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Oscar Joaquin Lopez, left, and Wilfredo Cisneros Duarte collect water from a street pipe in Havana, Cuba, September 7, 2026
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“CUBA is not a threat — the blockade is, and it is harming and punishing the whole of the Cuban people,” Cuban trade union federation CTC leader Osnay Miguel Colina told British trade unionists on Monday night.
Workers around the world stand with Cuba because it “represents independence, peace, self-determination — and above anything else, it represents life,” he told a packed Cuba Solidarity Campaign fringe meeting.
Mr Miguel Colina urged TUC delegates to support Motion 76 from the Prison Officers Association today, calling for “an end to the siege of Cuba, the extraterritorial sanctions on the country and the threats of military intervention.
“Support the Cuba Vive appeal” (which has raised over half a million pounds in medical and humanitarian aid for Cuba), “involve more trade unions, more branches” in Cuba solidarity, he urged.
The fringe meeting showcased Cuba’s overwhelming support among trade unions, with speakers from Unison, the NEU, FBU, PCS and POA, as well as from the TUC and Thompson’s Solicitors.
ALEX GORDON, general secretary of the Communist Party of Britain, calls on Britain’s trade unionists to redouble solidarity with the socialist island
As Cuba faces an unprecedented US energy siege and growing threats of military intervention, TUC Congress must stand unequivocally with Cuban workers and their right to determine their own future, writes STEVE GILLAN, POA general secretary and TUC president
As Cuba faces the most dangerous moment in its recent history, Britain must do more than condemn the US blockade at the United Nations, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, chair of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign
On the centenary of Fidel Castro’s birth, Communist Party international secretary KEVAN NELSON salutes the ongoing example of a revolutionary people facing a brutal US siege