By: Marea Socialista

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Marea Socialista, an organization of the revolutionary and anti-capitalist left, opposed to the authoritarian government of Maduro-militares-PSUV, repudiates the attack that the Truth Defense Committee, made up of mothers of young people imprisoned for demanding electoral rights, was subjected to. An event that occurred on August 5, 2025, when they were protesting before the Supreme Court the situation of their children, imprisoned after government raids against townspeople who were demanding the official results of the presidential elections of June 28, 2024.

The mothers asked to be attended by judges of the TSJ in relation to this matter, who did not deign to take them into account. For this reason, about 50 mothers were standing vigil in the vicinity of the supreme court, when they were attacked by several dozen parapolice subjects, commonly known as “colectivos”, who armed with pistols and blunt objects attacked them and the people who accompanied them in solidarity, many of them belonging to Human rights movements, progressive or leftist organizations that do not support the Maduro government.

The “colectivos“ arrived and began to act after the PNB institutional police and the Special Actions Group (GAES) opened the field with their withdrawal from the area and the National Guard that supposedly ”guarded” the TSJ facilities also did not assume its obligation to provide the due protection to avoid the attack. Brandishing their firearms and instruments to beat, most of them hooded, both motorized and on foot, dozens of fascist attackers attacked, stripping people of their cell phones, wallets, documentation and keys to their homes, and even tore down tents in which children of Protestant families were found.

The attackers did not inhibit themselves in their cruelty, also attacking especially vulnerable people, such as pregnant women and mothers who were with their babies, and even dragged along the floor those who refused to hand over their personal belongings to the criminals.

Along with the mothers of the committee, solidarity companions who offered their support were also attacked, belonging to organizations such as SURGENTES, members of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV-Dignidad), the League of Socialist Workers (LTS) and Marea Socialista.

The mothers of the Committee and their companions from solidarity organizations were forced, by force, to withdraw from the TSJ several blocks down Baralt Avenue, without the “public order“ showing up to help them and stop the tumultuous and unpunished aggression of the armed ”colectivos” in the middle of the street.

Breaking with its usual silence regarding this type of case, the Ombudsman’s Office has condemned the aggression and urges the victims to formalize the complaint to establish the corresponding responsibilities, and it is up to the Public Prosecutor’s Office to quickly start an investigation and preventive measures against these facts; something that Human Rights, political and social organizations are demanding, but already the mothers of the committee have denounced that some institutions such as the CICPC began to “poke them” with the fact that “it is not our competence”.

Although it is fine to demand it, we are aware that it is to ask the institutions of a rights-violating regime to act in the face of its own outrages, and it is clear that only organization, unity and the development of the struggle can put a stop to repressive abuses.

In this case, a set of rights has been violated, such as: 1) The right to justice and to exercise effective remedies in his defense. 2) The right to freedom of assembly and peaceful demonstration or protest. 3) The right to personal, physical, mental and moral integrity, including of vulnerable people, such as pregnant women and women with babies, among other peaceful protesters who were given cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. 4) Crimes of robbery and death threats were committed, weapons in hand. 5) Parapolice groups were used or allowed to act to carry out repression, which implies State responsibility for action or omission, since State complicity or deliberate negligence is evident with the withdrawal and non-intervention of the police to guarantee the integrity of the people attacked.

Therefore we demand and propose to fight for:

• Investigation of the facts and explanations of the government for what happened and for the omission of relief in which the public security bodies incurred.
• Institutional attention without delay from the Supreme Court and any other competent body to the demands for justice of the mothers victims of the aggression of August 5 who ask to resolve the situation of their imprisoned children.
• Recovery and return of mobile phones, identity documents and other belongings stolen from people assaulted by vigilante gangs.
• Demand the immediate release of the young people, unjustly imprisoned, as well as that of all social, labor and trade union or Human and democratic rights activists imprisoned on false charges as a result of the recurrent repressive waves unleashed in recent years.
• Demand respect for the people who demonstrate in defense of their rights and sanctions to those responsible for their violation, by the police agencies and deactivation of new attempts of parapolice aggression by “collectives”.
• Develop a campaign to denounce the vigilante repression usually used or tolerated by the government. Demand the punishment of those responsible, as well as the dissolution of the fascist gangs that use this modality of anti-worker and anti-popular repression. . To continue in the campaign of national solidarity, extensive at the international level, with the prisoners for demanding democratic and social rights in Venezuela. Marea Socialista assumes this propulsive task as an organization linked to the International Socialist League that brings together anti-capitalist and anti-bureaucratic parties from dozens of countries on different continents.

We call on the workers’ and people’s activism defending democratic and human rights to continue supporting the constituent mothers of the Truth Defense Committee, with appreciation for their example of organization, mobilization and resistance in favor of freedom and for the rights of their children, who are children of the Venezuelan people.

The repression of this type of legitimate demands of sectors of the people by the government reveals its inability for dialogue and the fear of the reactionary ruling bureaucracy to unleash the slightest popular protest; paranoia that is an expression of political crisis. This abuse of force, which seeks permanent intimidation, is basically a sign of weakness.

The government is trying to camouflage its repressive actions with the tolerated actions of violent ”collectives” to evade responsibility, but it is clear where the orders come from. Such behavior also clearly shows that this is not a “left” or “revolutionary” government, as it rhetorically pretends to continue calling itself, since both its economic and social policies, as well as its constant repressive practices, reveal its bureaucratic, authoritarian, anti-worker and anti-popular nature, which, of course, is counterrevolutionary and has nothing to do with the socialist concept. This must be recognized by the entire international left in order to unmask the character of a government that behaves like another ultra-right, exploits and oppresses the working class and the Venezuelan people.

In conclusion, the attack against the mothers in vigil in front of the Supreme Court represents a multiple violation of human rights that takes place in a context of generalized, systematic and persistent repression against the people and against political dissidents, so in the face of this it is essential to sustain the organization, denunciation, unitary articulation in the mobilization, and favor spaces for reflection and democratic discussion within the people, to nourish their political consciousness and firmness in the defense of their rights.

Finally, we take advantage of this statement to spread the call for a mobilization scheduled for August 14th, which will leave Morelos Square in Caracas at 10 am and which will be a union and popular activity in which workers and social activists will participate, with three central slogans: Enough of Repression! Free the political prisoners! Salary equal to the Basic Basket!

Any aggression similar to that of August 5, which may occur against this peaceful demonstration to which we have full right, will be the absolute responsibility of the government.