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TRADE unionists condemned US “aggression and cruelty” against the Cuban people yesterday.
Delegates at the Trades Union Congress in Brighton voted to oppose the Helms-Burton Act, legislation that could lead to British companies being sued in US courts for trading with Cuba.
Steve Gillan, general secretary of the POA prison officers’ union, described the Act as “economic warfare” and accused US President Donald Trump of attempting “regime change” as a long-term aim.
In the wake of his recent humanitarian visit to Cuba, RICHARD BURGON points to the now urgent need to defend the island’s political sovereignty and its right to self-determination
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