**PITTSBURGH, PA **– Our government’s escalating attacks on Venezuela are unconstitutional, immoral, and a massive waste of resources. The idea that Venezuela represents a military threat to the U.S. is patently absurd; the use of the U.S. military to carry out lethal attacks on fishing boats and seize oil tankers amounts to simple murder and piracy. We demand that our government immediately cease these attacks, and that Congress exercise its power to reign in this overreach by the executive branch.

In the resolution “For Jobs, Peace and a Pro-Worker Foreign Policy,” delegates to our most recent convention declared that “Foreign and military policies should defend the interests of working people, not the wealthy. UE has long believed that the labor movement should promote its own foreign policy based on diplomacy and labor solidarity.” This commitment to diplomatic rather than military solutions led delegates to demand that the U.S. government “[c]ease using U.S. military and intelligence agencies in interventions against nations which pose no threat to the American people” and, specifically, that the U.S. “[c]ease all harassment of and economic sanctions on Venezuela.”