Eyewitness reports from Cuba - meetings organised across Britain.  Comrades from Rock around the Blockade/Revolutionary Communist Group have just returned from our 2007 brigade to Cuba. Meetings and discussions are being held nationwide to report on the brigade's activities, on the situation in Cuba today, and the future for socialism. Also, click for online reports, pictures, videos and audio.

 Joint protests in London for the release of the Cuban Five.

 Reports of Rock around the Blockade actions on 7th April.

 The Five Cuban revolutionaries must be freed!  RATB held protests in London and Manchester in support of the Cuban campaign to free the five men held in US jails.

 Victory for activists at Celtic Park!  Rock Around The Blockade Glasgow statement on the Labour council's apparent climbdown over the ban on Che Guevara's image.

 Free the Cuban 5 now!  Report on some of our work during the international month of action to free the Five Cuban political prisoners in the US.

 Fundraising for Cuba.  New page on Rock Around The Blockade's fundraising activities. We are currently raising funds for a soundsystem for youth in Guantanamo, in co-ordination with the Union of Young Communists (UJC) in Cuba. Be a part of it!

 Urgent protest called outside Glasgow Celtic!  Activists to mark the beginning of the football season with a protest against the City Council, and its attacks on free speech.

 Defend the right to protest in Britain!  FRFI activists targeted by police in London on Palestinian demonstration. Read the statement and demonstrate outside the court. No to Labour's attacks on democratic rights!

 Solidarity with struggles in Africa.  Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! society and Kilombo/Friends of Africa join forces for a meeting on African liberation, including a speaker on Cuba's internationalist missions. Wednesday 24 May.

 Viva Che! Smash imperialism!  Statement by Scotland RATB/Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! on Labour's attacks on Irish Republicans, under cover of a fight against sectarianism. Glasgow Council wants to ban Che Guevara's image: don't let them get away with it! Click here for protest info.

 RATB report in Cuban communist youth newspaper.  Edinburgh protest gets coverage in Juventud Rebelde.

 Socialism and War: Cuba and Venezuela take a stand.  Talk givento the Student Anti-Imperialist Dayschool in Glasgow, 4 March 2006.

 Report of RATB street actions to free the Cuban 5 in Edinburgh.

 Letter of support from Gerardo Hernandez on behalf of the Cuban Five.

 11TH FEBRUARY: DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE CUBAN 5.  Protests and events to be confirmed across Britain. Make your voice heard in your area!

 Solidarity between RATB and the Union of Young Communists in Cuba.  A note from the UJC thanking RATB for the sound system donated to the revolutionary Cuban youth in Guantanamo during the 2005 brigade.

 Support the Guantanamo hunger strikers! US out of Cuba!  Report of solidarity work in Glasgow highlighting the US occupation of Guantanamo, Britain's complicity and the prisoners' struggle for freedom.

 Defend Cuba! Defend Socialism!  Activities across Britain, in London, Manchester, Durham, Newcastle, Glasgow, Dundee... The task of building a movement here is an urgent one. Learn about Cuba, fight the lies, join us.

 Events in London in October.  Che, Cuba and Latin America dayskool, demo for the release of the Miami 5, Art Music and Politics night. No reasons not to be active in London!

 Pictures from the 2005 brigade to Cuba.  More reports coming soon..

 Public reportback meetings in London and Manchester  RATB activists report on the brigade to Cuba and the World Youth Festival in Venezuela.

 Rebel Music Night In Manchester!  Fundraiser for Cuban youth on June 2nd.

 Rebel Music Night In London!  A NIGHT OF MAYDAY MAYHEM!

 The oppressed people of the world support Cuban socialism! Why doesn't the SWP?   Rock around the Blockade statement in response to the book 'Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution' - by Mike Gonzalez, Socialist Workers Party, 2004.

 REBEL MUSIC:  The tip-toppest in hip-hoppest, raising money for Cuban youth

 Boycott Bacardi activists target Vinny Jones

 Wear your politics on your sleeve...  with a T-shirt or button badge from RATB

 REBEL MUSIC leaflet  Providing sound systems and disco equipment for young people in Cuba...

 Rock around the Blockade goes to Cuba  In April, Rock around the Blockade's Battle of Ideas brigade visited socialist Cuba. Comrades returned inspired by the example of collective organisation, social inclusion and mass participation that characterises Cuban socialism and by the steps Cuba is taking, through its Battle of Ideas, to extend the Revolution at every level. Here, they give their impressions of how socialism is working in Cuba.

 Rock around the Blockade round-up - "With Che's ideas"  A delegate from Rock around the Blockade joined 200 young people from many countries at a youth seminar held in Havana at the end of November 2002 to commemorate the ideas of Che Guevara on the 35th anniversary of his death.

 Gracias a FRFI  Letter from Xiomara Pedroso Gomez in Havana, Cuba.

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