Cuba Solidarity Campaign

🇨🇺 CSC Leeds host Salim Lamrani, French academic, historian, journalist and author of 'The Economic War Against Cuba', to discuss the the current crisis facing the island.

🗓️ Tue 10 March
🕛 12pm - 1pm
📍 Online
🔗 cuba-solidarity.org.uk/events/560/hands-off-cuba---csc-leeds-online-meeting

🚢 28 tonnes of rice and lentils on their way to Cuba.

With fuel sanctioned, shortages are worsening.

The is the 1st Cuba Vive food shipment following 6 consignments of medical aid already sent.

More containers leaving soon.
Please donate if you can. bit.ly/CubaViveFood26

Trump’s oil blockade is a direct assault on the livelihoods of Cuban women. On this #IWD2026, join the Cuba Solidarity Campaign in demanding the UK government condemn these illegal measures. Solidarity with the women of Cuba-now more than ever! 🇨🇺✊ #CubaNoEstaSola #IWD

CSC chair @cyclingkev speaking at the Stop Bombing Iran demonstration today.

Kevin warned that the fight against genocide in Gaza and the war on Iran is also a fight to defend Cuba, which Donald Trump says is next in line.

#HandsOffCuba #StopTheWar

Celebrating resistance and love, SCREEN CUBA film festival opens in London 15 March. Featuring Humberto Solas’ iconic feminist trilogy Lucía, Tomás Alea’s anticolonial masterpiece, The Last Supper, the music biopic El Benny, docs by Sara Gómez, and more linktr.ee/Screencuba.uk

Parliamentary meeting this week 👉🏼register in advance to find out how we can pressure the British government to speak out about the US siege on Cuba.

Russian oil tanker diverts from Cuba amid tightening US pressure - Chamber of Shipping A tanker believed to be carrying 200,000 barrels of Russian gas oil to Cuba has diverted course and is now drifting in the North Atlantic, potentially worsening the island’s severe […]

200,000 barrels of Russian oil destined for Cuba diverted, while a boat of guns from Florida pass by the US coastguard without issue. The US tries to starve the Cuban people to create unrest while allowing terrorists passage to the island to provoke it.

bit.ly/4siPAfx

🇨🇺🇮🇷🕊️Cuba condemns attacks against Iran and calls for peace.
“Once again, the US and Israel threaten and seriously endanger regional and international peace, stability and security, the effects of which are already being felt in the Middle East region. bit.ly/47ksxbZ

EDM 2739: New US sanctions on Cuba

🇨🇺 58 MPs - including Labour, Lib Dems, SNP, Plaid Cymru and Independents - have now signed EDM 2739 calling on the British Government to oppose Trump's executive order.

✍️ Full list of signers: edm.parliament.uk/early-day-moti…

📨 Email your MP to add their name: bit.ly/EDM2739

End the Siege on Cuba - parliamentary meeting

Wed 4 Mar, 6.30pm
House of Commons, SW1A 0AA
with @IsmaraWalter @HackneyAbbott @RichardBurgon
@switherdenMP @bernardregan
& Dr Emily Morris @cricketcic

Register 👉🏼 bit.ly/4tLUJ13

More than 4,000 and 150 public figures have signed our Urgent Call for Peace and Sovereignty rejecting US threats on Cuba 🇨🇺

Recent additions include @ZackPolanski @dlLambo @BellRibeiroAddy @DanielKebedeNEU @HackneyAbbott

Please sign and share 👉🏼 bit.ly/4aBTPLV

‼️✍️🇨🇺More than 70% of British MPs have been written to in 72 hours. Please write to yours today!

❤️ Happy Day of Love and Friendship ❤️

🇨🇺 February 14 in Cuba is not just a day for couples, but a day where bonds of friendship, solidarity and love are celebrated throughout the country 🇨🇺

😘 Felicidades and gracias to all our friends and supporters

#diadeamoryamistad #lovecuba #cubasolidarity

EDM 2739: New US sanctions on Cuba

The US has launched a dangerous new escalation against Cuba, cutting off oil supplies and deepening shortages of fuel, food & medicines.
This is collective punishment.
✍️ Ask your MP to sign EDM 2739 – “New US sanctions on Cuba”
⏱ Takes 30 seconds.
bit.ly/EDM2739

GFTU logo. Cuban flag with text reading: Down with yankee imperialism, Viva Cuba, End the US blocade.

#GFTU stands with the #Cuban people against US imperialism.

The Cuban revolution is an inspiration to workers across the world that cannot be broken.

Sign @cubasolidarity.bsky.social urgent statement here: cuba-solidarity.org.uk/peace-and-so...

#VivaCuba #HandsOffCuba #GFTU

Solidarity with Cuba 🇨🇺

Sign the @cubasolidarity.bsky.social statement here: cuba-solidarity.org.uk/peace-and-so...

Viva Cuba

#Cuba #Solidarity

✈️🇨🇺Traveling to Cuba is an
act of solidarity✊🏽

When the US is trying to choke the economy and scare off tourists, every visit brings desperately needed hard currency and supports the economy and Cuban people.

Book your own holiday, or join a CSC tour
bit.ly/49xFyyF

The visit of Dr Lissette Rubio Medoros, Professor at the University of Pedagogical Sciences in Havana, to Cheney School is covered in CubaSí Winter 2025-2026 p30-31 @cubasolidarity.bsky.social

🗣️Speaker update‼️
We’re delighted to announce that Lindsey German, Stop the War convenor will be joining our Hands Off Cuba online rally on Tuesday evening👇🏽🇨🇺👇🏽🇨🇺👇🏽

Fidel’s grandson tells MPs: US blockade is a humiliating assault on British independence WASHINGTON’S economic war on Cuba is not just an attempt to strangle a socialist nation but a direct violation of British sovereignty, Fidel Castro’s grandson told a packed room of parliamentarians th...

Washington’s decades-long blockade of Cuba is eroding not only the island’s economy but Britain’s own sovereignty, Fidel Antonio Castro Smirnov tells the all-party parliamentary group on Cuba
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fide...

‼️ Hands Off Cuba
🇨🇺Emergency online rally

⏰ Tuesday 3 February, 7pm

▪️Cuban Ambassador Ismara Vargas Walter
▪️Jeremy Corbyn MP
▪️Andrea Egan, General Secretary UNISON
▪️Steve Witherden MP
▪️Kevin Courtney, Chair, CSC
▪️plus others

Register 👉🏼👉🏼bit.ly/CSCHOC

CSC STATEMENT:Trump executive order escalates US economic war on Cuba The Cuba Solidarity Campaign condemns with outrage and indignation the latest executive order signed by Donald Trump, which constitutes a direct assault on the livelihoods and wellbing of the Cuban pe...

CSC STATEMENT‼️🇨🇺‼️
This vindictive act threatens to plunge Cuba into a deep humanitarian crisis and represents a grave escalation of US economic warfare, one that demands urgent international resistance.
It is collective punishment with devastating humanitarian consequences
bit.ly/45BiD55

Fidel Antonio Castro Smirnov addresses meeting of MPs The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Cuba and its newly-elected chair Steve Witherden MP welcomed Fidel Antonio Castro Smirnov, Cuban scientist and grandson of Fidel Castro, to Parliament on Tu...

🇨🇺 @FACSmirnov arrived in Britain this week ahead of his speaking tour to mark the centenary of his grandfather's birth.

CSC welcomed him as he met MPs to discuss Cuban science, Fidel's legacy, the impact of the blockade and the current situation in Cuba

cuba-solidarity.org.uk/news/article...

What The Economist Didn’t Say A critical look at The Economist’s Cuba coverage, exposing omissions about sanctions, U.S. policy and the real causes of the crisis.

“To ignore the U.S. blockade — now the longest and most punitive economic war in modern history — is not merely intellectually dishonest; it is propaganda masquerading as journalism.”

bit.ly/4pZL1VO

Defend international law - No to intervention in Cuba and Latin America Recent US military action against Venezuela, together with open threats made against other sovereign nations including Cuba, has heightened concerns about peace, regional stability and respect for the...

🚨 🇨🇺 No to US intervention in Cuba and Latin America!

✍️ Take action today and sign our urgent Call for Peace and Sovereignty, demanding the government reaffirms its commitment to international law and opposes any military attack against Cuba.

cuba-solidarity.org.uk/peace-and-so...

‼️🇨🇺🇻🇪Latest!
Trump has just posted a message on Truth Social threatening Cuba and Venezuela oil supplies
truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…
👇🏽👇🏽

Promotional graphic for the International Solidarity London Recruits session, featuring a large rusted clenched fist with silhouettes of people standing on top, below logos for GFTU Educational Trust and Young Members' Development Weekend.

Logo for the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, featuring a stylized Cuban flag with a star, accompanied by text for a session titled "International Solidarity" at the GFTU Educational Trust Young Members' Development Weekend.

💯 Join us for powerful sessions on London Recruits and @cubasolidarity.bsky.social at the #YMDW2026.

🌍 Build real international trade union #Solidarity - https://gftuet.org.uk/courses/young-members-development-weekend

#GFTUET

Defend peace and sovereignty in Cuba and Latin America. Say no to imperialist intervention.
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Sat 10 Jan, 1pm, Downing St

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▪ EMERGENCY PICKET
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▪ Outside Downing Street, London, SW1A 2AA
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