“Revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.” ― Fidel Castro
After 14,700 kilometres, we have finally made it to Havana.
Our aim is simple: to help end the U.S. blockade of Cuba and to deliver solar panels to an island whose energy system has been severely strained under decades of sanctions imposed by the United States.
Today, the U.S. government, led in foreign policy by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, is also prosecuting a war of aggression with Iran. What comes next is uncertain, and many fear the possibility of further military confrontation in Cuba. Some even worry that Cuba will a target of even greater efforts by the US to overturn the revolution that began in 1959. AUSTRALIA’S GOVERNMENT AND FOREIGN MINISTER IS COMPLICIT IN THAT THEY REFRAINED FROM VOTING DOWN THE BLOCKADE OF CUBA in the United Nations.
We hope our fears are never realised. But if they are, the international trade union movement should stand in solidarity with the Cuban people. Despite decades of economic hardship, Cuba’s government has maintained universal free education and free healthcare and has sought to sustain its population through extraordinarily difficult circumstances.
The Cuban Revolution, associated with leaders including Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara, has now endured for more than six decades despite immense external pressure.
¡Hasta la victoria siempre!
¡Viva Cuba siempre!
