Once again, the mainstream media in Britain have distorted the truth in order to support the actions of the Western Imperialists. We publish here a reply – by Jorge Martin and Rachel Boothroyd of the Hands off Venezuela campaign – to an artice in the Guardian, which falsely accuses “democracy” of being “behind bars”, with “opposition leaders facing jail or death”.

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.