OVER 700 delegates from 36 countries denounced US aggression against Cuba and vowed resistance at the 100 Years With Fidel summit in Havana at the weekend.

The meeting came a day after hundreds of thousands, including Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and former president Raul Castro, now 94, joined Cuba’s iconic mass May Day demonstration along the capital city’s sea wall.

Electricity and oil workers formed special blocs on the demo, which celebrated their tireless efforts to keep the country powered despite US attempts to cut off energy imports.

On the same day, US President Donald Trump imposed new unilateral sanctions on the blockaded island — and threatened Washington would “take over” Cuba “almost immediately,” saying he could spare an aircraft carrier for the task as soon as the Iran war was settled.

Mr Trump has previously said Cuba will be “next” after he has dealt with Iran, though the unprovoked US-Israeli attack on the latter country has descended into a protracted stand-off with no obvious resolution in sight.

The final declaration of the Havana summit accused the United States of “flagrantly and systematically violating international law” in “its eagerness to preserve its declining hegemony.” US aggression, it added, was “the primary threat to global peace and security.”

It called for an international protest campaign targeting US embassies to demand an end to its attacks on Cuba, and for co-operation among progressive media around the world to challenge anti-Cuba propaganda.

The new raft of sanctions issued by the White House on Friday target Cuban energy and mining infrastructure, specifying that companies in third countries which have dealings with them will face consequences — an illegal and extraterritorial move.

The US already enforces its unlawful 60-year-plus blockade of Cuba by imposing harsh financial penalties on third-country organisations which do not comply, severely restricting Cuba’s ability to trade with the rest of the world and creating artificial shortages of essential medicines and technologies.

As of this year, Mr Trump has threatened further sanctions against anyone supplying oil to Cuba, cutting off most deliveries though some Russian shipments have got through, and bullied several Latin American countries into expelling Cuban doctors on medical missions, further starving Cuba of revenue.