06/01/2026
SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF VENEZUELA
WE CONDEMN THE IMPERIALIST INTERVENTION OF THE USA
WE DEFEND THE RIGHT OF PEOPLES TO DECIDE FOR THEIR OWN COUNTRY!
The Youth Committee of WFTU condemns the military, imperialist intervention of the USA and expresses its solidarity with the working class, the youth, and the people of Venezuela in their right to determine the future of their country themselves, without foreign interventions and blackmail.
Following the deployment of US forces in the Caribbean under the pretext of “combating drug trafficking,” and after the first attack against a port area inside the country, the USA escalated its aggression by organizing a large-scale military attack against Caracas.
The US military intervention in Venezuela constitutes yet another crime of imperialism against peoples. It is a continuation of the interventions, blockades, coups, and wars, the bloodshed that is ongoing in the Middle East and Ukraine, for the profits of monopolies and imperialist rivalries.
This illegal abduction of President Maduro constitutes an unprecedented aggressive act that violates every fundamental principle of international law, opening yet another front in an already unstable global environment.
The USA and its allies are not interested in “democracy,” nor in the “fight against terrorism,” let alone in the “fight against drug trafficking.” What they seek is control over the natural resources of Latin America, the reserves and oil production of Venezuela.
They aim to impose their own dominance over the working class and the peoples, in the context of the existing intra-imperialist antagonisms for overall supremacy in the region and internationally.
The outrageous statements made by President Trump that the USA will govern Venezuela, the threats he issued against Cuba and Colombia, and the “warnings” he periodically addresses to Mexico, have a little to do with his “personality.”
They come from the new "Monroe Doctrine", which clearly dictates that the region must align with the economic and geopolitical interests of the USA, against those of its rivals, Russia and China.
The youth and young workers all over the world have nothing to gain from these plans. We cannot come to terms with the barbarity of imperialist interventions and wars!
Now is the time to organize in our trade unions, to express in a militant way our solidarity and our opposition to their war plans and rivalries.
We call on all trade unions and all youth committees to condemn by every means the imperialist intervention of the USA in Venezuela, to organize initiatives and uphold the non-negotiable right of peoples to democratically determine their present and their future.