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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

Trinidad on Cuba's southern coast is one of the island's nine UNESCO World Heritage Sites and close to some of Cuba's best beaches

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

Delegates at the AGM and some of the speakers  and motion movers (bottom row l-r) Jayne Fisher,  Micaela Tracey-Ramos, Harsev Bains, Simmeron  Katbamna, Pablo Ginarte

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

Pablo Ginarte Sampedro, Rob Miller, Tabusam Ahmed, Peter Hughes and Fraser McGuire spoke at the Unite the Union fringe meeting

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

of UNISON delegates, including General Secretary Christina McAnea holding up Cuba Vive, End the Blockade on Health posters

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

Rob Miller CSC director with staff at Jacob's Well packing the third consignment of medical aid for Cuba

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

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