[English Translation by Socialists Without Borders]
REJECT THE MILITARY AGGRESSION AND THE IMPERIALIST OFFENSIVE!
NO TO THE NEOCOLONIAL COLLABORATION OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT WITH THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION!
FULL DEMOCRATIC FREEDOMS TO FIGHT AGAINST NEOCOLONIAL PRETENSIONS AND FOR ALL THE RIGHTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE!
The organizations participating in the National Summit in Defense of the People’s Rights and other anti-imperialist currents, from a position of class independence and from any other oppressive power factor, position ourselves in the face of the serious situation our country is going through after the criminal attacks perpetrated by the United States and the government of Donald Trump on Venezuelan soil, and we assume the defense of Venezuela’s right to self-determination and national sovereignty, calling for the rejection of the military aggression and imperialist offensive against the country.
- Condemnation of the vile U.S. military aggression on Venezuelan soil
We express our most categorical repudiation of the bombings carried out by the government of Donald Trump in the early hours over Caracas and various areas of the national territory on the past January 3. We denounce this action as a flagrant violation of sovereignty, a criminal aggression against the Venezuelan people whose consequence is translating into the imposition of a government under imperialist tutelage in Venezuela, whose mission is to impose a colonial agenda on the nation, our oil, and its strategic resources.
The widespread military attack against the country, with the murder of about a hundred people, including military and civilians, is the continuation and highest point of a systematic imperialist aggression that ranges from various coercive measures (“sanctions”) over long years, to the military siege in the Caribbean, along with bombings and cold-blooded murders at sea. It is inscribed in an agenda of continental domination, in the resurgence of the nefarious “Monroe Doctrine,” which claims the right of the United States to impose its interests on the peoples of the continent, as an asset in its competition with other powers. The attack and national subjugation against Venezuela is thus being used as an example to intimidate other countries in the region.
We stand in solidarity with the families of those who died as victims of the aggression, as well as with those affected by the destruction of their homes or state institutions’ structures. Likewise with those who were emotionally affected by the bombings.
We also express our solidarity with the communities of Fuerte Tiuna, El Hatillo, parishes of El Paraíso, San Juan, 23 de Enero, sectors near La Carlota, and the people of Caracas, Miranda, and La Guaira in general, who since that day live in confusion and anxiety before the possibility of a new attack.
As organizations that oppose the Venezuelan government, we strongly repudiate the bourgeois politicians who, from the pro-imperialist opposition, applaud the military aggression against the country and Trump’s plan of national subjugation. María Corina Machado, Leopoldo López, Antonio Ledezma, and all those who hold that policy deserve the firmest rejection from the Venezuelan working people.
- Rejection of the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores
Despite profound political differences with the government, we reject the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro Moros and Cilia Flores by foreign military forces. We demand official information and respect for their human rights, and their release, as we in no way grant imperialism the right to detain and judge a Venezuelan ruler, which can only be the prerogative of our own people.
We demand respect for the principles of self-determination of the Venezuelan people. No foreign power has jurisdiction to act as the “world’s gendarme” nor to apply its laws extraterritorially on Venezuelan soil.
- The Venezuelan people have the inalienable right to discuss and decide their destiny
With the brutal neocolonial offensive on the country, not only the fate of a government is at stake, but the present and future of the Venezuelan people. The most basic condition of a sovereign country is in question. What is at stake is that the management of national resources and the fruit of national labor will be handled in Washington from the offices of the President of the United States, in his meetings with American magnates and those from other countries. An unprecedented historical setback.
It is unacceptable that the working class, youth, and popular sectors of the country be sidelined! We demand full democratic freedoms to discuss and fight against the insolent neocolonial pretensions over the country. The right to hold assemblies free from coercion in workplaces, study places, and communities, to debate the situation and define steps to respond to the purposes of national submission. Free right to assembly and demonstration.
- Our repudiation of imperialism is made from a truly democratic and left-wing opposition to the Venezuelan government
Our condemnation of the imperialist aggression does not imply political support for the elite that has held power nor for the tutelary collaboration government implanted after the U.S. intervention. We agree in pointing out that:
The government has executed a brutal economic adjustment that completely destroyed the rights of the working class conquered in years of struggles. To the government’s drastic adjustment to pay the external debt were added the imperialist coercive measures (“sanctions”), which sought to asphyxiate the already crisis-ridden national economy, deepening the hardships; the government’s policy has unloaded all the consequences of the crisis on the rights of the working class and the living conditions of the people, while preserving the interests of the owning classes inside and outside, generating ever greater social inequality: for entrepreneurs and bosses everything, for workers nothing, that has been the governmental logic in practice. Therefore, it is urgent to rescue wages and pensions, restoring social benefits and reinstating the seized union and labor rights.
We also question the persistent situation of imprisonment of militant or non-militant people for political reasons. These mechanisms of repression used by the government contributed to deepening its authoritarian drift. Mechanisms that must be repealed, such as the Hate Law.
The releases that are occurring under imperialist pressure deserve popular solidarity and mobilization to accelerate that process and grant full freedom to all those released.
We demand the recognition of all democratic rights of the Venezuelan people; therefore, full freedom for political prisoners must be accelerated and the demands of families, social and political organizations that have fought for their release must be addressed, mitigating the pain caused to thousands of Venezuelan families facing that harsh and unjust situation.
Arbitrary arrests and raids, forced disappearances, and searches without judicial order by police forces and parapolice groups must cease immediately.
We denounce that there is an unacceptable opacity regarding the response of national defense systems and the real impact (victims and damages) of the January 3 attacks. We demand that the current government of Delcy Rodríguez explain the facts with total transparency, as well as inform the people about the identity of those killed in that criminal attack, and report on structural damages, their costs, and estimates of the effects on the population.
As an essential element, we demand that the minimum wage be restored as a right to the Venezuelan working class, as established in article 91 of the CRBV, and other emergency measures to recover decent living conditions for the entire population.
- We oppose any type of government tutored by the United States
In the framework of the brutal attack and imperialist military extortion, Trump’s government is imposing drastic measures for its control over the country’s resources, which are being submissively accepted by the Venezuelan government. “Collaboration” and “cordiality” with imperialism are the guidelines set by Delcy Rodríguez’s government, facilitating the neocolonial advance, practically as a government tutored by the United States to hand over our oil and other natural resources of the country.
We reject any type of cooperation with Washington’s impositions, whether from how they intend to impose on us the management of the national oil industry and the rest of Venezuela’s natural and energy resources, to the control of the national economy and international relations.
We alert about the subjection of the Venezuelan government with its collaborationism and “cooperation” with Trump’s to hand over our oil and other natural and energy resources of the country.
- Call to the Venezuelan people and international solidarity for mobilization, a mass and internationalist response is necessary
Trump arrogantly intends to override the Venezuelan people and their history of independentist and anti-imperialist struggle, self-proclaiming himself “Interim President of Venezuela,” imposing abusively colonialist pressures on our nation.
Now more than ever, we have the imperative and unavoidable need to work for the unity of the working class and the exploited Venezuelan people around their class interests, and for the rescue of national sovereignty.
Popular and working-class organization and mobilization is essential to overcome the imperialist domination that is intended to be imposed on us. Therefore, it is necessary to recover the possibility of holding assemblies and promoting meeting spaces where the Venezuelan people participate, clearly opposing interventionism, where what has happened is discussed, and a series of demands are raised to resolve the crisis from the popular sectors and the working class.
In these times, we must prepare to develop various and effective forms of struggle in defense of national sovereignty and the rights of our people, denouncing and organizing against everything that implies the handover of oil, mineral, natural resources or foreign tutelage.
Venezuela’s destiny must not be decided between negotiating elites nor under Washington’s impositions, but through the sovereign will of its people.
We exhort the Venezuelan working people, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic forces of the world to demonstrate against this military aggression. The solution to the crisis must be working-class and popular, rejecting both Trump’s neocolonial interventionism, as well as the continuity of a model that sustains and privileges the interests of entrepreneurs of any national origin, of the rich and new rich, at the expense of suppressing the economic, social, and political rights of the working masses.
All of Latin America is under threat and our peoples must unite to confront and stop the American invader, its new forms of colonization, and the extension of its imperialist interests over Latin American nations. We call for the broadest mobilization in Latin America and within the United States itself. In that sense, we propose a great international mobilization capable of stopping the imperialist aggression. To the youth, the working class, and the progressive intellectuals of the United States, we call on them to resolutely oppose their own imperialism.
Out with Yankee imperialism from Venezuela and Latin America!
Withdrawal of the Yankee military siege from the coasts of Venezuela!
For full democratic freedoms to fight against Trump’s neocolonial pretensions and for all the rights of the working people!
No to national surrender!
For the restitution of the rights of the working class!
In Caracas, January 2026
[Signed by the Following Anti-Imperialist Organizations:]
PPT- APR
Partido Comunista de Venezuela (PCV-Dignidad)
Movimiento Popular Alternativo (MPA)
Revolución Comunista
Liga de Trabajadores por el Socialismo (LTS)
Partido Socialismo y Libertad (PSL)
Marea Socialista
Unidad Socialista de Los Trabajadores (UST)
Bloqueo Histórico Popular (BHP)PPT- APR