Viewing from June 2025

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

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

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