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No to a US war on Venezuela!

By Tim Young (Venezuela Solidarity Campaign – Britain)

For the past few weeks the Trump administration has intensified its long-standing aggression against Venezuela by deploying warships (including a nuclear submarine) in the Caribbean Sea in a purported anti-narcotics operation. US forces have carried out at least five incidents of strikes on boats in Venezuelan waters to date, killing 37 people. Trump’s latest move has been to authorise the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela.

President Nicolas Maduro, as Venezuela’s current leader, has been a focus of this ‘war on drugs’ narrative, justifying the US’s illegal actions by demonising him as a ‘narco-terrorist’ engaged in drug trafficking, despite UN evidence to the contrary. The US also portrays him as being an illegitimate leader, offering a bounty of $50 million for his capture.

But overthrowing the Bolivarian Revolution has been a project of US imperialism ever since Huge Chávez became President in 1999 and set about transforming the country through a series of far-reaching measures including healthcare, education, land redistribution and anti-poverty programmes.

Key to these revolutionary changes was, and still is, the massive wealth in oil reserves that Venezuela has – the largest in the world – and the revenues generated from them. Chávez’s massive programme of wealth redistribution redirected these oil revenues to collective social purposes rather than funding the opulent lifestyle of Venezuela’s elites.

Additionally, to help realise his vision that “another world is possible”, not just for Venezuela, Chávez also envisaged (and ultimately helped create) key regional organisations to unite Latin American voices and provide progressive economic alternatives to neo-liberalism....

October 28, 2025

APEC 2025: People are taking action against it

The 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting is taking place in South Korea, on Friday 31 October and Saturday 1 November.

APEC is an inter-governmental forum for 21 member economies in the Pacific Rim. It pursues a liberalising agenda, centred around the interests of multinational corporations, so inevitably dominated by Global North countries, in particular the United States.

With Trump’s imposition of tariffs having a huge impact across the world, there is so much that ought to be discussed at the meeting. But it is unlikely Trump will be confronted about the damage US economic policy is inflicting on other countries.

An International People’s Summit against APEC 2025, will also be taking place in South Korea, which will discuss these important issues.

In this short video, Anlin Wang interviews Dae-Han Song from South Korea, who explains the role that APEC plays and sets out an alternative progressive agenda that needs to be addressed.

Dae-Han Song is a part of the International Strategy Center and the Korea Policy Institute. He is a member of the international No Cold War collective....

October 24, 2025

We oppose APEC – We oppose Trump – And, we want an economy for all

The Organizing Committee for the International People’s Response Against APEC 2025 (“Organizing Committee”) will convene an International People’s Summit (“Summit”) in opposition to APEC 2025 Korea and Trump’s predatory neoliberalism.

The APEC Summit has completely excluded public participation from all its meetings including the CEO Summit and Leaders’ Meeting. The agendas discussed in APEC meetings have profound implications for people across the globe. At this moment, we are facing interconnected crises—climate change, war, economic inequality, and violations of the rights of minorities and migrants. However, the APEC Summit has failed to address any of these challenges or take a stand against Trump’s unilateral economic aggression and predatory neoliberalism.

In response, the International People’s Summit will release a joint declaration from progressive political parties, civil society organizations, activists, and intellectuals from APEC member economies and beyond. It will also launch a collective effort to build people-centered alternatives through international solidarity.

The declaration condemns the APEC summit, which only serves corporate and the geopolitical interests of the powerful countries, and denounces Trump’s predatory neoliberalism. It reaffirms our shared commitment to forge people-centered alternatives through international people’s action. Our solidarity extends beyond resistance to APEC 2025 Korea and Trump, but moves forward to a broader and stronger international solidarity....

October 21, 2025

The US is pursuing regime change in Venezuela

In August this year the United States’ military started moving a contingent of naval forces close to the coast of Venezuela.

It has been reported that this now includes four destroyers, a cruiser, a littoral combat ship, a three-vessel amphibious assault group, and a nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine. In addition, US combat aircraft have also been operating just off the Venezuela’s coast.

The US falsely claims its surge of military forces is in order to tackle drug smuggling. Since September has been firing missiles to destroy small boats off Venezuela’s coast. So far, four boats and their crews have been obliterated. There is no evidence that any of, the more than 20, people killed by the US were involved in any way with drugs. If there was involvement there should due process, not summary execution by the US military.

The US is seeking a change of regime in Venezuela. It has been working to support and direct opposition to the elected government. It is now stepping up that activity with its military threats against the country.

In this short video, Carlos Ron is interviewed by Anlin Wang.

Carlos Ron is Co-Coordinator of the Nuestra America office of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. He is a former Venezuelan diplomat who served as Vice Minister for North America (2018-2025)....

October 07, 2025

The Sahel Seeks Sovereignty

Since 2020, a series of popular military coups in the Sahel region of Africa has bought to power governments that are seeking a path to establish their own countries’ sovereignty.

The coups that took place were in: Mali in August 2020; Burkina Faso in January 2022; and Niger in July 2023. Following these events, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), along with the African Union (AU), imposed sanctions and suspended the memberships of all three states.

In September 2023, in response to the threat of military intervention in Niger by ECOWAS, the heads of state of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger established the Alliance of Sahel States (AES).

The Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research has published an excellent dossier on the current struggle of the Sahel states, titled ‘The Sahel Seeks Sovereignty’. It is available in multiple languages from here:
https://thetricontinental.org/dossier-sahel-alliance-sovereignty/

In this short video, Mikaela Nhondo Erskog, in discussion with Dae-Han Song, explains how these states are trying to establish their sovereignty, whilst having to navigate a legacy of dependency and internal-external security challenges....

September 25, 2025

No Cold War supports the Global Sumud Gaza Flotilla

No Cold War’s statement in support of the Global Sumud Gaza Flotilla is produced below in English, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Persian, Sebian & Macedonian.


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No Cold War supports the Global Sumud Gaza Flotilla.

As a global platform against war and genocide, we stand in full solidarity with the brave people who are aboard the Global Sumud Gaza Flotilla that is on the way to the shores of Gaza, and we stand in solidarity with all protest movements for Gaza.

We send all the people on the boats our love and support, and to our specific comrades – Dr. Hanne Bosselaers (Medicine for the People, MPLP-GVHV, Belgium) and Ayoub Habraoui (Workers Democratic Party of Morocco and the International Peoples Assembly Youth Group).

Apartheid Israel’s genocide against Gaza has now created a famine in Gaza: an absolute outrage.

We are clear that Israel will attack the Global Sumud Gaza Flotilla and that Israel will not cease its genocide....

September 01, 2025

Trump and Europe propose no realistic way to end the Ukraine war

By John Ross

The attempt at the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska on 15 August to reach an unconditional ceasefire in the Ukraine war was inevitably bound to fail, as it would simply mean in practice a beneficial pause during which Ukraine, which is in a worsening position in the war, would be rearmed by NATO — and, as this is transparently clear, it was bound to be rejected by Russia. Such a one-sided proposal will therefore also continue to fail despite attempts by European leaders and Ukraine to revive it at, and following, their own summit with Trump on 18 August. The proposal by the European leaders is in reality, therefore, one to continue the war, and for its outcome simply to be decided on the battlefield. As Ukraine is currently losing the war, and has no realistic prospect of reversing this without a direct intervention of NATO military forces, which would threaten a World War, and which for that reason NATO is not prepared to undertake, all that Europe’s leaders are proposing is the loss of many tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands, of Ukrainian and Russian lives at the end of which the Ukraine will still lose.

This is a helpful outcome only for those cynical and destructive political forces, which do exist in the U.S. and Europe, who see the continuation of the war as an end in itself — in the hope that it will weaken Russia. The outcome of these summits, therefore, makes clear that there will not be a rapid outcome to the war and once again focuses attention on the fundamental issues which created it – with its disastrous consequences. 

Ending the Ukraine war is, in turn, a vital step for Europe to get out of the economic, social and political crisis which has been worsening for years — and which has imposed great damage on the rest of the world....

August 29, 2025

Japan today: LDP, Trump’s tariffs, New Cold War

In last month’s (July 2025) House of Councillors (upper house) elections in Japan, the national vote share of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), fell to 21.6% – its lowest result in the party’s history. Plus Sanseitō, a far right party, made a dramatic advance by securing a 12.6% share of the national vote.

In this No Cold War Perspectives video, Seishi Hinada, in discussion with Anlin Wang, explains this recent election in the context of the history of the LDP. Also discussed is Trumps recent imposition of tariffs on Japan, alongside the stepped up strengthening of Japan’s military – and increasing international operations coordinated with the US and its allies.

Japan’s current militarisation is taking place, despite it not having properly addressed its war crimes prior to its defeat in 1945. It is concerning that it is participating in plans for another war with China, which the Japanese anti-war movement ZENKO is campaigning against.

Hinada, Seishi has been involved in the ZENKO (National Assembly for Peace & Democracy) movement since his student days, participating in peace activism, postwar compensation campaigns, and anti-base struggles in Hiroshima....

August 25, 2025

Gaza, and the UN at 80

Helena Cobban, President of Just World Educational, looks at the coming session of the UN General Assembly and how it should deal with Israel’s genocide in Gaza – including the issue of invoking the UN’s rarely used emergency ‘Uniting for Peace’ procedure.

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For many decades now, Israel has acted as the tip of the spear for “White”, Western colonial domination of West Asia and much of North Africa. Through prodigious and focused efforts, Israel’s leaders so successfully meshed their military and technological elites with those of the United States that they achieved a large degree of control over U.S. actions in countries from Iran to Libya– including, of course, U.S. policy on the crucial Palestine Question.

The fully U.S.-backed genocide that Israel has pursued for the past two years in Gaza has echoed a lengthy string of similar actions that “White” colonial powers– including the United States–have enacted against Indigenous peoples on all continents for the past five centuries. In today’s largely post-colonial world, this genocide has thus provoked a tsunami of revulsion across (and beyond) the whole of the Global South. This has greatly reduced the appeal and “soft power” that, before October 2023, Washington was able to deploy in its conduct of world affairs. It has also thrust the 30-year-long, de-facto hegemony that Washington has exercised over the UN’s global-level decision-making into ever sharper question.

Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the international reaction to it are now seen by many as marking the beginning of the end of the lengthy domination that “White”, European-origined governments have exercised for many centuries over much of the Global South....

August 25, 2025

Why it is crucial for all countries to defeat Trump’s tariff regime

By John Ross

Trump is attempting to impose an international trade system arbitrarily dictated by the U.S.

The tariffs adopted by the U.S. to meet Trump’s August 1 deadline fully confirm just how dangerous the new trade system Trump is attempting to impose on the world is for all countries, both in the Global South and the Global North.

Beyond even arbitrary economic decisions, Trump’s actions make it clear that under this system, unilateral U.S. tariff dictats will be used against countries that adopt political policies the U.S. opposes. Thus:

  • Trump has imposed a 50% tariff on Brazil because it is trying Bolsonaro for attempting a coup d’état.
  • A 25% tariff has been imposed on India after Trump criticized it for importing Russian oil.
  • A 35% tariff has been imposed on Canada after Trump stated that reaching a trade deal was difficult because Canada had decided to recognise a Palestinian state.

Furthermore, as Trump has confirmed through his frequent changes in rates, he intends to introduce a system in which the U.S. can alter its policy at any time to promote its interests against those of any other country.

The WTO system was very far from perfect; it had a systematic bias against developing countries. However, the world trade system that Trump is attempting to introduce eliminates even the elements of multilateralism and the rules established in WTO agreements, making it a far more dangerous system for every country....

August 04, 2025

No Cold War statement

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A New Cold War against China is against the interests of humanity

We note the increasingly aggressive statements and actions being taken by the US government in regard to China. These constitute a threat to world peace and are an obstacle to humanity successfully dealing with extremely serious common issues which confront it such as climate change, control of pandemics, racist discrimination and economic development.

We therefore believe that any New Cold War would run entirely counter to the interests of humanity. Instead we stand in favour of maximum global cooperation in order to tackle the enormous challenges we face as a species.

We therefore call upon the US to step back from this threat of a Cold War and also from other dangerous threats to world peace it is engaged in including: withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces agreement; withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Accords; and its increasing disengagement from UN bodies. The US should also stop pressuring other countries to adopt such dangerous positions.

We support China and the US basing their relations on mutual dialogue and centring on the common issues which unite humanity.

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