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Supporters of President Nicolas Maduro cheer during the swearing-in ceremony of Maduro's campaign staff in Caracas, Venezuela, earlier this month
MPS WERE slammed for “foaming at the mouth with ill-informed comments on Venezuela” at the Scottish TUC Congress today where delegates overwhelmingly endorsed a motion urging the Scottish government to condemn US interference in the Latin-American country.
Clydebank TUC delegate Tam Morrison said there were Blairite, Tory and SNP MPs who had referred to Venezuela in “terms straight from the Pentagon think tank.”
He told the hall that “MPs who have shown zero interest in that country” had been “foaming at the mouth with ill-informed comments on Venezuela.”
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
