With Cuba, We Condemn the Criminal Aggression of the US

Today, the intensifying competition between rival imperialist powers is reflected on the international level with the decline of the economic power of the United States. Its decline is accompanied with relentless and criminal policies which seek to reclaim its dominance as outlined in the new US National Security Strategy, which consists of total control over the Western Hemisphere. As a result, the Trump administration has led the concentration of military forces and aggression against the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. All these dangerous developments are taking place within the context of a growing generalization of imperialist war.

On January 29, in a substantial escalation of the decades-long suffocation of Cuba and its people, President Trump has signed off on an executive order that will be used to place tariffs on any country which maintains oil trade with Cuba. This measure confirms this administration's attempt to impose a complete oil blockade, to further strangle and force the capitulation of Cuba.

The Communist Workers’ Platform condemns this as yet another example of the lawlessness and barbarism of US imperialism, which for more than six decades has enforced a murderous blockade against Cuba and its people. We reject as laughable the Trump administration’s flimsy pretexts of “terrorism” and “aggression,” as its ICE agents carry out extrajudicial killings, kidnap and terrorize children, families, and persecute migrant workers. The audacity of the White House to feign “concern” for "political persecution and freedom of speech" in Cuba is a provocation given that over the past two administrations violent state repression has been unleashed against mass mobilizations opposing the blood-stained hands of US imperialism and its reactionary policies, both domestically and abroad.

In the face of this new crime, we express our deepest internationalist solidarity with the Cuban people and the Communist Party of Cuba. The attempt to strangle the Cuban Revolution is of the highest importance for the workers and people of the US to combat. It concerns not only the necessity of proletarian internationalism, but the defense of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution, the struggle against ideological and historical distortions, and the exposure of capitalism, in its imperialist phase, as the main enemy of the peoples of the world. 

With Fidel, Che, and the countless Cuban revolutionaries, we heed their warnings in the attempt of the United States to snuff out the revolution and its admirable achievements on the island.

There is no middle ground and the task of all revolutionaries is that which is taken up by the Communist Workers' Platform:

We defend the Cuban Revolution!

Central Committee of the Communist Workers Platform USA