Pledge of Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution: We Refuse to Back Down!

Pledge of Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution: We Refuse to Back Down!
6 August 2026

For more than six decades, the United States has pursued an illegal and inhumane blockade against Cuba that has amounted to a crime against humanity. This policy systematically deprives the Cuban people of essential medicine and food, restricts access to fuel, financial transactions, and logistical transport, and fundamentally undermines Cuba's sovereign development. The express purpose and intent, as outlined in the April 1960 State Department Mallory-Rubottom memo, is to promote popular dissatisfaction with the Cuban government by creating extreme economic hardship in order to achieve regime change. That intent is now carried forward by US Special Envoy Mauricio Claver-Carone, who has committed to weekly intensification of the newly imposed total oil blockade and to closing every avenue for Cuba to move forward. Claver-Carone's own words reveal the cruelty: "Surprise, and when they think they have a little light at the end of the tunnel, that light will go out."

At a moment when Washington is tightening its siege of Cuba while escalating its attacks on those who stand in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, silence and retreat are not options. We urge organizations and individuals committed to peace, justice, and national sovereignty to read and endorse the following pledge—and to stand together against the blockade and the criminalization of Cuba solidarity.

Cuba is not a threat to the US or any other nation. On the contrary, the blockade is a threat, not only to Cuba but to the people of the world. Its reach is coercive and punitive: pressuring small nations to break medical partnerships, punishing global travelers for legal visits to Cuba, adding Cuba in the State Department List of State Sponsors of Terrorism which automatically sets into play automatic sanctions, and cynically indicting former Cuban president Raul Castro for supposed murder of U.S. citizens, which aims to serve as the pretext for an illegal military intervention, like the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores. 

A Global Majority of states has voted year after year since 1992 in the U.N. General Assembly to end this blockade, yet the U.S. has consistently ignored these votes. In 2023 and 2024, for example, 187 nations voted to lift the embargo, opposed only by the genocidal states of the United States and Israel. And in January 2026, President Trump tightened the blockade including intensifying extraterritorial measures and tariff threats against third party suppliers like Mexico, thus denying Cuba vital fuel shipments—an oil siege that is collective punishment—while increasing military threats of regime change. Only one oil tanker has delivered oil to Cuba since December 2025, causing multiple nationwide blackouts. This is slow genocide.  

At the same time, the administration is consolidating its legal architecture of fascist repression at home to demonize and criminalize the Cuba solidarity movement when it is most needed. In the face of this ongoing imperialist aggression, Cuba stands as a beacon of global solidarity and a living example that another world is possible. With this pledge, we commit to support the Cuban revolution in their struggle for sovereignty against the US imperialist blockade.

The intensified targeting of the Cuba solidarity movement here is part of a broader attack on the U.S. left—progressive and radical movements supporting social justice, liberation, and human dignity. This includes the McCarthyite "Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism" international conference held on July 16, 2026, and the State Department‘s release on July 20, 2026, of a 100-page propaganda report bearing the name of Secretary of State Marco Rubio—a document that endeavours to serve as the ideological justification for the escalating assault on Cuba, the Cuba solidarity movement, and all political dissent on the left.

The report casts a wide net of unfounded accusations, maliciously painting over 40 movement organizations and individuals as purported Cuban “front groups,” while employing guilt-by-association tactics to smear even elected officials. It goes so far as to cite reports from the long-discredited House Un-American Activities Committee, reviving Cold War conspiracy theories from the 1950s and repackaging them for the present. The report's explicit purpose is to criminalize Cuba's existence while omitting the actual cause of Cuban suffering: the blockade. This propaganda offensive transforms lawful solidarity work into "subversion" and "terrorism."

This propaganda comes at a moment when the Trump administration is consolidating its legal architecture of fascist repression globally and domestically. On June 4, 2026, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Cuban President Díaz-Canel, ICAP, and the Amistur Travel Agency as Specially Designated Nationals. OFAC has also begun issuing "Requests for Information" letters to organizers of delegations to Cuba, in order to chill travel and humanitarian work through threatened financial and criminal penalties, alongside the threatened deployment of the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), historically used to target left-wing organizations. The clear aim is to stifle solidarity speech, weaken collective organizing, and force individuals and organizations into retreat.

This strategy echoes the historic deployments of the "Red Scare"—to criminalize dissent and reframe legitimate political struggle as a “national security threat”. From the Smith Act (1940) to the Taft Hartley (1947), from McCarran Act (1950) and COINTELPRO (1956-1971), to the present, the state has built layer upon layer of legal repression targeting militant workers, leftists, anti-imperialists, and Black and other oppressed peoples’ liberation movements.

We wear this political targeting like a badge of honor, a sign that our work opposing U.S. military and economic domination of other sovereign states has been effective. What we are doing is legal and just. We will not be silenced. We will not be divided. We will not retreat.

We call on all people of conscience to demand an end to the blockade of Cuba, to oppose National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7) and all legal and policy frameworks that criminalize and demonize dissent, and to join the National Network on Cuba’s No War on Cuba Campaign. The same forces blockading Cuba, committing genocide in Gaza, destabilizing the Americas, and assaulting our immigrant, Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities are deploying their weight against anti-war and solidarity organizers in the U.S. Our repression is shared; our liberation must be too. Try as they might, they cannot imprison a movement!

We pledge to resist the state’s attempts to criminalize our movement through legal defense and offensive work, political education, media and mass mobilization. The blockade will not stop us from sending more delegations and humanitarian aid. We denounce Marco Rubio’s McCarthyite attacks, stand unapologetically for Cuban sovereignty, and will unite across borders to expand our solidarity movement.

No War on Cuba! Let Cuba Live! Venceremos!

Endorsed by:

Alliance for Global Justice

Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective

Black Alliance for Peace

Carlotas Warriors for Cuba

CODEPINK

National Network on Cuba (NNOC)

National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL)

National Lawyers Guild

Nodutdol

Resist U.S.-Led War Movement

Task Force on the Americas

United National Antiwar Coalition

Veterans for Peace

Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective

Workers World Party

US Peace Council (USPC)

This pledge draws from and builds on our comrade organization statements, including:

• Black Alliance for Peace Solidarity Network: “In Unwavering Solidarity with the African and Anti-Colonial Struggle: A Call for Unified Action Among the U.S. Left”

• CODEPINK: “CODEPINK Statement on the State Department's Recent Cuba Report” 

• National Lawyers Guild: “The National Lawyers Guild Reaffirms its Solidarity with Cuba in the Face of Increasing McCarthyite Repression” 

• Resist US-Led War: “Resist U.S. Attacks and Rally the People in Solidarity and Defense of the Cuban Revolution!” / “Resista los ataques de EE.UU. y une al pueblo en solidaridad y defensa de la revolucion cubana!”

• Veterans For Peace: “Veterans for Peace Condems Marco Rubio’s Threats Against Cuba and Against U.S. Peace and Solidarity Activists”

In Unwavering Solidarity with the African and Anti-Colonial Struggle: A Call for Unified Action Among the U.S. Left

In Unwavering Solidarity with the African and Anti-Colonial Struggle: 

A Call for Unified Action Among the U.S. Left 

The recent declaration of war published by the U.S. fascist state attacking Cuba and its allies serves as a glaring call for urgent and strategic unity among the targeted organizations, the broadest sectors of the U.S. left, and all people of conscience. It comes as no surprise that a scrambling empire would see organized, sustained resistance that refuses to silently accommodate its lawless, genocidal attacks on human rights globally as a credible threat. Directly out of their imperialist playbook, it is quite clear that this is an attempt to criminalize Cuba’s existence while intentionally omitting the actual cause of suffering for the Cuban people - the decades-long blockade systematically depriving them of food, medicine, and fuel, designed to strangle the revolution by all available means.

Although the report’s intention is not new, it provides renewed consideration of the question of what is to be done. That is, in its naming of various “guilty parties” among the U.S. left, it reiterates who has been, and will continue to be, on the cutting edge of repression. Both in its historical references to African revolutionaries like Assata Shakur and Kwame Ture, and recalling the nationwide opposition to the execution of George Floyd, the state continues to point its repressive apparatus at colonized and oppressed populations, first and foremost, at Africans fighting for self-determination. 

Our resistance must be rooted in the politics of African/Black liberation, not just in ideology and practice, but in the organizational structures that will allow for such a path to be charted and achieved - one that is driven by African/Black leadership. Through the framework of People(s)-Centered Human Rights, we understand that the process of decolonization can only be advanced when it is led by those most oppressed by the U.S. settler state.

For non-Africans, the task ahead requires that we show up more fully and with more principle and discipline alongside African revolutionaries - not as an act of charity, but as a political commitment of mutual comradeship that materializes the inextricable link uniting our collective struggle against our common enemy.

When politics command our organization, we effectively strategize and commit to action in a way that reflects our unwavering solidarity with African liberation and the Black Radical Peace Tradition. In other words, the social, economic, and political benefits that stand to be gained by compromising or retreating on our principles must be rejected if we are to commit to an authentic application of our anti-colonial, anti-oppressive, and anti-imperialist politics.

Kwame Ture reminds us of the necessity to move from mere influence to collective power. We are at a precipice where the call for a unified resistance requires the rejection of liberalism and siloed leftist “influence,” and the embrace of swift and strategic unification that leverages our collective power against state violence intended to neutralize anyone unwilling to submit to its oppressive forces. The path to win is before us and has been laid out by Africans leading this struggle - historically and today.

We do not underestimate the power of our enemy. Their militarized forces occupy our streets and our psyches. These violent systems of repression lay the groundwork for the intensification to come. Our response demands a resistance rooted in collective struggle for systemic change that shifts power to the people: the heart of People(s)-Centered Human Rights. Most importantly, we will continue, relentlessly, in our unbending solidarity with Cuba, in defense of its people, its sovereignty, and the integrity of its revolutionary process. 

The Black Alliance for Peace Solidarity Network

Nodutdol

CODEPINK

National Lawyers Guild

Diaspora Pa’lante Collective

National Students for Justice in Palestine

Nolympics 

CUNY for Palestine

Taxpayers Against Genocide

United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)

Workers World Party

Palestinian Youth Movement
National Jericho Movement
NYC Jericho Movement

The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign

South Central About Face - Veterans Against the War

No Compromise, No Retreat

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Give U.S. Fascism and War a Red Card: Refuse Acceptance of World Cup Trophy from Blood-Soaked Hands of U.S. Empire!

Give U.S. Fascism and War a Red Card!
Refuse Acceptance of World Cup Trophy from Blood-Soaked Hands of U.S. Empire!

The body count and war crimes of the fascist U.S. settler state mount with each passing day. On the first day of Operation Epic Fury launched against Iran, 168 Iranians, primarily children, in Minab were murdered in their classrooms by US missiles, and the slaughter of innocents by U.S. imperialist forces has continued unabated and unashamedly since.

From the lethal blockade on Cuba, the invasion of Venezuela, the renewed war on Iran, the U.S. occupation of Haiti, the forced extraction of resources in the Congo, and the ongoing genocide in Palestine, the blood of hundreds of thousands of victims of US imperialism covers the claws of the fascist U.S. regime.

Every week, the U.S. Gestapo, ICE, adds to the horrendous atrocities within the U.S.

As the World Cup entered the semifinals, ICE thugs murdered two immigrant fathers, Johan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, site of seven World Cup matches.

These crimes against humanity must have consequences, and the guilty must be brought to justice. We refuse impunity as a response to lawless U.S. war crimes and endless murders and aim to disrupt any and all normalization, complicity, and collusion with this blatantly fascist U.S. agenda for global domination.

To that end:

The Anti-Fascist Football Coalition (AFFC) urges the winner of the 2026 World Cup to refuse acceptance of the World Cup trophy from the blood-soaked hands of Trump and the U.S. state.

Do not let your historic victory be used to wash the image of the U.S. Empire.

If (and when) FIFA refuses to remove Trump from the Ceremony, AFFC urges the winners and runners-up to refuse a handshake from Trump, turn their backs on him, and not allow him to join them for the lifting of the trophy.

The Anti-Fascist Football Coalition insists that a moment of silence, a memorial tribute, be held before the final match kickoff for the 168 Iranians of Minab slaughtered by US forces and the two immigrant fathers murdered this week by ICE.

Six moments of silence have been held and broadcast so far within the tournament, to honor the Venezuelan earthquake victims, the death of South African footballer Jayden Adams, and the victims of the wildfires in southern Spain.

The U.S. and FIFA will not recognize the humanity of the 168 people that they directly murdered in Iran. We refuse their devaluation of non-white life and insist on their commemoration.

The AFFC will not be intimidated by the fearmongering tactics of U.S. repression and neutralization of those willing to stand up against fascism. Join us in the Global Network as we collectively struggle for People(s)-Centered Human Rights

The Anti Fascist Football Coalition Joins the Call for the Remaining Teams in the World Cup to Withdraw and Urges People of Conscience to Fight Back Against U.S. Fascism

The Anti Fascist Football Coalition Joins the Call for the Remaining Teams in the World Cup to Withdraw and Urges People of Conscience to Fight Back Against U.S. Fascism

For Immediate Release

Contact: communications@blackallianceforpeace.com

(201) 292-4591 

On July 8, The Black Alliance for Peace called for the remaining teams in the World Cup to withdraw from the tournament to reject the lawlessness and impunity of the U.S. in its renewed active warfare against Iran as well as the ongoing, illegal, and barbaric acts of genocide in Palestine and Lebanon. On July 9, the Anti-Fascist Football Coalition (AFFC), composed of 35 international organizations, joined the call with fervor. 

The AFFC is clear: The U.S. is the greatest violator of human rights on the planet. The reignited war on Iran is one atrocity among the dozens of war crimes the U.S. is waging globally. We cannot and will not normalize genocide and state violence by allowing the World Cup to uphold “business as usual.” 

“The renewal of hostilities against Iran, the persistence of Israel’s U.S.-backed bombardment of Lebanon during the so-called ceasefire, and Israel’s assassination of Mohammed Fawaz al-Wahidi moments before the Egypt-Argentina match are reasons enough for the remaining nations to withdraw from the tournament,” said Julio López Torres, of Diaspora Pa’lante Collective. 

“Add to this, the violence being carried out by the Trump regime in the United States. In Houston, just three days after hosting a World Cup match, ICE agents murdered Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. In a city that hosted seven World Cup matches, including two knockout games, a man was executed for going to work. A country that still has colonial possessions, like the colonization of my country of Puerto Rico (which is used as a launching ground to wage war on the Caribbean and Latin America), was never worthy of hosting the beautiful game.”

Orlando Mateo, of Compas de la Diaspora, stated, “It is a disgrace that the imperialist, carceral-genocidal machine called the United States has been allowed to host the World Cup in the first place, given their role in the Gaza Holocaust. However, the recent aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as escalations in the domestic war against the immigrant proletariat – by way of increased deportation, inhumane conditions at detention centers, and cancellation of TPS for 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians – plus the U.S. just hosted Israel for the World Baseball Classic! - all of that should prompt any free, conscious person, federation, state or fútbol player to retire from the rest of this sham tournament. Anything less than that is complicity.” 

The Anti-Fascist Football Coalition calls on organizations and individuals to collectively resist and fight back - to join in this call for concrete solidarity from the international community against the U.S. agenda for global domination at the ongoing expense of human life. The AFFC continues its commitment to Boycott the World Cup and Boycott the U.S., forcefully rejecting the ongoing devaluation of non-white life displayed by the U.S., FIFA, and its corporate ruling class partners. 

Join hundreds of organizations and individuals endorsing the Campaign for further coordinated action in our struggle for People(s)-Centered Human Rights: bit.ly/EndorseNow 

Return Venezuela’s Stolen Wealth for Full Quake Recovery

Return Venezuela’s Stolen Wealth for Full Quake Recovery

We extend our full solidarity and condolences to the Venezuelan people as they grapple with the human tragedy caused by the twin earthquakes of June 24, 2026. We applaud emergency aid to rescue those under the rubble and meet the needs of the living victims.

This natural disaster comes on top of the U.S. invasion and kidnapping of the president in January, several months of extrajudicial killings in Venezuela’s territorial waters, years of deadly U.S. sanctions, and the theft of Venezuela’s assets overseas.

In order to allow Venezuela to rebuild and recover from this disaster, we demand that the United States:

• Fully and permanently lift all sanctions on Venezuela;

• Return Venezuela’s oil revenues to the Venezuelan government;

• Unfreeze all of Venezuela’s overseas assets—including billions in gold and other currencies held at the Bank of England and elsewhere;

• Free President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores from the U.S. jail where they are being illegally held as political prisoners; and

• Refrain from using disaster relief as an excuse for military occupation.

The U.S. government’s pretense of friendship to Venezuela rings hollow, after years of U.S. sanctions and military aggression have caused several tens of thousands of deaths. U.S. assistance for reconstruction will be paltry compared to the massive heist it has perpetrated against the country through assets theft and sanctions. What Venezuela needs for post-earthquake reconstruction is the return of the billions of dollars the U.S. government and its allies have stolen.

It is time to return to Venezuela what rightfully belongs to Venezuela.

Leading Organizers from the Following Organizations and the individuals listed below support this statement to return Venezuela’s stolen wealth.  

Organizations:

SanctionsKill/Americas Without Sanctions, United National Anti-war Coalition (UNAC), Venezuela Solidarity Network, Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, National Network on Cuba, Black Alliance for Peace, Task Force on the Americas, CODEPINK, US Peace Council, Veterans For Peace, CUNY for Palestine, Popular Resistance, Resist US-Led War Movement, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Diaspora Pa’lante Collective, Rights Action U.S./Canada, Alliance for Global Justice, Anti War Action Network, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Committee WILPF-US, Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle of Toronto, Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, Struggle for Socialism Party, People’s Power Assembly, Just Peace Advocates/Mouvement Pour Une Paix Juste, Canadian BDS Coalition, International BDS Allies, Brooklyn Against War, Bronx Antiwar, Workers World Party, Rights Action – U.S./Canada, International Action Center

Individuals:

Nick Estes, The Red Nation; Cira Pascual Marquina, Popular Educator and Author; Ricardo Vaz, Venezuelanalysis;  Jesús Rodríguez, Orinoco Tribune; Cindy Domingo, US Women and Cuba Collaboration; Steve Ellner, Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives; Joe Emersberger, writer; Lucy Pagoada, Voices of Resistance on WBAI; Gloria Guillo, Uncontrolled Opposition Podcast;

(This statement was initiated by the SanctionsKill Campaign.)

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Devuélvanse las riquezas robadas a Venezuela para una recuperación total tras el terremoto

Expresamos nuestra plena solidaridad y nuestras más sinceras condolencias al pueblo venezolano, que se enfrenta a la tragedia humana provocada por los dos terremotos del 24 de junio de 2026. Aplaudimos la ayuda de emergencia destinada a rescatar a quienes se encuentran bajo los escombros y a atender las necesidades de los damnificados.

Esta catástrofe natural se suma a la invasión estadounidense y al secuestro del presidente en enero, a varios meses de ejecuciones extrajudiciales en aguas territoriales venezolanas, a años de sanciones mortales impuestas por Estados Unidos y al robo de los activos de Venezuela en el extranjero.

Para que Venezuela pueda reconstruirse y recuperarse de esta catástrofe, exigimos lo siguiente a Estados Unidos:

• Levantar total y definitivamente todas las sanciones impuestas a Venezuela;

• Devolver los ingresos petroleros de Venezuela al Gobierno venezolano;

• Descongelar todos los activos de Venezuela en el extranjero, incluidos los miles de millones en oro y otras divisas depositadas en el Banco de Inglaterra y en otros lugares;

• Liberar al presidente Nicolás Maduro y a la primera dama Cilia Flores de la cárcel estadounidense donde se encuentran recluidos ilegalmente como presos políticos; y

• Abstenerse de utilizar la ayuda humanitaria como pretexto para una ocupación militar.

Pretending to be a “friend of Venezuela” after years of U.S. sanctions and military aggression have caused several tens of thousands of deaths, rings hollow. U.S. assistance for reconstruction will be paltry compared to the massive heist it has perpetrated against the country through assets theft and sanctions. What Venezuela needs for post-earthquake reconstruction is the return of the billions of dollars the U.S. government and its allies have stolen.

Fingir ser un «amigo de Venezuela» después de años de sanciones y agresiones militares por parte de EE. UU., que han causado varias decenas de miles de muertes, suena a falso. La ayuda de EE. UU. para la reconstrucción será insignificante en comparación con el enorme saqueo que ha perpetrado contra el país mediante el robo de activos y las sanciones. Lo que Venezuela necesita para la reconstrucción tras el terremoto es la devolución de los miles de millones de dólares que el Gobierno de EE. UU. y sus aliados le han robado.

Es hora de devolver a Venezuela lo que por derecho le pertenece.

Organizaciones:

SanctionsKill/Americas Without Sanctions, United National Anti war Coalition (UNAC), Venezuela Solidarity Network, Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, National Network on Cuba, Black Alliance for Peace, Task Force on the Americas, CODEPINK, US Peace Council, Veterans For Peace, CUNY for Palestine, Popular Resistance, Resist US-Led War Movement, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Diaspora Pa’lante Collective, Rights Action U.S./Canada, Alliance for Global Justice, Anti War Action Network, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Committee WILPF-US, Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle of Toronto, Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, Struggle for Socialism Party, People‘s Power Assembly, Just Peace Advocates/Mouvement Pour Une Paix Juste, Canadian BDS Coalition, International BDS Allies, Brooklyn Against War, Bronx Antiwar, Workers World Party, International Action Center

Individuos:

Nick Estes, The Red Nation; Cira Pascual Marquina, Popular Educator and Author; Ricardo Vaz, Venezuelanalysis;  Jesús Rodríguez, Orinoco Tribune; Cindy Domingo, US Women and Cuba Collaboration; Steve Ellner, Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives; Joe Emersberger, writer; Lucy Pagoada, Voices of Resistance on WBAI; Gloria Guillo, Uncontrolled Opposition Podcast;

(Esta declaración fue iniciada por la campaña SanctionsKill.)

Resisting U.S. Human Rights Barbarism: The Arrest of Alyssa Philip In Trinidad and Tobago

Resisting U.S. Human Rights Barbarism: The Arrest of Alyssa Philip In Trinidad and Tobago

The arrest of Alyssa Phillip, a leader in the Justice for Kaia Sealy movement, during the Labour Day celebrations in Fyzabad, Trinidad and Tobago, is a stark demonstration of how state power is being deployed to suppress legitimate, people(s)-centered demands for justice, and a troubling illustration of the government's full alignment with the current U.S. regime’s abandonment of even the pretense of a commitment to internationally recognized human rights standards.

The Labour Day arrest was particularly egregious. Police in tactical gear surrounded Phillip and her mother, escorting her into a police vehicle. The stated justification that Phillip could not join the march because she was not part of a trade union has been universally dismissed as "nonsense" by trade union leaders, who note that Phillips was invited to participate as Labour Day celebrations have always welcomed all citizens.

Alyssa Phillip, Sealy's former schoolmate, has organized nineteen protests demanding transparency and accountability for the January 20 police involved shooting that left Joshua Samaroo dead and Kaia Sealy critically injured. Sealy, a mother and hairstylist with no criminal background, has been extradited from the U.S. and charged with manslaughter and shooting with intent. The movement's supporters have rightly framed this as a struggle for justice, human rights, democracy, and national accountability, issues that transcend narrow legal technicalities and speak to the fundamental principle that no institution should be above accountability.

The recent arrest of Phillip is part of a broader pattern of suppression that began with the introduction of "no-protest zones" under the State of Emergency is part of a broader pattern of suppression that, critically, was intensified during the period when Trinidad served as a launchpad for the U.S. military buildup against Venezuela, as the government's permission for U.S. military access and joint exercises in late 2025 signaled a deepening alignment with U.S. strategic interests that coincided with heightened domestic security measures. These measures, which prohibit protests within 500 meters of 15 key state institutions, were enacted shortly after protests linked to the Samaroo-Sealy matter gained momentum. In fact, Phillip and her mother were previously arrested and granted TT$10,000 bail on charges of "disorderly behavior" and "influencing public opinion in a manner prejudicial to public safety" under the Emergency Powers Regulation, charges that chillingly criminalize the very act of speaking out.

This is intimidation pure and simple - an attempt to silence a voice that authorities find inconvenient. The arrest must also be understood within the broader context of the government's wholesale embrace of U.S. foreign policy and security frameworks. Since taking office, the UNC government has hitched Trinidad and Tobago's fortunes to the United States, mirroring its rhetoric and supporting its most controversial geopolitical decisions.

The Prime Minister has openly praised U.S. military operations in the Caribbean, declaring that "all drug traffickers should be killed violently," and has welcomed the expansion of U.S. military presence in the region, including the installation of a military-grade radar system in Tobago. The alignment of Trinidad’s government with U.S. positions on Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran, moving in lockstep to designate Hezbollah, Hamas, the IRGC, and Tren de Aragua as terrorist entities while intensifying domestic no-protest enforcement during the military buildup against Venezuela, renders those adopted positions complicit in policies recognized as constituting crimes against humanity, war crimes, and violations of the UN Charter, particularly when such designations and security measures serve to criminalize dissent and facilitate foreign military objectives under the guise of national security. The government has even distanced itself from Caricom's historic stance of neutrality and the "Zone of Peace" principle, calling the regional body an "unreliable partner".

This subservience to American interests has consequences for domestic political legitimacy and national sovereignty. The securitized approach prioritizing law enforcement and restriction over accountability and fundamental human rights mirrors the very approach the U.S. has exported globally. The suppression of protest under the guise of "security" is a reflection of this alignment. When a government embraces external power dynamics that prioritize order over justice and human rights, domestic dissent becomes the first casualty.

The people of Trinidad and Tobago deserve better. We stand in solidarity with Alyssa Phillip and all those who refuse to abandon truth, justice, and people(s)- centered human rights.

peoplescenteredhumanrights.com

We Resist the Blaring U.S. Plans for Increased Violence, Deportations, and Domination that are Evident in U.S. World Cup Host Cities, Cuba, and Globally

We Resist the Blaring U.S. Plans for Increased Violence, Deportations, and Domination that are Evident in U.S. World Cup Host Cities, Cuba, and Globally

As the world’s eyes turn toward the United States for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, hyper-militarization is unfolding in African and working class communities. In Kansas City, the city government has passed an ordinance explicitly stating that a new municipal jail is being constructed in time for the World Cup. The contract for this facility was awarded to Brown and Root Industrial Services, the same corporation that built the notorious prison camps at Guantánamo Bay. This is a direct material connection linking U.S. imperialist violence abroad to the repression of working-class Black, brown, and Indigenous communities in the U.S.. 

The U.S. settler-colonial state weaponizes incarceration as a tool to neutralize anyone it deems "criminal." As the World Cup approaches, this domestic repression is escalating under the direction of the White House Task Force for FIFA 2026. We are witnessing a massive surge in militarization, with ICE, the National Guard, and local police departments aligning to effectively occupy entire cities. The primary targets of this preemptive containment are the masses of working-class people who will be held captive in these newly minted cages. 

Meanwhile, the 60+ year long blockade of Cuba has recently intensified, directly attacking the ability of Cubans to access fuel. This escalation, combined with the bogus indictment of Raúl Castro, represents nothing less than a declaration of war. It is a calculated attempt to crush Cuba’s sovereignty, spearheaded by the very same forces that use jails to manage surplus, racialized populations domestically. We cannot separate the violence inflicted on the Cuban people from the violence inflicted on the domestic working class, because the same corporations profiting from imperial war and detention abroad are profiting from the expansion of domestic incarceration in preparation for FIFA 2026.

We refuse to let corporate sporting events serve as a cover for fascism, displacement, and torture, and we stand in unified resistance to protect our communities and defend internationalism. To establish a true Zone of Peace in Our Americas, we demand:

• An immediate end to U.S. imperial aggression in the region, meaning the United States must lift the blockade on Cuba, 

• Remove Cuba from the State Sponsor of Terrorism list, dismantle the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), and 

• Unconditionally return the illegally occupied territory of Guantánamo Bay to the Cuban people. 

Furthermore, we call on all sports fans, players, and organizations to join the Anti Fascist Football Coalition in demanding to move the games, urging a total boycott of the 2026 World Cup matches and a boycott of the U.S. as a host state. We must organize where we stand to build ground-level resistance capable of disrupting the U.S. fascist state by forming networks that can resist ICE raids, fight municipal jail expansions, and expose the actors responsible for the death and destruction imposed upon humanity and the planet by the U.S. war machine. 

More information on the Campaign to Move the Games, Boycott the World Cup, and Boycott the U.S.: https://peoplescenteredhumanrights.com/move-the-games/ 

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Nos oponemos a los evidentes planes de los Estados Unidos de aumentar la violencia, las deportaciones y el dominio, que se manifiestan en las ciudades estadounidenses sede del Mundial, en Cuba y en todo el mundo

Mientras los ojos del mundo se dirigen hacia los Estados Unidos con motivo de la Copa Mundial de la FIFA 2026, se está produciendo una super-militarización en las comunidades africanas y de clase trabajadora. En Kansas City, el gobierno municipal ha aprobado una ordenanza que establece explícitamente que se está construyendo una nueva cárcel municipal a tiempo para la Copa del Mundo. El contrato para esta instalación se adjudicó a Brown and Root Industrial Services, la misma corporación que construyó los notorios campos de prisioneros en la Bahía de Guantánamo. Esta es una conexión material directa que vincula la violencia imperialista de EE. UU. en el extranjero con la represión de las comunidades negras, morenas e indígenas de clase trabajadora en EE. UU..

El Estado colonialista de los EE. UU. utiliza el encarcelamiento como arma para neutralizar a cualquiera que considere «criminal». A medida que se acerca la Copa del Mundo, esta represión interna se está intensificando bajo la dirección del Grupo de Trabajo de la Casa Blanca para la FIFA 2026. Estamos presenciando un aumento masivo de la militarización, con el ICE, la Guardia Nacional y los departamentos de policía locales alineándose para ocupar efectivamente ciudades enteras. Los objetivos principales de esta contención preventiva son las masas de la clase trabajadora que serán retenidas en estas jaulas recién construidas.

Mientras tanto, el bloqueo contra Cuba, que dura ya más de 60 años, se ha intensificado recientemente, afectando directamente la capacidad de los cubanos para acceder al combustible. Esta escalada, combinada con la falsa acusación contra Raúl Castro, no representa otra cosa que una declaración de guerra. Se trata de un intento calculado de aplastar la soberanía de Cuba, encabezado por las mismas fuerzas que utilizan las cárceles para controlar a las poblaciones excedentes y racializadas a nivel nacional. No podemos separar la violencia infligida al pueblo cubano de la violencia infligida a la clase trabajadora nacional, porque las mismas corporaciones que se benefician de la guerra imperialista y las detenciones en el extranjero se están beneficiando de la expansión del encarcelamiento nacional en preparación para la FIFA 2026.

Nos negamos a permitir que los eventos deportivos corporativos sirvan de tapadera para el fascismo, el desplazamiento y la tortura, y nos mantenemos en resistencia unificada para proteger a nuestras comunidades y defender el internacionalismo. Para establecer una verdadera Zona de Paz en nuestras Américas, exigimos:

• El fin inmediato de la agresión imperialista de EE. UU. en la región, lo que significa que Estados Unidos debe levantar el bloqueo contra Cuba,

• Retirar a Cuba de la lista de Estados patrocinadores del terrorismo, desmantelar el Comando Sur de EE. UU. (SOUTHCOM) y

• Devolver incondicionalmente al pueblo cubano el territorio ilegalmente ocupado de la Bahía de Guantánamo.

Además, hacemos un llamado a todos los aficionados al deporte, a los jugadores y a las organizaciones para que se unan a la Coalición Antifascista de Fútbol y exijan el traslado de los partidos, instando a un boicot total de los partidos del Mundial de 2026 y a un boicot contra Estados Unidos como país anfitrión. Debemos organizarnos desde donde estamos para construir una resistencia de base capaz de desestabilizar al Estado fascista de EE. UU., formando redes que puedan resistir las redadas del ICE, luchar contra la expansión de las cárceles municipales y desenmascarar a los responsables de la muerte y la destrucción impuestas a la humanidad y al planeta por la maquinaria bélica estadounidense.

Más información sobre la Campaña para Trasladar los Juegos, Boicotear la Copa del Mundo y Boicotear a EE. UU.: https://peoplescenteredhumanrights.com/no-al-mundial-en-los-ee-uu/ 

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The Anti Fascist Football Coalition Unanimously Joins the Call for a Boycott of the World Cup

The Anti Fascist Football Coalition Unanimously Joins the Call for a Boycott of the World Cup 

For Immediate Release

Contact: communications@blackallianceforpeace.com

(201) 292-4591 

On May 28th, the Black Alliance for Peace and its North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights called on the international community to withdraw all support for the World Cup Games through an international boycott. The call lays out the stark illegitimacy of the U.S. as a World Cup host. A country that is brutally attacking the humanity and sovereignty of nations throughout the world in their ongoing quest for full spectrum domination - in its violent attacks on Cuba and Iran, while holding captive the President of Venezuela and violently pressing its Zionist project for colonial expansion in Gaza - remains, with ample evidence, an illegitimate and dangerous host for the World Cup Games. 

The Anti-Fascist Football Coalition, the international body of 32 organizations strategically coordinating to Boycott the World Cup and Boycott the U.S., has expressed unanimous support of this position and has chosen to echo this call as the Campaign advances. “This is a historic, strategic decision which lays the foundations for deeper long-term implications that transcend U.S borders,” said Coalition member Camilo Pérez-Bustillo of the International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement, based in Mexico City. 

Coalition member Maraky, of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, added, “By hosting the games in the U.S., FIFA is celebrating the U.S. as the greatest violators of human rights on the planet and further normalizing U.S. acts of genocide, war, and intensified repression. Nuance, balance, and moderation are not an option when they align, whether consciously or not, with Western and U.S. imperialism.” 

In addition to the massive violations of the U.S. on human rights globally, Coalition organizations are feeling the material impacts of host city preparations as heightened tactics of surveillance, mass repression, and captivity are put into place, amplified by the Supreme Court’s green light for the state’s militarized agents to use racial profiling as a basis to enforce violence. 

The Anti-Fascist Football Coalition calls on organizations and individuals to join us in this call to Boycott the World Cup and Boycott the U.S., standing firmly against FIFA’s complicity of U.S. violations of human rights. 

Join hundreds of organizations and individuals endorsing the Campaign for further coordinated action: bit.ly/EndorseNow 

In Defense of Cuba for a Zone of Peace by The Popular Steering Committee for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas

In Defense of Cuba for a Zone of Peace

by The Popular Steering Committee for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas

May 15, 2026 – We, the members of the collective “U.S./NATO Out of Our Americas,” condemn the threat by the U.S. President Donald Trump to proceed with direct military intervention against the people and government of the sister Republic of Cuba.

We denounce this unilateral aggression, embodied in a new executive order that describes Cuba as an unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. national security, as entirely arbitrary and unfounded. There is no legal, factual, or documentary basis to support it, and its sole objective is to justify the use of force to subjugate the sister nation, in a clear application of the revived Monroe Doctrine serving the neocolonialist ambitions of the U.S. and its partners.

This order undermines the most fundamental norms and principles of current international law, openly violates the principle of sovereignty and self-determination of peoples, the prohibition on interference in the internal affairs of other States, and the principle of non-intervention enshrined in various international instruments applicable at both the global and regional levels, among which the the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, adopted at the Second CELAC Summit, held in Havana, Cuba, on January 29, 2014.

We reiterate our condemnation of the unilateral sanctions imposed by the U.S. against Cuba and demand an immediate end to the aggression and the lifting of the genocidal and criminal blockade imposed on the island more than six decades ago.

We express our solidarity with the people and government of Cuba and urge all our siblings from every corner of the globe to raise their voices to stop this new imperialist aggression that today looms over Cuba but poses a threat to all the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean and to all of humanity.

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En Defensa de Cuba por una Zona Paz

por el Comité Directivo Popular por una Zona de Paz en Nuestra América

15 de mayo – Los integrantes del colectivo EE.UU./OTAN fuera de Nuestra América condenamos la amenaza del Presidente de los Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, de avanzar en una intervención militar directa contra el pueblo y el gobierno de la hermana República de Cuba.

Denunciamos que esta agresión unilateral, plasmada en una nueva orden ejecutiva, que describe a Cuba como una amenaza inusual y extraordinaria para la seguridad nacional de los EE. UU. resulta totalmente arbitraria e infundada. No existe ningún sustento legal, material y/o documental que la avale y su único objetivo es justificar el uso de la fuerza para doblegar a la nación hermana, en una clara aplicación de la reeditada Doctrina Monroe funcional a las apetencias neocolonialistas de EE.UU. y sus socios.

Dicha orden atenta contra las normas y principios más elementales del Derecho Internacional vigente, viola abiertamente el principio de soberanía y autodeterminación de los pueblos, la prohibición de injerencia en los asuntos internos de otros Estados y el principio de no intervención plasmado en diversos instrumentos internacionales aplicables tanto en el orden mundial como regional, entre los que cobra especial relevancia, la Proclama de América Latina y el Caribe como Zona de Paz aprobada en la II Cumbre de la CELAC, celebrada en La Habana, Cuba, el 29 de enero de 2014.

Reiteramos nuestra condena a las sanciones unilaterales impuestas por EE.UU. contra Cuba y exigimos el cese inmediato de las agresiones y el levantamiento del genocida y criminal bloqueo impuesto hace más de seis décadas contra la isla.

Expresamos nuestra solidaridad con el pueblo y el gobierno de Cuba y exhortamos a todos y todas los hermanos y hermanas de cualquier región del planeta a levantar la voz para frenar esta nueva agresión imperialista que hoy se cierne sobre Cuba pero que resulta una amenaza para todos los pueblos de la América Latina y el Caribe y de la humanidad toda.

CPK(M) STATEMENT ON THE ARREST OF ANTI IMPERIALIST COMRADES IN NAIROBI

CPK(M) STATEMENT ON THE ARREST OF ANTI IMPERIALIST COMRADES IN NAIROBI

The Central Organising Committee of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya strongly condemns the arrests, intimidation and harassment carried out by the Kenyan state against local and international comrades who participated in the anti French imperialism demonstration and the counter summit held in Nairobi against the so called Africa Forward Summit.

These arrests expose the true character of the Ruto regime as a neocolonial and comprador administration acting in defence of imperialist interests against the democratic rights of the people. The regime has chosen to criminalise anti imperialist solidarity while rolling out the red carpet for foreign exploiters and agents of monopoly capital.

Among those arrested are distinguished anti imperialist and revolutionary activists, intellectuals and organisers from different parts of the world who came to stand in solidarity with the struggling masses of Africa against imperialism, militarisation and neocolonial domination.

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The arrested comrades include:

The following comrades are being detained by the Kenya Neo Colonial police, there crime is opposing French Imperialism

Dimitiros Patelis - Greece

Lee - South Korea

Danbi - South Korea

Joti Brar - Britain

Gacheke Gachihi - Kenya

Guy Bremond- France

Sayialel Mankuyio - Kenya

Juliaus Kamau - Kenya

John Kamau -Kenya

Brian Mwanzi - Kenya

Derivk Opiyo -Kenya

Fredrik Yara - Kenya

Colins Otieno -Kenya

Their only crime is standing with the oppressed. Their only crime is rejecting imperialist domination. Their only crime is declaring that Africa is not for sale.

The arrest of international delegates further demonstrates the growing panic within imperialist and comprador circles. They fear the unity of revolutionary and progressive forces across continents. They fear international solidarity against imperialism. They fear a politically conscious people.

We remind the Ruto regime that repression has never defeated the people’s struggle. Colonial detention camps did not defeat the liberation movement. Moi’s anti communist repression did not defeat the struggle for democratic rights. Fascist laws and police terror will not silence the masses today.

As Kwame Nkrumah taught us, the independence of Africa is meaningless unless it is linked with the total liberation of the continent from imperialism and neocolonialism.

We therefore demand:

1. The immediate and unconditional release of all arrested comrades.

2. An end to police harassment, abductions and repression against activists, organisers and progressive movements.

3. The immediate halt to all imperialist military, political and economic agreements being imposed upon Kenya and Africa.

4. Respect for the democratic rights of all participants attending anti imperialist and Pan African gatherings.

The Communist Party Marxist Kenya reaffirms its unwavering solidarity with all arrested comrades. An injury to one is an injury to all. The struggle against imperialism is international, and no amount of repression shall defeat the organised masses of the people.

Forward ever in the struggle against imperialism!

Forward ever in international solidarity!

Victory belongs to the workers and peasants!

Issued by:

Central Organising Committee

Communist Party Marxist Kenya