The following declaration was made by delegates participating in the ninth international conference of the World Anti-imperialist Platform in Caracas, Venezuela on 22 October 2025.
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The US imperialist atrocities of aggression against Venezuela are vicious and relentless. The United States slanders Venezuela – a model country in the fight against drugs – as a “narco-state”, and President Nicolás Maduro as a “drug lord”, while doubling the bounty on his head. It is further amassing invasion forces in the southern Caribbean and committing heinous atrocities by murdering the Venezuelan people.
Its aggressive campaign against Venezuela is exposed by the large-scale invasion exercise ‘Unitas 2025’, held from 15 September to 6 October with the participation of some 25 countries, and through false flag operations. According to a report on 17 September, a drug trafficker captured by the Venezuelan army with 3,680kg of cocaine was revealed to be an agent of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Pro-US far-right fascists are exploiting the attack by US imperialism on Venezuela to openly beg for a military intervention and invasion by US imperialism, seeking to overthrow the only constitutional government headed by President Maduro. Furthermore, drug-trafficking and irregular armed groups are continuously attempting to infiltrate Venezuelan territory.
The truth is crystal clear: US imperialism seeks to invade Venezuela to plunder its natural resources – specifically 350 billion barrels of oil, gold, bauxite, water and various biological resources.
According to the United Nations office on drugs and crime, only 5 percent of Colombian cocaine attempted to transit through Venezuela, and even that was mostly seized by Venezuelan authorities. In a personal letter in September, President Maduro stressed that Venezuela had destroyed 420 aircraft involved in drug smuggling over recent years.
It is not Venezuela but Ecuador that should be a real focus of concern regarding ‘drug trafficking’. The Noboa family’s port of Posorja in Ecuador has become a main cocaine gateway from Latin America to Europe. The Ecuadorian people are outraged at the pro-US puppet government of Daniel Noboa, which enforces neoliberal policies and constructs an unconstitutional US military base in the Galápagos islands.
US imperialism will never defeat the Venezuelan people united around the communes. President Maduro has called for the readiness to shift from unarmed to armed struggle, emphasising the historic duty to defend the dignity of the nation. He has instructed the mobilisation of 260,000 streets and 47,000 communities to prepare for armed resistance.
Today, under the slogan “Barracks to the People”, 4.5 million militia members are organised in Venezuela to defend the people’s government and their motherland. Millions more have volunteered for militia and combat units, demonstrating the unbreakable unity between the people and their government, and their immense political and ideological strength.
Strategic and tactical unity with the anti-imperialist camp is also being consolidated. The strategic partnership and cooperation agreement signed with Russia in May was unanimously ratified by the Venezuelan national assembly in September. Around the same time, the Cuba-Venezuela strategic alliance was reaffirmed. International and regional cooperation bodies like Alba, Celac, and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), along with many Latin-American countries, have also firmly rejected the deployment of US troops that threaten the peace of the region.
Even at this very moment, imperialism is carrying out wars of aggression, massacres of the people, regime changes and the plunder of resources across the world. The imperialist forces and their fascist lackeys are striving to expand and prolong wars in Ukraine and eastern Europe, in Palestine and west Asia, and in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and across Africa, while frantically attempting to ignite new war in east Asia and the western Pacific in order to escalate World War 3 into a full-scale confrontation.
In particular, the genocide against the Palestinian people exposes the imperialist and fascist forces as true machines of massacre and the culprits of war. These same cliques are frantically fomenting ‘colour revolutions’ – forms of ‘low intensity war’ – to subvert governments in eastern Europe, Latin America and across Asia. Amid the current escalation of war in global scale, ‘colour revolutions’ will inevitably lead to total war, as clearly demonstrated by the example of Ukraine.
The sun is setting on imperialism. It is making its last desperate struggle to escape the worst-ever political and economic crisis by triggering a world war.
Due to antagonistic contradictions on multiple levels, imperialism is destined to perish. Just as the antifascist camp emerged during World War 2, today, under the conditions of World War 3, the anti-imperialist camp is strengthening its forces and, as reality proves, is pushing the imperialist camp toward defeat.
The military parades held in Russia, China and the DPRK in May, September and October respectively, demonstrated that the anti-imperialist camp not only represents the just and peaceful political-ideological cause, but also overwhelmingly surpasses the imperialist camp in military strength.
Imperialism shall fall. The peoples shall triumph. The people who rise up in struggle, shouting the slogans “Proletarians of all countries, unite!” and “The people united will never be defeated!” will certainly win.
The Venezuelan people, holding high the banner of anti-imperialism, and united around the Maduro government, will surely achieve victory.
Peoples of the world, rise up and fight!
Against imperialist plunder – resist!
Against fascist terror – unite!
For socialism and liberation – advance!
