Caracas, Venezuela — The historic 9th International Anti-imperialist Conference, organized by the World Anti-imperialist Platform (the Platform), was held in Caracas on October 21–22.
Founded in October 2022 in Paris by revolutionary anti-imperialist parties and organizations, the Platform has been striving to advance three major goals: the world anti-imperialist struggle, the ideological battle, and the strengthening of the international communist movement.
Since its founding at the Paris International Conference, the Platform has organized anti-imperialist conferences in Belgrade (Dec 2022), Caracas (Mar 2023), Seoul (May 2023), Athens (Nov 2023), Washington (Jul 2024), Dakar (Oct 2024), and Amsterdam (Jun 2025), along with worldwide anti-imperialist actions, demonstrations, and campaigns.
With the United States intensifying its war provocations in Latin America, particularly against Venezuela, the Caracas conference—held just four months after the Hague-Amsterdam conference—became a powerful gathering of revolutionary organizations from across the world, united in support of the Venezuelan people’s resistance centered on the communes (Comunas) against imperialist aggression.
The conference, held on October 22 under the theme “Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Fascism,” brought together 44 parties and political organizations from Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Participants held intense discussions on the growing dangers of war in East Asia and the Western Pacific, and the increasing possibility of all-out confrontation in the Caribbean, signaling the onset of the Third World War. The delegates reaffirmed their commitment to fight imperialism and fascism, and pledged to deepen and expand international solidarity with the anti-imperialist and anti-fascist government of Nicolás Maduro.
The conference consisted of two main sessions.
In the first session, presentations were delivered by Henry Parra, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV); Úrsula Aguilera of the Committee for International Solidarity and the Struggle for Peace (COSI); Néstor Kohan, member of the Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity (REDH) in Argentina; Aleksandar Đeni큓, Executive Secretary of the New Communist Party of Yugoslavia; Alberto García Barcala of Union Proletaria of Spain; Pablo Gómez Acevedo, Central Committee member of the Communist Party of the Galician People (PCRG); Valerii Novikov, Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan; Stefan Petrov, International Secretary of the September 23 Movement of Bulgaria; Lusine Karapetyan of the Communist Party of Armenia; Shuruk Duqqa, spokesperson of the Palestinian Women’s Movement Al-Karama in Venezuela; and Materi Panagiota of the Revolutionary Theory Group (Greece).
Mattia Cavatorti of the CARC Party (Italy), Luca Rodilosso of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), and Temur Pipia, Coordinator of the Socialist Platform of Georgia, participated through video presentations. Written statements were submitted by the Communist Party of Belgium, Baltic Platform, Eastern Initiative, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), and Booker Omole, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kenya-Marxist (CPMK).
The second session featured contributions from Anatole Sawosik, regional chair of the Pole of Communist Revival in France (PRCF); Camila Monge, member of the international department of the Union for Communist Reconstruction (URC, France); Ramón Valencia from El Salvador; Aminta Beleño Gómez, regional chair of the Colombian Communist Party (Venezuela Centra§l Region); Edil Osinaga, La Paz regional member of the Communist Party of Bolivia; Mario Mendoza Molina, International Secretary of the Communist Party of Ecuador; Fidel Andia Guzman, Central Committee Member of the Communist Party of Peru; Christopher Helali, International Secretary of the American Communist Party (ACP); Pedro Rosas of the Peoples Union for Anti-imperialist Revolution (UPRA, Venezuela); Irina Santesteban, General Secretary of Liberation Party of Argentina (PL); Ayelen Correa of the Network of Media and Communication Collectives (Argentina); Gerdul Gutierrez from Central Union Workers of Venezuela; Carolina Martínez, Central Committee member of the Antonio Gramsci Socialist Chair of Mexico; Adama Coulibaly, Secretary-General of Dynamque Unitare Panafricaine (DUP); Rander Peña Ramírez, Vice Chair of the International Department of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV); Aboubakar Alassane, Coordination Commitee member of the West African Peoples’ Organization (WAPO); Adama Ancumba Djata of PAIGC (Guinea-Bissau); Hasan Almarzooq, Secretary-General of the Unitary National Democratic Assemblage of Bahrain; Taimur Rahman, General Secretary of the Mazdoor Kissan Party of Pakistan; Rafael Cardino, Political Bureau member of the Philippines Communist Party (PKP-1930); Daniel O’Brien, Vice Chair of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist); the Struggle Union of Türkiye; Blanca Eekhout, former First Vice President of the National Assembly of Venezuela and current Director of the Simón Bolívar Institute; and Yván Eduardo Gil Pinto, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela.
Stephen Cho, organizer of the World Anti-imperialist Platform and coordinator of the Korean International Forum, submitted a written statement.
The CPGB-ML presented a resolution calling for solidarity with the British working class.
Lusine Karapetyan of the Communist Party of Armenia read the declaration titled:
“Imperialism Shall Fall! The People Shall Triumph!”
The conference concluded with a standing ovation, as the participants adopted the final resolution embodying the collective will of all delegates.
The full text of the declaration follows.
Statement of Caracas International Conference “Anti-imperialism and Anti-fascism”
Imperialism Shall Fall! The Peoples Shall Triumph!
The US imperialist atrocities of aggression against Venezuela are vicious and relentless. The United States slanders Venezuela—a model country in the fight against drugs—as a “narco-state,” and President Nicolás Maduro as a “drug lord,” while doubling the bounty on his head. It is further amassing invasion forces in the southern Caribbean and committing heinous atrocities by murdering the Venezuelan people. Its aggressive campaign against Venezuela is exposed by the large-scale invasion exercise “UNITAS 2025,” held from September 15 to October 6 with the participation of some 25 countries, and through “false flag” operations. According to a report on September 17, a drug trafficker captured by the Venezuelan army with 3,680 kilograms of cocaine was revealed to be an agent of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The pro-US far-right fascists are exploiting the attack by US imperialism on Venezuela to openly beg for a military intervention and invasion by US imperialism, seeking to overthrow the only constitutional government headed by President Maduro. Furthermore, drug-trafficking and irregular armed groups are continuously attempting to infiltrate Venezuelan territory.
The truth is crystal clear: US imperialism seeks to invade Venezuela to plunder its natural resources—specifically 350 billion barrels of oil, gold, bauxite, water, and various biological resources. According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, only 5 % of Colombian cocaine attempted to transit through Venezuela, and even that was mostly seized by Venezuelan authorities. In a personal letter in September, President Maduro stressed that Venezuela had destroyed 420 aircraft involved in drug-smuggling over recent years. It is not Venezuela but Ecuador that should be a real focus of concern regarding “drug-trafficking.” The Noboa family’s port of Posorja in Ecuador has become a main cocaine gateway from Latin America to Europe. The Ecuadorian people are outraged at the pro-US puppet government of Daniel Noboa, which enforces neoliberal policies and constructs an unconstitutional US military base in the Galápagos Islands.
US imperialism will never defeat the Venezuelan people united around the Communes. President Maduro has called for the readiness to shift from unarmed to armed struggle, emphasizing the historic duty to defend the dignity of the nation. He has instructed the mobilization of 260,000 streets and 47,000 communities to prepare for armed resistance. Today, under the slogan “Barracks to the People,” 4.5 million militia members are organized in Venezuela to defend the people’s government and their motherland. Millions more have volunteered for militia and combat units, demonstrating the unbreakable unity between the people and their government, and their immense political and ideological strength. Strategic and tactical unity with the anti-imperialist camp is also being consolidated. The strategic partnership and cooperation agreement signed with Russia in May was unanimously ratified by the Venezuelan National Assembly in September. Around the same time, the Cuba-Venezuela strategic alliance was reaffirmed. International and regional cooperation bodies like ALBA, CELAC, and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), along with many Latin American countries, have also firmly rejected the deployment of US troops that threaten the peace of the region.
Even at this very moment, imperialism is carrying out wars of aggression, massacres of the people, regime changes, and the plunder of resources across the world. The imperialist forces and their fascist lackeys are striving to expand and prolong wars in Ukraine and Eastern Europe, and in Palestine and West Asia, and in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and across Africa, while frantically attempting to ignite new war in East Asia and the Western Pacific in order to escalate World War 3 into a full-scale confrontation. In particular, the genocide against the Palestinian people exposes the imperialist and fascist forces as true machines of massacre and the culprits of war. These same cliques are frantically fomenting “color revolutions”—forms of “low intensity wars”—to subvert governments in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and across Asia. Amid the current escalation of war in global scale, “color revolutions” will inevitably lead to total war, as clearly demonstrated by the example of Ukraine.
The sun is setting on imperialism. It is making its last desperate struggle to escape the worst-ever political and economic crisis by triggering a world war. Due to antagonistic contradictions on multiple levels, imperialism is destined to perish. Just as the anti-fascist camp emerged during World War 2, today, under the conditions of World War 3, the anti-imperialist camp is strengthening its forces and, as reality proves, is pushing the imperialist camp toward defeat. The military parades held in Russia, China, and the DPRK in May, September, and October respectively, demonstrated that the anti-imperialist camp not only holds the just and peaceful political-ideological cause, but also overwhelmingly surpasses the imperialist camp in military strength. Imperialism shall fall. The peoples shall triumph. The people who rise up in struggle, shouting the slogans “Proletarians of all countries, unite!” and “The people united will never be defeated!” are will certainly dwin. The Venezuelan people, holding high the banner of anti-imperialism and united around the Maduro government, will surely achieve victory.
Peoples of the world, rise up and fight!
Against imperialist plunder — resist!
Against fascist terror — unite!
For socialism and liberation — advance!
October 22, 2025, Caracas
World Anti-imperialist Platform
