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 Central 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 Triumph!”
Ramón Valencia of El Salvador stated that “Young people who were arrested in the United States and later transferred to El Salvador were paraded publicly and turned into a spectacle, and the message behind it was ‘Only by doing this can we force them to submit.’ What they sought was to generate antagonism to the Bolivarian Revolution. But reality turned out to be the complete opposite. The people of El Salvador began to awaken, realizing that no one can be safe under fascism. They began to understand the need to organize and build structures capable of bringing down those in power. For this reason, at this very moment, we join in the cry of anti-imperialism.”
Aminta Beleño Gómez, regional chair of the Colombian Communist Party (Venezuela Central Region), stated that “They need violence to dominate Colombia and Latin America. They must destroy dialogue and fire lethal missiles at poor youth in the Caribbean. Drug policy is not aimed at stopping cocaine from entering the United States; it is aimed at dominating the peoples of the Global South. Drug policy is not for public health, but for power politics. They do not want light to shine in Latin America, nor for the era of the people to arrive. The young people killed by missiles in the Caribbean were not members of the Aragua Train; they were from the Caribbean. They were simply poor youth of Latin America.”
Edil Osinaga, La Paz regional member of the Communist Party of Bolivia, stated that “Before the eyes of the world, US imperialism is being shown to be far from invincible. Venezuela is living proof that it is possible to say ‘No,’ that it is possible to stand up to a vast empire, and that it is possible to maintain unity despite criminal blockades and extreme economic warfare. This is an example of dignity and courage for all peoples worldwide. This is why Venezuela is being ‘punished.’ Imperialism knows well that the greatest threat is not missiles or armies, but our unity. If the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean unite, we will become an unstoppable force.”
Mario Mendoza Molina, International Secretary of the Communist Party of Ecuador, stated that “The Novoa government is using every means to suppress the constitution and its spirit, and the domestic and foreign oligarchy has destroyed it. The Novoa government has raised fuel prices, plundered the funds of the social insurance and the social security bank, privatized them, and is even attempting to loot the national oil and electricity companies that the working class has defended for decades. We are carrying out a strategy of resistance and we will inevitably win. Initially, a state of emergency was declared in five provinces, then expanded to ten, and now to thirteen; gradually, a nationwide popular resistance against the neo-fascist government is growing.”
Fidel Andia Guzman, Central Committee member of the Communist Party of Peru, stated, “Peru is being repressed by a corrupt right-wing oligarchy, illegal mining interests, and systemic state corruption—further compounded by the submissive attitude of the ruling political class toward US imperialism. The left and the communists have been struck by terror campaigns and infiltration by right-wing and CIA forces, preventing unity in the upcoming electoral process and forcing us to run in as many as four separate blocs. Through deep self-criticism within our organization, infiltrators must be thoroughly identified and expelled, and we must unite to intensify efforts toward building national development programs and projects. Fundamentally, this aims at drafting a new constitution to resolve issues of employment, poverty, health care, housing, education, and pensions, and to establish national industrial development capable of generating value.”
Christopher Helali, International Secretary of the American Communist Party (ACP), stated, “The World Anti-Imperialist Platform has been at the forefront warning of the impending Third World War and the task of the communist international movement. The Special Military Operation continues to achieve enormous advances in the theatre of operations in Donbass. Heroic soldiers from Russia and the DPRK fought side by side against the Ukrainian fascists to liberate Kursk and defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation.”
Pedro Rosas of the Peoples Union for Anti-imperialist Revolution (UPRA, Venezuela) stated, “Threatening fleets have been deployed in the Caribbean, bases have been established in neighboring areas, and fascist enemies within the country are operating through terrorism and paramilitary schemes. Yet at the same time, the people are resisting and struggling against imperialist aggression and preparing across all sectors to defend national sovereignty. This situation is not limited to Venezuela. At the global level, imperialism threatens all peoples, which is why it must be defined as the common enemy of the proletariat and of all humanity, of workers in both imperialist and dependent nations.”
Irina Santesteban, General Secretary of the Liberation Party of Argentina, stated, “Milei has reached an unprecedented level in the history of Argentina. He is a strategic partner of US imperialism and an unconditional ally of the Zionist state of Israel, which is responsible for the massacre of the Palestinian people. We must fight to build an anti-imperialist front and put forward a program of strategies and forms of struggle to rebuild it.”
Ayelen Correa of the Network of Media and Communication Collectives (Argentina) stated, “Neo-colonial and imperialist policies are applied on both sides of the Andes—both in Chile and in Argentina—and they persist regardless of governmental or political changes. From the period of colonization until today, there has been an unrelenting assault on the Mapuche people and their traditions. Their traditional leader, Lonko, is imprisoned now, and the official responsible is the current Minister of National Security, Patricia Bullrich, a fascist chameleon who has maneuvered through multiple governments. We must demand the immediate release of the Lonko and all community leaders. The southern region of the Andes is not just land; it is a strategic zone targeted for US military bases and for serving as a South Atlantic entry corridor for NATO.”
Member of the Venezuelan trade union stated, “Currently, the communes are doing excellent work, and within the labor movement we are expanding the Workers’ Production Committees.” And he said about the period 2017–18, “essential goods necessary for daily life were deprived, a situation that particularly affected women—for instance, sanitary pads disappeared from the market. This was a direct attack on the Venezuelan people and on women. The Workers’ Production Committees emerged to correct this situation, monitoring production and product flows inside factories and identifying who was hiding supplies. The actors behind this were Dutch corporations and large monopolistic companies collaborating with imperialism and the US government.”
Carolina Martínez, Central Committee member of the Antonio Gramsci Socialist Study Group of Mexico, stated, “Fascism in Latin America has advanced counterrevolution in various forms, dividing the left and strengthening the right. In Mexico, we accept the tasks and responsibilities entrusted to us by the World Anti-Imperialist Platform. We work to link the anti-imperialist struggle being waged by our people and our government with the struggles of other countries targeted by Washington. In parallel, we are committed to building the anti-fascist struggle that must be led by the left. We will urgently prioritize coordination and solidarity with Venezuela and Colombia, and through active and dedicated struggle within the World Anti-Imperialist Platform, we will advance toward integration and cooperation among all the peoples of Latin America.”
Adama Coulibaly, Secretary-General of the Pan-African Unified Dynamics (DUP), stated,
“As in the case of the Rwandan genocide, where nearly one million people were killed, a similar tragedy has been transferred to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, producing over thirty years nearly fifteen million victims. The agreement signed this year between the United States and the Democratic Republic of the Congo is utterly insufficient to stop the ongoing massacre. Examples of massacres and mass killings caused by imperialism across the African continent are countless. A new imperialist war offensive is being carried out in Africa through NATO as an armed organization.
He continue, “In the Sahel region, imperialism has gathered a massive army—heavy weapons, tens of thousands of UN troops, European forces, French forces, and US forces—under the pretext of leading a ‘war on terror,’ creating the puppet organization known as the G5 Sahel. This ended in disastrous failure: terrorism expanded, the peoples of the Sahel rose up, military coups occurred, and NATO forces were expelled from Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad.”
Rendal Peña Ramírez, Deputy Coordinator of the International Department of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), stated, “Some may think that regime change in Venezuela is merely a matter of elections or political disputes, but it is not. This issue is directly linked to life, survival, and human dignity. The Bolivarian movement has established moral, ethical, political, and human principles to guarantee the human condition and the continued existence not only of this land but of humanity as a whole. It is precisely this that the United States and the imperialist forces seek to eliminate.”
Aboubakar Alassane, Coordination Committee member of the West African Peoples’ Organization (WAPO), stated, “In Venezuela, the so-called war on drugs is used as a pretext. In the Sahel region, the so-called war on terror is used as a pretext. But who created the chaos in the Sahel? Who destabilized Libya, created a power vacuum, and allowed armed groups to flourish in order to justify a permanent military presence for the plundering of minerals, uranium, oil, and gold? These imperialist forces not only abandoned their security duties, but their negligence, and even indirect support and opaque dealings, became a breeding ground for terrorism.”
Adama Ancumba Djata, member of PAIGC (Guinea-Bissau), stated, “Democracy in Guinea-Bissau faces a real threat. The freedom that our people won through courage, sacrifice, and blood is now under threat from a regime that disregards constitutional limits, democratic oversight, and the rotation of power. We reject any form of violence or institutional collapse. We will continue to struggle through peaceful and democratic means, confident that no authority can permanently resist the will of the people.”
Hasan Almarzooq, Secretary-General of the Unitary National Democratic Assemblage of Bahrain, stated, “The historical lesson from the 20th-century struggle against fascism is that division means defeat. The core strategic task of anti-imperialist and anti-fascist forces worldwide is to build a broad, flexible, and resilient united front. We must clearly oppose all forms of foreign intervention, military aggression, and economic coercion. Supporting the right of all peoples—Cuba, Venezuela, Palestine, and others—to choose their own path is the cornerstone of anti-imperialism.”
Taimur Rahman, General Secretary of the Mazdoor Kissan Party of Pakistan, stated, “Since October 7, Israel has attacked more than seven countries: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, the Maltese coast, Yemen, Qatar, Syria, and continues to occupy parts of Syria. Regarding the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, the Muslim world has become an ‘intellectual wasteland.’ Science, art, culture, and literature have all historically regressed. Even communism has been distorted into religious forms. However, we have not been defeated. The aspiration for freedom and the march of history cannot be stopped. We will prevail. The sun will shine again. Progressive causes will dominate the world.”
Rafael Cardino, Political Bureau member of the Philippines Communist Party (PKP-1930), stated, “The enduring poverty and underdevelopment of the Philippines are not merely the results of poor leadership but of a neo-colonial structure that keeps the nation dependent on foreign powers. Under this system, the Philippine economy remains tied to external interests that perpetuate backwardness and dependency. The Filipino people’s struggle against imperialism forms part of the broader, just, and anti–neo-colonial global movement that shares the same aspirations. It contributes to the unification of anti-imperialist forces within the Philippines. Like the peoples of Venezuela, Cuba, Palestine, and other nations fighting against imperialist domination, our struggle is also the struggle of all oppressed and exploited peoples of the world. Through the unity of anti-imperialist forces, the movement for genuine national freedom, justice, and peace grows ever stronger.”
Daniel O’Brien, Vice Chair of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist), stated, “It is no secret that the imperialist nations, the USA in particular, face drastically deepening economic crises. The current economic bubble, driven by the growth of AI infrastructure and technology, threatens to be several times larger than the bubble that led to the 2008 financial crisis. The respite that the imperialist economies gained from the destruction and subsequent plundering of the socialist nations of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union was short-lived. The continued cannibalisation of social welfare and the public sector in the imperialist nations cannot save monopoly capitalism, any more than a sieve can bail out a sinking ship.”
He then presented the resolution “Stand in Solidarity with the British Workers Criminalized for Opposing British Imperialism’s Massacres.”
The Struggle Unity of Türkiye stated, “the fight against imperialism and the fight against fascism are two fronts in the same war,” adding, “to believe that one can successfully wage an anti-imperialist struggle without it being inherently anti-capitalist is a fatal error. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. To fight the consequence without fighting the root is to tend to the symptoms while the disease rages on. A struggle that merely seeks a “fairer” deal within the imperialist system, or a more “sovereign” capitalism, is doomed to fail.”
Stephen Cho, Organizer of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform and Coordinator of the Korea International Forum, emphasized, “The most crucial criterion distinguishing progressives from reactionaries today is their stance on war. How can anyone who neither supports nor opposes wars instigated by imperialism and its fascist lackeys claim to be progressive? In this sense, the true progressive forces of our era hold a clear anti-imperialist, anti-fascist, and anti-war position. Those who take an anti-Russia stance by echoing imperialist propaganda branding Russia an aggressor, or who oppose Iran and the “Axis of Resistance” while effectively supporting Israeli Zionists, are nothing more than pro-imperialist forces disguised as progressives. The same applies to their stance on Venezuela.”
He continued, “US imperialism, facing a severe political and economic crisis, is massing vast military forces in the Caribbean in an attempt to seize Venezuela’s oil and turn the country into another flashpoint. If the US launches a full-scale war against Venezuela, it could become a historic spark that escalates into world war.” He added, “Venezuela is entirely different from Syria or Iraq. The decisive difference lies in the single-hearted unity of all the comunas, centered on the Maduro government, which holds the Bolivarian Revolution as its very lifeblood. The comuna itself is the militia; its resistance is the resistance of the entire people. A nation where the leader, the party, the army, and the people are firmly united as one and fight to the last will never collapse.”
He concluded, “Following March 2023, we once again gather here today, in October 2025, to support the just struggle and all-people’s resistance of the Venezuelan people, who have raised the banner of anti-imperialism and anti-fascism. For the victory of the Venezuelan people, we are ready to gather ten times, a hundred times, and we will do everything in our power.”
After the declaration “Imperialism Shall Fall! The People Triumph!” the conclusions of the 9th International Anti-Imperialist Conference were announced.
Blanca Eekhout, former First Vice President of the Venezuelan National Assembly and current Director of the Simón Bolívar Institute, stated, “As Simón Rodríguez said, we possess knowledge. We have the history of our people’s resistance. And we have concrete creative experience—the example of the Bolivarian Revolution and the experience of the comunas. Through them, we are inventing a new society, built through the subjectivity and labor of the people. We must continue moving forward.”
Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs Yván Gil Pinto remarked, “What we are fighting for today in Venezuela is the same struggle led in the 19th century by Simón Bolívar, Francisco de Miranda, and Antonio José de Sucre, and by all the heroic leaders and heroes who fought for our independence and for liberation from the European and Spanish empires. It is the struggle of all humanity.”
