Socialist Cuba is under attack, and is owed our solidarity now more than ever. On 29 January, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order imposing a total oil blockade on Cuba.
On 29 January US President Trump signed an Executive Order imposing a total oil blockade, threatening any country that sells oil to Cuba with punitive tariffs. This is a massive intensification of the 60-year genocidal US blockade of Cuba. Trump has threatened Cuba to ‘make a deal before it is too late’. This dramatic escalation follows the US hijacking of oil tankers bound for Cuba, cutting off 30,000 barrels per day of subsidised oil provided by Venezuela. Cuba is suffering from daily blackouts due to fuel shortages. The aim is clear: to strangle the Cuban Revolution to death.
Supporters of RATB and the Revolutionary Communist Group stood in solidarity with socialist Cuba as part of a national day of action last weekend.
Supporters of RATB and the Revolutionary Communist Group have called a day of action in support of socialist Cuba. On 29 January US President Trump signed an Executive Order imposing a total oil blockade, threatening any country that sells oil to Cuba with punitive tariffs. This is a massive intensification of the 60-year genocidal US blockade of Cuba. Trump has threatened Cuba to ‘make a deal before it is too late’. This dramatic escalation follows the US hijacking of oil tankers bound for Cuba, cutting off 30,000 barrels per day of subsidised oil provided by Venezuela. Cuba is suffering from daily blackouts due to fuel shortages. The aim is clear: to strangle the Cuban Revolution to death.
Join us this Saturday (7th Feb) to expose British complicity in imperialist attempt to subjugate revolutionary Cuba. The call is urgent. We must oppose this imperialist aggression and defend the gains of revolutionary Cuba in housing, healthcare and material anti-imperialist solidarity around the world! VIVA CUBA!
Events and locations (watch this space for more as they are arranged!)
Socialist Cuba is under attack. US imperialism, after bombing Venezuela and kidnapping its president Nicolas Maduro, has set its sights on Cuba.
On 29 January US President Trump signed an Executive Order imposing a total oil blockade, threatening any country that sells oil to Cuba with punitive tariffs. He has threatened Cuba to ‘make a deal before it is too late’. This dramatic escalation follows the US hijacking of oil tankers bound for Cuba, cutting off 30,000 barrels per day of subsidised oil provided by Venezuela. Cuba is suffering from daily blackouts due to fuel shortages. The aim is clear: to strangle the Cuban Revolution to death.
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
― Assata Shakur
The death of Assata Shakur in Havana recalls a generation of revolutionaries who refused to bow down before US imperialism. From the Panthers to Cuba, from prison chains to international solidarity, Assata lived and died a freedom fighter. Her voice, her book, and her struggle remain with us.
FRFI interviewed Dr Mariela Castro at the National Centre for Sexual Education (CENESEX) headquarters in Havana, Cuba. Mariela Castro is the head of CENESEX, a deputy in the Cuban National Assembly, a committed defender of the Cuban Revolution and an advocate for the Palestinian liberation struggle. She is also the daughter of two revolutionaries: Vilma Espín, founder of the Federation of Cuban Women, and Raúl Castro, current General of the Army and former president of Cuba. Mariela Castro continues her family’s legacy of revolutionary leadership at a time when Cuba is resisting increasingly intense imperialist aggression.
In May 2025 supporters of Rock Around the Blockade and the Revolutionary Communist Group visited Cuba for a political brigade. They had the opportunity to meet with and speak to Cubans from all walks of life, and attended the annual May Day parade in Havana. This film documents their experience and shows eyewitness reports of the struggle of Cuban socialism against imperialism and the US blockade.
FRFI interviewed Dr Mariela Castro at the National Centre for Sexual Education (CENESEX) headquarters in Havana, Cuba. Mariela Castro is the head of CENESEX, a deputy in the Cuban National Assembly, a committed defender of the Cuban Revolution and an advocate for the Palestinian liberation struggle. She is also the daughter of two revolutionaries: Vilma Espín, founder of the Federation of Cuban Women, and Raúl Castro, current General of the Army and former president of Cuba. Mariela Castro continues her family’s legacy of revolutionary leadership at a time when Cuba is resisting increasingly intense imperialist aggression.
Comrades and supporters of RATB across the country took part in a national weekend of action in celebration of the 26 July 1953 Moncada Barrack attack, which sparked the revolutionary struggle in Cuba. This year also coincides with the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), which our supporters were keen to note. Cuban internationalism is an important part of what makes it such an inspiring example to the world, and how it spreads the message of socialism to all corners of the globe.
Some supporters chose to host Cuba related events, while some joined in with other political events, bringing the example of socialist Cuba's acheivments to attention. Here are reports from across the country:
