Socialist Party (SP) President Dr Fred M’membe has called on the international community to resist what he described as the United States’ imperialist approach to global governance.
In a statement, Sunday, Dr M’membe condemned the alleged abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.
Dr M’membe asserted that such acts reflect a long-standing pattern of American aggression against sovereign nations.
He stated that this was not a new phenomenon for Africa.
Dr M’membe recalled the 1961 assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, who, he said, was painfully humiliated, killed, and his body dissolved in sulphuric acid.
He also cited the killings of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi and Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, as well as the U.S. invasion of Grenada, as further examples of violent interventions driven by imperial motives.
The SP President accused the United States of having no regard for human dignity beyond its own borders.
He said their sense of humanity is zero as they respect only their own humanity.
Dr M’membe added that even America’s European allies are now being treated with the same level of contempt, pointing to what he described as composite arrogance in U.S. foreign policy.
“The world cannot be ruled this way. The world cannot be governed this way,” he declared.
He argued that the current global order, dominated by American capitalism, is in crisis and increasingly resorting to violence and criminality to maintain control.
“The more troubled it becomes, the more brutal and criminal it gets,” he observed.
Dr M’membe dismissed the drug trafficking allegations against President Maduro as “ridiculous,” claiming that the real motive behind the U.S. actions is Venezuela’s oil and broader geopolitical dominance in Latin America.
“There is nothing in Venezuela that justifies linking Maduro to those accusations,” he insisted. “What they want is oil. What they want is power.”
He criticised the use of overwhelming military force to assert dominance, stating, “Yes, America is militarily powerful. They have created a killing machine beyond comparison. But humanity cannot be governed this way.”
Dr M’membe called for global solidarity, urging people across the world to resist imperialism and fight for a more just and humane international order.
“A better world is possible,” he affirmed. “But only if we struggle for it. A more human world will be created through that struggle, and we have a duty to fight for it.”
