Act now in defense of Cuba!

The Cuban people and the Cuban revolution are under attack. As Africans who believe in justice and self-determination we commit to support the Cuban people materially and in principle against the attacks of U.S imperialism. 

For more than 70 years, Cuba has supported African liberation and sovereignty in words, action, and spirit. From the fields of Angola in the fight against the southern African apartheid regime, to hospitals in the Caribbean during the COVID-19 pandemic, to the safety and protection of African liberation fighters Assata Shakur and Nehanda Abiodun, Cubans have maintained principled and revolutionary solidarity with African peoples around the world. 

The United States regime cannot erase, however hard it tries, the history of Cuba that is written in the soil across the lands of Africa. While words are insufficient in the face of the brutal attack being waged against Cuba by the United States, we write because, to echo Che Guevara's words in 1964, "we must fulfill the obligation of our...people to state clearly and categorically to the world that we morally support and stand in solidarity with peoples who struggle anywhere in the world to make a reality of the rights of full sovereignty."

There have been few states willing to stand to the imperialist onslaught that comes when you dare to affirm life, not capital, when you dare to affirm freedom, not subjugation. Despite the imperial attempts at strangulation and sabotage, Cuba has not betrayed its revolutionary commitment. 

While the Cuban people have been through a special period in the past, the coercion, violence, scale and coordination of what is happening in this moment is different. We will not be silent nor complicit because we know that the defeat of Cuba would be the defeat of us all. It would mean, we are all on our knees, kissing the ring of multiple empires. We, the people of this world who believe in life and the planet, cannot afford another defeat. This is not Cuba before, but because of, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Western Sahara, Palestine, Rojava, Venezuela, Iran, and all people facing the wrath of imperialists.  

We are not romantic about any political project. We can debate what is working in the Cuban socialist project, what could have worked without a choking blockade, and what didn’t work for the people. But what is important now is not to let imperialism win, again. 

Act now in defense of Cuba!