Message to Trump... 'Hands of Venezuela!'

LET’S get this straight.

- TONY STAUNTON PRESIDENT, PLYMOUTH TRADES UNION COUNCIL

It is perfectly acceptable for Trump to invade Venezuela, bomb homes and kill over 40 people, abduct the President and his wife, and install an administration subservient to US oil corporations...Really? No! Regime change follows the logic of unbridled capitalism - the rule of the most powerful. Power and control behaviours, nationalist military might and domination, plunder, wealth extraction and accumulation, colonialism and imperialism.

In the specific case of Venezuela this week, we see the proclaimed right of the United States of America’s capitalist ruling class to dominate and control the western hemisphere. The people of Latin America have fought for self determination and national liberation for centuries. From the revolution led by Simon Bolivar in 1797, Venezuelans have fought back against colonisation from Spain, Britain and Portugal, and then corporate domination from the USA.