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THE United Nations voted almost as one to end the illegal US blockade of Cuba today.
In all 187 countries voted for a resolution calling on Washington to end its crippling 63-year blockade of the socialist island. Just two — the United States itself and Israel — voted against, with one, Ukraine, abstaining.
It is the 31st year in a row that the UN has voted for the blockade to be lifted and also for the Caribbean nation to be dropped from Washington’s State Sponsors of Terrorism list.
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports
Where normally only the US and its ally Israel vote to strangle Cuba economically, there have been special efforts to slander and isolate the besieged socialist island nation year — so we must redouble our solidarity, writes TARIQ ANDERSON
Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely