January 3, 2026 Statement from the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. J
Trump, the President of the United States, has claimed responsibility for the airstrikes on Venezuela, the human cost of which remains unknown at this time. He also claimed to have captured Maduro, the Venezuelan president, whom he accuses of being one of the leaders of drug trafficking.
For months, the American army has been bombing Venezuelan ships and killing their occupants, who are accused, without any evidence, of being drug traffickers. This so-called “war on drugs” is nothing more than a lie fabricated by the American government to justify its intervention in Venezuela. Its objective: to seize control of the country’s oil reserves. American imperialism has deployed a whole armada off the coast of this small South American country whose government, whatever one may think of Maduro, dared to oppose the American government.
Trump thus affirms the American leaders’ desire to install puppet governments throughout South America, while simultaneously seizing one of the world’s largest oil reserves. Trump has, moreover, never hidden his intention to seize, even by force, lands containing resources he deems essential for the United States, in South America, but also in Greenland and Africa, where his army carried out bombings in Nigeria just last week.
The NPA-Revolutionaries calls for participation in all protest demonstrations against this new imperialist aggression.
Down with the imperialist aggression against Venezuela!
Down with imperialism!
