Cuba

Written on October 20, 2024 in Havana, Cuba Cuba’s national electrical system (SEN) has suffered a historic crisis marked by national blackouts. The first nationwide collapse took place on Friday, October 18 in the morning hours, and there were repeated episodes throughout the weekend. As of today (October 21 at 20:06 in Cuba), service has […]

If you are a person “on the left” anywhere in the world, you have surely heard about the 1959 Cuban Revolution. It was a landmark for Latin America and a symbol that an alternative to US capitalism and imperialism (in 1959 we were in the middle of the Cold War) could exist, impacting all subsequent […]

At the end of last September, hundreds came out to protest in various districts and neighborhoods in Havana (Cuba’s capital) and other cities throughout the country, against a general blackout that lasted several days throughout the island. Occurring a little over a year after the demonstrations of July 11, 2021 (11J), what do these new […]

A year has passed since the social outburst that shook Cuba between July 11 and 12, 2021. From one end of the island to the other, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to repudiate the unbearable deterioration of living conditions. Aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic, which had collapsed the public health system, and the […]

Here, we reproduce a manifesto of solidarity with the Cuban demonstrators. The persecution by the Cuban regime continues without end. It is urgent to redouble our efforts for the freedom of all political prisoners and the end of the criminalization of protest on the island. We support this initiative and call for the collection of […]

March 24, 2022 At the end of January, Cuba’s Attorney General’s Office reported that 790 people were facing criminal proceedings for having participated in the protests of July 11, 2021, including 115 defendants between the ages of 16 and 20. Of these defendants, 68% had been in pre-trial detention since July. By: Daniel Sagusti On […]

Seven months after the July 11, 2021 protests in Cuba, repression against demonstrators is intensifying. On January 25, after more than half a year of silence, the Cuban Attorney General’s Office provided information about the criminal proceedings of those accused of having participated in the demonstrations. By Daniel Sugasti The official report reveals 117 files […]

As was to be expected, in the face of the popular demonstrations in Cuba against the Castro regime of Diaz-Canel that began a few months ago, most reformist and Stalinist organisations spoke of a “CIA conspiracy” and took sides in defence of the regime. However, it should be less normal that organisations that define themselves […]

Cuba is going through a moment of great political effervescence since 11 July. The International Workers’ League (IWL) has stood by the struggle against the dictatorship in Cuba at the beginning of the mobilisations, especially demanding the release of political prisoners and exposing the brutal repression of Díaz-Canel government. We want now to debate with […]

The so-called Civic March for Change, called by the“Archipiélago” platform, did not happen. Havana woke up completely militarized. The main organizers of the protest were arrested, disappeared or stopped from leaving their homes by police sieges, followed by pro-regime demonstrations with many people. On the day before, the building where lives Yunior García, leader of […]

The degrading of the living conditions of the Cuban people led, on June 11th, to the biggest demonstrations against the government of the isle since 1959, in more than 60 cities, in the 14 provinces and on the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud. Slogans heard included “Down with the dictatorship” and “Liberation”[1]. The […]

The following months showed that the July 11 demonstrations inaugurated a new political scenario in Cuba. The objective factors that triggered the popular discontent expressed in the streets – high prices, dollarization, shortages, health crisis, little or no perspective for the precarious youth, etc. – are still present, since Miguel Díaz-Canel and the top brass […]

Last July 11, several demonstrations were held in Cuba against the Castro regime. They expressed the demands of numerous sectors of the Cuban people for the terrible socio-economic situation in which they live and the demands for democratic freedoms denied by the regime[1].

Three months after the 11J demonstrations, 505 demonstrators are still detained by the Cuban regime. Some are serving house arrest and several minors continue to be imprisoned, some sentenced to years in prison for daring to fight for their future. Statement of the International Secretariat of the LIT, October 13, 2021 But the situation in […]

Between the night of July 11 and the afternoon of August 30, a group operating both inside and outside Cuba has reported—based on accounts by family, friends, acquaintances or citizens with this information–that 896 people have been arrested. Of the 896 reported arrests, 496 have been confirmed. It has also been confirmed that 354 people […]

In the debates on the current Cuban situation, a majority sector of the left (defenders of the current Castro regime and its policies) claims that the main problem is the country’s “isolation”. This is partially true with regard to the commercial and financial U.S. imperialist blockade. However, they hide the fact that it was Fidel […]