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The United Nations Office in Geneva, May 2018
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CUBA regained a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday.
It is the sixth time that the socialist island has been elected to the body, on which it will serve from January 2024 until 2026.
Meanwhile, Russia failed in its bid to regain a seat on the council.
ADRIAN WEIR charts the intercontinental trade union solidarity with Cuba and its desperate predicament
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
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