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Spodaj objavljamo izjavo za javnost, ki jo je po napadih ZDA na Venezuelo spisala Antiavtoritarna platforma in pozivamo na protestni shod v Ljubljani.
Na tem mestu vse družbene sile in organizacije ljudske protivojne fronte pozivamo na protestni shod v podporo Venezueli, ki bo v četrtek, 8. januarja, z začetkom ob 17. uri pred Moderno galerijo, potekal v Ljubljani. ★
Stop imperialistični agresiji na Venezuelo!
“Pomembno je poudariti, da imperialistična agresija ne kaznuje vladajočih elit, ampak neposredno prizadene ljudske sloje. Blokade, sankcije, vojaško ustrahovanje in finančno dušenje niso „kirurška“ orodja: so mehanizmi gospodarske vojne, ki skušajo zlomiti odpor celotnega ljudstva, ga disciplinirati in prisiliti, da sprejme vsiljeni red.”
– Latinskoameriška anarhistična koordinacija – Coordinación Anarquista LatinoAmerica (CALA), Internacionalna izjava: Obsojamo imperialno ofenzivo na Venezuelo
Ponoči je ameriška vojska pod poveljstvom predsednika in oblasti ZDA izvedla obsežne napade na Bolivarsko republiko Venezuelo in ugrabila predsednika Nicolása Madura in njegovo ženo. Napad prihaja po mesecih napadov na venezuelske ladje v Karibskem morju in po več kot desetletju ekonomskih napadov na Venezuelo in sankcij, ki so v največji meri prizadele vsakdanje življenje tamkajšnjih ljudi.
Vojaška intervencija je del dolge zgodovine imperialističnega vmešavanja v Latinski Ameriki in na Karibih, katerega posledice vedno najbolj prizadanejo zatirane narode in razrede v tej regiji.
Vojaško intervencijo ZDA v Venezueli je potrebno označiti s pravimi besedami: gre za imperialistično agresijo, katere edini namen je pokoritev in podreditev ljudi, teritorija in družbe imperialni oblasti ZDA. V skladu z naravo imperializma gre za politični, vojaški in ekonomski nadzor. Tudi v konkretnem primeru pa v glavni meri za nadzor nad naravnimi viri: nafto in minerali. Venezuela je namreč država z največjimi naftimi zalogami na svetu.
Vojaška intervencija ZDA v Venezueli nima nič skupnega z demokracijo, bojem proti “prekupčevalcem z mamili” ali bojem proti terorizmu. Vojaški napad je protidemokratičen in terorističen, kar imperializem v svojem bistvu tudi je. Z vso odločnostjo moramo zavrniti dominantni narativ, vojno propagando in hujskaštvo, s katerimi nas pitajo imperialnim centrom podrejene medijske in državne institucije, tako pri nas kot drugod po svetu. Nasproti temu je treba postaviti ljudsko diplomacijo, protiimperialistični in protikapitalistični pogled ter krepiti ideološko, medijsko, družbeno in emocionalno samoobrambo na vseh ravneh.
Vemo, da se za opravičevanjem vojnih zločinov skriva golo zasledovanje partikularnih interesov vladajočih razredov zahodnega imperializma. Spomnimo se samo odkritih laži, s katerimi je leta 2003 takratna Busheva administracija brezsramno opravičevala napad ZDA na Irak. Danes nam Trumpova administracija te iste zgodbe prodaja na primeru Venezuele. Pri čemer ne gre pozabiti, da imperialistično akcijo v skladu s svojimi interesi kot vedno podpirajo tudi Demokrati. Zgodovina ZDA je zgodovina imperialističnih zločinov!
Prepoznati je treba, da so interesi vladajočih razredov v nasprotju z interesi ljudi, tako na Zahodu kot drugod po svetu. Hrbtna stran imperialnega nasilja v Venezueli je nasilje nad izkoriščanimi in zatiranimi razredi v družbah imperialnih centrov in tem centrom podložnih teritorijev, med katere spada tudi Slovenija. Zrcalna slika vojaških intervencij imperializma po svetu je permanentna vojna kapitala proti ljudem, okolju in družbi doma. Ta se izraža v splošnem slabšanju pogojev življenja velike večine, krčenju javnih in socialnih storitev ter v totalnem podrejanju vsega interesom kapitala. V napadih na delavske in socialne pravice, kolonizaciji javnega prostora s strani kapitala in v policijski represiji kot zaščitnici teh procesov.
Jasno je, da več vojne ne more prinesti miru, kot tudi več izkoriščanja ne more prinesti enakosti. Več podrejanja pomeni manj svobode. Ogenj uničenja, ki ga gospodarji vojne prinašajo v nove in nove geografije, opominja, da vojna nikoli ni rešitev. Z njo ni mogoče rešiti svetovnih in družbenih problemov, prav tako ne z ostalimi orodji sistema, ki nas je pripeljal do trenutne točke, ko je na kocki preživetje tako človeštva kot planeta.
Medtem ko zahodni imperializem sovražnike ustvarja v skladu s potrebami lastne nadvlade, sta za nas sovražnika vojna in imperializem kot taka. Za nas so sovražnik države, ki potrebujejo vojno, da lahko uveljavljajo svojo oblast nad ljudmi. Za nas sta sovražnik kapitalizem in patriarhat, ki potrebujeta države in vojne za ohranjanje svoje nadvlade v svetu. Nasprotovati vojni pomeni napasti sistem, ki jo potrebuje in omogoča!
Na tem mestu izražamo solidarnost z ljudmi v Venezueli in vsemi drugimi narodi, ki so žrtve imperialističnega nasilja, in ki se proti temu nasilju organizirajo in upirajo. Pozdravljamo ljudi v ZDA, ki že vstajajo proti tamkajšnji oblasti in njihovi imperialistični politiki ter vse ostale drugod po svetu, ki bodo naredili enako.
Vse protisistemske družbene sile in protivojna gibanja pozivamo k organizaciji in mobilizaciji. Nadaljevati moramo z oblikovanjem globalnega ljudskega zavezništva proti mašineriji smrti in imperializmu!
Potrebno je ustvariti alternativno vizijo sveta, ki bo na mesto otopelosti postavila emancipatorno stališče proti kapitalistični, imperialni in patriarhalni dominaciji. Gibanja moramo ponovno prevzeti pobudo, saj brez odločnega odgovora na oblastne norosti ne bo prihodnosti za nikogar.
Zato se pridružujemo pozivu na protestni shod, ki bo v četrtek, 8. januarja (z začetkom ob 17. uri pred Moderno galerijo) potekal v Ljubljani.
DANAŠNJI IMPERIJI SO JUTRIŠNJI PEPEL!
SVOBODA VENEZUELI!
BODIMO PESEK, NE OLJE, V STROJ IMPERIALIZMA!
BREZ UPORA NI OBSTOJA!
Antiavtoritarna platforma
V Ljubljani, 3. januarja 2026
Stop imperialist agression on Venezuela!
“In this respect, it is essential to emphasize that imperialist aggression does not punish ruling elites, but instead falls directly on the popular sectors. Blockades, sanctions, military intimidation, and financial suffocation are not “surgical” tools: they are mechanisms of economic warfare that seek to break the resistance of an entire people, discipline them, and force them to accept a subordinating order.”
– Latin American Anarchist Coordination – Coordinación Anarquista LatinoAmerica (CALA), International Statement: We Denounce the Imperial Offensive on Venezuela
During the night, the US military, under the command of the US president and government, carried out extensive attacks on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. The attack comes after months of attacks on Venezuelan ships in the Caribbean Sea and after more than a decade of economic attacks on Venezuela and sanctions that have severely affected the daily lives of the people there.
Military intervention is part of a long history of imperialist interference in Latin America and the Caribbean, the consequences of which always affect the oppressed peoples and classes in the region the most.
The US military intervention in Venezuela must be described in the right terms: it is imperialist aggression, whose sole purpose is to subjugate and subordinate the people, territory, and society to US imperial power. In accordance with the nature of imperialism, this involves political, military, and economic control. In this specific case, however, it is mainly about control over natural resources: oil and minerals. Venezuela is the country with the largest oil reserves in the world.
The US military intervention in Venezuela has nothing to do with democracy, the fight against “drug traffickers” or the fight against terrorism. A military attack is anti-democratic and terrorist, which is what imperialism is in essence. We must resolutely reject the dominant narrative, war propaganda, and incitement that the media and state institutions subordinate to imperialist centers feed us, both at home and elsewhere in the world. This must be countered with people’s diplomacy, an anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist perspective, and the strengthening of ideological, media, social, and emotional self-defense at all levels.
We know that behind the justification of war crimes lies the naked pursuit of the particular interests of the ruling classes of Western imperialism. Let us just remember the blatant lies with which the Bush administration shamelessly justified the US attack on Iraq in 2003. Today, the Trump administration is selling us the same story in the case of Venezuela. It should not be forgotten that, as always, the Democrats also support imperialist action in accordance with their interests. The history of the US is a history of imperialist crimes!
It must be recognized that the interests of the ruling classes are contrary to the interests of the people, both in the West and elsewhere in the world. The flip side of imperial violence in Venezuela is violence against the exploited and oppressed classes in the societies of imperial centers and the territories subordinate to them, including Slovenia. The mirror image of imperialism’s military interventions around the world is the permanent war of capital against the people, the environment, and society at home. This is expressed in the general deterioration of living conditions for the vast majority, the reduction of public and social services, and the total subordination of everything to the interests of capital. This is seen in attacks on workers’ and social rights, the colonization of public space by capital, and police repression as the protector of these processes.
It is clear that more war cannot bring peace, just as more exploitation cannot bring equality. More subjugation means less freedom. The fire of destruction that the masters of war bring to new and new geographies reminds us that war is never the solution. It cannot solve global and social problems, nor can the other tools of the system that has brought us to the current point, where the survival of both humanity and the planet is at stake.
While Western imperialism creates enemies according to the needs of its own domination, for us, war and imperialism as such are the enemies. For us, the enemies are the states that need war in order to assert their power over people. For us, capitalism and patriarchy, which need states and wars to maintain their domination in the world, are the enemy. Opposing war means attacking the system that needs and enables it!
We express our solidarity with the people of Venezuela and all other nations who are victims of imperialist violence and who are organizing and resisting this violence. We salute the people of the United States who are already rising up against their government and its imperialist policies, and all others around the world who will do the same.
We call on all anti-systemic social forces and anti-war movements to organize and mobilize. We must continue to build a global people’s alliance against the machinery of death and imperialism!
It is necessary to create an alternative vision of the world that will replace apathy with an emancipatory stance against capitalist, imperial, and patriarchal domination. We must take back the initiative, because without a decisive response to the madness of those in power, there will be no future for anyone.
We therefore join the call for a protest rally, which will take place on Thursday, January 8, starting at 5 p.m. in front of the Modern Gallery in Ljubljana.
TODAY’S EMPIRES ARE TOMORROW’S ASHES!
FREEDOM FOR VENEZUELA!
LET US BE SAND, NOT OIL, IN THE MACHINE OF IMPERIALISM!
WITHOUT REVOLT, THERE IS NO EXISTENCE!
Antiauthoritarian Platform
In Ljubljana, January 3, 2026
