Having been encouraged by the USA to leave their homeland and come to the west, Venezuelan migrants are now being deported as criminals to prison camps in El Salvador.
This theatre is aimed at convincing the US working class that immigrants really are the source of their problem, and that by ‘getting tough’ on migrant workers, the Trump White House is somehow their friend.
But for as long as US workers go along with such divisive lies, they will remain weak and manipulable as their class enemies continue to pass the burden of the global economic crisis onto their backs.
The following statement was issued by our party on 25 March 2025.
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The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (CPGB-ML) wishes to express its solidarity with the people of Venezuela and particularly with the families of the migrants deported from the United States to El Salvador and now detained in the concentration camp known as the Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), created by the fascist Nayib Bukele.
For the last 25 years, the people of Venezuela have endured oppressive economic measures, coup attempts, attacks on their leaders, the freezing of their assets abroad, invasion attempts and a relentless media war to destroy their future.
All these actions, promoted by the fascist right wing in Venezuela and implemented by the United States of America in association with its European lackeys, have caused the Bolivarian nation enormous suffering.
But the people of Venezuela, these brave people who did not lose heart in the face of difficulties, overcame the trials imposed by the imperialists and after each struggle emerged stronger and more determined than ever to continue building the legacy of Hugo Chávez.
As part of this war, the Donald Trump administration has decided to deport 238 Venezuelan migrants on false charges, using the 1798 Foreign Enemies Act. Without a trial and ignoring the most basic principles of international law, it has imprisoned them in a regime full of abuse and torture.
As the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, said: “The actions of the US and El Salvador governments against our young workers constitute an act of cruelty and injustice, a cruel and outrageous kidnapping.”
Once again, the decadent and parasitic capitalist system is trying to blame the migrant workers it itself creates in order to cover up its structural crisis, adopting discriminatory and racist practices.
But as painful as this action is, especially for the families of the detainees, it should not come as a surprise. It is the continuation of the imperialist policies of the USA against all of humanity, manifested in the wars, assassinations, economic sanctions, coups d’état and military invasions that it has carried out over the last 200 years.
Nowadays, these policies are expressed more crudely in their unconditional support for the Israeli government and the extermination of the Palestinian people. The peoples of the world have an obligation never to forget this.
That is why we recognise, as the final declaration of the Antifascist International (Caracas, January 2025) states: “Venezuela has been a beacon in the global struggle against fascism, imperialism, colonialism, zionism and all forms of human exploitation and domination, playing a central role in the coordination of international initiatives aimed at building a new world based on justice, unity, peace, solidarity and mutual respect between nations.”
By expressing our solidarity, the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (CPGB-ML) rejects all coercive policies against Venezuela and calls on the British people to unite in the struggle against fascism, imperialism, colonialism and zionism and to show solidarity with our migrant brothers and sisters and with the peoples who are fighting for their liberation.
