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The Cuba Solidarity Campaign is the British campaign for the defence of Cuba and its peoples' right to self-determination and national sovereignty.
Independently of our views on the path chosen by the Cuban people:

We believe that the people of Cuba like any other nation must be free to decide their own internal affairs without outside interference.
We defend therefore Cuba's right to national sovereignty, independence and self-determination.
We call for an end to the US trade blockade again Cuba and for the British Government to continue to oppose it.
We call for the normalisation of all diplomatic, economic, cultural and scientific relations with Cuba by the US Government.

For 38 years Cuba, a small nation of 11 million people, has been subjected to sustained interference in its internal affairs by the United States.

It has suffered military aggression and economic hostility in the form of a trade blockade and the continued presence of a US Navy and Marine base at Guantánamo on Cuban territory.

The US Government in:

1990 set up and funded a TV station, TV Martí, to beam US propaganda at Cuba in contravention of all international broadcasting agreements,
1992 introduced the Torricelli Law which attacks Cuba' trade with third parties,
1996 introduced the Helms-Burton Law aimed at sanctions against countries, foreign companies and individuals who invest in Cuba.

The US's aim in stepping up the blockade is to isolate Cuba, strangle it economically and create the conditions for external intervention.

US hostility to Cuba has increased despite SIX specific UN General Assembly resolutions, passed with overwhelming majorities and almost no opposition, demanding the total, immediate and unconditional lifting of the US blockade. The Helms-Burton Law has been condemned by almost every country in the world as an illegal and unacceptable extension of US law outside its territory.