This is a recipe for clashes and conflicts, not only with Chinese interests, but eventually with the masses of Latin America, who are not likely to accept direct US imperialist bullying without fighting back.

The Revolutionary Communist International stands unconditionally for the defence of Venezuela and we will throw all our weight behind this movement.

This is an escalating campaign of US imperialist aggression against a sovereign country.

The delegates gathered at the congress held in São Paulo showed enormous optimism towards the founding of a legitimate section of the RCI in Brazil.

They want to install a government that is fully compliant with the diktats of US imperialism, which cuts off links with China, Russia and Iran, and fully opens up the country’s natural resources to US multinationals for looting and pillaging.

What began as youth protests against a pension counter-reform has quickly escalated into a political crisis of enormous proportions.

The situation in Venezuela is developing very quickly after Sunday’s election.

This new Labour government will be one of intense crises. Workers and youth must prepare for battle.

A gang-led coup in Haiti has led to the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. US imperialism is scrambling to regain control of the situation and has organised negotiations to create a transitional council to take power. But with the Haitian state in utter disarray, the gangs are moving to solidify their control of the capital Port-au-Prince.

1.5 million people marched in Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Rosario, Santiago del Estero, Mendoza, Neuquen, and all the big cities of Argentina to reject the new president Javier Milei’s Necessity and Urgency Decree (DNU) and Omnibus Bill, which represent an all-out ultraliberal assault on workers’ rights and conditions.