A-Infos (en) Italy, AL FdCA: Against all imperialist aggression, against all authoritarian regimes (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

If 2025 was the year of the arms race, 2026 does not bode well for the 
peoples of this planet: in these first days of the new year, the United 
States intervened militarily in Venezuela, effectively removing 
President Maduro, who was kidnapped along with his wife and is currently 
detained in New York on drug trafficking charges. ---- Despite using the 
rhetoric of the fight against drug trafficking and terrorism, Trump 
himself made no secret of the true objectives of US imperialism in his 
press conference, stating that US oil companies will be directly 
involved in the management of Venezuelan oil infrastructure.

This military intervention fits perfectly with the foreign policy 
pursued by the US government in recent years: an analysis of the armed 
interventions authorized by the Trump administration in the past-from 
Yemen to Syria, from Iran to Nigeria-shows a coherence that is difficult 
to explain solely by referring to categories such as the fight against 
terrorism or international security. On the contrary, these operations 
are fully understandable if placed within the logic of contemporary 
imperialism, understood as a political-military articulation of the 
needs of capital's reproduction on a global scale.
The theaters affected by the interventions coincide with strategic areas 
of the global energy system, both in terms of reserves and transit hubs. 
Yemen controls one of the main checkpoints in the global hydrocarbon 
trade; Syria lies along potential interregional energy corridors; Iran 
exerts structural power over markets through the Strait of Hormuz; 
Venezuela and Nigeria represent key oil and gas reserves. This 
geographic recurrence does not appear contingent, but rather the 
expression of an imperial rationality oriented towards controlling the 
material conditions of accumulation.

From this perspective, energy is not simply a strategic resource, but a 
central component of the material infrastructure of global capitalism. 
Control of routes, the violent regulation of access to resources, and 
the ability to influence energy prices and flows are tools through which 
the imperial state ensures the stability of its economic power bloc. For 
the Trump administration, which has explicitly tied foreign policy to 
revitalizing the domestic energy industry and reducing the trade 
deficit, the use of military force is therefore part of a logic of 
direct support for processes of accumulation.
The objective is not direct territorial occupation, typical of classic 
forms of colonial imperialism, but rather the exercise of an informal 
and flexible imperialism, based on the intertwining of military 
coercion, economic pressure, and political subordination. In this 
configuration, armed violence operates as a mechanism for disciplining 
the peripheries of the global system, ensuring favorable conditions for 
the valorization of capital while simultaneously containing the 
emergence of competing powers.

Faced with the European Union's total silence and the Meloni 
government's support for the intervention, which once again confirm 
their role as mere vassals of US imperialism, as well as narratives that 
divide imperialisms into "good" and "bad," it is urgent to reiterate our 
aversion to any authoritarian regime, even if cloaked in 
pseudo-socialism, and to work to create an internationalist front that 
articulates political proposals capable of impacting society. We have no 
other alternatives; the process of capitalist restructuring is now 
dangerously accelerating and risks dragging the entire planet and those 
who live on it down with it.

05/01/2026
Alternativa Libertaria/FdCA

https://alternativalibertaria.org/contro-ogni-aggressione-imperialista-contro-ogni-regime-autoritario/
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