Viewing Campaign News from February 2025
Screen Cuba, 16-29 March 2025 - Tickets on sale now!
Campaign News | Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Screen Cuba is a UK film festival which aims to celebrate the achievements and challenges of the Cuban people through the lenses of their filmmakers since the 1959 Revolution, and present films rarely screened in the UK. With a range of directors and diverse themes, it features inspiring shorts, ground-breaking ... read more
Latin America Resists: reports and speeches from Adelante:Latin America Conference 2025
Campaign News | Thursday, 13 February 2025
The 20th Latin America conference took place under the shadow of a new Trump administration which had recently deported thousands of people to Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia, imposed trade tariffs on Mexico and renewed threats against Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. Hundreds packed in to Hamilton House on 8 February to hear ... read more
Aleida Guevara speaking dates, London, Liverpool, Sheffield
Campaign News | Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Aleida Guevara March, Cuban paediatrician, committed internationalist and daughter of Cuban revolutionaries Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and Aleida March will be speaking in London, Liverpool and Sheffield next week. Tuesday 4 Feb, LONDON, 6.30pm (doors 6.15pm) Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, WC1H 9BDPlease book tickets in advance here Wednesday 5 Feb, SHEFFIELD, 7pm ... read more
Cuba stands with Palestine
Campaign News | Monday, 27 January 2025
The Cuban and Palestinian people share a common struggle against colonialism and imperialism, and for self-determination and dignity. Cuba has faced a 63-year-long brutal blockade by the US government to strangle its economy and “bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” Palestine has suffered 75 years of ethnic cleansing, occupation, and ... read more
The fight is just beginning - CSC statement on Cuba's removal from the US 'State Sponsors of Terrorism' list
Campaign News | Wednesday, 15 January 2025
The Biden administration’s decision to remove Cuba from the US’ State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list is welcome, but it comes four years too late and critically does nothing to end the 63-year blockade – the fundamental cause of shortages and hardship for the Cuban people. In January 2021, Donald Trump ... read more
First two consignments of Cuba Vive medical aid ready to ship
Campaign News | Wednesday, 18 December 2024
The Cuba Solidarity Campaign is delighted to announce that the first two consignments of life-saving medical aid are ready to ship, and are due to arrive in Cuba in just a few weeks’ time. Thanks to the generous and ongoing support of Cuba Vive appeal donors, these are the first ... read more
Resisting the work of the Gringos
Campaign News | Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Coll McCail, activist, writer and member of Progressive International's Secretariat, writes on Cuba and Palestine’s shared fight against imperialism “Look, this is the work of the Gringos,” Che Guevara declared in Gaza in June 1959. Observing the devastation and dispossession of the Nakba first-hand, Guevara promised the people of Rafah that ... read more
What will the next US president mean for Cuba?
Campaign News | Saturday, 23 November 2024
Following the news that Donald Trump had been (re-)elected as President of the United States, CSC hosted a public meeting in London to ask the question – what will this mean for Cuba? Chaired by CSC Exec member Jayne Fisher, the meeting welcomed journalist, author and expert on US-Cuba relations ... read more
CSC Blockade-Buster Raffle 2024
Campaign News | Friday, 15 November 2024
The Blockade-Buster Raffle is a crucial part of our fundraising and we hope you will do all you can to support it. 1st prize: 2 Return flights to Cuba or £1200 cash 2nd prize: 6 bottles of premium Spanish wine 3rd prize: Cuba Hamper incl. rum, coffee, chocolate & more Plus 5 runners-up prizes ... read more
North West Cuba Vive Rally
Campaign News | Wednesday, 6 November 2024
To celebrate reaching £100,000, CSC held a Cuba Vive rally during Labour Party Conference at the Casa in Liverpool in September. More than 150 people came to support the event which aimed to raise funds for the appeal and celebrate Cuba’s internationalism and solidarity with Palestine. Opening the speeches, Richard Burgon ... read more
