Britain’s Communist Party demanded that Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the British government insist that the “trumped up” charges against Nicolas Maduro are dropped and the Venezuelan president is released from US captivity.
“It almost beggars belief that Starmer, a former human rights lawyer, refuses to condemn US state terrorism against Venezuela and the Trump administration’s blatant violations of the UN Charter and international law”, General Secretary Robert Griffiths told the Party’s Political Committee on Sunday evening (4 January 2026).
He called claims that Maduro is a “brutal dictator” who heads a narco-terrorist cabal that threatens US national security as “baseless” and “grotesque”. “Where are the torture centres and death squads in Maduro’s Venezuela? Where are the mass executions of political opponents?” Mr Griffiths asked.
“In reality, these are the hallmarks of the many savage right-wing dictatorships armed, trained and financed by the USA in Latin America and around the world over the past 80 years and more”, he added.
The Communist Party of Britain rejected “bogus pretexts” for US military intervention in Venezuela and insisted that the real motives were to terminate President Maduro’s independent foreign policy, which includes mutually beneficial relations with China, Cuba, Brazil and Russia, and to take control of the country’s enormous state-owned oil resources.
“Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua and Brazil are also in the firing line for President Trump and his cabal of far-right, anti-democratic and corporate gangsters”, Robert Griffiths warned.
He called for the closure of all US military facilities in Britain and at British bases around the world including in the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
Political Committee
Communist Party
4 January 2026
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