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The US increases pressure on Cuba by targeting its medical brigades
News from Cuba | Thursday, 21 August 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that he will sanction officials who have facilitated the implementation of the Cuban brigade program. Cuba has asserted the program will continue. On August 13, the United States launched another attack on Cuba. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that his country would impose visa restrictions ... read more
Join CSC on the Trump Not Welcome march
Campaign News | Monday, 18 August 2025
END THE US BLOCKADE. SAY NO TO TRUMP. Why CSC is marching against Trump in September. The Cuba Solidarity Campaign will be marching in London on 17 September alongside the Stop Trump coalition to oppose the state visit of Donald Trump. Across both of his presidential terms Trump introduced inhumane policies ... read more
Visiting Cuba is an act of solidarity
Campaign News | Monday, 18 August 2025
Under Marco Rubio the US State Department has ramped up its “maximum pressure” policy to attack the Cuban economy on every front. Cuba has been returned to the State Sponsor of Terrorism list, Trump’s 2017 presidential memorandum reactivated, the list of restricted Cuban entities expanded, Western Union forced to suspend remittance ... read more
Against Cuba, a Fetid, Arbitrary, and Despotic Obsession
News from Cuba | Thursday, 31 July 2025
In the port of Havana, there is a ship with tons of rice, anchored and waiting to unload. It may not get to unload, because in order to do so, it must receive a signal from the commercial center that hired it, indicating that it has received $60,000 in payment. ... read more
Will the Trump Administration Face Headwinds as It Tightens the Noose Around Cuba? (Yes.)
News from Cuba | Thursday, 31 July 2025
President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared upon taking office that the Americas were the United States’ sphere of influence and they would ratchet up pressure on a symbol of resistance to that view, socialist Cuba, already reeling from harsh sanctions imposed during the president’s previous term, ... read more
Your solidarity is not taken for granted - AGM message for CSC supporters
Campaign News | Thursday, 17 July 2025
“We are in solidarity with Cuba, just as Cuba is in solidarity with just struggles around the world,” said CSC Chair Kevin Courtney as he opened CSC’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in June. With Cuba facing a particularly challenging period, the renewed attacks from a second Trump presidency featured heavily ... read more
Unite the union told support is vital during this “dangerous time”
Campaign News | Thursday, 17 July 2025
At a busy fringe meeting at Unite Policy Conference, delegates heard how visiting Cuba can invigorate and strengthen the British trade union movement and how greater solidarity in the face of renewed assaults on Cuba is desperately needed. Unite Wales Regional Secretary Peter Hughes, who chaired the meeting and visited Cuba ... read more
Cuba Vive fundraising marked by UNISON
Campaign News | Thursday, 17 July 2025
Cuba is facing a “perilous moment” in its history, and support from the British trade union movement is more important than ever. Kevan Nelson, UNISON’s Assistant General Secretary, had that message for UNISON members as he chaired our packed fringe meeting at their annual conference in Liverpool in June. Attended by ... read more
More medical aid en route to Cuba
Campaign News | Thursday, 17 July 2025
With your help, the Cuba Vive appeal hopes to raise over £200,000 by the end of the year Eighteen months after its launch, the Cuba Vive Medical Appeal for Cuba has raised more than £190,000 and will hopefully surpass £200,000 by the end of the year. Thanks to the generosity of ... read more
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
