Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Cuba: An Unusual and Extraordinary Threat!

Editorial by Lisímaco Velasco, published on Labor Today International, April 17, 2026 The President of the United States, who claims to possess the best and most advanced weapons in the world, who boasts of carrying out highly sophisticated military missions like the one on January 3rd in Venezuela, who says that no one is capable of doing what he and[…]

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A Weak Left Stands By as Russia Stands Up for Cuban Sovereignty

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, April 1, 2026 Russia finally makes good on promises to help Cuba, but its level of commitment is unclear. The left are clearly immobilized, even as Iran demonstrates how to fight back. Donald Trump recently bragged that he was “on a roll” after kidnapping President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela and beginning the[…]

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Cuba is Not Alone – Working Women Against the Imperialist Blockade

Statement of WFTU Women’s Committee, March 12, 2026 Cuba is not alone  – WFTU International Week of Solidarity from 6 to 12 April The Women’s Commission of the World Federation of Trade Unions expresses its full and militant solidarity with the Cuban people and the working women of Cuba, who for over sixty years have been resisting with dignity, determination[…]

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Socialist Action Statement on Defeating the U.S. Imperialist Beast: U.S. Hands Off Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and Palestine!

Statement by Socialist Action, March 2, 2026 The U.S. imperialist beast is at war again, again, and again. Last month it was against the people of Venezuela, whose president Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores were abducted and 100 Cuban and Venezuelan defenders in Caracas murdered in a high tech attack demonstrating once again imperialism’s ever more sophisticated military[…]

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Surviving on Trump’s Dangerous Planet

by Bill McKibben, published on Substack, February 28, 2026 Editor’s Note: I don’t entirely agree with Mr. McKibben’s politics but he has a lot to say of interest in the newsletter below, starting with China’s provision of solar panels to Cuba in their moment of need. For what seems like the fiftieth time in my long life, the U.S., with[…]

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The Cuban Revolution Holds Out Against US Imperialism

by Vijay Prashad, published on Popular Resistance, February 19, 2026 In January 2026, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba to be an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US security, a designation that allows the United States government to use sweeping economic restrictions traditionally reserved for national security adversaries. The US blockade against Cuba began in the 1960s, right after the[…]

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U.S. “Weaponization of Starvation”

Washington’s “Humanitarian Aid Package” to Gaza and Cuba by Nuvpreet Kaivra, published on Global Research, February 10, 2026 Last week, the US government announced it would be sending $6 million in aid to Cuba, on top of the $3 million it sent in January after Hurricane Melissa. This aid package might appear contrary to the significant escalation of the 66-year-long[…]

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Marco Rubio Reveals the White Supremacy at the Heart of Western Foreign Policy

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, February 18, 2026 Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in public what is usually unspoken but accepted around the world. Western foreign policy is controlled by the doctrine of white supremacy.  ‘This is why we do not want our allies to be shackled by guilt and shame.  We want allies who are[…]

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Cuban President Díaz-Canel on Cuba’s Response to ‘Maximum Pressure’

by Charles McKelvey, published on Workers World, February 16, 2026 Cuba News published an article by reporter Charles McKelvey, from which Workers World links to this report on a two-hour interview with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who spoke at a special press conference on Feb. 5, 2026. The Cuban president addressed the current crisis in the Caribbean.. In a special[…]

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