PROTESTERS gathered outside of the Bank of England (BoE) today to demand it give Venezuela back 31 tonnes of gold that belong to the Latin American country.
The crowd chanted “no blood for oil” and “BoE, you’ve been told, give Venezuela back its gold” as a masked figure of US President Donald Trump danced around with blocks of “gold.”
ROGER D HARRIS and SARA FLOUNDERS challenge propaganda against the blockaded socialist island
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
HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth
While Hardie, MacDonald and Wilson faced down war pressure from their own Establishment, today’s leadership appears to have forgotten that opposing imperial adventures has historically defined Labour’s moral authority, writes KEITH FLETT


