In the early morning hours of January 3, the fascist Trump regime illegally bombed Venezuela and abducted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. Trump openly threatened a “large-scale strike,” signaling destruction, civilian casualties, and the use of overwhelming military force as a display of raw power. Trump now claims the U.S. will “run” Venezuela—an unlawful blatant subjugation of a sovereign nation—while threatening to do the same or worse to Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, and Greenland.
This must be opposed NOW—not later, not quietly, but openly and in the streets.
Read Full Statement from Refuse Fascism
Trump has crossed a new threshold with his illegal bombing of Venezuela and abduction of Nicolás Maduro. At the same time that this regime is unleashing war abroad, it is moving aggressively to crush dissent at home—branding anti-fascist protesters and political opponents as “domestic terrorists,” laying the groundwork for mass repression. The message is unmistakable: opposition, norms, and human life itself are obstacles to be crushed.
Andy Zee, a national leader of Refuse Fascism, says, “Trump’s criminal military invasion of the sovereign country of Venezuela, with their brazen abduction of its President, and the outrageous assertion that “we’re going to run the country” shows three things:
[1] That Trump leads a fascist regime
[2] that this regime has just heightened the danger of wider war including as a direct provocation of China, and
[3] that the people of this country need to rise up to demand that the Trump Fascist Regime Must Go Now!
U.S. War Secretary Hegseth put forth the regime’s NAZI logic: “maximum lethality over tepid legality.” This naked assertion of aggressive brute deadly force and its total disdain and violation of international and US law has just taken a leap into the unknown, endangering the future of humanity.”
Hopes of waiting this out until a future and rigged election are illusion. The people must nonviolently drive the Trump fascist regime from power.
STOP THE ILLEGAL WAR ON VENEZUELA!
TRUMP MUST GO NOW!
IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY,
WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA.