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VENEZUELAN communists issued a May Day call to resist US-backed coup plotters and for working-class power yesterday.
Supporters of both the United Socialist Party (PSUV) government and the Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) opposition coalition planned marches, the latter to the Supreme Justice Tribunal and the National Electoral Council to repeat the demand for an early presidential election.
A month of anti-government violence incited by the Mud has left 29 people dead and more than 500 injured — almost matching the toll for 2014’s year of putschist terror.
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
