(Posted by Morning Star)
Tuesday, September 24, 2024. TRADE unions have raised £100,000 for the
Cuba Vive blockade-busting medical aid appeal, Labour conference delegates
heard on Monday night.
And a packed Cuba Solidarity Campaign fringe meeting at Liverpool’s iconic
Casa bar shook the rafters with cheers as Prison Officers Association general
secretary Steve Gillan announced his union was pledging another £10,000.
Cuban ambassador Ismara Vargas Walter thanked British trade unionists for
their solidarity with the socialist island, saying every delivery of medical
equipment, no matter how small, made a difference to Cubans denied essential
medicines by the 62-year illegal US blockade.
Speakers including MPs Richard Burgon, Bell Ribeiro Addy and Kim Johnson
called on the government to press Washington to remove Cuba from the list of
state sponsors of terrorism, a designation slapped on the country in the dying
days of the Donald Trump administration which has not been removed by Joe
Biden despite international uproar at its injustice.