CUBA SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN STATEMENT ON THE BOMBING OF VENEZUELA
Campaign News |
Saturday, 3 January 2026
The Cuba Solidarity Campaign unequivocally condemns today’s US bombing of Venezuela. This reckless and illegal act of military aggression is a blatant violation of international law and an attack on Venezuela’s sovereignty, regional peace, and the fundamental right of nations to exist free from imperialist violence.
The use of US air power against Venezuela marks a grave and dangerous escalation. It confirms that Washington has moved beyond economic warfare, covert destabilisation and proxy operations to open military assault. This is not “security cooperation” or “counter-narcotics” – it is an act of war.
We call on the UK government to immediately and publicly condemn the US bombing, demand a halt to all military operations against Venezuela, and oppose any further escalation that threatens catastrophic consequences for the region. Silence or complicity would make the UK party to this aggression.
For more than two decades, successive US administrations have sought to overthrow Venezuela’s sovereign government through coups, sanctions, diplomatic isolation and economic strangulation. Those measures have inflicted immense suffering on the Venezuelan people. Today’s bombing represents the most extreme expression of that long-running campaign: the use of direct military force to impose US political control.
The attack poses a threat far beyond Venezuela’s borders. US military aggression destabilises the entire Caribbean and Latin America, endangers shipping lanes and energy supplies, and raises the risk of wider regional conflict. It also constitutes a direct threat to Cuba. US attacks on Venezuela are inseparable from Washington’s long-standing objective of isolating, economically suffocating and politically destabilising both Venezuela and Cuba.
CSC stands with Venezuela and Cuba in the face of this aggression. We echo the firm condemnations issued by governments and peoples across the Global South and affirm that no nation has the right to bomb another under false pretexts or imperial ambition.
Stand for peace, sovereignty and international law
At this critical moment, we call on CSC members, supporters and trade union affiliates to raise their voices against US military aggression, demand de-escalation, and mobilise in defence of peace, sovereignty and the right of nations to determine their own futures. The bombing of Venezuela must stop. Imperialist intervention must be resisted.
