CUBA

London, October 1. – With the presence of the Cuban Ambassador in London, Ismara Vargas Walter, the Cuba-United Kingdom Disability Network was launched at De Montfort University (UDM), in the British city of Leicester. 

(We publish here a speech delivered by BEN CHACKO to the Viva Cuba rally at Labour conference last night)

THE Morning Star’s motto is “For Peace & Socialism” and we are proud to celebrate Cuban internationalism, and proud too of our long association with the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, which has done so much to secure what I believe is now a wide understanding across the British left and trade union movement of the enormous contribution Cuba has made to the causes of peace and socialism internationally.

The future to which we aspire was traced decades ago and does not look good at all if we are guided by the signs of this present, increasingly unequal and exclusive, that the voracious neoliberal version of capitalism has imposed on a global scale as an expression of the undemocratic unipolarity that came with the collapse of the socialist alternative with the interventionist apogee of NATO. The Summit of the Future is called to address in a direct and holistic way the structural, systemic, moral, and political failures that have prevented us from achieving the goals set out in its Pact.

Brighton, 9 September.- Ambassador Ismara Vargas Walter addressed at a fringe
meeting dedicated to solidarity with Cuba during the 156th Annual Conference of the
British Trades Union Congress (TUC). At the meeting, held on 9 September 2024 in
Brighton, the Ambassador reiterated her deep gratitude to the TUC and British trade
unions for their support and solidarity with the Cuban people and workers. In particular,
she expressed his gratitude for the efforts and support of solidarity in the UK towards