The Communists Condemn the American Attack on Venezuela

The contradictions within imperialism are intensifying, and the struggle over market shares and other advantages becomes ever sharper. In recent years, the peoples of Syria, Palestine, Ukraine, Sudan, and Afghanistan—among others—have suffered on account of this. Now the imperialist escalation has struck hard against the already suffering people of Venezuela. 

The Communist Party of Sweden strongly condemns the aggression of the United States against Venezuela. The bombs now raining down over Caracas are not intended to promote democracy or to strike at a dictatorship; rather, their purpose is to strengthen American control in the region and to attack a state that, in the interests of its own capital, has chosen a different path and different allies. This path is no real alternative, and we emphasize the need to expose every ideological phrase and illusion in order to reveal the true purpose behind the attack. 

Weexpress our full solidarity with the Venezuelan people’s right to a life of dignity and prosperity, beyond the ravages and destruction of imperialism. We condemn every crime committed against the people and recognize their right to resist this development. 

The attacks now directed against Venezuela originate in the capitalist system, which is characterized by a compulsory need for expansion on the part of capital in all countries. As long as there is room to expand, the capital of the various countries can grow in relative stability; but as soon as this room for expansion disappears, the need arises to expand at the expense of others. This development ultimately leads to war, as we have seen in Ukraine, Syria, Palestine, Sudan, and many other places. 

Development under capitalism, and in its later, imperialist stage, is therefore characterized by an inevitable movement toward war—due to the system’s internal logic, wars of redistribution become impossible to prevent. Peace thus becomes possible only with socialism, and all struggle for peace must also become a struggle for socialism, in which the economy is planned according to the needs of the people. 

At the same time, we see how the façade so painstakingly built around an international legal order and democracy is rapidly collapsing. The significance of international law proves to be as hollow as all the words with which capital safeguards itself. National sovereignty is nothing more than a phrase, and the bourgeois human rights are openly trampled underfoot. 

The people of Venezuela—and everywhere in the world—can only rely on their own collective strength and their own ability to chart their own course. This path is the only viable one. 

With this, the Swedish Communist Party forcefully condemns the imperialist attack now being directed against the Venezuelan people and their future!

The Communist Party of Sweden