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Sunday 18 May 2025 / 18.30 (London Time)
Eyewitness reports from Cuba's international May Day brigade
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On April 19 supporters of Rock Around the Blockade and the 1 Cent 4 Cuba (1C4Cuba) campaign held vibrant demonstrations across the country in support of the Cuban revolution and against British banks' complicity with the US blockade of Cuba. Protestors held stalls and speakouts outside banks, or brought the example of Cuba to events organised around other political issues. British banks extraterritorially apply the US blockade of Cuba in this country by blocking transactions headed for Cuba or even just mentioning Cuba in the reference. To build up a case against the banks and to expose their complicity in the genocidal US blockade, 1C4Cuba has declared a week of action from April 19-25. To find out how you can take part in the week of action or to otherwise contact the campaign, visit 1c4cuba.eu!
Here are photos and videos from across the country:
Brighton
Supporters in Brighton bring Cuba's example of trans healthcare to a protest against recent attacks on trans rights.
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Rock around the Blockade is sending a brigade of young activists to socialist Cuba for International Workers Day, 1 May 2025. They will bring material aid with them to combat the illegal US blockade of Cuba. Donate now!
With increased aggression from the US Trump administration, it is more important than ever to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with socialist Cuba. In addition to learning from Cuba's revolutionary example to inspire our struggles in Britain, we will also bring material aid including medical equipment to help the people of Cuba as they continue to battle against 67-year blockade imposed by the US.
We need to raise £5,000 to make this brigade successful and materially support Cuba, so we are calling on you to donate however much you can.
https://pay.gocardless.com/AL0002KJW8Z5SM
Cheques are payable to:
Rock Around The Blockade
RATB BCM Box 5909, London, WC1N 3XX
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Building peoples power in Venezuela
Join us to explore how Venezuela is building popular power through the construction of communal councils and communes as part of the fight for socialism. With an all women panel for International women's day!
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The United States’ illegal blockade of Cuba has long been used as a tool in the power struggle between the two dominant US political parties, the Democrats and Republicans. Florida, with its significant counterrevolutionary Cuban American population, plays a pivotal role in US elections, making the state a battleground where policies toward Cuba are often tailored to secure votes. Having promised in his 2020 election campaign to ‘promptly reverse the failed Trump policies that have inflicted harm on the Cuban people and done nothing to advance democracy and human rights’ (Americas Quarterly, 4 March 2020), throughout his presidency Joe Biden allowed the Cuban people to continue to suffer under those policies until four days before leaving office, before rushing through a series of last-minute executive orders which did little more than inconvenience the incoming second Trump administration.
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Ever since President Trump added Cuba to the state sponsors of terrorism list, Cuba’s economy has suffered as most banks worldwide would not risk interacting with Cuba or Cubans for fear of fines. In addition to over 60 years of the genocidal US blockade, the listing made trade and banking even more difficult for Cuba. By locking Cuba out of the international financial system, the US ensured shortages of food, fuel and medicine and scarcities in every sector. It is for this reason that President Biden’s surprising removal of Cuba from the list should be celebrated as a victory for the Cuban people and all those around the world who stand for justice and self-determination.
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On Friday, December 20, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, Leader of the Cuban Revolution and President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez led a march in Havana against the 65-year-old U.S. blockade and the unfounded inclusion of Cuba on the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
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In October, comrades and supporters of the Revolutionary Communist Group and Rock Around the Blockade hosted a National Weekend to bring together all of their supporters from around the country. One of the many educational sessions was titled "Fight For Socialism!" and featured three fantastic speeches, all of which are linked below:
Firstly Sam McGill from the RCG spoke, making a powerful case for Latin American socialism and why it is so important to fight for socialism everywhere.
Then Ismara M. Vargas Walter, Cuban Ambassador to the Britain, gave an overview of Cuba's current political situation and the necessity of solidarity with Cuban socialism.
Lastly, Wilfredo Hernández, Counsellor at the Venezuelan Embassy in London, spoke. Wilfredo provided us with an overview of Venezuela's current situation and the necessity of solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution.
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At El Panel 21 commune Jorge Arreaza, former Vice President and leading PSUV politician and organiser addressed the crowd. 'We have to ensure the death of fascism...we all have our own tools and methods...for us here we are in a war against the bourgeois state...we have different paths (in this international movement)...as commander Hugo Chavez said in 2005, the only way to leave behind capitalism is to build socialism. Long live socialism! Long live the Bolivarian revolution! Long live Palestine! Long live international solidarity!'