Donald Trump

Donald Trump delivers remarks to the Venezuelan American community at the Florida International University Ocean Bank Convocation Center on February 18, 2019, in Miami, Florida.

With Trump, polarization among Venezuelans reaches new heights

Steve Ellner — Washington’s Venezuela policy has intensified divisions within the opposition, revealing class divides and fears over the fallout from a potential US invasion.
Forced displacement Gaza

Trump’s ‘peace’ in the Middle East: A retrocolonialism built on sand

Kevin B. Anderson provides a preliminary assessment of the consequences of the Gaza war and the future.
Trump in Egypt

Trump at the Knesset and Sharm el-Sheikh: A festival of obsequiousness

Gilbert Achcar — If the scenes of Trump’s celebration at the Israeli Knesset and in Sharm el-Sheikh were staged for cinematic exploitation, they would undoubtedly rank among the worst productions in history.
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Venezuelan socialist groups: Stop imperialist aggression against Venezuela! Trump’s troops out of the Caribbean and Latin America!

Trump’s military deployment opens the door to a possible armed intervention by the United States in Venezuela.
US President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that they bombed another boat in the Caribbean on October 3, 2025. (Photo: screenshot/Donald Trump/Truth Social)

Murder in the Caribbean: How should we interpret the dramatic escalation in US policy towards Venezuela?

Gabriel Hetland — Trump’s recent actions should be understood as part of a longstanding pattern of US aggression towards the Maduro regime. Yet there are also notable distinctions.
Montage by Global Voices, featuring U.S. President-elect Trump (image from Flickr, under CC BY-SA 2.0) and the map of Latin America

Latin America: The target of Trump’s neocolonial offensive

Ana Cristina Carvalhaes & Luis Bonilla-Molina — Trump wants to impose the rule that “the United States runs the planet.” But why are Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela his most immediate targets?
Gaza destruction

Gaza after October 7: A bitter account two years into the catastrophe

Gilbert Achcar provides an account of two years of genocidal war and its potential outcome.

The choice is ecosocialism or barbarism

Cyn Huang — Youth-led movements against genocide, austerity, and the continued destruction of our natural resources have sprung up all around the world. Cohering these movements around class politics is key to avoiding barbarism.
Netanyahu and Trump

Trump’s new Israel-Palestine peace plan: The ‘Deal of the Millennium’ after the ‘Deal of the Century’

Gilbert Achcar — Trump’s new plan is even less realistic than the one he unveiled five years ago.
Venezuela boat

Venezuela: Surgentes condemns US interference and extrajudicial execution of 17 Venezuelans

Faced with the United States’ hostile military presence in the Southern Caribbean since August 2025, the human rights collective Surgentes issued the following statement.
Maduro and Trump pointing

Citizens’ Platform in Defense of the Constitution: For a peaceful and democratic solution to Venezuela’s grave crisis

Citizens’ Platform in Defense of the Constitution — The extremely serious situation we have outlined has one thing in common: the violation of our sovereignty by two different forces.
Trump and Maduro

Two statement by the Autonomous and Independent Workers’ Committee (Venezuela): ‘Mobilise against Trump’s offensive’ and ‘On Maduro’s call for a trade union constituent assembly’

Autonomous and Independent Workers’ Committee — The united mobilisation of the Latin American people, together with US and Canadian workers, is urgently needed to block Trump’s threats and attacks.

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