The Caracas Resolution

1. Condemn the United States' brutal attack against Venezuelan sovereignty and the kidnapping of its lawful leader, President Nicolás Maduro, and First Lady Cilia Flores. We pay tribute to the Venezuelan and Cuban defenders who gave their lives resisting the US assault and mourn all civilian victims of this imperial aggression.
2. Recognize the United States as a settler-colonial project; the Monroe Doctrine as the hemispheric and, increasingly, global extension of its founding logic; and the “Trump corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine as a dangerous new phase of military belligerence seeking to dominate the Western Hemisphere in its entirety.
3. Acknowledge the latest assault as only the latest chapter in a long-standing hybrid war — fought with suffocating sanctions, naval blockades, mercenary assaults, and sabotage attempts — aimed at dismantling the Bolivarian Revolution launched by Hugo Chávez and carried forward by the Venezuelan people under the leadership of Nicolás Maduro and the the United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
4. Recognize that Venezuela’s revolutionary project is targeted not only for its vast resource wealth. As a movement towards socialism — historically the most powerful guarantor of sovereignty — the Bolivarian Revolution is targeted because of the threat its example poses to global capital. Through major achievements in poverty reduction, equality, health, literacy, housing, food sovereignty, and the construction of economic sovereignty and resilience through the commune movement, it demonstrated that wealth could be directed towards life.
5. Acknowledge that it is not just socialism that is under assault. National sovereignty is under attack everywhere. From Palestine to Venezuela, Syria to the Sahel, Iran to Honduras, there is a brazen attempt to roll back the gains of the struggles against colonialism and restore the rule of the West on a planetary scale.
6. Recognize that the violence implicit in this process is not a sign of imperial strength, but rather a symptom of the sharpening and intractable crises of global capitalism whose consequences stretch far beyond the nations currently facing assault. Imperial belligerence in the periphery will continue to boomerang against working people and marginalized communities in the imperialist centers.
7. Fear that each of these episodes of imperial violence brings us closer to the brink of global war — one whose violence poses existential dangers for humanity.
8. Reject the false equivalence between imperial aggressors and their victims and condemn the intellectual agents of imperialist war, whose assault on Global South states and their leaders obfuscates the stakes of the confrontation and throttles the solidarities urgently needed to defend nations and peoples facing attack.
9. Recognize that global capital no longer feels constrained by the compromises of social democracy or international law. The groundwork for fascism’s return to the political mainstream has been laid, and the coming struggle demands more than appeals to these discarded frameworks.
10. Support the right of all nations and peoples to defend their sovereignty from imperial aggression by all available means and commit to preparing our movements to stand with that resistance as we enter a decisive battle for humanity’s future.

Signatories:

- ACT Wazalendo, Tanzania

- AISC, United States

- Al Fida'i Media Network, International

- Black Lives Matter UK, United Kingdom

- Bronx Anti-War, United States

- Circulo Bilivariano-Sydney, Australia

- Climate Vanguard, United Kingdom

- CODEPINK, United States

- Communist Party Marxist CPM, Kenya

- Congolese Solidarity Campaign, South Africa

- Diaspora Pa'lante Collective, Puerto Rico / United States

- Fairfield for Palestine x Fowler for Palestine, Australia

- Friends of Cuba Society, South Africa

- Good Shepherd Collective, Palestine

- Haqooq-e-Khalq Party, Pakistan

- Khalq Youth Front, Pakistan

- Kuwaiti Progressive Movement, Kuwait

- Latinx for Palestine, Gadigal, Eora Nation (Sydney, Australia)

- Marxist Group of Namibia, Namibia

- Mathare Social Justice Centre, Kenya

- Movement for Debt and Reparations, South Africa

- MVIWATA, Tanzania

- National Alliance of Agriculture allied Workers Union – NAAWU, India

- National Students for Justice in Palestine, Turtle Island (US and Canada)

- Nodutdol for Korean Community Development, United States

- Orinoco Tribune, Venezuela

- Palestine Solidarity Alliance, South Africa

- PUDEMO, Swaziland

- Qiao Collective, United States and Canada

- Refugee Lives Matter, Australia

- Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, International

- South African Communist Party, South Africa

- Swaziland United Democratic Front, Swaziland

- Sweatshop Literacy Movement, Australia

- Tanzania Socialist Forum, Tanzania

- Ukombozi Library, Kenya

- Venezuela Solidarity Network, North America

- Venezuelanalysis, Venezuela

- Veterans for Peace, United States

- Visual Intifada, South Africa

- Vox Ummah, Global

- VSN, United States

- Youth Climate Finance Alliance, United States