In early December 2025, two significant communiqués — one from the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) and the other from the Communist Party of Ecuador (PCE) — drew a clear political line across the international communist movement.
Both parties, united by shared ideological principles, issued sharp warnings about the so-called “World Anti-Imperialist Platform” (WAP), which they describe not as a vehicle for proletarian internationalism but as a reformist and openly anti-communist apparatus designed to align workers’ parties with the interests of one capitalist bloc against another.
The PCV’s statement emerged after discovering that WAP had publicly listed the Communist Party of Venezuela as a signatory of a “Paris Declaration” from October 2022, effectively presenting the party as a founding participant. The Venezuelan communists respond with clarity: the PCV has never belonged to this structure, nor has it signed any such document. They denounce the unauthorized use of the party’s name and initials as part of a broader campaign of falsifications and political aggression waged by opportunist forces, both in Venezuela and abroad, aiming to discredit and isolate the revolutionary party that continues to confront the policies of the Nicolás Maduro government.
The Venezuelan communiqué goes further, outlining what it identifies as the true political character of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform. According to the PCV, WAP is not an organic initiative emerging from the workers’ movement, but an apparatus propelled by an organization unknown in the international left, the People’s Democracy Party of South Korea, which suddenly appeared with ample financial resources to fund international tours, meetings, and conferences. From its inception, the platform sought to gather progressive organizations and parties that call themselves communist in order to place them, subtly but firmly, at the service of the economic and geopolitical interests of a specific pole of world capital. In the Venezuelan analysis, WAP narrows the Marxist-Leninist definition of imperialism to the policies of Western powers alone — the United States, the European Union, Japan — while depicting other capitalist centers as supposed “forces of resistance” or even emancipatory actors. Through this distortion, the platform encourages workers’ parties to adopt opportunistic positions under the banners of the “lesser evil,” the “North–South contradiction,” or the mystification of a benevolent “multipolar world.”
The PCV warns that this is not an innocent or spontaneous ideological error. The scale of resources invested in WAP reveals the hand of significant sectors of world capital interested in preventing the working class and its revolutionary organizations from developing an independent strategy against imperialism in all its forms. For the PCV, the clearest sign of the platform’s reactionary role is its persistent campaign of slander against truly revolutionary communist parties, most notably the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and the PCV itself. The KKE is targeted for its uncompromising insistence on the imperialist nature of all capitalist poles and for refusing to subordinate the workers’ movement to geopolitical calculations. The PCV, meanwhile, is attacked because it exposes the anti-worker character of a government that WAP presents as part of the “anti-imperialist” camp — the very government responsible for persecuting and attempting to dismantle the authentic Communist Party of Venezuela.
In this same context, the Communist Party of Ecuador issued its own communiqué on the very same day, echoing and reinforcing the Venezuelan analysis. The PCE identifies itself as an active revolutionary detachment of the anti-imperialist cause, committed to solidarity with peoples resisting aggression in Cuba, Western Sahara, Palestine, and beyond. It emphasizes its long-standing support for parties enduring repression, including the PCV. From this position, the PCE states categorically that it does not participate in the World Anti-Imperialist Platform. On the contrary, it describes the platform as a space contaminated by reformism, influenced by interests openly hostile to communism, and engaged in a destabilizing campaign of falsehoods against the KKE and other fraternal parties.
The Ecuadorian communiqué also exposes a liquidationist group, led by Winston Alarcón and Mario Mendoza, which has for years attempted to exploit the name of the PCE to promote opportunist positions and establish a pseudo-party without revolutionary content. This clique, the PCE stresses, does not represent the organization’s principles, history, or current leadership. Its participation in WAP and in a so-called “National Conference” of a fake Communist Party of Venezuela — a structure created by the Venezuelan government to usurp the PCV’s identity — is presented as yet another example of how opportunist forces misuse communist symbols to mislead workers and legitimize state policies that have nothing to do with socialism.
For the Ecuadorian communists, the confrontation with this internal and external opportunism is inseparable from the process of party reconstruction that began after the period of the Correa government. During that time, young cadres co-opted by state officials attempted to form a compliant “pocket party” aligned with the government’s agenda. This reformist offensive sought to impose itself through a false congress and the installation of a decomposed leadership. The PCE recalls that the solidarity of the KKE, the Communist Party of Mexico, and the genuine PCV played a decisive role in helping the party resist this fragmentation, rebuild its structures, and reaffirm its position within the international communist movement.
Taken together, the PCV and PCE statements amount to a unified intervention in the global debate on anti-imperialism. Their message is that true anti-imperialism cannot be reduced to geopolitical preferences or alliances with capitalist states that, under the guise of opposing Western hegemony, manage exploitation within their own borders and repress the workers’ movement. For both parties, imperialism is not a matter of geography but of the stage of capitalist development, and all poles of world capital — whether Western or non-Western — act against the interests of the proletariat. Any initiative that encourages parties to choose one capitalist camp over another undermines the independence of the working class, erodes ideological clarity, and obstructs the path to socialist revolution.
Against such distortions, the PCV and PCE reaffirm the necessity of building a class-based, principled, and internationalist communist movement capable of confronting all forms of capitalist domination. They call on workers’ parties worldwide to reject subsidized platforms, pseudo-left alliances, and manufactured “anti-imperialist” spectacles that serve the interests of competing bourgeois factions.
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