the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Dec 8, 2025
Trump’s campaign against small boats off of South America has destroyed 22 boats and killed 87 people so far. More recently, the press and Congress have focused on the first boat attack, which took place on September 1st.
The first attack was on a speedboat carrying 11 people in waters near Venezuela and Trinidad. After the first missile strike, part of the boat remained afloat, and two survivors clung to the wreckage. The Navy then launched a second missile, killing the survivors—a so-called “double tap” attack. Democrats and others in Congress have called the second strike a possible war crime, because the survivors were “out of the fight.”
The administration has not proven that any of these boats were carrying drugs. If they were, those drugs were almost certainly bound for West Africa and Europe, not the United States. The DEA says almost all the drugs coming into the U.S. come via Mexico and the Pacific Ocean—as opposed to Venezuela. The claim that small, unarmed speedboats are somehow “in a fight” with the most powerful navy in history is preposterous.
Killing people on boats without notice is murder, plain and simple. It’s also par for the course for U.S. imperialism’s long and bloody history in the world. And Democrats in Congress want to split hairs about which attack is a war crime? All of the attacks are a war crime!