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Stand by Venezuela! Free Maduro now!

by New Worker correspondent

Venezuela has called on the United Nations to demand the release of their president who was kidnapped by the Americans in a raid on Caracas last weekend, while tension rises following the American seizure of a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the north Atlantic that they claimed had violated the US sanctions regime on Venezuela.

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Free Maduro Now!

by New Worker correspondent

London comrades joined thousands of others in Whitehall to protest against the American raid on Caracas and the kidnapping of President Maduro and his wife. At the rally speakers denounced Trump’s blatant disregard for international law and called for the people of the world to stand together against this latest example of imperialist aggression. Speakers were also calling for Starmer to condemn these breaches of international law, but frank ly that’s a long way away at the moment.

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Editorial

Stand by Venezuela!

Last year Donald Trump told the world he deserved to get the Nobel Peace Prize. A few weeks ago, he dubbed himself the “President of Peace”. Now he seems to have had second thoughts. He’s kicked off the New Year by raiding Caracas to seize the Venezuelan leader for a show trial in New York on trumped-up charges of drug trafficking. He says he’s going to “run” Venezuela and take all their oil. He tells us that Colombia and Cuba are next on the list along with Greenland, which is an autonomous part of Denmark – an American ally and member of NATO. He justifies all this by saying he’s applying a modernised version of the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, which asserts Washington’s “right” to control the entire Western Hemisphere, that he now modestly calls the “Donroe” doctrine.

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