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2025-10-26 18:14:44

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2026-01-12 05:15:44

Venezuela and Haiti vs. U.S. Imperialism: Same Struggle, One Fight

When cornered, a wild animal reacts viciously, out of fear and desperation, and this can take very unexpected forms. No longer able to blame communism as the enemy it seeks to destroy, U.S. imperialism now attacks any nation seeking sovereignty. It has revealed itself to be the sworn enemy of all oppressed peoples struggling for peace, happiness, and freedom.

​Today, the Trump administration has resurrected Washington’s discredited “war on drugs” as a pretext to violate international law. Everything it says is nothing but deceit, intrigue, and lies to achieve its primary objective: the plundering of others nations’ resources.

​Frankly, we are not entirely surprised by what happened on Jan. 3, 2026, in Venezuela. The brazen criminality and arrogance displayed by humanity’s greatest and most implacable enemy cannot be overstated. This outrageous act has deeply affected all those who fight against imperialism, reminding them and confirming for them U.S. imperialism’s cynicism.​
Explosions from the illegal U.S. raid in Caracas, Venezuela to capture President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores.
The Pentagon’s “Operation Absolute Resolve” confirms more than ever that the imperialist monster has only one real objective: to prevent the economic and social development of any nations that are not its vassals. This U.S. military attack against the Venezuelan people is part of a global imperialist offensive against progressive, defiant countries, and first and foremost, against those possessing enormous mineral and oil resources.

​It is a pity that the U.S. was able to accomplish this mission without casualties or other losses. That said, the battle is far from over. The game has only just begun. With the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, imperialism has scored a goal, but it will lose this match even if it is prepared to cheat, lie, and even send its own citizens to their death. In fact, this coup may well dig imperialism’s grave in the world, especially in Latin America. This region’s people will not stand by idly, having acquired the necessary experience, unity, and indignation to act.

​Maduro has become a living symbol! His arrest replicates when the Spanish invaders captured the Taino chieftain Caonabo in 1494 during Haiti’s colonization or when Napoleon’s French legion kidnapped Toussaint Louverture, the precursor of Haiti’s independence, in 1802 during our revolutionary struggle.​
Outrage and disgust at the French arrest of Toussaint Louverture (above) transformed the struggle against slavery into Latin America’s first victorious independence revolution in 1804.
Honor also to Maduro’s Cuban security team who died heroically fighting the Yankee Delta Force invaders. Their revolutionary sacrifice and internationalist bravery echoes the example of the thousands of Cubans who fell fighting to defend Angola against South African and U.S. imperialist aggression.

​No matter what happens to him while he is a prisoner persecuted by the American kangaroo court system, President Nicolas Maduro will soon be victorious along with his people, a victory that will belong to the international working class and all those struggling to rid themselves of the U.S. empire’s impunity, interference, and domination. Trump has proven to be the worst president the United States has ever had; he has learned nothing from history.

​One thing must now be clear for all those who still had doubts: the United States can no longer hide its true intentions. There is no longer any pretense of a “rules based order.”

​It is no longer a secret that the world’s greatest terrorists are the U.S. leaders who kidnap heads of state and, more often than not, assassinate them. Today, the entire world has caught the U.S. leaders red-handed; they, whose country is the breeding ground for terrorism in all its forms, are nevertheless always the first to label other countries “terrorist states.” The Maduro case will be difficult for empire to manage. Unlike Panama’s Manuel Noriega in 1989, Maduro has a dedicated social movement behind him, not just in Venezuela, but across Latin America and around the world. Every arrow that the empire’s archers shoot at him only brings him greater strength and prestige.​
In the Dominican Republic, a statue of the Taino chieftain Caonabo, captured by the Spanish in 1494.
It’s worth remembering that, in 1914, U.S. Marines first landed in Haiti to steal what remained of our gold bar reserves from the National Bank of the Republic of Haiti and then transport them to the City Bank in Manhattan. The same gold theft began in 1492 when Christopher Columbus landed, and he even stole and replaced the Taino’s name for the island, Haiti, with the name Hispaniola, to honor his Spanish royal underwriters, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Other Europeans followed to steal and plunder all the region’s wealth, then renaming it also “America” in 1507, in honor of the Italian navigator, Amerigo Vespucci.

​This history explains why no European country (with the exception of Russia) has denounced the United States’ crime against Venezuela: because this is how they enrich themselves, by plundering what does not belong to them.

​But in the eyes of the rest of the planet, the United States has lost all credibility and is reviled.

​Following this shameful event, the Haitian bourgeois press, unscrupulous as it is, must cease its indecent penchant for interviewing U.S., Canadian, and French ambassadors. These barbarians have no credibility, no morality, no wisdom, and certainly no trust. They are nothing but sweet-talking diplomats in the service of thieves, kidnappers, pirates, and buccaneers who plunder nations in broad daylight.

​Donald Trump may insult Haiti by calling it a “shit-hole,” even though all the mineral wealth, agricultural output, and labor power of this “poor” country, like that of other neocolonies, has helped make him and his nation rich. And the leaders that the U.S. empire imposes on us are just as stupid and reactionary as their masters. Wouldn’t it have been nice to have had Haitian authorities who would strongly and roundly denounce Washington’s repulsive, criminal action and demand the unconditional release of the Venezuelan president? But alas! We have 10 servile, sniveling puppets.​
President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores before a massive crowd at their final campaign rally in Caracas on Jul. 25, 2024.
Shame on you, United States! Where is your victory, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio? Your orchestrated campaign against the Venezuelan people will fail and will fool no one with a shred of decency and intelligence.
​The U.S. has also committed a most serious and costly error in thinking it can dictate Venezuela’s destiny as it did Haiti’s. This diktat, which creates exploitation, misery, and humiliation in all its forms, will not be tolerated by the Venezuelan people after 27 years of self-determination. They will overcome these new Conquistadors very quickly, just as the Haitian people continue to fight for their second independence and national liberation. May this incredible violation of Venezuelan sovereignty not go unanswered and be severely condemned so that such acts may never again be perpetrated anywhere in the world.

​Outrage and disgust at the arrest of Toussaint Louverture transformed the struggle against slavery into Latin America’s first victorious independence revolution in 1804 against a European empire, creating a nation that supported Bolivar with printing presses, boats, guns, and soldiers. Similarly in Venezuela, faced with this imperialist aggression, there is only one response: patriotic and revolutionary mobilization.

​This bitter experience can only stoke the revolutionary passion of the Venezuelan people, conscious and determined to learn all the lessons from it in order to dismantle this insane capitalist system and strengthen the Bolivarian socialist revolution, as well as ensure the unconditional return of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores, to their country. Cursed be U.S. imperialism! Long live the Venezuelan people! Long live the struggle of the Haitian people! Long live socialism!

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How the U.S. Came to Dominate Haiti: Seizing the Gold - Haiti Liberte

The second of three installments (First part) Chapter Three: Financial Occupations The Banque Nationale d’Haiti (BNH) was housed in a whitewashed, two-story colonial building at the corner of rues Ferou and Américaine in the downtown business distric…

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abolitionmedia

2026-01-12 00:45:59

Press Release: National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Cagayan Valley

Surface missing NDFP-CV staff Scarlet Lyne Gayo and uphold her rights!

Robert Reid | Global Chair FFPS

In a statement by the National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Cagayan Valley (NDFP-CV), spokesperson Salvador del Pueblo alerted the public that Scarlet Lyne Gayo is a missing staff of their regional public information team who was cornered by elements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

There are indications that she is being held by the military and pressured to turn against her revolutionary comrades in exchange for the dismissal of several trumped-up charges against her. This clearly goes against her rights to her own political beliefs and to not be subjected to arrest without a warrant from a case filed against her. If there is a case, she should be surfaced in court and her rights as arrested person need to be respected, such as the Miranda rights, right to attorney of her own choice, etc.

This type of fascist violence has been a popular weapon of the US-Marcos regime, as well as previous administrations, and its armed forces in their psywar and all-out counterinsurgency war of suppression against the Filipino people.

The NDFP and the people’s movement in Cagayan Valley and surrounding areas in Northern Luzon, as well as all parts of the country, have long been subjected to fascist terror by the AFP and other armed state forces. Such as the abduction, torture and killing of Ariel Arbitrario in Cagayan Valley on September 11, 2024, as well as the killing of Randy Malayao inside a bus in Nueva Vizcaya in 2019. Both had been NDFP consultants in peace negotiations, carried their document of information under the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) and as such should have been protected from attacks.

NDFP peace consultants and staff perform important roles in the road to a just and lasting peace. Many of them are leaders and members of mass organizations and unions who are deeply engaged in the struggle for the rights and interests of the masses, and for the people’s desire for national and social liberation. Through this integration they are in the best position to help inform and put forward the people’s demands for a just and lasting peace.

NDFP staff and consultants are spread all throughout the many islands of the Philippines and their role in updating the negotiating panel on the situation of the people, on their needs and demands, is an essential contribution to the peace process. They are the pulse that keep the Negotiating Panel informed of the situation on the ground. Furthermore, they help ensure that the NDFP’s vision advances the people’s agenda for genuine change, and as such contribute to the just and internationally recognized struggle for self-determination.

Under the JASIG, NDFP staff’s safety is to be protected to ensure their full participation in peace negotiations. The abductions, imprisonments, torture and killings of NDFP peace consultants and staff involved in the peace process, are not only a violation of the signed JASIG and a violation of their fundamental rights but also undermine the peace process between the GRP and the NDFP. It means that the Negotiating Panel has less people in the field supporting the panel and representing the demands of the Filipino people.

The abduction and continued disappearance of NDFP-CV staff member Scarlet Lyne Gayo amongst the continuing US-Marcos’ war of suppression represents the insincerity of the GRP in pursuing just and lasting peace.

From previous cases in recent years involving the abduction and disappearance of legal activists and NDFP personnel, it is well documented that victims are regularly subjected to severe physical and psychological torture aimed at coercing them to renounce their comrades and organizations. This heightens our concern for the grave danger now faced by Scarlet Lyne Gayo, who has been missing since December 9, 2025, and underscores the urgency of the situation.

We therefore urgently call on the entire international community to stand with the struggling Filipino masses, call for the immediate surfacing of Scarlet Lyne Gayo and the full respect of her rights as an individual, as well as the respect of international law and existing signed agreements. We furthermore advocate for her prompt and unconditional release. Stand with the Filipino people for a just and lasting peace in the Philippines!

About Friends of the Filipino People in Struggle (FFPS):

Friends of the Filipino People in Struggle (FFPS) / Friends of the National Democratic Front (FNDF) is a global organization that supports the Filipino people’s struggle for genuine national liberation as outlined in the 12 point program of the NDF. For more information, visit ffps.info.

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abolitionmedia

2026-01-12 00:40:21

On Venezuela: Towards An Anarchist Anti-Colonialism

The kidnapping of the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, by the United States this last week has created a divide in anarchist perspectives; particularly those living in the United States. It has made clear that there is a concerning lack of consensus around the implications of this action by the revolutionary left. To get on the same page and ascertain an anarchist perspective on this matter, it is necessary to understand international dynamics, the tradition of anarchist viewpoints, the dynamics of global class struggle and critical role of anarchists residing in the heart of the Empire.

On January 3, 2025, the US conducted a kidnapping operation, firing missiles at military installations and using operatives in helicopters to descend on the presidential palace, kill the security detail of Maduro, and take him and his wife hostage to New York to face fraudulent federal charges.

This comes at a very poignant moment in the US trajectory. As the US economy continues its downward trend, an explicitly far right administration has taken power. At the same time other countries have been rising to global prominence and influence, such as China and Russia. The US response to the situation directly follows historical precedent of the US: increase pressure on people of color and leftists domestically (ICE raids and the Antifa witch hunt), try to dominate globally through proxies, take down governments that follow an ani-colonial path, such as Burkina Faso, install governments in other countries that are subservient to US interests, fund and rally detractors in other countries, and militarily reinforce colonial proxies, such as ‘Israel’. The only difference now is that the far right administration is very explicit about it’s intent for world domination. Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, stated on the issue of taking Maduro that essentially might makes right. In a similarly hubristic vein, Donald Trump listed several places the US planned to affect a similar policy, including Cuba, Colombia and Greenland.

The history of US domination and exploitation in Central and South America has left a long and deep scar on the people there. Like now, the motivation for the US was to disrupt the entrenchment of the left in Latin America which would interfere with ability of US companies to extract wealth and resources from the South. The US-based United Fruit company brutalized Colombians for almost one hundred years, funding right wing paramilitaries to keep workers in check. The 1928 Banana Massacre took place in response to worker demands for better conditions, which was disavowed by US officials as, “communist.” It became Chiquita Brands, well known for financing the right wing paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) to exact killings and torture to keep workers in check. Salvador Allende was the first socialist president of Chile. Before his election the CIA spent $3 million on anti-Allende propaganda and once Allende was elected, the US led a right wing coup on September 11^th, 1973 to depose him and install a brutal military dictatorship in his place. The U.S. was heavily involved in El Salvador during its civil war from 1979 to 1992, providing over $1 billion in military and economic aid to the Salvadoran government to combat leftist guerrillas. The list is seemingly endless. Clearly following this extractive trajectory, Donald Trump stated both before and after the kidnapping of Maduro that the oil in Venezuela belongs to the US.

Anarchism has long stood by its principles of internationalism and a borderless perspective, treating state-imposed borders as illegitimate. Buenaventura Durruti didn’t just go into hiding in France, he connected with and worked alongside comrades throughout South America. After the Spanish Civil War, Abraham Guillen made a similar voyage, working with and advising armed struggle groups in South America. The anarchist Shinmin perfecture in Manchuria functioned as a launch pad for actions against imperial Japan in Korea. Now, as then, revolutionary struggle by the oppressed in the Global South should have a seamless connection with revolutionaries in the imperial core. This is an important principle reflecting the statement by Subcomandante Marcos: “Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristóbal…” reflecting how a partisan in the movement must be on the side of the oppressed wherever they are. This international solidarity is an important practice of principle and also a practical consideration that a struggle abroad cannot succeed without a struggle at home and vice versa.

This logic is even more poignant considering the role the US has played geopolitically. Its tyranny extends beyond the borders of Central and South America, cultivating colonial and right wing trajectories around the world. The US has, for example, trained Ukrainian fascist paramilitaries and continuously armed the Zionist regime in its genocide against Palestinians.

There have been arguments made in recent days by those who consider themselves revolutionary leftists and anarchists that we as a movement should not care about the US kidnapping of Maduro because he is authoritarian, as is perhaps the Chavista project altogether. Equating a leader in the global south with leadership in the US on the basis of hierarchic control of a territory is a misinterpretation I once naively shared as an anarchist based in the US. Many years ago as part of an anarchist social center, we shared a post on social media by an ostensibly anarchist collective based in Venezuela, critical of the state. A Brazilian anarchist group of comrades we were connected with, comrades with a proven record of combatting racism and taking an important stance against US imperialism, gently informed us that we were sharing US State Department propaganda. We researched the journal we had shared and found that it, indeed, had questionable origins. The Brazilian anarchists explained that while the social project in Venezuela was not ideal, it was still on the left and that their position, particularly in conjunction with comrades in that country, was to work within the structures that existed which were materially bettering people’s lives and push them further towards the left. This was a new perspective for us because we were living in a country that was so far to the right, we had to work to understand what this meant.

On further reflection and conversation with our comrades in the global south, we made the important distinction that all forms of power over others are not necessarily the same. When an anarchist soldier in the Spanish Civil War captures a fascist and imprisons them, it is to stop a certain political reality. When a fascist does the same to an anarchist, it is that far right political position that becomes more likely. Force is used on either side to propagate or prevent specific social policies from being enacted. With the unbalanced distribution of power that exists between the US and Central and South America, the force necessary to overturn the fascist political reality becomes even greater. This is compounded by the constant low grade warfare launched by the US against, in this case, Venezuela. From aiding right wing coup attempts to an economic sanction to funding the opposition to propagating studies and media pieces about transgressions of Venezuelan leadership, there is a need for Venezuela to tighten its borders and increase security internally to prevent being overrun by the US. The threats by the US actually increase the need for activities that are then denounced by US-based anarchists as authoritarian.

This thought exercise was an invaluable lesson for an anarchist living in the heart of the Empire. There is no doubt that we are tainted by our right wing society, by our global position by birth and our alienated, hyper-capitalist daily lives. In the US, our war against the colonial, capitalist state is inherently just, but due to the complexities of imperialism and history, the same might not be true for every other state at every historical juncture. This doesn’t mean that we give up our ideals or our vision for a truly liberated society and stop fighting for a borderless world, but that we learn how to work with those have been oppressed, specifically in the global south, and that we make alliances and friends along the way in order to build a leftist pole against right-wing domination, neocolonialism and empire. We don’t rise alone, but we rise together, in struggle. And we create the situation for more leftist projects to thrive and move further to the left if we can thwart the power of the globally powerful right, and the colonial intentions of the US.

Anarchist societies don’t arise out of a vacuum. The Anarchists in Spain the 1930’s would not have risen to prominence without a global leftist trajectory. The same is true of Makhno’s Ukraine. If more of the world were to further fall under the diabolical influence of the US, clearly a purveyor of right-wing policies, colonialism, and exploitation for capitalist purposes, we would see a further rise in right wing politics globally. It is no coincidence that so many anti-colonial struggles took a left wing character when they were funded by the Soviet Union. And it is no coincidence that such struggles have currently lost that left wing characteristic. This is not to say that what the global actions of the Soviet Union perfectly created a revolutionary situation, but rather that when there are more left wing countries and projects around the world, there is a greater chance of their proliferation, and a greater chance at creating societies that are even further to the left. Using a smaller example, there likely would not currently be so many anarchists in Greece if their parents had not been communists.

Anarchists with the unique position of living in the US have a responsibility to the rest of the world. Anarchism is a social pursuit, not about creating an isolated bubble where radicals in the heart of the Empire enjoy themselves at the expense of those in the global south. It’s borderless and international principles are about aligning with those who have been historically and globally oppressed and fighting the purveyor of their distress. Accordingly, the Zapatistas have called on US based radicals to struggle against the government. In light of the horrors the US is perpetuating, and the political position it is proliferating, for anyone residing in the US, it should be our primary enemy. The benefit of people of color and the oppressed here and abroad should be a barometer for our actions.

From our position of both privilege and opportunity, when we analyze a situation like the kidnapping of Maduro, our first question should not be, Is the social and economic system in Venezuela a project worthy of my support?, but instead, What does it mean geopolitically for the US to be able to interfere in the politics of a country in the global south? Even if the Chavista project does not represent an ideal society, the alternative of an empowered fascist US deciding policy beyond its borders is vastly more dire. There is no situation where the US should be allowed to operate as a global policeman, garnering it further resources and power and bringing abject misery to the most vulnerable.

Secondly, we must not make the mistake of parroting State Department propaganda that pushes a US agenda. It is important to analyze the sources of information on international subjects, and understand the agenda of the bodies and people the information comes from. When people from Venezuela in the US speak about their dislike of the politics there, are they speaking from a left or right wing perspective? It is essential to be entirely critical of all mainstream US press, especially on geopolitical issues. Both liberal and conservative media outlets share information that furthers the US economic agenda. This was evident, for example, in the months leading up to the war in Iraq when mainstream press consistently and uncritically shared the assertion that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. After the war, the same press later shared evidence to the contrary but the damage was already done.

The rift in anarchist perspectives around the kidnapping of Maduro has exposed a crucial, yet fundamental gap, exposing an absence of anarchist anti-colonialism. This is an opportunity to revisit the essential tenets of anarchism and realign with them. As such, it is an opportunity for all anarchists in the US to deeply inspect their own innate prejudices and dispositions that come from that position and figure out how to best shed pernicious Western supremacy that has been embedded their consciousness. Most of all, it is an opportunity to align with the global south, with global leftism and analyze how best to use the benefits of our birth certificates, passports and visas to destroy a powerful and seemingly interminable source of right wing politics around the world. In these critical times we must be clear who our primary enemy is, become united in our fight against it, and thereby create a situation where far more open leftist projects can flourish.

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abolitionmedia

2026-01-12 00:11:11

Pro-Palestine Group Targets Zionist Linked Firm in Scotland

The break-in happened at Bruntons Aero Products site Inveresk Industrial Park in Musselburgh, Scotland and messages, “There’s only one way this ends’ and ‘Drop Leonardo on machinery using red spray painr, after midnight on New Year’s Day.

Scottish pro Palestine activists vandalised an Edinburgh area factory linked to the F35 program in the first hours of 2026.

The pro Palestinian group broke into the Bruntons Aero Products facility in Musselburgh, damaging CNC machines, servers, and computers. Graffiti left at the site read ‘There’s only one way this ends’.

Bruntons was targeted for supplying Leonardo, which produces laser targeting systems for F35 jets and military equipment used by Israel.

According to its website, Bruntons is “a specialised manufacturer of machined components and mechanical cable assemblies”.

The website adds: “We supply direct to all levels of the aerospace supply chain, servicing our customers prototype, serial production and spares requirements.”

The break-in comes after similar incidents in October at the Edinburgh offices of aerospace firm Leonardo UK and security firm Securitas.

Source: Act For Free

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Musselburgh, Scotland :Moment of people storms and Vandalize with hammers in Scots factory & smashes up machinery over ties with Israeli-linked firm .

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