Trump’s Air Blockade and Threats Against Venezuela Require a United Anti-Imperialist ResponseDonald Trump’s neocolonialist offensive against Venezuela has escalated sharply. He “decreed” the “total closure” of Venezuelan airspace, announcing “imminent attacks on the territory,” and set ultimatums for the Venezuelan government to yield to Washington’s demands. Trump is intensifying his campaign of threats and “maximum pressure” to bring about regime change in Venezuela. This would be favorable to the interests of U.S. imperialism in its rivalry with the “revisionist” powers challenging the unipolar world order led by the United States after the end of the Cold War. As an anti-capitalist socialist current that opposes the the Maduro–Venezuelan Armed Forces government from the left, we once again call for a firm repudiation of this new escalation of imperial and colonial aggression, just as we have consistently denounced and rejected every act of imperialist intervention against the country. Trump’s ambitions must be defeated; the current imperialist offensive must fail. Its aims are to brutally deepen Venezuela’s semi-colonial condition, subordinating the country’s political regime to the dictates of the White House.
https://www.leftvoice.org/trumps-air-blockade-and-threats-against-venezuela-require-a-united-anti-imperialist-response/Ukraine Faces an Imperial Carve-UpOn November 21, Ukrainians found themselves staring at a peace proposal that demanded near-immediate acceptance. The leaked twenty-eight-point peace plan, drafted by Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian official Kirill Dmitriev, reads like a real estate transaction. Russia gets the land, the United States takes its cut, Europe foots the bill, and Ukraine can choose between surrendering now or surrendering later. Under pressure, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, addressed the nation bluntly: “Loss of dignity or of a key partner. Twenty-eight difficult points or an extraordinarily difficult winter.” Stunned European leaders — taken aback by the initiative’s provisions — scrambled to improvise counterproposals. Amid outrage in the White House over the leak, emergency talks in Geneva produced a revised nineteen-point framework, deferrin
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