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Delegates from the NEU conference in Harrogate hold up a banner from the ‘Viva La Educacion’ campaign
[Ben Broomfield / National Education Union]
PRACTICAL solidarity from teachers is breaking the US-imposed economic blockade on Cuba and supporting the education of its children, the head of the socialist nation’s biggest teaching union said today.
Addressing the National Education Union (NEU’s) 2023 conference in Harrogate, SNTECD general secretary Niurka Maria Gonzalez Obera thanked members for helping her compatriots to resist the 61-year trade embargo which has impoverished citizens and has been condemned as inhumane.
Speaking in Spanish, she praised a joint push from the NEU and the Cuba Solidarity Campaign to raise nearly £100,000 to fill two 40-foot shipping containers with educational aid for schools lacking basic equipment across the small Caribbean island.
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
A teaching delegation to Cuba offered IAN DUCKETT a powerful glimpse into a schooling system defined by care, creativity and the legacy of the island’s remarkable 1961 literacy campaign
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