After 18 years of subversion, infiltration, coercion, bribery and a constant blitz of fake news the US is pushing Venezuela into a horrific civil war in order to take control of its oil.

Every day we can see images of the police and state thugs beating up innocent students and read Fox News reports like.. “”there is no toilet paper or meat there, the currency is worthless, the murder rate is perhaps the highest in the world, the Supreme Court has tried to abolish the entire legislature for daring to oppose a dictator who’s running the place into the ground, and you can go on and on and on, it is a disaster there in Venezuela.”

Solidaridad. Manifestación de apoyo a Venezuela en Las Palmas

Of course the socialist government is corrupt and repressive, but it still controls its own oil and distributes a huge share to give food jobs, housing and education and health to all.

By now, with the cuts due to the oil price collapse, the entire middle class seem in the media to be protesting daily against the government, but they are still the minority and like us they are taken in by constant fake news .

Canadians Rally in Support of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution

”The rich want lower taxes, and ending social programs for the have-nots, and they want the privatization of vital government enterprises so that they can loot the country, as is happening right now in Brazil. And most of all, they want the privatization of the oil in their hands. They want to be billionaire oligarchs just like oligarchs in other oil-rich countries. ‘This Fight Is Ours’: Venezuela Women March Against Imperialism.

The have-nots, workers, unemployed, women, indigenous, blacks … still support the government. They want the government to keep control of the oil for the benefit of the people, the have-nots. They are in the streets too, they are supporting the government, and they are being violently attacked by the hoodlums of the haves and the mercenaries for the U.S. Empire.

The have-nots are being stoned, they are being shot down in the streets by anti-government rioters, they are being beaten with steel rods, and they are even being burned alive by anti-government protesters—let’s call them what they are, terrorists.

We do not see or hear that from the Fake News. The have-nots want to keep their government provided healthcare, their government provided education, their government provided housing, their government provided mass transportation, their government provided food distribution centers, and all their government provided social services from the oil wealth”.

Is Maduro a dictator? Remember how we were fooled by the blitz of fake news into condemning Gaddafi, so they could destroy the best welfare state in Africa, leaving him raped and murdered in the street and the country in horrific chaos to this day. Why? To steal their oil .

Fake news creates its own ‘reality’. Remember what happened to Saddam Hussein, that horrible monster with his weapons of mass destruction. Remember Ukraine.. remember Syria.. remember Vietnam!

Nearly all the Left in Europe have abandoned the Venezuelan socialist state, taken in by the constant propaganda and ignoring the new, much more democratic election for a Constituent Assembly.

Should we support the violently repressive Venezuelan State which is the last defense of the genuine revolutionary working class Bolivarian mass movement.. when the only other option is, rightwing neoliberalism, mass poverty, oppression of minorities, civil war and total control by the oligarchs and the USA?

Venezuela is being destabilized in every way imaginable, becoming a sweltering ecuatorial disaster with both sides beating each other to death in the streets. But our support must always be first for the most oppressed, the working class women and men and against the oligarchy with all their plots, murders and machinations