As Venezuela teeters on the brink of counter-revolution, an influential delegation of U.S. Maoists from the Freedom Road Socialist Organization–Fight Back! group (FRSO-FB) is in the country building solidarity with the communist leaders of the embattled regime.
“The Freedom Road Socialist Organization is sending a delegation to Venezuela for May Day, and the delegates need your help to get there.
“Four labor and anti-war activists will participate in the FRSO delegation to do eyewitness reporting for [FRSO publication] Fight Back! News. Sean Orr, Tracy Molm, Tom Burke and Mark Burton will write articles, conduct interviews and produce videos. They need your support and donations to make this a success.
“We are asking all comrades and allies who support the Bolivarian Revolution and believe in international solidarity to help us cover our travel costs.”
The members of the U.S. delegation currently in Venezuela are the following:
On their first day in Venezuela, the U.S. delegation “held a two-hour meeting with members of Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) Central Committee and leaders of the Communist Youth of Venezuela.”
“The groups shared their views on the revolutionary struggle in both of their countries, and the importance of international solidarity.
“Pedro Eusse, a PCV Politburo member and trade union leader, said ‘If there is anything positive about the U.S. aggression we face today, it is that there has been an explosion of solidarity from the United States and around the world.’”
Both communist organizations agreed to “move towards a closer working relationship in the future.”
The group met with other “progressive” political leaders and members of Venezuela’s government, including Minister of Communes Blanca Eckhout, who proudly announced the building of 2.6 million new homes in the near-destitute country.
Now as the counter-revolution unfolds, the U.S. Maoists are sending pro-Maduro propaganda back to their comrades for wider dissemination. These U.S. Maoists can only be trusted to do their revolutionary duty. Truth is whatever the revolution demands.
“There is excitement, April 30, in the streets as tens of thousands stream towards Miraflores Palace where President Maduro leads Venezuela. While rumors of an attempted coup are broadcast on the news, special police and Venezuelan military are mobilized at key crossroads and strategic buildings. The mood is serious, but calm as the mobilization to defend President Maduro and the Bolivarian Revolution grows
“Early morning, we woke to hear a lone woman’s voice shouting, ‘My God! My God! Freedom!’ This was in response to television news that coup plotter and right-wing politician Leopoldo Lopez escaped house arrest. We soon watched video of Lopez meeting U.S. puppet Juan Guiado on the highway outside of La Carlota airport. ...
“As we drove to the housing conference of the Mission Vivienda, we heard Vice President Delcy Rodriguez on the radio. ... Rodriguez said, ‘We are calling all workers, all working people of the entire country, from all parts of Venezuela, to mobilize to defend our revolution and our president!’”
The U.S. delegates know that, at all costs, they must work to influence events in the regime’s favor. In case that fails, they must attempt to preemptively smear any non-socialist government that may arise:
“Lopez is now an outlaw and those helping him will face arrest and imprisonment. It is possible the U.S. wants Lopez to come to Washington DC. Trump and Bolton can then direct Lopez and Guiado in their attempts to destabilize Venezuela. The U.S. wants Venezuela’s oil under their control. Wall Street is also upset by the measures that provide over 2.6 million new homes in eight years, and health care for all.
“As we drove to an important conference on building homes, we passed a small right-wing protest of 30 people in an upper-class area in East Caracas. Working-class Venezuelans waiting for the bus were not impressed, frowning at the right-wing supporters of U.S. puppet Juan Guiado.”
Treason can be defined as giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States. It is difficult to imagine that a group of U.S. communists traveling to a communist country with the intent to assist that regime would be anything other than treasonous.
