06.01.2026

LEAGUE STATEMENT ON THE U.S ATTACK ON VENEZUELA

The League of Communists in Britain unequivocally condemns the attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro conducted by the United States.

Such actions are not only a flagrant breach of national sovereignty and a blatant act of imperialism, but are also a transparent exercise in gangster capitalism undertaken with the sole aim of seizing control of Venezuela’s nationalised oil industry - an industry that the United States has long coveted ever since the Chavez revolution took them into public ownership.

Furthermore, the tepidly sanguine response to the events by the current Starmer government clearly demonstrates their total abdication of their duties to uphold international law and to defend British independence.

The actions of the United States pose a clear danger to any nation whose independence is deemed contrary to U.S interests, from Cuba to Greenland, and runs the real risk of further destabilising international peace.

The League calls on the peace and labour movements in Britain, and all progressive political forces, to renew their work against American imperialism, including campaigning for the closure of U.S bases in the UK, and to strengthen their solidarity work with Venezuela, Cuba, and any other nation threatened by Trump's aggression, and the removal of American nuclear weapons from British soil.