Skip to main content
Donate to the Fighting Fund
International anti-fascist festival concludes in Venezuela
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (centre) addresses supporters accompanied by Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega (centre right) on his inauguration day for a third term at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, January 10, 2025

THE International Anti-Fascist World Festival came to a close in the Venezuelan capital Caracas on Saturday. 

The 2,000 delegates from 125 countries called for the consolidation of international anti-fascist action.

President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, closed the festival by thanking delegates “on behalf of all of Venezuela,” saying that “we are at peace, in democracy, in full exercise of our national sovereignty, and the people are moving forward in this new stage.”

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
Tom Mooney Company from the Lincoln Battalion, during the Spanish Civil War, Jarama, Spain, 1937
History / 24 February 2026
24 February 2026

CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history

THE RESOLVE UNALTERED: Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodriguez, center, makes a statement flanked by Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, right, and National Assembly President, Jorge Rodriguez, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela on Wednesday
Features / 16 January 2026
16 January 2026

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

Demonstrators protest outside of the White House in Washington, November 15, 2025
Latin America / 18 November 2025
18 November 2025

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

HISTORIC DREAM UNFULFILLED: The Freedom Charter seen here written on the wall of a cell in the Palace of Justice in Pretoria during the 1964 Rivonia Trial, where Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment. Photo: Creative Commons — PHParsons
Features / 7 July 2025
7 July 2025

The charter emerged from a profoundly democratic process where people across South Africa answered ‘What kind of country do we want?’ — but imperial backlash and neoliberal compromise deferred its deepest transformations, argues RONNIE KASRILS