Viewing Campaign News from September 2025
Hands Off Cuba - North West Rally and Fundraiser
Campaign News | Tuesday, 2 September 2025
Sunday 28 September, Doors 5.30pm, Liverpool Guest speakers Ismara Vargas Walter, Cuban Ambassador Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP Kim Johnson MP Richard Burgon MP Chris Hazzard MP Daniel Kebede, General Secretary, NEU Gawain Little, General Secretary, GFTU Mark Rowe, National Officer, FBU Micaela Tracey-Ramos, ViceChair UNISON International Sarah Gilligan, Unite Young Members Roger McKenzie, International Editor, Morning Star Rob Miller, CSC director Join us during Labour ... read more
Hands Off Cuba - TUC Congress fringe meeting
Campaign News | Tuesday, 2 September 2025
Monday 8 September, 5.30pm Hands Off Cuba! New threats from a second Trump presidency Room 1d, Brighton Centre Guest speakersIsmara Mercedes Vargas Walter, Cuban Ambassador to UKFran Heathcote, General Secretary, PCSSteve Gillan, POAKevin Courtney, Chair of CSCMariela Kohon, TUCMicaela Tracey-Ramos, UNISONTam McFarlane, FBU National OfficerStuart Latham, Thompsons SolicitorsChair: Sarah Woolley, General Secretary, BFAWU Trump’s ... 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
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
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
