Viewing from May 2024
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
APPG on Cuba welcomes new ambassador
Campaign News | Monday, 20 May 2024
A busy meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Cuba welcomed the new Cuban Ambassador, Her Excellency Ismara Mercedes Vargas Walter, to the UK on Tuesday 14 May. Nearly 20 MPs and Lords, from across the house, attended to hear Ismara address British Parliamentarians for the first time, ask ... read more
Cuban education expert meets British teachers
Campaign News | Friday, 10 May 2024
After an inspiring meeting in Bolton Socialist Club addressed by a visitor from the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education, teacher ROBERT POOLE reflects on what we can learn from the education system in Cuba THE British education system often seems beset by gloom. Teachers are dispirited and alienated from the profession ... read more
“Please don’t grow tired. Cuba still needs you” interview with Bárbara Montalvo Álvarez about her time as Cuban Ambassador in Britain
Campaign News | Thursday, 9 May 2024
At the tail-end of a 50-year career in the Cuban diplomatic service, in early 2020 Bárbara Montalvo Álvarez found herself posted in London.Born in a small village near Havana called San José de las Lajas, Bárbara studied journalism and, after a few years working in a steel works, she joined ... read more
Solidarity at the CWU - conference fringe report
Campaign News | Tuesday, 7 May 2024
CSC was pleased to welcome the new Cuban ambassador and General Secretary of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) to the Cuba fringe at the CWU national conference in Bournemouth in April. It was the first visit to a trade union conference since arriving in the UK earlier this year for Ambassador, ... read more
