Viewing from July 2024
Cuban Olympic athletes are in Paris, ready to continue making history
News from Cuba | Friday, 26 July 2024
The Cuban delegation participating in the upcoming Paris Olympic Games has already touched down in France. The expectations of the athletes of the Caribbean country are high; they hope to win more than 15 Olympic medals, including at least 5 gold medals. The newspaper Granma reported that “the number of athletes who will compete ... read more
End the blockade on Health - Cuba Vive North West Rally and Fundraiser
Campaign News | Thursday, 25 July 2024
Monday 23 September, 6-8pmThe Casa, 29 Hope St, Liverpool, L1 9BP with guest speakers Her Excellency Ismara Vargas Walter, Cuban ambassador Kim Johnson, MP for Liverpool Riverside Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP Richard Burgon MP Kevan Nelson, Assistant General Secretary UNISON Sarah Woolley, General Secretary, BFAWU Gawain Little, General Secretary, GFTU Micaela Tracey-Ramos, UNISON executive Roger McKenzie, International Editor, Morning Star Phil Liptrot, ... read more
RMT Cuba Garden Party full of “love and solidarity”
Campaign News | Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP, Mick Lynch, Ben Jamal, Diane Abbott MP, Fran Heathcote Speakers from across the trade union and Labour movement took to the platform to pledge support to the Cuba Vive appeal at the RMT Garden Party in June. Four hundred people gathered at the RMT’s Maritime House in Clapham ... read more
Palestine thanks Cuba for joining the South African lawsuit against Israel
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Palestine has thanked Cuba for its decision to join South Africa's lawsuit at the International Court of Justice against Israel for crimes committed in Gaza over the last nine months. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed Havana's announcement to intervene in the case related to the application of the ... read more
Climate change adaption - the pernicious impact of the US blockade
Campaign News | Friday, 31 May 2024
DR LAUREN COLLINS explains how the US sanctions hold back Cuba's efforts to confront climate change. In his final week as President of the United States, Donald Trump placed Cuba on the US ‘State Sponsor of Terrorism’ list: an arbitrary designation in the gift of the president. This came on top ... read more
Solidarity with Cuba front and centre at FBU conference
Campaign News | Thursday, 30 May 2024
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has a long history of support for Cuba - from being affiliated to CSC for over 20 years, to their messages of admiration and solidarity to Cuban fire service personnel in the wake of two tragic incidents on the island in 2022. Delegates at their ... read more
PCS conference sends its solidarity to Cuba
Campaign News | Thursday, 30 May 2024
At their recent annual conference, the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), and in particular their Young Members’ Network, expressed its solidarity with Cuba following their chair and vice-chair’s recent visit to Cuba. Simmeron Katbmana and Louis Radforth took part in CSC’s Young Trade Unionists’ May Day Brigade this year ... read more
“You will be able to convey to your communities the truth of Cuba” – 2024 Young Trade Unionists’ May Day Brigade
Campaign News | Wednesday, 29 May 2024
37 trade unionists – representing Unite, UNISON, RMT, ASLEF, TSSA, PSC, POA, NAPO, GFTU and Thompsons Solicitors – recently took part in the Cuba Solidarity Campaign’s 17th annual Young Trade Unionists’ May Day Brigade. As the country grapples with its worst economic crisis since the Special Period, our brigadistas took ... read more
Cuban Solidarity: Mexico To Hire 1,200 Cuban Doctors
News from Cuba | Monday, 20 May 2024
The Cuban president ratified the willingness to support as much as possible "the sister nation." The Mexican government will hire 1,200 additional Cuban doctors to the hundreds already in the country after a meeting between the director of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Zoé Robledo, and the president ... read more
Senator Bob Menendez Has Ties to Cuban American Terrorists
News from Cuba | Monday, 20 May 2024
An FBI raid. Close to half a million dollars in cash. A new Mercedes convertible. Four bars of gold. The trial of Senator Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, gets underway this week. He is charged with acting as an Egyptian “foreign agent”: taking bribes in exchange for greasing ... read more
