LOUISVILLE CPUSA

We condemn in the strongest, strictest terms the U.S. Government’s brazenly imperialist, illegal abduction of a sitting President of a sovereign nation. We express profound outrage and stand justly with the Venezuelan people and their right to self-determination.

Further, as first reported by The New York Times, U.S. military and intelligence operatives extensively prepared for and rehearsed the criminal abduction of the legitimately elected President of the Bolivarian Republic, Nicolás Maduro, on training grounds within our own state of Kentucky.

That these drills occurred in Kentucky is a bitter insult to the people of our state. While our communities face crumbling infrastructure of all kinds, an opioid crisis fueled by profit-hungry pharmaceutical giants, poverty wages, factory closures, and racist police, the land and tax dollars of the Commonwealth are being used to secretly train for wars of imperialist aggression. The Pentagon and its corporate partners have transformed our state into a playground for practicing the overthrow of foreign governments, all to open markets for the same monopolies that exploit us here at home. They offer training for imperialist sabotage while denying us healthcare, education, a living wage, or justice of any kind.

We stand in unshakeable solidarity with the Venezuelan people, the Bolivarian revolutionary process, and the Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela. We affirm their absolute right to self-determination, free from further terror of U.S. intervention.

We call on the workers of Kentucky, union members, farmers, students, veterans, and all oppressed people, to recognize that the enemy of the Venezuelan people is the same enemy we face here: the capitalist class that owns the banks, the war industries, and the state. Our struggle against exploitation at home cannot be separated from the struggle against imperialism abroad.

Therefore, we demand:

1. The immediate and unconditional cessation of all U.S. aggression against Venezuela, including all economic sanctions, blockades, covert operations, and military threats or actions. 2. A full, international investigation into the use of U.S. soil, particularly Kentucky, for training in the illegal abduction of foreign leaders and the destabilization of sovereign states.
2. The redirection of the billions squandered on the war machine and imperialist plotting toward meeting human needs in Kentucky and across the United States.
   

No to Imperialism!
No to War!
Workers of the World, Unite!