On U.S. imperialist aggression against Venezuela

The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML) firmly reiterates its determined condemnation of the aggression committed by U.S. imperialism against Venezuela and its people.

The CIPOML calls upon revolutionary organisations, the working class, and the peoples of the world to draw the necessary experiences and lessons from these tragic events, the consequences of which are still unfolding.

Venezuela in the framework of inter-imperialist contradictions

This terrorist act reveals, first and foremost, the deepening of the aggressive, expansionist, and predatory character of U.S. imperialism, inscribed in a strategy defined by its ruling elites to sustain their global hegemony, recover areas of influence lost over time, and expand into new zones in the world. This orientation is formulated in the 2025 National Security Strategy, released by the U.S. government at the end of the last year.

In that same logic of imperialist aggression, the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, as well as the murder of a hundred men and women—including civilians—constitutes an act of international banditry that flagrantly violates International Law and represents a direct attack on the independence and sovereignty of Venezuela. Nothing can justify an action of this nature by the government of Donald Trump, which deserves only the strongest repudiation and the solidary condemnation of the workers and peoples of the world.

The U.S. attack against Venezuela and current events cannot be fully understood unless analyzed within the framework of growing inter-imperialist struggles and contradictions which, for example, have the war in Ukraine—involving principally Russia, the United States, and European powers—as one of their critical points.

Can the U.S. attack against Venezuela—immediately followed by incentives for oil monopolies to invest and produce in the country—be separated from the fact that, until recently, China absorbed more than half of exported Venezuelan oil and stood as its main trading partner? Is it possible to ignore that China has granted loans to Venezuela exceeding 70 billion dollars, consolidating itself as its top financial guarantor?

Can one ignore that this very link with China has been an essential element of the Venezuelan energy mechanism, with Beijing as the central buyer of crude oil and a strategic partner in financing and trade?

Can the U.S. threat against Panama be understood without linking it to the cession of control of important ports linked to the Canal—structurally decisive from a commercial and military point of view—to Chinese capital, in a context of competition for geoeconomic influence?

Can the attacks, sanctions, and pressures against Iran be explained without considering the flow of oil toward China, Tehran’s close alliances with Beijing and Moscow, and the relevance of those ties to the global rivalry between power blocs?

And finally, can the U.S. threats against Denmark over Greenland—a region rich in rare earths and other critical resources with direct implications for the European Union and semiconductor supply chains—be understood without placing them at the heart of the imperialist dispute for strategic resources, geopolitical presence, and technological control against China and the European imperialists?

The decline experienced by U.S. imperialism and the rise of China as a power disputing U.S. hegemony have a strong impact on the unfolding of inter-imperialist contradictions. China has become the main creditor, foreign investor, and trading partner on all continents, including Latin America, relegating the United States to the background. Chinese industrial products flood almost every country, while the dollar progressively loses its role as the dominant international currency. With Trump, U.S. imperialism has opted for a policy of force to halt its decline and block China’s rise.

Although the United States continues to be the main global economic power, it faces growing difficulties in confronting and containing its strategic rivals. Its military spending alone exceeds that of the next nine countries combined. Shielded by this overwhelming military superiority, U.S. imperialism seeks to displace and weaken its competitors in regions rich in oil, minerals, and other strategic raw materials, where they have consolidated investments and expanded their commercial ties. Within this framework, it attempts to force its main rival, China, either to accept a relationship of subordination or to precipitate an early confrontation that it is not yet in a condition to win.

Silence in the face of U.S. aggression would not only aggravate the difficulties of its rivals in the fields of energy, raw materials, investment, and trade, but would also erode the credibility of governments like those of Venezuela and Iran, with whom they claim to maintain “good relations.” This passivity, far from containing it, would only further stimulate the aggressiveness of U.S. imperialism.

The intensification of U.S. imperialist aggression is provoking, at the same time, a sharpening of the contradictions between oppressed peoples and dependent countries vis-à-vis imperialism, as well as class contradictions between the bourgeoisie and the working class, insofar as each adopts clearly differentiated positions regarding the events in progress.

The new imperialist offensive

The CIPOML warns that the renewed attempts by imperialist powers—led by U.S. imperialism—to re-divide the world into zones of control, domination, and exploitation entail extremely grave dangers for workers, peoples, and nations. This process constitutes an offensive designed to crush the struggles of the peoples for their social and national liberation, and deepens the risk of a new imperialist war.

Alongside military and political aggression, the imperialist offensive is activating openly fascist and neo-fascist political projects that are gaining influence on a global scale.

Imperialism, war, and deception

The peoples of the world confirm, once again and through painful experiences, that when imperialist powers speak of peace, they are in reality preparing for new scenarios of war and aggression. These maneuvers aim to subjugate peoples and nations, plunder their resources, and swell the profits of the imperialist military-industrial complex.

No imperialist country—beyond the deception of feigning support for tactical backing purposes—will come to the aid of the peoples’ struggles for democracy, freedom, and true independence. Despite the worsening of their internal contradictions and conflicts, imperialist powers always manage to reach agreements when it comes to safeguarding the interests of big capital and sabotaging struggles for national and social liberation.

The tasks of the working class and the peoples

In this complex scenario, in which the historic incapacity of the bourgeoisie in the fight against imperialism is once again made evident, the CIPOML underscores once more that the only force capable of frustrating imperialist aggression is the organized struggle of the peoples, under the leadership of the working class, for a democratic order of social and national liberation with a socialist perspective.

It is urgent to strengthen unity work with social and political forces interested in confronting imperialism; to work for the development of a broad global anti-imperialist and anti-fascist front; to raise the struggle against war, for peace and the international solidarity of the peoples; and against the violence generated by the prevailing system.

The unification and mobilization of all democratic forces and sectors, both at the national and international levels, constitute a task of the first order.

Today, the condemnation of U.S. aggression and solidarity with the workers and people of Venezuela acquire special importance.

No imperialist intervention in Venezuela!

Long live the struggle of the workers and the Venezuelan people for their social and national liberation!

International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML)

January 2026