Viewing from June 2025

Clockwise from top left: Omar Puente and Raíces Cubanas, Eddie Dempsey, 2025 May Day  brigade members with the Cuban ambassador, raffle winner Rhys Harmer,   Chris Hazzard MP, Maryam Eslamdoust

A celebration of trade union internationalism

Campaign News | Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Tickets for the 2025 RMT Garden Party on 11 June sold out in advance, and those lucky enough to get one enjoyed a balmy summer’s evening at the RMT’s Maritime House in Clapham with food, drink, dancing, and music from legendary Cuban violinist Omar Puente and his salsa band Raíces ... read more

A specially recorded message from Fernando Gonzázlez Llort

ICAP’s 65th anniversary celebrated

Campaign News | Tuesday, 17 June 2025

2025 marks the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP). CSC celebrated this important anniversary during our AGM day. We showed a specially commissioned video celebrating the history of ICAP and the relationship with the solidarity movement in Britain. Cuban Ambassador, Ismara Vargas ... read more

Pablo Ginarte Sampedro, Jo Pitchford and Barbara Plant at GMB fringe meeting

Great attendance at GMB fringe meeting

Campaign News | Wednesday, 11 June 2025

THE RENEWED assault on Cuba in the f irst few months of President Trump’s second term was condemned by speakers during CSC’s fringe meeting at GMB Congress, the best-attended for a number of years. President Barbara Plant, who chaired the meeting, decried the Trump administration’s decision to place Cuba back on ... read more

Revolutionary Learning: Report from the 2025 Young Trade Unionists May Day Brigade

Campaign News | Friday, 6 June 2025

Entering the grounds of the Julio Antonio Mella International Camp (CIJAM) in Artemisa province, 40km outside of Havana, one has the feeling of walking amongst giants of history. Murals dedicated to Cuban military operations against apartheid in Southern Africa, alongside depictions of Cuban heroes such as Fidel Castro and Jose ... read more