Democratic Socialists Your Party condemns in the strongest possible terms the reported United States military assault on the Republic of Venezuela and the alleged kidnapping of its elected president. If confirmed, these actions constitute a flagrant violation of the most basic democratic norms and the right to self-determination of the Venezuelan people.
For decades, US imperialism has treated Latin America as a laboratory for coercion: coups disguised as “humanitarian interventions,” economic warfare rebranded as “sanctions,” and outright military violence justified through the language of order and security. What is unfolding now appears as the continuation of this historical pattern.
We reject absolutely the doctrine that powerful states may unilaterally decide the political fate of weaker nations. Socialism begins from the principle that peoples, not empires, are the subjects of history. Any attempt by the United States to impose regime change through military violence or kidnapping is an attack not only on Venezuela, but on the very possibility of an international order based on self-determination rather than brute force.
The British state is not an innocent bystander. Through NATO, intelligence-sharing, basing agreements, and political alignment, the UK is structurally integrated into the machinery of US militarism. Silence or neutrality in the face of such actions is complicity.
Neither must we content ourselves with calls for condemnation and statements of disapproval; Democratic Socialists Your Party demands:
Internationalism is not a rhetorical posture but a material commitment. A socialist movement worthy of the name cannot equivocate in the face of imperial aggression. We stand with the Venezuelan people against military aggression, with all peoples against empire, and for a world in which democracy is not enforced by bombs.