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: