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Supporters of Venezuela's ruling Socialists United Party rally to celebrate their win in last week's legislative elections
ELECTION observers in Venezuela have dismissed US claims that the recent parliamentary vote was undemocratic as “false.”
The World Peace Council (WPC) was among the organisations which had open access to voters and polling stations across the country for the election of deputies to the National Assembly which took place on December 6.
Its report praised the Venezuelan people for exercising their democratic rights and overcoming “repeated sabotages, intrigues and an anti-human blockade by the US and European Union imperialists.”
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
HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth