Viewing Campaign News from October 2024
Cuba vive y la lucha sigue - Labour Party Conference fringe meeting
Campaign News | Friday, 4 October 2024
At the Labour Party’s first conference in government since 2009, CSC hosted a successful fringe meeting, ‘Cuban Workers Under Blockade, in the conference venue, with Unite Assistant General Secretary Steve Turner chairing. “Health workers struggle with medical shortages, transport workers without fuel, energy workers fight to keep the country’s lights ... read more
Latin America 2025 date announced
Campaign News | Thursday, 3 October 2024
Tickets are now on sale for the 19th annual Latin America Conference which takes place on Saturday 8 February at Hamilton House, London. The conference is the biggest of its kind in Europe, bringing together academics, trade unionists, politicians, and activists from the UK, Europe and Latin America. The event ... read more
A Blockade on Cuba: Persistent and Pervasive
Campaign News | Tuesday, 1 October 2024
In a declassified government file from 1960, Lestor Mallory proposes the idea of a blockade on Cuba. He argues that this would be achieved through “denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of the government.” The ultimate goal ... read more
Cuban internationalism is proof that another world is possible
Campaign News | Tuesday, 24 September 2024
We publish here a speech delivered by BEN CHACKO to the Viva Cuba rally at Labour conference THE Morning Star’s motto is “For Peace & Socialism” and we are proud to celebrate Cuban internationalism, and proud too of our long association with the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, which has done so much ... read more
From Kashmir to Colombia, Cuba’s medical internationalism continues
Campaign News | Monday, 23 September 2024
Despite cruel US sanctions, Cuba continues to offer global humanitarian aid and support peace processes, writes KIM JOHNSON MP, urging others to follow Unison’s lead in practical solidarity with the besieged socialist island ON September 23, I’m delighted to be speaking at a the north-west Cuba Vive Rally at the Casa ... read more
Cuba's achievements in health celebrated at TUC Congress
Campaign News | Monday, 16 September 2024
As Cuba grapples with its most profound economic crisis since the early 90s due to the tightening of the blockade, its world-renowned health system, and the health of its people, is suffering. Delegates at TUC Congress in Brighton gathered at the Cuba Solidarity Campaign’s fringe meeting to celebrate the island’s ... read more
The unbroken solidarity between our movement and Cuba
Campaign News | Monday, 9 September 2024
Cuba’s designation as a ‘state sponsor of terrorism’ is inflicting incalculable damage on the country and its people, and leaving its health service in desperate need. KEVIN COURTNEY calls for one last push for the Cuba Vive medical aid campaign to get it over the line WHEN Joe Biden was running ... read more
Cuba is not 'poor' - reflections on the 2024 May Day Brigade
Campaign News | Sunday, 28 July 2024
ALEX TARRIER, a young lawyer with Thompsons Solicitors reflects on his time onthe 2024 May Day Brigade IN THE weeks before attending the CSC’s Young Trade Unionists’ May Day Brigade on behalf of Thompsons Solicitors, I boasted often and loudly about my upcoming trip. In doing so I found, to my ... read more
End the blockade on Health - Cuba Vive North West Rally and Fundraiser
Campaign News | Thursday, 25 July 2024
Monday 23 September, 6-8pmThe Casa, 29 Hope St, Liverpool, L1 9BP with guest speakers Her Excellency Ismara Vargas Walter, Cuban ambassador Kim Johnson, MP for Liverpool Riverside Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP Richard Burgon MP Kevan Nelson, Assistant General Secretary UNISON Sarah Woolley, General Secretary, BFAWU Gawain Little, General Secretary, GFTU Micaela Tracey-Ramos, UNISON executive Roger McKenzie, International Editor, Morning Star Phil Liptrot, ... read more
RMT Cuba Garden Party full of “love and solidarity”
Campaign News | Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP, Mick Lynch, Ben Jamal, Diane Abbott MP, Fran Heathcote Speakers from across the trade union and Labour movement took to the platform to pledge support to the Cuba Vive appeal at the RMT Garden Party in June. Four hundred people gathered at the RMT’s Maritime House in Clapham ... read more