US imperialism, which has committed very severe, unforgettable, and unforgivable crimes against the working class and oppressed peoples, especially in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East, but also worldwide, has committed yet another atrocity under the fascist Trump administration. It launched an airstrike on Venezuela, cut off the power supply to the capital, and kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores.
With his statement regarding this imperialist arrogance and fascist aggression, the fascist Trump has profoundly insulted the Venezuelan people and, by extension, all peoples of the world who carry within their hearts the fire of freedom, dignity, and independence from imperialism. After Trump previously announced his intention to turn Gaza into a Trump construction and tourism center, he now declared that the US would take control of Venezuela and that he would offer Venezuelan oil to US monopolies. The words of this fascist, plunderer, and proponent of genocide in Gaza, who also instigates an imperialist world war, make the true meaning and intent behind the US imperialist assault on Venezuela so glaringly clear that no amount of slick demagoguery can conceal it.
The fascist leader Tayyip Erdoğan quickly forgot his words, “my friend Maduro.” Instead, he chose to act as cowardly as a field mouse toward the Trump administration. He is now a mute devil.
M. Corina Machado, who appeared on behalf of the bourgeois opposition in Venezuela, and Argentine President Javier Milei, along with others like them, applauded US imperialism as fascist collaborators.
The EU states and Britain, which welcomed Ahmed al-Sharaa, one of the perpetrators of the suffering inflicted by ISIS in Iraq and Syria, into the so-called “temples of democracy” in Europe, now attempt to justify the fascist Trump under the pretext that Maduro prevented democratic elections. This is the same Trump who transformed Gaza into a children’s graveyard. Now, these powers are trying to excuse the crimes of fascist Trump, who cozies up to the blood-soaked genocidal Netanyahu.
In light of all this, it is high time to raise the flags of dignity, justice, and freedom.
It is a matter of honor that the workers who bear the weight of the world on their shoulders and all the oppressed who suffer under the imperialist-capitalist patriarchal world, condemned to social injustice, gender discrimination, colonial oppression, poverty, and the deep suffering and hopelessness that accompany them, raise their voices against this fascist intervention.
To remain silent or neutral regarding Maduro’s governance style, his understanding of communal socialism, or any other arguments, is nothing less than to cover up this blatant, brazen imperialist and colonialist crime committed by US imperialism and fascist Trump, thereby contributing to its legitimization. All parties, trade unions, women’s organizations, student associations, professional groups, environmental movements, and various solidarity organizations from around the world, especially from Turkey and Kurdistan, that describe themselves as communist, revolutionary, anti-fascist, anti-imperialist, and progressive, and that stand on the side of the oppressed, must demonstrate in front of US embassies, in public spaces, in working-class neighborhoods, and on university campuses. They must use all available forms of action and protest to loudly and clearly raise the demand: “Free Maduro and Flores! Apologize to the Venezuelan people!”
Down with US imperialism! Down with Trump fascism!
US imperialism will be defeated, and the resistant peoples will triumph!
Long live the international struggle of the working class and the oppressed worldwide!
January 3, 2026
MLKP
Central Committee