From Venezuela, the Caribbean to Iran:Capitalism, Imperialism, Sanctions and ProtestsWednesday January 28, 20266:30 - 8:30 pm E.S.T.
Capitalism, Imperialism, Sanctions and Protests
Wednesday January 28, 2026
6:30 - 8:30 pm E.S.T.
From Venezuela, the Caribbean to Iran: Capitalism, Imperialism, Sanctions and Protests
Wednesday January 28, 2026, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm E.S.T.
Speakers:
David Abdulah - Movement for Social Justice, Trinidad and Tobago
Tamanisha John - Caribbean Solidarity Network Toronto
Cira Pascual Marquina - La Red Internacional de Democracia Comunal Venezuela
Shahrzad Mojab - Professor Emerita of Education and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto
Moderator - Beverly Bain, Scholars Strike for Liberation (SSL)
Description: On the 3rd of January 2026, in the middle of the night, the US kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores from their compound. This followed months of planning and extrajudicial killings of fisher people from Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela. The Trump regime, with support from the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, installed technological surveillance equipment at the Tobago airport while requiring other Caribbean countries to adhere to specific demands, such as acting as Third Countries for deportees from the US. The Trump administration, while exerting its imperialist agenda in Iran through bombings and sanctions, has further exacerbated the brutality and killing of Iranians by Iran’s authoritarian theocratic regime. Trump’s current attempt at the creation of a new global order, where narcoimperialism, oil, sanctions and hybrid warfare are being used to promote U.S. imperialist agendas, is being met with fierce resistance by activists in Iran, Venezuela, and the Caribbean. This evening panel brings together scholars and activists to discuss the current global context and the connections in Trump’s imperialist war on Venezuela, the Caribbean to Iran.