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Why travel to Cuba matters now more than ever

Campaign News | Thursday, 26 February 2026

Cuba Solidarity Campaign travel update 26/02/26* Cuba has stood with the world. Now the world must stand with Cuba. Why travel to Cuba matters now more than ever. At a time when Cuba is facing intensified US economic warfare, and attempts to isolate the island and scare away tourists, travelling to Cuba ... read more

Dave John with members SNTC (National Union of Cultural Workers) executive in February

Situation report from recent visit to Cuba

Campaign News | Wednesday, 25 February 2026

Equity Executive Committee member Dave John reports on his recent visit to Cuba I’ve just returned from Cuba having spent 12 days on a solidarity visit on behalf of my union Equity. I spent most of my time in Havana but I also travelled outside the city for a short break. ... read more

Cuba Under Siege: Defending sovereignty and opposing economic warfare

Campaign News | Monday, 23 February 2026

HOUSE OF COMMONS MEETING Wednesday 4 March, 6.30pmHouse of Commons, SW1A 0AA Register to attend here Ismara Vargas Walter, Cuba AmbassadorDiane Abbott MP Richard Burgon MPDr Emily Morris, Development Economist, UCL (recently returned from Cuba)Bernard Regan, CSC, National Secretary Chair: Steve Witherden MP, Chair of APPG on Cubaplus more tbc As the United ... read more

Brazilian unions and movements have launched the PetrĂ³leo para Cuba campaign

Brazil: Oil Workers and Social Movements Organize “Oil for Cuba” Campaign

News from Cuba | Monday, 23 February 2026

On Friday, February 13, the FUP sent a letter to Petrobras’ Executive Board of Logistics, Marketing, and Markets, requesting a meeting to discuss the possibility of sending emergency fuel to Cuba. Social organizations, popular movements, and oil workers are coordinating the Petróleo para Cuba (Oil for Cuba) campaign to pressure the Brazilian government ... read more

Screen Cuba tickets on sale

Campaign News | Thursday, 19 February 2026

Tickets have just gone on sale for Screen Cuba: Films to Change the World 2026 which takes place at cinemas in London, Oxford, Pontypridd, Nottingham, Manchester and Leeds from 15 March. This Festival of Cuban cinema will look at the achievements and challenges of Cuban people through the lenses of their ... read more

Pictured clockwise from top left Andy de la Tour, Diane Abbott, Zack Polanski, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Daniel Kebede, Victoria Brittain, Daniel Lambert, Maryam Eslamdoust.

More than 4,000 people sign statement rejecting threats against Cuba and Latin America

Campaign News | Monday, 16 February 2026

More than 4,000 people and 150 public figures have added their names to CSC’s Urgent Call for Peace and Sovereignty since it was launched three weeks ago. Add your name here! Recent additions to the list include Zack Polanski Green Party Leader, Daniel Lambert, Kneecap Manager and CEO of Bohemians FC, and ... read more

Roz Foyer, General Secretary STUC

UK urged to speak out as Donald Trump 'attempts starvation of Cuba'

Campaign News | Friday, 13 February 2026

SCOTLAND’S top trade unionist has warned the UK Government that it must oppose Donald Trump’s “deliberate attempt to force mass starvation on an innocent population”. The intervention from Roz Foyer, the secretary-general of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), which represents more than 500,000 Scots workers, comes after the US ... read more

MPs sign motion condemning Trump's attacks on Cuba

Campaign News | Wednesday, 4 February 2026

MPs have tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM) expressing their "grave concern" at President Trump's executive order on 29 January declaring Cuba to be an "extraordinary threat" to the national security of the United States and authorising new sanctions on countries supplying oil to the island. EDM 2739, 'New US sanctions ... read more