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VENEZUELA’s opposition are calling for mass marches this week in an attempt to force President Nicolas Maduro to abort Sunday’s elections for a new congress.
The Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) coalition has sent social media messages — seen by the Morning Star — urging Venezuelans to protest at polling stations this morning to try to disrupt the constitutional assembly elections.
The opposition views the assembly as an attempt to bypass the Mud-controlled parliament.
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
