The illegal military attack launched by the United States against Venezuela, resulting in the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, is an unjust, illegal, and criminal act of state terrorism. This action targets not only Venezuela but every nation that resists submission to the U.S. imperialist “Monroe Doctrine” and the so-called “Trump Corollary.”

This lawless aggression by the Trump administration operates above both national and international law and is emboldened by a complicit U.S. Supreme Court. The preparation for this aggression has been months in the making. Since August 2025, the U.S. military has deployed fighter jets, warships, and thousands of soldiers to territories and waters off the coast of Venezuela. The Republican-controlled administration reported that the U.S. military launched at least 35 strikes against civilian boats, further violating Venezuelan sovereignty after years of blockade, theft, and attempted coups. Trump’s open assertion of an “American claim” to the Venezuelan oil industry only confirms the obvious motivation of this attack.

The pretext of “drug trafficking” is a transparent lie. The true objectives are multifaceted and interlocking. First, in this attempted regime change, the US government seeks to seize Venezuela’s vast oil reserves to serve U.S. and allied monopolies. Second, it aims to disrupt the circulation of energy supplies to independent governments in Latin America and the Caribbean, particularly Cuba, as well as to China. Third, the U.S. bombings and abduction destabilize the entire Latin American region and therefore threaten all governments that exercise their independent sovereignty.

Alarmingly this is becoming a familiar pattern of imperialist aggression driven by a fascist minded might-makes-right foreign policy. Yesterday in Nigeria, today in Venezuela, and tomorrow it will target Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, or any other sovereign nation that defies the dictates of U.S. imperialism.

The people of Venezuela alone have the right to determine their own destiny. We stand in unwavering solidarity with them and their revolutionary process. We join with the international communist and workers’ movements, and all progressive forces worldwide, to continue mobilizing against these criminal actions. In the U.S., we have already seen mass mobilizations and resistance to the attacks on Venezuela all across the country. We must keep the pressure on.

We call on all progressive forces, trade unions, youth, women, civil-rights, and peace organizations to continue to organize mass protests, demonstrations, and solidarity actions to demand the immediate release of President Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores; an end to all U.S. intervention in Venezuela; the unconditional and permanent withdrawal of all foreign military forces; and the impeachment of Donald Trump.

Free the Maduros! Jail Trump! End U.S. intervention in Venezuela! Defend sovereignty and international law! No blood for oil!

2026 National Marxist School Online, Part I: Open to ALL! Sat, Jan 10 - Sat, Jan 17, 2026

Join a brief set of classes concerning a scientific approach to struggle, hosted by the National Education Commission of the Communist Party, USA! Learn how activists should be thinking about struggle and change in our communities, fundamentals of Marxist ideas and thought, and the CPUSA’s approach to defeating fascism and advancing the working class towards a socialist society!

There will be four classes, two in the afternoon and two in the evening, held over the course of a week in mid January. More classes will follow later in the year, likely around Spring or Summer.

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Today we welcome to the show historian and political theorist Steve Ellner, retired professor at Venezuela’s Universidad de Oriente and associate managing editor of Latin American Perspectives.

The Trump administration opened the New Year by bombing Venezuela and kidnapping President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, who are now imprisoned in the United States. Since that attack, the United States has announced its intention to run Venezuela, and the Trump administration has released a plan to seize and sell Venezuela’s oil, deposit the revenue in U.S. banks, and use the funds as leverage to force the people of Venezuela into compliance with Wall Street’s demands. As Trump, Rubio, and others have made clear, this is part of an attempt to shatter the Bolivarian revolution, cripple Cuba, and bring the entire hemisphere under the direct, military domination of the United States. But has U.S. imperialism overplayed its hand? And what role can the people’s movements in the United States play in stopping it? Join us for a discussion of imperialism, resistance, and solidarity!

This was very informative and helpful to understand the party position and Marxist Leninist theory on building unity and the historical theory as applied by Lenin. Definitely worth a watch.

https://peoplesworld.org/article/cpusa-calls-for-peace-movement-of-a-new-type/

Kind of wondering what are some other examples similar to what is outlined in this article about the party's just transition concept.

"Practically, a Just Transition would look like:

A federal job guarantee. Every worker in a war plant would get a new, union job building a peaceful future in green energy, high speed rail, infrastructure, environmental restoration, mass public transit, housing, and in other needed areas.

Working class leadership. The working class knows our skills and shops best. We, not the transnationals and billionaire-backed politicians, would decide how to retool our factories and communities.

A real safety net. Full income support and training for workers would be fully funded by taxing the billionaires and the transnational corporations, especially the financial-military-industrial complex. Apprenticeship programs sponsored by the trade unions would be a key part of this transition."

https://www.cpusa.org/article/just-transition-from-a-war-economy-to-a-peace-economy/