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On Friday 13 July, the Cuba Solidarity Campaign joined with other Latin America solidarity organisations, communities and migrants groups to form a Latin America bloc on the Together Against Trump demonstration which saw more than 250,000 march in London. CSC staff, volunteers and supporters carried Cuban flags, banners calling for the end of the blockade…

When Donald Trump turns up in Britain in July we must ensure that he gets a very clear message that the people of Britain and Latin America reject his view of the world and his imperialist ambitions against the countries of Cuba and Latin America. The recent horrific images of Latin American migrant children being…

The Miami Five hero talks to the Morning Star Along with the rest of the Five, Gonzalez was working in Florida monitoring Cuban exile groups planning terrorist attacks on his homeland when he was arrested in 1998. Like them, he spent 17 months “in the hole,” solitary confinement, before being convicted in a trial that…

MIAMI Five hero Fernando Gonzalez thanked the people of Britain last night in a moving tribute to international solidarity. Mr Gonzalez, who spent over 15 years behind bars in the US for his work against Florida-based groups planning terrorist attacks on Cuba, told the audience at the annual RMT-Cuba Solidarity Campaign (CSC) garden party that…

Over 100 people crowded into Bolivar Hall to hear Arnold August, Canadian author of ‘Cuba-US Relations: Obama and Beyond’ talk, together with UK academic Dr Lauren Collins and Cuban ambassador Teresita Vicente Sotolongo on a hot bank holiday evening. Arnold opened with the statement that the idea that the US and Cuba were close to…

TUC Black Workers Conference 2018 Fringe Meeting Over 80 people attended a standing room-only Cuba Solidarity Campaign fringe meeting at the TUC Black Workers Conference at Congress House in central London. Julio Pujol, Cuban Embassy Political Counsellor informed delegates, “Despite the move backwards with US-Cuba from President Trump, we still want to normalise relations with…

CWU Fringe Report 2018 CWU delegates attended a packed fringe meeting where speakers included Her Excellency Terestia Vicente, Cuban Ambassador and Dave Ward, CWU General Secretary, at the union’s annual conference in Bournemouth. Dave Ward called for an end of the US blockade and highlighted the huge economic challenges Cuba has had to face for…

Morning Star: CWU general secretary Dave Ward pledged increased union support for Cuba at the union’s annual conference today. Mr Ward told a fringe meeting in Bournemouth organised by the Cuba Solidarity Campaign that, despite reorganisation within the CWU, “things like our international work aren’t going to become less important. They need to become more…

Cuba Solidarity Campaign Director Rob Miller was invited to speak on TRT World’s The Newsmakers programme to discuss the future of Cuba following the island’s recent general elections and election of the new President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel. The other two speakers were from Miami based anti-Cuba organisations.

The Primsa preview the 2018 Summer Solidarity Brigade The embargo imposed by the United States on Cuba is a commercial, economic and financial blockade enforced initially in 1958. While the first blockade only included restrictions on the sale of arms, two years later, it was extended to all exports with the exception of food and…