The US has long been a rogue state which ignores international law and the UN Charter as it sponsors and commits acts of terrorism worldwide. It uses its economic and military power to destabilise countries that refused to bend the knee to US overlordship.
It “justifies” its actions in the Americas by citing the Monroe Doctrine, a unilaterally promulgated US edict which has no legal standing internationally. The US believes that it stands above international law while at the same time maintaining that US domestic law has universal application.
The so called “indictment” of Raúl Castro is but the latest attempt to “criminalise” the Cuban Revolution and the struggle for national liberation and socialism. The US has blockaded Cuba ever since the revolution. Successive US governments have attempted to invade the country, assassinate its leaders, sabotage its economy, commit acts of terrorism in the country and threaten to sanction any country or company that sells it oil. All to no avail, Cuba stands defiant and sovereign.
The present US regime, fresh from its failure in Iran, seeks a military victory and is preparing to invade Cuba on the pretext of its “indictment” of Raúl Castro. Now is the time to mobilise in support of Cuba.
All those who believe in the right of small nations to determine their own future must condemn the US actions and stand by Cuba and Raul Castro.
Those who believe in International Law and the UN Charter must condemn this further attempt by the US to assert that its domestic law has universal application.
James Corcoran
General Secretary
Communist Party of Ireland