October 27, 2025, editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French.
Trump deployed an aircraft carrier off the coast of Venezuela and ordered the bombing of boats in the Caribbean Sea, killing their occupants, who were immediately labeled drug traffickers—without proof; perhaps they were simply fishermen. He announced a CIA operation against the Venezuelan president and threatened the Colombian head of state, accused of complicity with drug trafficking. Trump bluntly reminded everyone that Latin America is in the United States’ backyard, where American companies must be able to operate without any constraints.
Imperialist appetites are running wild
The fight against drugs is just a pretext: Trump wants Latin American governments under his thumb so he can plunder Venezuela’s oil, and the land and riches throughout the continent. The populations of poor countries whose subsoil is overflowing with riches are the first victims of imperialist appetites, which are prepared to do anything to impose their submission. We see this day after day in Palestine, in Gaza, where the Israeli army, the armed wing of imperialism, is committing genocide to stifle any aspiration for change in an oil-rich Middle East.
From Kanaky to Africa, French imperialism at work
France is no exception to the imperialist rule. In Kanaky-New Caledonia, the government wants to grant new rights to settlers, further marginalizing the Kanak people on their own land. Aware that this decision could reignite last year’s riots, it has left a massive police and military presence in place. In Africa, where real wars are being fought over raw materials, French imperialism maintains troops wherever it still can. French workers and the Kanak and African peoples face the same French bourgeoisie and its rapacity.
The people are rising up
In the United States, the Trump administration is stepping up raids on migrants, laying off tens of thousands of civil servants, and attacking the health care system that benefits the most vulnerable, a prelude to new offensives against all workers. U.S. workers and the peoples of Latin America face the same enemy: the American bourgeoisie.
But in the United States, seven million demonstrators marched on October 18 to express their rejection of a government that attacks the poor to enrich the wealthy. Trump rudely mocked them, seeing the hand of the Democrats in it. But this may be the beginning of widespread discontent not only with Trump’s policies but also with those of his predecessor.
Revolt is rumbling in many countries. In Madagascar, Gen Z youth brought down the government despite repression. In Peru, social mobilization overthrew the president. In Morocco, despite repression, young people imposed new measures on health and education. In Nepal, the corrupt government was literally swept away, with young people setting fire to all the symbols of the regime. For several years now, the list of local “Trumps” overthrown by popular anger has lengthened. Here in France, mobilization against the 2023 pension reform has caused turmoil that is still being felt in the current government crisis, even if workers have not won any significant victories so far.
The imperialist bourgeoisies are on the attack: in rich countries, against workers and [other oppressed people]; in poor countries, against the people, to eliminate any obstacle to their plunder. However, the battle is far from over! Let’s oppose the reactionary internationalism of Trump and Macron with international solidarity within our class! And let us organize politically so that our strikes, our social mobilizations, and our revolts can finally converge to enable us to bring down capitalism.
