Hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Caracas yesterday in solidarity with President Nicolas Maduro and defending the legacy of Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution.
They were marking the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Caracazo uprising when thousands of Venezuelans “broke the chains of imperialism.”
Thousands poured out from the barrios onto the streets of the capital and the nearby city of Guarenas in protest at rising prices of basic goods.
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
Western nations’ increasingly aggressive stance is not prompted by any increase in security threats against these countries — rather, it is caused by a desire to bring about regime changes against governments that pose a threat to the hegemony of imperialism, writes PRABHAT PATNAIK


