EUROPEAN leaders have shown themselves eager to join forces with United States imperialists in their push for regime change in Venezuela, issuing democratically elected President Nicolas Maduro an ultimatum giving him eight days to call an election.
France, Germany and Britain have sided with the US Trump regime, backing Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who issued a statement sayign: “We want democracy and free elections in Venezuela.
“I want to state absolutely clearly that if within eight days, fair, free and transparent elections are not called in Venezuela, Spain will recognise Juan Guaido [the leader of Venezuela’s sidelined National Assembly and self-declared “interim president”] as president.”
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



