The so-called “Maidan revolution” was supposed to stand for democracy and Western values while fighting against corruption and the oligarchy. The actual result, as Jorge Martin explains, was that the reign of one group of oligarchs was replaced by another, and now, those who benefited from the change are fighting each other for the loot.

Varoufakis, the Greek Finance Minister, presents himself as a Marxist – albeit an “erratic” one – and is even described as such in the bourgeois media. Fred Weston analyses the arguments of Varoufakis, and demonstrates that he is, in fact, a classic reformist who believes that a solution to the present crisis can be found within the capitalist system itself, something which Marx never stood for.

The statement by President Obama that Venezuela represents an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US “national security” represents an important escalation in imperialist meddling against the Bolivarian revolution. We publish here a statement by Class Struggle, the Marxist tendency in Venezuela, on these latest developments.