Cuba solidarity campaigns unite in London to demand freedom for the Cuban Five.

On Saturday 19 May 2007, members of several organisations including Rock Around the Blockade set up by the Revolutionary Communist Group, North London Cuba Solidarity Campaign, the Communist League and the Young Socialists, held a joint solidarity event to call for the immediate release of the 5 Cuban heroes - political prisoners in US jails. The protest was held in Trafalgar Square, in the centre of London, where protesters held up placards demanding the release of the Five, an end to the illegal US blockade of Cuba and incarceration for infamous counter-revolutionary terrorist Luis Posada Carriles. Many passers by stopped to listen to speeches and slogans and took leaflets about the case of the Five and the example of the Cuban Revolution.

The demonstration of over 60 people concluded with a march to 10 Downing Street, where the comrades handed in a letter demanding that the British government intervene in the case of the Cuban Five and end its complicity with US attacks on the Cuban Revolution. Prime Minister Blair was not there to receive the letter as he was in Iraq, where Britain has shown its true imperialist colours as junior partner to the Bush administration for a barbaric invasion and occupation.

The British government and media censor the Cuban Revolution, because they fear that if the British public learns the truth about the island's achievements, they will support and emulate Cuba? revolutionary process. Most of the population is sickened by the prospect of perpetual, imperialist war and by British involvement in the indefinite imprisonment in inhumane and brutal conditions of prisoners in occupied Guantanamo Bay, and of torture in prisons in Iraq. Learning about the example of Cuba, an socialist society, could impel them to build a movement for revolutionary change.

Luis Posada Carriles, responsible for numerous attacks against Cuba including the bombing of a Cuban plane in 1973, may have escaped justice for now, but he will continue to symbolise the total hypocrisy of the US government. Communists and other activists here in Britain will continue to demand the immediate release of the Cuban Five. 14 activists from Rock around the Blockade recently returned from an international conference in Havana organised by the Union of Young Communists (UJC) in Cuba and attended by 500 people from 49 countries to demand justice for the five Cuban heroes (Click here for reports of RATB's brigade.)

Rock around the Blockade.

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