Stop the War on Venezuela! Defend Venezuela’s Sovereignty and Right To Resist! 

January 3, 2026 — We, the undersigned anti-imperialist and anti-war organizations, condemn the U.S. violent attacks on the rights of Venezuelans, and violations of Venezuela’s sovereignty. 

In flagrant violation of International Law, the U.S. bombed civilian and military areas of the city of Caracas, the capital of the Republic, and the states of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira in the early morning of Saturday January 3rd. Striking under the cover of darkness to maximize terror and psychological impact, the assault killing at least 80 people, including civilians, and destroyed vital Venezuelan infrastructure. Echoing the 2004 imperialist invasion of Haiti and kidnapping of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the rogue empire has also kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores and is allegedly taking them to New York to persecute them in U.S. courts. 

In his press conference, President Donald Trump said the U.S. would take control of Venezuela to usher in a new government. “We can’t take a chance that somebody else takes over Venezuela that doesn’t have the good of the Venezuelan people in mind,” Trump said.This threat is backed up by a massive deployment of U.S. naval, ground and aerial forces in the Caribbean, the largest since the invasion of Haiti. 

Yet, we know that the U.S. is not running Venezuela at the moment.  This is part of the U.S.’s psychological warfare and will not be accepted by the people of Venezuela. This is the classic playbook, from Iraq to Palestine to Venezuela: we must reject imperialist lies and media propaganda designed to confuse and divide us.

In the face of these attacks, the  popular movements of Venezuela have taken to the streets in support of their Bolivarian Revolution. Outside of Venezuela, anti-imperialist, anti-war, and pro-peace movements and organizations must continue to defend and stand alongside the brave people of Venezuela, against U.S. terrorism and destabilization. We must have coordinated and organized resistance against imperialist war. 

We understand that this is not a singular moment but a continuation of the decades-long war on the Bolivarian Revolution to destroy Venezuela’s sovereignty, blockade the country’s economic and military alliances, and isolate the Venezuelan government from forming alliances with other Global South countries on their own terms. The U.S. revamped “America First Strategy” aims to outcompete its rivals such as China and Russia, while reasserting exclusive dominance over the western hemisphere, in line with the Monroe Doctrine tradition.

The Venezuelan people are resisting and we must support them.

Mobilize and coordinate mass resistance against this violence. Take to the streets, organize rallies and teach-ins on your university campuses, mobilize in your unions to demonstrate solidarity and shut down the supply chains of imperialism, including resolutions, pickets and protests outside of arms factories and ports that are providing the weapons for this aggression. For those outside the U.S., Venezuelan movements and organizations are asking for mobilizations outside of U.S. embassies, U.S. military bases and diplomatic installations around the world. 

Stop The War on Venezuela!

No to U.S. Wars for Regime Change! 

Free President Maduro and Cilia Flores!

Down with U.S. Imperialism!

Venezuela Se Defiende! No Se Rinde!

Venceremos!

[Spanish version below]    

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Signed,

1.     Black Alliance for Peace

2.     National Students for Justice in Palestine

3.     United National Antiwar Coalition

4.     Venezuela Solidarity Network

5.     US Peace Council

6.     Sanctions Kill Campaign

7.     Workers World Party

8.     All-African People’s Party–GC

9.     All-Africans People’s Revolutionary Party

10.  Alliance for Global Justice

11.  Labor for Palestine National Network

12.  Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO)

13.  CODEPINK

14.  National Lawyers Guild (NLG)

15.  International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL)

16.  School of the Americas Watch

17.  Veterans For Peace

18.  Task Force on the Americas

19.  Resist U.S.-Led War Movement

20.  Orinoco Tribune

21.  Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle

22.  Solidarity Committee on the Americas

23.  National Network on Cuba

24.  Diáspora Pa’lante Collective

25.  Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice

26.  International League of Peoples’ Struggles–US

27.  Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective (AISC)

28.  December 12th Movement

29.  Nodutdol for Korean Community Development

30.  Periodismo de Verdad

31.  Chicago ALBA Solidarity

32.  Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition

33.  Peace and Solidarity Commission of the Communist Party USA

34.  Honduras Solidarity Network

35.  Los Ronderos de las Redes

36.  Democratic Socialists of America

37.  DSA Emerge

38.  Bronx Anti-War

39.  Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD)

40.  Anti War Action Network

41.  Women Against Military Madness

42.  International Action Center

43.  Casa Baltimore Limay

44.  Friends of Latin America

45.  Cross Border Network

46.  Tribunal Internacional de Conciencia de los Pueblos en Movimiento / International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement (Mexico City)

47.  Haiti Action Committee

48.  Peoples Power Assembly

49.  Rochester Committee on Latin America (ROCLA)

50.  Green Renaissance–Sovereign Rights Movement

51.  Struggle for Socialism Party

52.  Tariq El-Tahrir Youth and Student Network

53.  Nidal North America

54.  CUNY for Palestine

55.  Basil Al-Araj Prisoners’ Committee

56.  American Party of Labor

57.  Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice (Canada)

58.  Al-Ahrar Palestinian Prisoner Support

59.  Anti-Displacement NYC

60.  AlgeriaRevolt

61.  Movimiento Escuela Mujeres por Palestina

62.  San Diego Veterans For Peace

63.  Unión de Vecinos

64.  Coalition for the Elimination of Imperialism in Africa

65.  GENERATION Z RDC et membre de la LUCHA

66.  Action LA Network

67.  National Immigrant Solidarity Network

68.  Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), DC Chapter

69.  Climate Crisis Movement

70.  Asociación Americana de Juristas

71.  U.S. Marxist-Leninist Organization

72.  Women for Peace – Finland

73.  World BEYOND War

74.  AWMR Italia – Donne della Regione Mediterranea

75.  Rochdale & Littleborough Peace Group

76.  Montreal for a World BEYOND War

77.  Seattle Against War

78.  fem-noNATO

79.  Gesellschaft für Frieden und internationale Solidarität (GeFiS e.V.)

80.  South Asian Left (SALAM)

81.  Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space

82.  Public Intellectuals for Social and Spare Change

83.  Peace Movement Leuven (Belgium)

84.  World Beyond War NZ

85.  Global Strategy of Nonviolence

86.  International Human Rights Association of American Minorities

87.  Seattle No War Coalition

88.  WILPF-US Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Peace- and Future Workshop (Germany)

89.  ATTAC Hungary

90.  Friendship Office

91.  Cascadia Magical Activists

92.  Advocates 4 Justice

93.  Displaced

94.  Victoria Peace Coalition

95.  Baltimore, MD Chapter – Veterans For Peace

96.  Vredesbeweging Leuven

97.  SAFES

98.  San Jose Against War

99.  Veterans For Peace – Ireland Chapter

100.                 Bellingham Peace Vigil

101.                 CWA for Palestine

102.                 NYC Labor for Palestine

103.                 Chicago Anti-War Coalition

104.                 Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement

105.                 PARC Against DARC

106.                 Frente Antiimperialista Internacionalista

107.                 Portland Gray Panthers

108.                 Gray Panthers Global Union

109.                 Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests

110.                 Cafe Palestina

111.                 Veterans For Peace Chapter 55 (Santa Fe, NM)

112.                 Building Bridges & Equal Rights & Justice Radio Productions

113.                 Prutehi Guåhan

114.                 Our Wisconsin Revolution

115.                 Baltimore Nonviolence Center

116.                 Milwaukee Anti-War Committee

117.                 Gabriela PDX

118.                 SUNY BDS

119.                 Disability Peoples Forum Uganda

120.                 Australia Solidarity with Latin America

121.                 Heat Waves

122.                 Mississippi Rising Coalition

123.                 Vrede Met Venezuela NL

124.                 Gulf Coast Humanists

125.                 Mississippi Veterans For Peace Chapter 184

126.                 Western Massachusetts CODEPINK

127.                 Binghamton Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine

128.                 Amsterdam Peace Vigil

129.                 Leuven Movement of Peace

130.                 Binghamton Solidarity for Palestine

131.                 Veterans For Peace, Chapter 61 (St. Louis)

132.                 Vigil For Gaza, Port Jefferson, NY

133.                 North Country Peace Group, Setauket, NY

134.                 Catholic Church, Franciscan and Jesuit

135.                 Veterans For Peace, Chapter 25 (Madison, Wisconsin)

136.                 Organic Arts, Ltd.

137.                 Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Milwaukee Branch

138.                 La Voz de Richmond

139.                 Albany Progressive Action Network

140.                 Faith Health Caucus

141.                 Veterans For Peace, Uruguay Chapter

142.                 Veterans For Peace–Hawai‘i (Don Matsuda Chapter 113)

143.                 Church Women United in New York State

144.                 Jemez Peacemakers

145.                 Fox Valley Citizens for Peace & Justice (Illinois)

146.                 Friends of Chilama

147.                 Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination

148.                 Green Party of California

149.                 Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Network

150.                 Saradiel Party – Sri Lanka

151.                 World Peace Now ॐ

152.                 Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, East Bay and San Francisco Branches

153.                 revolutionary theory and action collective-journal

154.                 Ongd AFRICANDO

155.                 United Front Committee for a Labor Party

156.                 Fellowship of Reconciliation – USA

157.                 Socialist Alliance, Australia

158.                 Canada Wide Peace & Justice Action Network

159.                 NSCAG (UK)

160.                 Jews Against White Supremacy (JAWS)

161.                 Bruxelles Panthères

162.                 Peace Action Committee of the US Green Party

163.                 Veterans For Peace, Chapter 62 (New Hampshire)

164.                 Witness at the Border

165.                 International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR)

166.                 Alaska Peace Center

167.                 Guatemala Acupuncture and Medical Aid Project

168.                 September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows

169.                 WILPF ITALIA APS

170.                 Leuvense vredesbeweging

171.                 CH.7

172.                 private

173.                 Ekofemina, Serbia

174.                 Democratic Socialists of America

175.                 Escuela de Comunicacion de Movimientos Sociales Hugo Chavez

176.                 New York City – Young Democratic Socialists of America

177.                 Academy for Solidarity and Dialetics

178.                 Gagarin Regiment

179.                 IDPAL

180.                 Front Mahasiswa Nasional (FMN)

181.                 St. Louis Anti-Imperialist Collective

182.                 FightBackBetter.com News Service

183.                 CANADA WIDE PEACE & ACTION NETWORK & MOBILIZATION AGAINST WAR & OCCUPATION

184.                 Liberation Caucus – DSA

185.                 FTP Movement

186.                 Koreans4Decolonization

187.                 Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism

188.                 Science for the People

189.                 Hungarian System-Critical Civil Organizations

190.                 EVAL Ehrfurcht Vor Allem Leben

191.                 Sông2Sea

192.                 EVAL – Ehrfurcht vor allem Leben

193.                 N/A

194.                 Green Party of Santa Clara County

195.                 Green Party of Santa Clara County CA

196.                 No organization, I am solo.

197.                 Buffalo SUNY BDS

198.                 UPTE Members for Palestine

¡Alto a la guerra con Venezuela! ¡Defiendan la Soberanía y el Derecho a Resistir de Venezuela!

3 de enero de 2026 — Las organizaciones antiimperialistas y anti-guerra firmados abajo firmantes condenamos los violentos ataques de Estados Unidos contra los derechos de los venezolanos y las violaciones de la soberanía de Venezuela. 

Los Estados Unidos bombardearon zonas civiles y militares de la ciudad de Caracas, capital de la República, y de los estados de Miranda, Aragua y La Guaira en la madrugada del sábado 3 de enero, al amparo de la oscuridad, con el fin de sembrar el terror en el país, matando a civiles y destruyendo la infraestructura venezolana en el proceso. Haciéndose eco de la invasión imperialista de Haití en 2004 y del secuestro del presidente haitiano Jean-Bertrand Aristide, el imperio rebelde también ha secuestrado al presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro y a la primera dama Cilia Flores y, al parecer, los está llevando a Nueva York para perseguirlos en los tribunales estadounidenses.

En su rueda de prensa, el presidente Donald Trump afirmó que Estados Unidos tomaría el control de Venezuela para instaurar un nuevo gobierno. «No podemos arriesgarnos a que alguien que no tenga en mente el bien del pueblo venezolano se haga con el control de Venezuela», declaró Trump. Esta amenaza está respaldada por un despliegue masivo de fuerzas navales, terrestres y aéreas estadounidenses en el Caribe, el mayor desde la invasión de Haití. 

Sin embargo, sabemos que Estados Unidos no está gobernando Venezuela en este momento. Esto forma parte de la guerra psicológica de Estados Unidos y no será aceptado por el pueblo venezolano. Se trata de la clásica estrategia, desde Irak hasta Palestina y Venezuela: debemos rechazar las mentiras imperialistas y la propaganda mediática diseñada para confundirnos y dividirnos.

Ante estos ataques, los movimientos populares de Venezuela han salido a las calles en apoyo a su Revolución Bolivariana. Fuera de Venezuela, los movimientos y organizaciones antiimperialistas, antiguerra y pro paz deben continuar defendiendo y apoyando al valiente pueblo venezolano contra el terrorismo y la desestabilización de Estados Unidos. Debemos coordinar y organizar la resistencia contra la guerra imperialista. 

Entendemos que no se trata de un momento aislado, sino de la continuación de la guerra que se libra desde hace décadas contra la Revolución Bolivariana para destruir la soberanía de Venezuela, bloquear las alianzas económicas y militares del país y aislar al Gobierno venezolano para impedir que forme alianzas con otros países del Sur Global en sus propios términos. La renovada «Estrategia América Primero» de Estados Unidos tiene como objetivo superar a sus rivales, como China y Rusia, al tiempo que reafirma su dominio exclusivo sobre el hemisferio occidental, en línea con la tradición de la Doctrina Monroe.

El pueblo venezolano está resistiendo y debemos apoyarlo.

Moviliza y coordina la resistencia masiva contra esta violencia. Sal a las calles, organiza manifestaciones y charlas informativas en los campus universitarios, moviliza a tus sindicatos para paralizar las cadenas de suministro del imperialismo, incluyendo piquetes y protestas frente a las fábricas de armas y los puertos que suministran las armas para esta agresión. Para aquellos que están fuera de los Estados Unidos, los movimientos y organizaciones venezolanos están pidiendo movilizaciones frente a las embajadas estadounidenses, las bases militares estadounidenses y las instalaciones diplomáticas de todo el mundo. 

¡Alto a la guerra contra Venezuela!

¡No a las guerras estadounidenses para cambiar el régimen! 

¡Liberen al presidente Maduro y a Cilia Flores!

¡Abajo el imperialismo estadounidense!

¡Venezuela se defiende! ¡No se rinde!

¡Venceremos!

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