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Statement from No Cold War on the US aggression against Venezuela

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The No Cold War collective stands in firm opposition to the illegal embargo of Venezuela, the sanctions policy, and the military aggression already faced by Venezuela through the armada and the attack on small boats. We believe that this aggression in the Caribbean has nothing to do with human rights or democracy. The United States has tried to overthrow the government of Venezuela since the Bolivarian process passed the Hydrocarbons Law in 2001, which increased taxation on oil extraction for transnational companies and mandated a minimum state participation of 51% in ‘mixed companies’ for private partners. The first coup against the Bolivarian process was in 2002, not even a year after the Hydrocarbons Law was passed. This attack on Venezuela is about oil. It always was about oil. And it always will be about oil. The United States government is trying to use its financial and military instruments to overthrow the Venezuelan government not for the Venezuelan people but for the US oil companies.

In the US National Security Strategy 2025, the administration of President Donald Trump made it clear that his government would now focus attention on the Western Hemisphere so that the US can restore its dominance in the region. It has evoked the 1823 Monroe Doctrine with a Trump Corollary – namely to enforce the Doctrine with armed will – to suggest that the US has licence to do what it wants in this region. But, in fact, the Monroe Doctrine is not international law; international law, namely rooted in the United Nations Charter, prevents any attack without a UN Security Council resolution. If the US does attack Venezuela, then that is a violation of international law and would immediately constitute a war crime (in the same way as the US illegal war on Iraq in 2003 was a war crime)....

December 20, 2025

China and the Trump corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

By Tings Chak

On December 10, 2025, US forces seized the oil tanker Skipper off the coast of Venezuela, carrying over a million barrels of crude. “Well, we keep [the oil],” President Trump told reporters. Venezuela’s foreign ministry called it “blatant theft and an act of international piracy,” adding: “The true reasons for the prolonged aggression against Venezuela have finally been revealed. It has always been about our natural wealth, our oil.”

That same day, on the other side of the world, China released its third Policy Paper on Latin America and the Caribbean (the first since 2016) outlining a vision of partnership “without attaching any political conditions.” The timing captures the choice now facing Latin America. Two documents released within a week — Trump’s National Security Strategy (NSS) on December 5 and China’s policy paper five days later — lay bare fundamentally different approaches to the hemisphere.

The Monroe Doctrine returns

Trump’s NSS makes no pretense of diplomatic subtlety. It declares a ‘Trump Corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine, asserting US opposition to “hostile foreign incursion or ownership of key assets” in the hemisphere. The Western Hemisphere is now America’s “highest priority”, with three threats requiring military response: migration, drugs, and China....

December 19, 2025

Mirror, Mirror: Trump’s NSS and the Illusion of U.S. Strategy

By Biljana Vankovska

Like every U.S. administration since the Cold War, the Trump administration has released a document titled the National Security Strategy (NSS). I use the word “titled” deliberately, for if this text were not stamped with the official seal of the United States, it would hardly merit the designation of “strategy.” It is a document that contains little that is strategic and even less that is new. Instead, it offers a repackaged and thinly veiled continuation of the deep-rooted impulses of U.S. imperialism: the unyielding quest for global domination, diplomatically sanitized as “foreign policy.” This core objective remains the one constant in Washington, regardless of the president’s party or personality. Only the rhetoric changes, a superficial gloss applied so that each president can claim a unique and historic legacy....

December 17, 2025

Why did Trump send his warships to Venezuela?

By Vijay Prashad

Ever since Hugo Chávez came to power in 1998, the United States has attempted to overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution. They have tried everything short of a full-scale military invasion: a military coup, selecting a substitute president, cutting off access to the global financial system, imposing layers of sanctions, sabotaging the electricity grid, sending in mercenaries, and attempting to assassinate its leaders. If you can think of a method to overthrow a government, the United States has likely tried it against Venezuela.

However, in 2025, the escalation became unmistakable. The US sent its warships to patrol Venezuela’s coast, began sinking small boats and killing those on board as they left the South American mainland, and seized an oil tanker bound for Cuba. The quantity of attacks on Venezuela has increased, suggesting the quality of the threats has now reached a different magnitude. It feels as if the United States is preparing for a full-blown invasion of the country....

December 16, 2025

No to a US war on Venezuela!

By Tim Young (Venezuela Solidarity Campaign – Britain)

For the past few weeks the Trump administration has intensified its long-standing aggression against Venezuela by deploying warships (including a nuclear submarine) in the Caribbean Sea in a purported anti-narcotics operation. US forces have carried out at least five incidents of strikes on boats in Venezuelan waters to date, killing 37 people. Trump’s latest move has been to authorise the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela.

President Nicolas Maduro, as Venezuela’s current leader, has been a focus of this ‘war on drugs’ narrative, justifying the US’s illegal actions by demonising him as a ‘narco-terrorist’ engaged in drug trafficking, despite UN evidence to the contrary. The US also portrays him as being an illegitimate leader, offering a bounty of $50 million for his capture.

But overthrowing the Bolivarian Revolution has been a project of US imperialism ever since Huge Chávez became President in 1999 and set about transforming the country through a series of far-reaching measures including healthcare, education, land redistribution and anti-poverty programmes.

Key to these revolutionary changes was, and still is, the massive wealth in oil reserves that Venezuela has – the largest in the world – and the revenues generated from them. Chávez’s massive programme of wealth redistribution redirected these oil revenues to collective social purposes rather than funding the opulent lifestyle of Venezuela’s elites.

Additionally, to help realise his vision that “another world is possible”, not just for Venezuela, Chávez also envisaged (and ultimately helped create) key regional organisations to unite Latin American voices and provide progressive economic alternatives to neo-liberalism....

October 28, 2025

APEC 2025: People are taking action against it

The 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting is taking place in South Korea, on Friday 31 October and Saturday 1 November.

APEC is an inter-governmental forum for 21 member economies in the Pacific Rim. It pursues a liberalising agenda, centred around the interests of multinational corporations, so inevitably dominated by Global North countries, in particular the United States.

With Trump’s imposition of tariffs having a huge impact across the world, there is so much that ought to be discussed at the meeting. But it is unlikely Trump will be confronted about the damage US economic policy is inflicting on other countries.

An International People’s Summit against APEC 2025, will also be taking place in South Korea, which will discuss these important issues.

In this short video, Anlin Wang interviews Dae-Han Song from South Korea, who explains the role that APEC plays and sets out an alternative progressive agenda that needs to be addressed.

Dae-Han Song is a part of the International Strategy Center and the Korea Policy Institute. He is a member of the international No Cold War collective....

October 24, 2025

We oppose APEC – We oppose Trump – And, we want an economy for all

The Organizing Committee for the International People’s Response Against APEC 2025 (“Organizing Committee”) will convene an International People’s Summit (“Summit”) in opposition to APEC 2025 Korea and Trump’s predatory neoliberalism.

The APEC Summit has completely excluded public participation from all its meetings including the CEO Summit and Leaders’ Meeting. The agendas discussed in APEC meetings have profound implications for people across the globe. At this moment, we are facing interconnected crises—climate change, war, economic inequality, and violations of the rights of minorities and migrants. However, the APEC Summit has failed to address any of these challenges or take a stand against Trump’s unilateral economic aggression and predatory neoliberalism.

In response, the International People’s Summit will release a joint declaration from progressive political parties, civil society organizations, activists, and intellectuals from APEC member economies and beyond. It will also launch a collective effort to build people-centered alternatives through international solidarity.

The declaration condemns the APEC summit, which only serves corporate and the geopolitical interests of the powerful countries, and denounces Trump’s predatory neoliberalism. It reaffirms our shared commitment to forge people-centered alternatives through international people’s action. Our solidarity extends beyond resistance to APEC 2025 Korea and Trump, but moves forward to a broader and stronger international solidarity....

October 21, 2025

The US is pursuing regime change in Venezuela

In August this year the United States’ military started moving a contingent of naval forces close to the coast of Venezuela.

It has been reported that this now includes four destroyers, a cruiser, a littoral combat ship, a three-vessel amphibious assault group, and a nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine. In addition, US combat aircraft have also been operating just off the Venezuela’s coast.

The US falsely claims its surge of military forces is in order to tackle drug smuggling. Since September has been firing missiles to destroy small boats off Venezuela’s coast. So far, four boats and their crews have been obliterated. There is no evidence that any of, the more than 20, people killed by the US were involved in any way with drugs. If there was involvement there should due process, not summary execution by the US military.

The US is seeking a change of regime in Venezuela. It has been working to support and direct opposition to the elected government. It is now stepping up that activity with its military threats against the country.

In this short video, Carlos Ron is interviewed by Anlin Wang.

Carlos Ron is Co-Coordinator of the Nuestra America office of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. He is a former Venezuelan diplomat who served as Vice Minister for North America (2018-2025)....

October 07, 2025

The Sahel Seeks Sovereignty

Since 2020, a series of popular military coups in the Sahel region of Africa has bought to power governments that are seeking a path to establish their own countries’ sovereignty.

The coups that took place were in: Mali in August 2020; Burkina Faso in January 2022; and Niger in July 2023. Following these events, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), along with the African Union (AU), imposed sanctions and suspended the memberships of all three states.

In September 2023, in response to the threat of military intervention in Niger by ECOWAS, the heads of state of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger established the Alliance of Sahel States (AES).

The Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research has published an excellent dossier on the current struggle of the Sahel states, titled ‘The Sahel Seeks Sovereignty’. It is available in multiple languages from here:
https://thetricontinental.org/dossier-sahel-alliance-sovereignty/

In this short video, Mikaela Nhondo Erskog, in discussion with Dae-Han Song, explains how these states are trying to establish their sovereignty, whilst having to navigate a legacy of dependency and internal-external security challenges....

September 25, 2025

No Cold War supports the Global Sumud Gaza Flotilla

No Cold War’s statement in support of the Global Sumud Gaza Flotilla is produced below in English, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Persian, Sebian & Macedonian.


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No Cold War supports the Global Sumud Gaza Flotilla.

As a global platform against war and genocide, we stand in full solidarity with the brave people who are aboard the Global Sumud Gaza Flotilla that is on the way to the shores of Gaza, and we stand in solidarity with all protest movements for Gaza.

We send all the people on the boats our love and support, and to our specific comrades – Dr. Hanne Bosselaers (Medicine for the People, MPLP-GVHV, Belgium) and Ayoub Habraoui (Workers Democratic Party of Morocco and the International Peoples Assembly Youth Group).

Apartheid Israel’s genocide against Gaza has now created a famine in Gaza: an absolute outrage.

We are clear that Israel will attack the Global Sumud Gaza Flotilla and that Israel will not cease its genocide....

September 01, 2025

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A New Cold War against China is against the interests of humanity

We note the increasingly aggressive statements and actions being taken by the US government in regard to China. These constitute a threat to world peace and are an obstacle to humanity successfully dealing with extremely serious common issues which confront it such as climate change, control of pandemics, racist discrimination and economic development.

We therefore believe that any New Cold War would run entirely counter to the interests of humanity. Instead we stand in favour of maximum global cooperation in order to tackle the enormous challenges we face as a species.

We therefore call upon the US to step back from this threat of a Cold War and also from other dangerous threats to world peace it is engaged in including: withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces agreement; withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Accords; and its increasing disengagement from UN bodies. The US should also stop pressuring other countries to adopt such dangerous positions.

We support China and the US basing their relations on mutual dialogue and centring on the common issues which unite humanity.

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