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Vol. 81/No. 17 May 1, 2017
Socialist Workers Party: ‘US hands off Venezuela!’
Militant/John Studer
NEW YORK — “We demand the U.S. capitalist rulers keep their hands off
Venezuela!” Socialist Workers Party leader Róger Calero said at an April
14 Militant Labor Forum here. “Working people across the United States
need to stand with our brothers and sisters in Venezuela against the
pressure, threats and provocations from Washington and its Organization
of American States.
“Far from being a paragon of democratic virtues,” Calero said, “The
Washington-led OAS has a long record of backing coups and
imperialist-backed invasions to overthrow regimes that stand in its way
since its was founded in 1948. It backed the overthrow of the Arbenz
government in Guatemala in 1954, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba
in 1961, the U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965, the
overthrow of the Allende government in Chile in 1973 and the invasion of
Grenada in 1983.
“The U.S. government says that ‘we Americans’ have an interest in
changing Venezuela. But there is no ‘we,’” Calero said. “The ruling
capitalist class is seeking to regain control over the resources of
Venezuela, just as they seek to increase the profits they can make off
our backs here. Our interests lie with our fellow working people in
Venezuela, with the working class of the world.”
— JOHN STUDER
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