Why the people voted President Nicolás Maduro and his PSUV government back into power.

The ‘kidnapping’ of a Venezuelan government jet is just the latest act of piracy against a country that refuses to bend the knee to imperialist diktat.

One more unwelcome election result (to the imperialists); one more US-backed regime-change operation.

‘Division and sectarianism will always favour the interests of the forces representing international finance capital and counter-revolution.’

With one third of the world’s countries now subject to some kind of sanction, this favoured tool of coercion is fast losing its power.

While European diplomacy failed on every front, the confident advance of the anti-imperialist bloc was unmistakable.

Diplomats from Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua explain the benefits that this regional trade and development pact has brought to their people.

How the imperialists use theft and sanctions to try to force regime change in countries that defy their diktat.

Corruption of a nominally-independent country’s justice system is a major tool in the arsenal of imperialist control.

Heads of Latin-American and Caribbean countries agree to reinforce economic and political cooperation that can help free their peoples from US domination.

Despite conditions of siege and war, the Yemeni people are finding ways to lay the foundations of a diversified and more self-sufficient economy.

Another president falls to a US-backed coup in Latin America – but the people are not taking it lying down.

Much has changed since Lula’s first presidency. While the economic situation is far more difficult, international shifts could work in the country’s favour.

US imperialism and its local proxies are willing to do whatever it takes to put this popular leader out of office – permanently.

With so much hope pinned on his new government, will his ministers be able to resist the push from global financiers insisting on ‘fiscal prudence’ (ie, on austerity)?

An electoral victory for the left in of one of the USA’s regional strongholds shows that the people’s will for liberation has not gone away with the fighters of the Farc.

Not only have the imperialists strengthened instead of crushing Russia, they have in the process given new confidence to independent-minded states everywhere.

The commentariat might not be admitting it, but it is the Ukraine war that looks like finally finishing off Boris Johnson’s premiership.

Invitation list confirms that to be counted as democratic one must be first and foremost a friend of the dictatorial US imperialist regime.

It is only by the sheer force of their will that the Venezuelan masses are keeping their economy going in the face of US sanctions and Covid combined.