How exposed they look now… all those who, in every country, weep à la carte for international law… who make pompous speeches about international legality… about the supposed role of the UN… who lecture us on the “Democracy of the Western World”… who shed tears for “workers’ rights”… etc., etc. They are HYPOCRITES.
Puppets of the exploitative system. Servants of the Imperialists, of NATO, of the European Union—leaderships of the yellow trade union bureaucracy. All of them embraced, at the critical moment, in the service of Uncle Sam. Everywhere and always. Just as they embraced—and remain in an embrace with—Netanyahu.
Venezuela, a country with immense energy wealth, possessing most of the oil and natural gas reserves in the Latin American region as well as rich mines, is in the crosshairs of fierce imperialist rivalries. Baseless claims by the US government regarding the “fight against drug trafficking” are being utilized to justify imperialist intervention.
Under these conditions, let no one ask for whom the bell tolls. The bell tolls for all workers and Peoples. Trade unions across the entire world have a duty to rouse the global working class. On the front line of such an uprising: the class-oriented trade unions of South America, the Caribbean, and Central America.
We defend the right of the workers and the People of Venezuela to decide their own present and future. Without external interventions and imperialist wars. Hands off Venezuela, Yankees.
As the INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ INSTITUTE (IWI), we consider it timely and necessary to issue a call to trade unions to stand unconditionally by the side of the working class and the people of Venezuela. To unmask the plans of the USA and, simultaneously, to unmask the traditional role of compromised trade union leaderships who, with their reformist attitude, sow illusions regarding the alleged humanization of capitalism and alleged neutrality.
In this context, the IWI must strengthen its activity in trade union education and training so that workers are not trapped in the dirty games of monopolies and multinationals. It must include in its educational programs for 2026 the relevant position of CHE GUEVARA, who emphasized: “You cannot trust imperialism, not even a little bit, not at all.”
INTERNATIONAL WORKERS INSTITUTE
