Statements

The United Left Platform expresses its absolute solidarity with the heroic resistance of people in Minnesota to the U.S. state’s war against its citizens and non-citizens alike. We call on people everywhere to join in the resistance wherever they are and however they can.

The United Left Platform, a coalition of revolutionary socialist organizations in the U.S., completely and unequivocally condemns the Trump administration’s illegal and unwarranted military attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of President Nicholás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, the former President of Venezuela’s National Assembly. This aggression poses an ominous threat to any power or person that stands in the way of Trump’s effort to secure U.S. imperial control over Latin America, its most important “sphere of influence.”

The present moment is exceptionally dangerous for the nations and peoples of Latin America and for communities across the United States. The actions of the U.S. government put us all at risk.

While the Trump regime’s murderous bombing of small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean are world-class crimes in their own right, they are not happening in isolation. They openly signal Trump’s and his administration’s intention to wage war on Venezuela in order to install a pro-U.S. puppet regime in that country or to compel the existing government to surrender Venezuela’s oil resources to U.S. corporate exploitation.