Blockade

Cuba: Blackout And Blockade

October 22, 2024 UNAC Editor Cuba, Economic Blockade, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy

By La Jornada editorial on October 21, 2024 Cuba is going through its greatest energy crisis, with practically the entire island and 10 out of 11 million inhabitants deprived of electricity. The blackouts that have been occurring with increasing frequency and duration for some time now, turned into a total collapse of the electrical system as a result of the[…]

Mexico’s AMLO Announces Campaign Against US Blockade of Cuba

February 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Cuba, Latin America, Mexico

by Ben Norton, published on Geopolitical Economy, February 13, 2023 President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Mexico will lead an international movement to end the US government’s “inhumane” blockade against Cuba. Praising Fidel Castro as a “visionary”, AMLO denounced neoliberalism and pledged support for universal public healthcare and education. Mexico’s progressive President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that his country[…]

While Cuba Deals with the Matanzas Fire, the U.S. Watches and Waits

August 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Cuba, petroleum, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Toxic Chemicals

by Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan and Medea Benjamin, published on Resumen-English, August 10, 2022 By now, the images of the oil explosion that erupted in the Cuban province of Matanzas on Friday, August 5 that has just been extinguished has been seen around the world. When lightning struck an oil tank in Cuba’s largest oil storage facility, it quickly exploded and[…]

US Professors’ Union Asks Biden to Lift Blockade Against Cuba

February 5, 2022 UNAC Editor Cuba, Economic Blockade, Labor, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Statement

From Prensa Latina, January 31, 2022 Washington, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) One of the largest university professors’ unions in the United States on Monday asked President Joe Biden to lift the “devastating financial and commercial blockade” imposed on Cuba for more than 60 years. The Professional Staff Congress (PSC) of the City University of New York (CUNY), affiliated to the[…]

Stop the War on Yemen

January 24, 2021 Judith Bello Hybrid Warfare, Yemen

A really interesting and informative discussion of the hybrid war against Yemen and what you can do about it from our friends in Chicago. Well worth your time to watch. The US not only provides all kinds of military assistance to the Saudis but is allied with al Qaeda in Yemen. The US is in this war and contributing to[…]

End the U.S. blockade of Cuba!

November 27, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Caribbean, Cuba, Economic Blockade

Image Anonymous, June 8, 2006, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License Posted by Workers World Editor, November 16, 2018 Opinion polls said it. Now the Florida midterm elections show it. Two of three South Florida representatives to the U.S. House who had prioritized hostility to socialist Cuba lost their seats. Ileana Roz-Lehtinen’s hand-picked replacement couldn’t win her former congressional seat; Carlos[…]

Stop Bombing of Yemen!

September 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Featured, Middle East Wars, Yemen

A Yemeni man walks amid the rubble of a food storage warehouse after it was targeted by Saudi airstrikes in the capital, Sana’a, on October 26, 2015. (AFP photo) 1,200+ Days of War & Bloodshed in Yemen Imperialists and Saudi Arabia Hands Off Yemen! by Azza Rojbi, originally published on Fire This Time After a Saudi airstrike hit a water[…]