A street in Cuba
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ENDING the illegal US blockade of Cuba is not just about defending Cuba’s right to self-determination but about British sovereignty, Cuba Solidarity Campaign chair Kevin Courtney told a packed fringe meeting on Tuesday night.
The former National Education Union co-leader said Britain opposes the blockade and votes against it at the UN every year — but “the Americans bully banks here, they bully companies here, into behaving as if the blockade operates from this country.”
The idea that Cuba presented any military threat to the United States was absurd, he stressed, “so why do they maintain this cruel blockade? It is the threat of a counter-example the Americans don’t like.
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
During visits to Cheney School and Oxford Brookes University, Ismara Mercedes Vargas Walter highlighted how Cuba devotes half its budget to education, health and social security despite the US blockade, reports ROGER McKENZIE