The
May Government’s recognition of the American lackey, Juan Guaidó, as ‘interim
president’ of Venezuela is the latest episode in what some British politicians
still shamefully call the “special relationship” with the USA. The weakness of
the British Government makes this meaningless gesture, which was given in the
hope of future reward from the Trump administration, pointless. But crawling to
the Americans comes as second nature to those sections of the ruling class who
believe that their global interests are best preserved through the might of US
imperialism.
Though the Trump administration has
widened existing divisions within America’s ruling circles over immigration and
minority rights, the entire American ruling class wants to establish US
hegemony over the world. What divides them is how to achieve it.
Democrat leaders still believe in the ‘new
world order’ although they now prefer to call it ‘globalisation’. Trump, on the
other hand, represents circles who want to cut back US military expenditure in
Europe and north-east Asia so that they can concentrate on controlling the
global energy market by taking over the entire Middle East and restoring US
imperialism’s hegemony over south and central America. This is why they’re
itching to get their greedy hands on Venezuela's vast oil reserves, the biggest
in the world.
When
it suits them American, British and Franco-German imperialists will bang the
drum of “human rights”. So reading from the American script the Foreign Secretary,
Jeremy Hunt, says that: “The people of Venezuela have suffered enough. It is
time for a new start, with free and fair elections in accordance with
international democratic standards. The oppression of the illegitimate,
kleptocratic Maduro regime must end. Those who continue to violate the human
rights of ordinary Venezuelans under an illegitimate regime will be called to
account. The Venezuelan people deserve a better future.”
The usual lies. But few are taken in these
days. Attempts to build another “international coalition” to justify American
military intervention and “regime change” have failed at the United Nations and
the Organisation of American States. Ten members of the European Union have
refused to endorse Juan Guaidó’s empty claim and Turkey has broken ranks with
NATO to back the elected Maduro government that is also supported by Russia,
People’s China, India, Cuba and Democratic Korea, as well as most of the Third
World.
Those in favour of imperialist aggression
are the most aggressive and greedy sections of the capitalist and landowning
class. They looted and enslaved Africa and Asia in the 19th century, killing
millions on their way. They are the people who sent millions to their deaths in
two world wars to preserve and increase their fortunes.
They started the Korean War and the
American interventions in Indo-China during the Cold War. These are the people
who brought death and destruction in the name of “regime change” in Yugoslavia,
Iraq and Libya. They are the ones behind the sectarian gunmen who tried the
same in Syria.
They are the kind who live the life of
Roman Emperors in their grand houses whilst workers slave in their factories
for pennies and die broken and destitute in the slums of the great cities of
the imperialist heartlands. Now they want to push the clock back in Venezuela.
The governance of Venezuela is a matter
for the Venezuelan people alone to determine. They’re going to fight to defend
their revolution, We must stand by them and the legitimate government of the
Bolivarian republic.
