Viva Venezuela!

by Theo Russell

Last weekend members of International Ukraine Anti Fascist Solidarity (IUAFS) campaign joined a major solidarity meeting in central London with Venezuela and the peoples of Latin America who are fighting against fascism, imperialism and war, organised by a broad group of organisations working for our peoples.
The event, “Viva Venezuela – Stand against fascism, imperialism and war” was addressed by a broad platform of speakers including Venezuelan ambassador Felix Plasencia Gonzalez, Francisco Dominguez, the Secretary of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, Blanca Eekhout, a Venezuelan National Assembly member and president of the Simon Bolivar Institute for Peace and Solidarity between the Peoples, and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
A display of Ukraine anti-fascist placards was held outside the venue before the  meeting, and new leaflet from IUAFS linking the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine with the growing threat of an American attack on Venezuela was distributed to those arriving.
The changing attitudes to the Ukraine war – as more and more in Britain link the war with their growing economic insecurity – was shown as many passers by on a small side street expressed support for our demands for Britain to stop sending weapons to Ukrainian Nazis.