A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
ULISES Guilarte de Nacimiento, general secretary of the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC), has been invited by the TUC to mark the 80th anniversary of the foundation of the CTC and the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution in 2019. He will address Congress on Sunday.
This year Congress will also see Steve Gillan of the POA moving Motion 74 on Cuba and the US blockade during the international debate, and speak alongside Ulises and the Cuban ambassador at a Cuba fringe meeting and reception at the TUC on Monday September 9 straight after congress.
Ulises was elected general secretary of the Cuban Workers Central in February 2014 and was previously the regional secretary of the construction workers union in Havana.
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



