DAVE CALFE, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ trade union, writes exclusively for the Morning Star as the union’s five-day annual conference opens in Birmingham
TWENTY years ago this month, TUC Congress passed its first ever motion on the blockade of Cuba.
Motion 83, proposed by the Community and Youth Workers Union and seconded by the Fire Brigades Union, committed the TUC to opposing US sanctions and supporting the work of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign.
It was passed unanimously.
ADRIAN WEIR charts the intercontinental trade union solidarity with Cuba and its desperate predicament
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



