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Vol. 81/No. 28 July 31, 2017
(lead article, Socialist Workers Party statement)
Socialist Workers Party: US hands off Venezuela!
Thousands of workers rally in Caracas, Venezuela, May 17 in support of
July 30 vote to elect delegates to national constituent assembly called
by President Nicolás Maduro.
The following statement was released July 19 by Margaret Trowe,
Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Albany.
The Socialist Workers Party urges working people across the United
States and around the world to stand with their fellow toilers in
Venezuela, speaking out against Washington’s threats and attacks on
Venezuelan sovereignty.
The U.S. propertied rulers, and the Venezuelan opposition forces they
back, see the deep economic crisis battering Venezuela’s workers and
farmers as an opportunity to bring down the government of President
Nicolás Maduro there and install a regime more subservient to the
interests of Washington and Venezuela’s employing class.
President Donald Trump has threatened to “take strong and swift economic
actions” against the Venezuelan people if the government doesn’t cancel
a scheduled July 30 election for delegates to a Constituent Assembly it
says it needs to stabilize the country after three months of
increasingly violent anti-government demonstrations organized by
opposition forces. These same groups now threaten to set up a parallel
government of so-called “national unity.”
The Maduro government, like the Bolivarian government of Hugo Chávez
before it, has earned the undying hatred of the U.S. and Venezuelan
capitalist rulers because it has sought to manage the capitalist market
to use oil profits to fund social programs popular with most Venezuelan
workers and farmers. It collaborates with revolutionary Cuba, sending
much-needed oil at reduced prices, speaking out against Washington’s
interference in Latin America and the Caribbean, and welcoming thousands
of Cuban volunteer doctors, health workers and teachers who bring
medical care and literacy to working people throughout the country.
The working class of Venezuela is the real target of Washington and the
pro-imperialist parties seeking to overthrow the Maduro government. They
rightly fear the working class as the force capable of ending their
class rule, as the toilers did in Cuba in 1959.
“Foreign intervention in the Bolivarian and Chavista Republic must
stop,” Cuban President Raúl Castro told Cuba’s National Assembly July
14. “We reaffirm our solidarity with the Venezuelan people.”
Working people here and worldwide should follow Cuba’s proletarian
internationalist example. The Socialist Workers Party says: U.S. hands
off Venezuela! End Washington’s economic sanctions and interference in
the internal affairs of the people of Venezuela!
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