US MILITARY facilities in Britain must be closed following its “state terrorism against Venezuela,” the Communist Party of Britain has said.

General secretary Rob Griffiths made the demand at the party’s political committee today.

He also called for US military facilities at British bases around the world, including in the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic and Indian oceans, to be ditched.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer must demand that the trumped-up charges against Nicolas Maduro be dropped and the Venezuelan president released from US captivity, the party insisted.

Mr Griffiths said: “It beggars belief that Starmer, a former human rights lawyer, refuses to condemn US state terrorism against Venezuela and the Trump administration’s blatant violations of the UN Charter and international law.”

He derided claims that Maduro is a dictator heading a narco-terrorist cabal that threatens US national security as baseless and grotesque.

“Where are the torture centres and death squads in Maduro’s Venezuela? Where are the mass executions of political opponents?” Mr Griffiths asked.

“In reality, these are the hallmarks of the many savage right-wing dictatorships armed, trained and financed by the US over the past 80 years and more.”

The party rejected “bogus pretexts” for US military intervention in Venezuela and insisted that the real motives were to terminate President Maduro’s independent foreign policy, which includes mutually beneficial relations with China, Cuba, Brazil and Russia, and to take control of the country’s enormous state-owned oil resources.

“Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua and Brazil are also in the firing line for President Trump and his cabal of far-right, anti-democratic and corporate gangsters,” Mr Griffiths added.