Version imprimable1. CPI(M) statements: Stop US Aggression on Venezuela / BJP Government’s Disgraceful stance on Venezuela
2. CPI (ML) Liberation - Condemn the US Imperialist War on Venezuela!
3. CPI Statement On the Government of India’s Shameful Silence on the US Attack Against Venezuela
4. Radical Socialist - Resist Yankee Imperialist Invasion of Venezuela . . .
5. Joint Call for Protest by Left Parties over US agression on Venezuela
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CPI(M)
January 3, 2026
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
Stop US Aggression on Venezuela
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the blatant act of U.S. aggression on Venezuela by bombing various sites in the country.
For the last few weeks the U.S. has mobilised its military and naval forces around Venezuela in order to enforce regime change. This is the real face of the U.S. National Security Strategy 2025, announced in the first week of December 2025. The concentration of U.S. forces in the Western Hemisphere and open declaration of its intent to bring the entire region under its control represent the Trump corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
The CPI(M) demands an immediate end to U.S. aggression and withdrawal of all its troops from the Caribbean Sea. Latin America should be declared a zone of peace and the U.S. should not be allowed to interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign countries.
The UN Security Council should pass a Resolution condemning the U.S. aggression. International pressure must be mounted on the U.S. to immediately stop its aggression on Venezuela.
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CPI(M)
Press Release
5 Jan 2026
Condemn BJP Government’s Disgraceful Position on Venezuela
The Modi led BJP government’s response to the blatant aggression against Venezuela and the abduction of its President and wife by the United States armed forces, is craven and unworthy of India’s long held position of defence of independence and sovereignty of nations.
The statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs only expresses ‘deep concern at the developments in Venezuela’ and calls for ‘dialogue to ensure peace and stability in the region’. There is not a word of condemnation about the gross violation of the United Nations Charter and international law – something which even some European allies of the US have mentioned.
India’s stand is in sharp contrast to that taken by its BRICS partners like Brazil and South Africa who have unequivocally and strongly condemned the US aggression and demanded the release of President Maduro and his wife. This pro US stand is in line with the Modi government’s right-wing ideology and strategic ties with the Trump administration. By this stand India has abdicated any claim to represent the interests of the Global South.
The CPI(M) demands that the Modi government abandon this disgraceful position and come out categorically against the US aggression and illegal acts in Venezuela.
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Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
Statement | Condemn the US Imperialist War on Venezuela! Stand With the People of Venezuela in Defence of Their Sovereignty!
The people of Venezuela are under attack! In the early hours of January 3, U.S. under the Trump administration unleashed a criminal war of aggression against the people of Venezuela. Reports confirm brutal bombing and military invasion targeting the capital city of Caracas. A social media post by Donald Trump even claims that President Maduro and his wife have been captured and flown out of Venezuela.
This war is not just against Venezuela, but an open threat against every people in the region and across the world who strive to determine their own future free from imperialist dictates.
The same lies used to justify the invasion of Iraq, the seizure of its oil, and the devastation of its people are now recycled as so-called “narco-terrorism” to justify a regime-change operation against President Nicolás Maduro and the plunder of Venezuela, a country with largest oil reserves in the world.
Trump’s war on the people of Venezuela aims to impose a U.S.-backed colonial order. It seeks to crush the Bolivarian Revolution that overthrew a U.S.-supported oligarchy and returned the nation’s oil wealth to the people. The war is to seize Venezuela’s oil once again for U.S. multinational corporations and install a puppet government to serve imperialist interests.
This war is the latest chapter in the bloody history of U.S. intervention across Latin America and the Caribbean, manipulating elections, overthrowing democratically elected governments, subjugating people’s movements, unleashing bloodshed, and imposing destruction. From Guatemala to Chile, from Grenada to Panama, the U.S. Monroe Doctrine, which treats the Latin American region as its “personal backyard” and which Trump seeks to reinforce, has always meant subjugation, exploitation, and repression, denying the peoples of the region their right to sovereignty and self-determination.
*Stand in unyielding solidarity with the people of Venezuela as they defend their sovereignty and their right to determine their own political and economic course, free from imperialist interference.*
We call upon all democratic and peace-loving forces worldwide to stand against this imperialist aggression and the attempts to impose a new order of colonial subjugation under the Trump regime.
Hands off Venezuela!
Down with U.S. imperialism!
— Central Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation (03 January 2026)
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Communist Party of India
January 5, 2026
Press Release
On the Government of India’s Shameful Silence on the US Attack Against Venezuela
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (January 5, 2026) the following statement:
The Communist Party of India expresses its deep concern and anguish over the position adopted by the Government of India, which has chosen to remain silent and, in effect, align itself with US imperialism on this critical issue. Such a stance represents a shameful departure from India’s historic commitment to non-alignment, anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, and solidarity with oppressed nations of the Global South.
The kidnapping of a sitting President by a foreign power is nothing short of state terrorism. It sets a dangerous precedent that threatens the sovereignty of all developing countries. If such acts are normalised, no nation of the Global South can feel secure from imperialist coercion, regime change operations, and military intimidation.
The CPI demands that the Government of India immediately abandon its equivocal and pro-imperialist posture and clearly condemn the US aggression against Venezuela. India must raise its voice in defence of international law, national sovereignty, and the right of peoples to determine their own political and economic systems without external interference.
India must stand firmly with non-aligned countries, with Latin America, with the Global South, and with all nations resisting imperialist domination. Silence in the face of such blatant illegality amounts to complicity.
The CPI reiterates its unwavering solidarity with the people and the legitimate government of Venezuela and calls upon progressive forces worldwide to unite against imperialism, militarism, and neo-colonial aggression.
Imperialism cannot be allowed to trample upon international law and national sovereignty with impunity.
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Roykutty
Office Secretary
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4.
Radical Socialist Statement
Resist Yankee Imperialist Invasion of Venezuela and Support Venezuelan Working People
The US war against Venezuela has moved from the covert to the open stage. US armed forces have
bombed Caracas, and according to the US President Trump, they have kidnapped the Venezuelan
President Maduro and his wife. This unprovoked assault comes after a prolonged period of
imperialist aggression with economic sanctions and murderous strikes against boats in the Caribbean
Sea, killing more than 100 people in the past few months.
This is an open imperialist invasion, as it was in Grenada (1983), Panama (1989), Iraq (1991, 2003-
2011), and in Afghanistan. The Maduro regime was not a direct extension of the Chavez era. Many
legitimate criticisms can be made of it from a revolutionary socialist perspective. But all this means,
the task of getting rid of the Maduro regime lies with the workers and the other popular masses of
Venezuela.
The US imperialist invasion, the kidnapping of Maduro and his wife Cilia Adela Flores, the
subsequent announcement that they will be tried in accordance with US law in a US court, as well as
the announcement by Trump that the US will run Venezuela, shows with the utmost clarity that
imperialism no longer requires even the fig leaf of legality. This is a direct return to gunboat
imperialism, to full fledged colonialism, which liberals and reformist pandits were announcing is no
longer possible. When the large stock of Venezuelan oil is concerned, the US-China or US-Russia
confrontation take priority over such stuff as international law. This also shows clearly that
international law is an oxymoron used when it suits imperialists to act against their opponents, but
has no value against imperialists like the US President Trump and those they support (e.g.,
Netanyahu). UK Prime Minister Starmer immediately supporting the removal of Maduro (and calling,
laughably, for a peaceful transition) shows that the bourgeois and social democratic “alternative” to
Trump will line up, merely making a few statements that satisfy their core constituencies. EU, Russia,
China, have been engaged in cautious statements, which even when condemning the invasion, is
ritualistic.
The US action shows that if there is a terrorist state, a rogue state, in the world, it is the US along
with Israel. For waging an unlawful war, had there been a real war crimes court capable of reaching
all, Trump and the top US military officers should have been tried as war criminals.
We do not uncritically support Maduro. Our support is to the people of Venezuela. But they cannot
wage their struggle freely while under US military control, or a spurious democracy installed by the
US only after it ensures its local puppets will retain power. The task of revolutionaries,
internationalists, is to oppose the US war without any qualification. We demand the release of
Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Adela Flores – it is up to the Venezuelan people to judge and elect whom
they want.
We demand that the Indian state, itself the result of a prolonged struggle against colonial
exploitation, must openly and publicly condemn the US invasion and call for international
coordination against that.
We urge Indian left forces, trade unions, and other democratic mass organisations to jointly organise
all possible anti-imperialist, anti-aggression protests/demonstrations, including in front of US
embassy and consulates.
- Down with the US Imperialists
- mperialism, hands off Venezuela
- Only the working people of Venezuela can try Maduro, not an imperialist kangaroo court
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5. January 04, 2026
The following is the joint statement issued by the five Left Parties condemning the US aggression on Venezuela:
Left Parties Calls for Protests Against US Aggression
We strongly denounce and condemn the US aggression against Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. This is an attack carried out against a sovereign nation in blatant violation of the UN Charter.
US President, Donald Trump, in his address stated that they would capture the oil reserves of Venezuela, laying bare the real intentions behind this aggression. The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, went a step further and warned that Cuba and Mexico would be their next target. These statements, coming days after the release of the US National Security Strategy 2025, make it clear that US imperialism seeks to impose its hegemony over the entire world, even if it means carrying out military attacks. The US wants to impose the Trump corollary of the infamous Monroe doctrine that treats the entire Western Hemisphere as its backyard and run its writ.
Reports coming from Venezuela indicate that the people are mobilising in large numbers against US aggression and in defence of their country’s sovereignty. We extend our wholehearted support and solidarity with the fighting people of Venezuela.
We, the Left parties, call for nationwide protests against US aggression and in solidarity with the people of Latin America. We appeal to all peace-loving, anti-imperialist people of our country to mobilise in large numbers and actively participate in these protests. The Government of India must join the voices of countries across the world condemning US aggression and stand firmly with Venezuela.
