through US imperialist lies and reject this war for resources and strategic domination, even in the belly of the beast where 60% of the people oppose US war on Bolivarian republic. In December representatives from at least 14 countries, attended the People’s Assembly for peace and sovereignty to reaffirm the global commitment to a fair peace that respects the peoples’ sovereignty. Mobilizations have taken place in hundreds of cities across south, central and North America and in all regions of the world where people reaffirmed their stance against the US-led imperialist offensive in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is the duty of all peace loving people to stand in solidarity with Venezuela and defend the achievements its people have achieved despite deadly sanctions imposed by the US. Venezuela stands as a beacon of hope to all of Latin America and the Caribbean as an example of defense of the right to self determination against imperialist domination, a pre-requisite to a just and lasting peace. |
