{"id":14424,"date":"2026-01-06T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/?p=14424"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:04:38","slug":"united-left-platform-calls-for-mass-resistance-to-u-s-attack-on-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/2026\/01\/united-left-platform-calls-for-mass-resistance-to-u-s-attack-on-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"United Left Platform Calls for Mass Resistance to U.S. Attack on Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>he United Left Platform, a coalition of revolutionary socialist organizations in the U.S., completely and unequivocally condemns the Trump administration\u2019s illegal and unwarranted military attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of President Nichol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, the former President of Venezuela\u2019s National Assembly. This aggression poses an ominous threat to any power or person that stands in the way of Trump\u2019s effort to secure U.S. imperial control over Latin America, its most important \u201csphere of influence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the dead of night in the early morning of January 3, U.S. military forces attacked the Fuerte Tiuna military in Caracas where Maduro was thought to be residing as well at the La Carlota airport and Higuerote airport to the east of Caracas. Air strikes by planes and helicopters were also reported at La Guaira and Aragua state. The elite army unit Delta Force captured Maduro and Flores and flew them in chains to a prison in New York.<\/p>\n<p>In comments made hours after the assault, code-named Operation Absolute Resolve, Trump made it clear that the attack is but the beginning of his effort to take direct control of Venezuela. \u201cWe will run the country until we have a just transition\u2014we can\u2019t take the chance that someone other than us takes over Venezuela,\u201d he stated, adding, \u201cwe are willing to wage a second and much larger attack\u2014we are ready to do so right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We should be under no illusions that Trump intends to allow any political power or personage to run Venezuela that is not under the control of the U.S. This is not just regime change\u2014it is a formula for possible occupation, beginning with the U.S. taking total control of Venezuela\u2019s oil and mineral resources.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not the Trump regime succeeds in this outrageous display of imperial arrogance depends on developing the strongest and broadest possible opposition to his efforts by those of us in the U.S., in Venezuela, and internationally. We urge everyone opposed to war and neocolonial domination to make your voices of opposition heard in the streets, workplaces, and unions.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pullquote\">The present and future of Venezuela is not for anyone to decide other than the people of Venezuela. We stand with all who seek to defend its right to self-determination.<\/aside>\n<p>As revolutionary socialists, we have no illusions about the nature of the Maduro regime, which was neither revolutionary nor socialist. However, the present and future of Venezuela is not for anyone to decide other than the people of Venezuela. We stand with all who seek to defend its right to self-determination.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s claim that the administration is motivated by controlling the shipment of drugs to the U.S. has no more basis in reality that his assertion that \u201ccrime has been totally eliminated\u201d in Washington DC and other cities by sending in the national guard. Less than 10% of drugs entering the U.S. come from Venezuela, while Trump recently pardoned one of the biggest drug kingpins in Central America, former President Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez of Honduras. His attacks on vessels off the coast of Venezuela that have killed 110 people in recent months, like the January 3 assault and kidnapping that has killed untold numbers of others, is largely driven by his desire to obtain control of a country with the largest known oil reserves on earth.<\/p>\n<p>However, the attack on Venezuela is not only about oil. Also in play is the effort to enact the Trump Doctrine that proclaims the U.S. now has the right to intervene anywhere it wishes at any time to secure total control of its most important spheres influence\u2014while acknowledging Russia and China&#8217; efforts to dominate their respective spheres so long as it coincides with U.S. interests. This is the multipolar imperialism that has now emerged with the collapse of the much heralded (but failed) neoliberal world order. As Trump declared in boasting of the U.S. seizure of Maduro, \u201cAmerica will never again allow foreign powers to drive us out of our own hemisphere.\u201d We must combat this reactionary agenda by engaging in mass resistance to the U.S. attack on Venezuela.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"half\" \/>\n<p><small>Featured Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Mural_El_Mare_Mare_2.jpg\">Guaiquer\u00ed<\/a>; modified by Tempest.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>United Left Platform <\/strong>statement against U.S. imperialist aggression in Venezuela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":422,"featured_media":14425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,583],"tags":[434,249],"class_list":["post-14424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-solidarity-statement","tag-u-s-imperialism","tag-venezuela"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Copy-of-tempest_feature_card-16.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}