By New Worker
correspondent
London
comrades joined members of the capital’s Latin American community for a
solidarity picket outside the Venezuelan embassy last week to support the
inauguration of Nicolas Maduro as the democratically elected President of
Venezuela.
Venezuela is under an imperialist
sanctions regime and faces threats of “regime change” from US imperialism, so
the picket was called to show solidarity with Venezuela in the face of these
threats and to support its right to independence.
There were fears that elements of the
Venezuelan opposition and other hirelings of US imperialism might turn up to
disrupt the solidarity stance in south Kensington, but these proved unfounded.
Chanting support for the Bolivarian revolution, as well as “Yankees go home!”,
the crowd sang Cuban revolutionary songs and waved their national flags.
The Brazilian flag fluttered along with
Venezuelan and Cuban banners showing that Brazilians, under the thumb of the
fascist regime of Jair Bolsonaro, were also giving solidarity to Venezuela.
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