cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7300110

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/18879

Last week, the Trump administration launched a blatant neocolonial offensive in Venezuela, kidnapping its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, and declaring that the U.S. will “run” Venezuela in order to plunder its oil resources.

This imperialist aggression abroad has been matched by brutal repression at home. This week, ICE agents shot and killed Renée Nicole Good while she was observing an ICE raid and later driving away from the scene. She is the ninth person ICE has shot since September 2025.

These events are not isolated; they are two faces of the same imperialist beast. The racism and chauvinism that have Trump treating Latin America as a playground for U.S. profits are the same forces militarizing our streets. Trump’s agenda relies on terrorizing immigrant neighbors and criminalizing dissent—whether it targets another country or an activist standing up for their community here at home.

Despite the Trump administration’s attempts to paint immigrants as violent criminals and criminalize those who defend them, the real reign of terror is being carried out by ICE and federal forces that have militarized our cities. Immigrants have not made our cities unsafe; Trump’s racist and xenophobic assault on their rights and existence has.

This weekend, from Minneapolis to New York City to Los Angeles and beyond, over 1,000 actions and demonstrations have been called in major cities against Trump’s attacks—both his aggression toward Venezuela and ICE’s presence in our streets.

Thousands are beginning to recognize that the same imperialist regime attacking working people abroad is attacking us here at home. It is urgent that we unite workers and oppressed people across borders to defeat this offensive.

Since Trump’s attacks last weekend, some unions and locals have already rejected U.S. imperialist interventions and issued calls to mobilize. United Auto Workers Local 4811 (UAW 4811), which represents nearly 50,000 workers at the University of California, released a statement critical of Trump’s attacks on Venezuela. In New York City, unions such as PSC-CUNY, UAW Region 9A, UAW Local 2110 (LAAS), and Laborers’ International Union Local 79, among others, are joining Sunday’s mobilizations. The rest of the labor movement has to follow suit.

Workers and the labor movement have a special role to play in denouncing Trump’s increasing authoritarianism that threatens the working class and oppressed across borders. Trump said only “own morality” and his “own mind” can stop his agenda, but we know that isn’t the case; as we saw with the general strikes in Italy against the genocide in Gaza, even the threat of workers shutting it down against imperialism is powerful enough to check the capitalist powers’ impunity.

Building such a force in the heart of imperialism — with workers, students, and the masses in the United States denouncing the role of their own government at home and abroad, and organizing to fight back — is essential to advancing the struggle against imperialism and the Far Right across the globe and within the United States.

The mobilizations this weekend are a powerful show of solidarity with immigrant communities and strengthen the struggle of people in countries threatened by U.S. imperialism. We must mobilize with all our forces to demand ICE out of our cities and U.S. imperialism out of Venezuela and all of Latin America. As Left Voice, we join these mobilizations independently of both Republicans and Democrats, and hold no illusions in Congress or the institutions of the imperialist state.

At the same time, we act independently of Maduro’s government, which — through authoritarianism and austerity — has undermined the capacity of the Venezuelan working class to resist the current imperialist offensive.

Our perspective is one of class independence and internationalism, grounded in the power of the working class in the United States, Latin America, and beyond — the only force capable of defeating imperialism.

**U.S. out of Venezuela and all of Latin America!****Abolish ICE!****Free Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores!**Down with the Donroe Doctrine!

Across the Americas, Mobilize and Strike for Venezuela and Latin America!

If you’re in New York City, join the Left Voice contingent at the No Wars, No Kings, No ICE protest on Sunday, January 11. We will meet at 12:30 p.m. at the intersection of E 60th street & 5th Ave.

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