No War on Cuba! Resist US Attacks and Rally the People in Solidarity and Defense of the Cuban Revolution!

Resist U.S. Attacks and Rally the People in Solidarity and Defense of the Cuban Revolution!

After six decades of criminal hybrid warfare, Washington is escalating toward imminent military aggression.
On May 1, 2026, a new U.S. Presidential Executive Order broadened sanctions to target any entity or individual deemed a "material supporter" of the Cuban government, authorizing secondary sanctions against financial institutions worldwide and reinforcing energy constraints on fuel procurement. This order criminalizes economic survival itself, coercing foreign banks and suppliers to cut off food, medicine, and basic trade with an entire nation.

As Cuban President Díaz-Canel has rightly stated, this "political maneuver, devoid of any legal basis, aims solely at padding the dossier they are fabricating to justify the folly of a military aggression against Cuba." The so-called "threat" from Cuba, leaked to Axios via U.S. "intelligence" alleging acquisition of 300 Iranian drones and attack planes, was exposed within the same article as purely defensive contingency in case of a U.S. attack first. The Trump administration is laying the political groundwork for war, plainly part of the imperialist siege on Cuba's sovereignty. The Cuban people have an absolute and inalienable right to defend their national sovereignty against the world's largest imperialist terrorist, the United States.

Following the new sanctions, on May 14, 2026, the U.S. called to indict Raúl Castro, deputy of the National Assembly and hero of the Cuban Revolution, reviving a decades-old pretext accusation involving the 1996 shootdown of two "Brothers to the Rescue" planes. The U.S. Media portrayed them as a "humanitarian group" but in realitity was headed by CIA operative José Basulto, who repeatedly violated Cuban airspace dropping anti-government propaganda, and had been given clear warnings. The Cuban pilots acted in defense of territorial integrity, a right the U.S. hypocritically claims for itself daily.

The Cuban pilots acted in defense of territorial integrity, a right the U.S. hypocritically claims for itself daily. The pursuit of the indictment order on Raul Castro was intentionally approved by the U.S. government on May 20, 2026--124 years after Cuba’s so called declaration of independence tied to tied to the Platt Agreement. This agreement gave the U.S. the right to intervene in Cuban affairs and allowed the U.S. government to lease or buy lands to establish naval bases on the island. This exemplifies the U.S. government's insulting neocolonial nostalgia and the Monroe Doctrine they are uplifting as their vision for a Latin America completely dominated by U.S. interests.

We condemn these most recent acts of imperialist intimidation. The United States is scrambling to invent justification for an invasion, to meet the Trump regime’s stated goal to overthrow the Cuban government. U.S.-backed interventionists would watch thousands of Cubans die and criminally applaud it, demanding that Cubans allow themselves to be crushed without responding, without defending themselves, without honoring more than 150 years of struggle.

Cuba is not a failed state as the U.S. pressure campaign insists, it is in fact a nation under siege. In creating intensive fuel crises, healthcare challenges, and prolonged brown outs, the U.S. aims to disrupt the social fabric of Cuban society through the crushing blockade, sow discontent and spark internal unrest. While there are Cuban protests in streets, there is clarity that the root of the problems Cuba faces today is a manufactured crisis by the U.S. hybrid warfare against Cuba.

Facing assassination attempts, CIA plots, illegal unilateral coercive measures and strangulation, for over sixty years, a small island under the most brutal economic embargo in modern history has still prevailed and been a continued reminder of the failure of the U.S. to destroy Cuba's socialist project. Cuba has built universal healthcare, free education, and a life expectancy rivaling the Global North, without IMF austerity, World Bank structural adjustment, or U.S. corporate domination. Now Washington, with CIA Director John Ratcliffe's visit to Havana and leaked intelligence designed to lay the political groundwork for war, the U.S. is accelerating its anti-Cuban media hysteria, favorable among the Cuban exile community, timed to try and rescue the Republican vote months before the U.S. midterms election.

We know the signs of imminent military action by the U.S.. On May 21, the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier was deployed to the southern Caribbean to stage for attacks, following joint U.S.-Brazil military exercises. Having just witnessed the precursory build up of forces, surveillance, and military deployment preparing for U.S. illegal attacks against Venezuela and Iran, the signs are clear of U.S. escalation. While the Cuban people have never had the upperhand militarily in all the years of winning their revolutionary independence, defending themselves from the U.S. attacks, they have every time outsmarted and outmaneuvered the imperialists and sustained their revolution.

As Trump and his fascist billionaire clique ramp up attempts to topple the sovereignty and independence of Cuba, the country has a right to self-defense and to defend its self-determination by any means necessary.

The Cuban people will not surrender. We must stand with them and their resistance in the brutal fight ahead.

All anti-war forces should prepare emergency mobilizations the same day or immediate next day following a U.S. direct military attack. But we should not wait to plan solidarity action. We call on all our members to join the week of No War on Cuba Campaign action June 28-July 4. Continue supporting efforts to send energy assistance and medical relief aid to Cuba. Campaign against the criminal blockade and for defense of the sovereignty of Cuba and all of Latin America against the latest U.S. assaults.

For peace in the Americas, we must defend Cuba against U.S. imperialist warfare. The U.S. views as a threat any country that dares resist its agenda. However we as a people's movement against U.S.-led war, must rally against U.S. aggression and in firm defense the Cuban cause for a just and lasting peace in the Americas.


No War on Cuba!

Long Live the Cuban Revolution!
Hands off Raúl Castro!
End the Criminal Blockade!