Kate Hudson, Vice-President of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), addressed an online meeting hosted by the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign to call for an end to the sanctions and for the Bank of England to return Venezuela’s gold. You can read an edited version of her speech below and watch the event back in full here
An Early Day Motion has been tabled in Parliament calling on the Government to release Venezuela’s gold reserves held at the Bank of England. EDM 474, tabled by Richard Burgon MP on 29 June 2026,, expresses deep concern that the gold, reportedly worth around £3 billion, remains frozen while Venezuela reels from a catastrophic earthquake …
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TRADE UNION LEADERS BACK CALL FOR BRITAIN TO GIVE VENEZUELA BACK ITS GOLD VENEZUELA SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN PRESS RELEASE – JULY 18, 2027 Leading British trade unionists have backed the campaign for the UK to give back over 30 tonnes of Venezuelan gold to Venezuela, which is currently being held in the Bank of England, despite …
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By Mark Weisbrot, CEPR for The Los Angeles Times More than 3,800 people have died in Venezuela’s June 24 double earthquake, with 16,700 injured, according to current government reports. A medical crisis has emerged for thousands of survivors, and 17,800 are homeless. There are heart-wrenching reports of people trying to dig survivors out of the …
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Over 14,000 people have now signed a petition urging the UK to give back over 30 tonnes of Venezuelan gold to Venezuela, which is currently being held in the Bank of England, despite the Latin American nation requesting its return. The gold currently has a value of £3.5bn (or US $4.74 bn.) There has been a significant …
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Over 100 economists from around the world have written an open letter calling on the U.S. treasury to lift sanctions on Venezuela to aid earthquake recovery efforts, two weeks after the country’s most powerful earthquakes in over a century. The signatories, whose institutions range from Columbia, UMass Amherst, Cambridge, and the CEPR, call on the …
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Tuesday 28 July | 6.30PM | Online 🎥 Online event With Venezuelan speakers: • Fravia Marquez, advisor to Venezuela’s National Assembly & spokesperson for the Cumbé Afro-Descendant Movement • Gerdul Gutierrez, Secretary of International Relations of the CSBT (Venezuela’s TUC) • María Páez Victor, Venezuelan Sociologist Plus Jeremy Corbyn MP, Francisco Dominguez (VSC) & Kate Hudson (CND) – more special guests TBA. Despite the earthquakes that …
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By Vijay Prashad for Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research On 24 June 2026, a set of back-to-back earthquakes rocked Venezuela, just months after the United States bombed the capital city and kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro and National Assembly member Cilia Flores. The year has been unkind to Venezuela, whose people have been under attack by …
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Our solidarity goes to the people of Venezuela affected by the devastating earthquake. Our hearts are with everyone who has lost loved ones, their homes, or is still waiting for news of family and friends. The current death toll is only the beginning, and there are real fears it will rise significantly as search and …
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By Tim Young for Labour Hub Did you know that the Bank of England is still withholding 31 tonnes of gold bars currently worth about $4.6 billion which Venezuela, through its Central Bank of Venezuela, had deposited there, despite repeated calls for the gold to be returned to the country? Venezuelan governments of different shades …
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