The U.S. imperialist offensive against Cuba has entered a critical phase. In recent weeks, U.S. imperialist aggression against the island has made a qualitative leap that demands the most forceful response from workers and peoples around the world. Trump has insisted on maintaining a brutal oil blockade, tightening sanctions, and deepening the economic siege to unprecedented levels, deliberately cutting off energy sources throughout the country. His administration has even indicted Raúl Castro. Direct threats from the United States have reached dangerous levels, raising the real possibility of military intervention by Washington.

The Current for Permanent Revolution – Fourth International (CPR-FI), the driving force behind the international network La Izquierda Diario, is issuing this urgent statement to the working class, militant youth movements, social movements, democratic organizations, trade unions, student organizations, human rights groups, as well as the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist left-wing organizations of Latin America, the United States, Europe, and the entire world. We call for the immediate launch of combative, anti-imperialist international mobilizations in solidarity with the Cuban people.

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From Economic Asphyxiation to the Threat of Military Intervention

The policies of Trump and Marco Rubio aim to tighten the economic stranglehold on the Cuban people to unbearable levels. The energy blockade amounts to a veritable social war: it seeks to paralyze hospitals, transportation, power generation, manufacturing, and basic services, brutally worsening the living conditions of millions of people. All of this is done to achieve a strategic objective long pursued by Washington: to transform the island into a new colony subject to the interests of U.S. imperialism.

The strategy of cutting off energy supplies constitutes a real act of war, which involves deliberately seeking the collapse of transportation, hospitals, electricity, basic services, and manufacturing.

This drastically worsens the living conditions of millions of people with the goal of subjugating the population through hunger and despair. Without electricity, hospitals cannot function, vaccines cannot be stored, drinking water cannot be pumped, and much of the basic infrastructure cannot operate. The energy crisis is deliberately used as a tool of political destabilization to impose regime change under imperialist control. We categorically denounce the use of coercive economic sanctions as weapons of war designed to break the will of the people.

The offensive against Cuba is part of a broader strategy of imperialist recolonization of Latin America and the Caribbean amid growing global capitalist crisis and intensifying disputes among various capitalist powers. Washington seeks to reaffirm its geopolitical, economic, and military control over the region, reviving the Monroe Doctrine with renewed brutality.

Cuba plays a central role in this offensive because the very existence of the Cuban Revolution remains a historic insult to U.S. imperialism. Despite decades of blockades, sabotage, and aggression, U.S. imperialism has never managed to completely erase the historical significance of a revolution that expropriated capital and expelled the United States from the island. For this reason, Washington’s stated strategic objective remains the complete destruction of all social gains inherited from the Cuban Revolution, and the restoration of full-scale capitalism under colonial subordination.

The recent military threats are part of a concrete strategy of intimidation and political preparation for a potential direct attack. The announcement of the indictment of Raúl Castro, one of the most influential figures in the Cuban regime, also fits into this framework. U.S. reconnaissance flights around the island have increased, while U.S. naval and military units are reinforcing their presence; the USS Nimitz, one of the U.S. Navy’s main aircraft carriers, has positioned itself off the southern coast of Cuba.

Venezuela’s recent history shows just how far the United States is willing to go to impose its interests in Latin America. The military attack on January 3, the bombings of Caracas and other cities, and the subsequent kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro set a dangerous precedent for Latin America. After years of devastating sanctions, financial blockades, and asset seizures, U.S. imperialism moved toward open military intervention when those measures failed to fully impose the desired regime change. Today, Venezuela lives under conditions of deep subordination; it amounts to a virtual colony which, in accordance with Trump’s orders, has also suspended oil shipments to Cuba.

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The complicity of Latin American Governments

The role of the Latin American governments in the face of this imperialist offensive is deeply shameful. The right-wing governments in the region act as direct agents of U.S. policy and openly support the aggression against Cuba. The government of Javier Milei in Argentina represents an extreme expression of colonial subordination to U.S. imperialism, an orientation shared by governments such as those of Rodrigo Paz in Bolivia and José Antonio Kast in Chile.

But this complicity is not limited to right-wing governments. So-called “progressive” governments have also demonstrated total submission to Washington’s imperialist policies.

The Lula administration in Brazil maintains a collaborative relationship with Trump and facilitates imperialism’s strategic objectives in the region. Apart from occasional diplomatic statements, the Brazilian government’s policy aligns with U.S. geopolitical interests. In the case of Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration in Mexico, the suspension of vital oil shipments to Cuba marks a serious leap in submission to Washington. This policy makes the Mexican government a direct accomplice to imperialist aggression and the attempt to strangle the island’s energy supply. This cannot be disguised by the “humanitarian aid” it claims to be sending, when what the Cuban people urgently need is fuel. While vague diplomatic statements multiply, concrete actions that favor the plans of Trump and Marco Rubio are taking hold.

The case of Delcy Rodríguez’s government in Venezuela is despicable, as it has joined in the effort to strangle Cuba in a complete capitulation to Trump’s agenda. This government has taken its collaborationist alignment with Donald Trump to such extremes that it has not even issued a single statement of solidarity with Cuba in the face of such suffocating pressure from the U.S. It has not officially mobilized any form of humanitarian aid. In fact, the remnants of Chavez’s supporters in the government are joining the criminal oil blockade against Cuba. Similarly, most Central American governments have followed the path of submission to Trump and his aggression against Cuba. A clear example is the expulsion of Cuba’s diplomatic corps from Costa Rica, for no other reason than to participate in Washington’s campaign against the island.

Nor do capitalist powers such as China or Russia represent an emancipatory alternative for the peoples of Latin America. Their relations with Cuba are driven by their own geopolitical and economic interests, not by a consistent internationalist policy of defending the self-determination of peoples. Recent experience shows that no capitalist power will seriously confront the U.S. imperialist offensive in defense of Cuba. Therefore, the only force capable of effectively confronting imperialist aggression is the independent and internationalist mobilization of the working class and oppressed peoples of the world.

Our Defense of Cuba Is Independent of the Cuban Government and Bureaucracy

Cuba’s fate must be decided exclusively by the Cuban people, without foreign interference, without imperialist intervention, and without colonial impositions of any kind. No imperialist power has the right to decide Cuba’s political, economic, or social future. The self-determination of the Cuban people must be defended unconditionally against imperialist aggression. With no hesitation whatsoever, we affirm that in the event of any military confrontation, we stand on the side of Cuba and for Cuba’s victory against the United States.

We propose this unconditional defense of Cuba from a political position that is completely independent of the bureaucratic regime headed by Miguel Díaz-Canel. Defending Cuba against imperialism does not imply supporting the Cuban political regime that implements pro-capitalist policies driven by the ruling bureaucracy.

The reforms promoted by the Cuban government in recent years have strengthened restorationist and pro-capitalist tendencies that deepen social inequalities and erode important historical gains of the revolution. As imperialism intensifies the blockade, the bureaucracy is pushing forward with measures that favor market mechanisms, economic privileges, and openness to capitalist sectors, further deteriorating the living conditions of broad sectors of the population. This has intensified in recent months with new reforms, such as those allowing the creation of joint ventures and investment by Cuban-American businesspeople on the island. These policies go hand in hand with austerity measures against the working class, such as the currency unification with its massive inflationary impact, the near-disappearance of the “ration book” (which guarantees citizens subsidized access to basic food and household goods), the various waves of layoffs in the state sector, rate hikes, etc.

Growing social inequality in Cuba poses a profound threat to what remains of the revolution’s historic achievements. While broad sectors of the population suffer from power outages, declining wages, shortages, and mounting hardships, as well as rising levels of poverty and precarious living conditions, sectors linked to the bureaucracy and businesses associated with foreign capital are amassing ever-greater economic privileges.

Furthermore, the Cuban government continues to restrict the independent organization of workers, youth, and the working class. The persecution, criminalization, and imprisonment of activists, workers, and protesters constitute a serious obstacle to confronting imperialist aggression. Defending Cuba against imperialism requires precisely the strengthening of democratic organization and the independent mobilization of the working class and oppressed people.

The ruling bureaucracy presents a false choice between submission to the existing regime and the policies promoted by Trump and the right-wing Cuba opposition in Miami. We completely reject this false dichotomy. But the Trump administration demands total surrender. The negotiations currently underway — both public and, judging by the escalating rhetoric on both sides, likely secret — do not appear to be making progress, at least not at the pace and depth Washington desires. We denounce the fact that the leadership of the Communist Party bureaucracy wants to open the economy to the U.S. and hand over what remains of the eroded social gains, in exchange for preserving its own economic and political interests.

It is necessary to rebuild a revolutionary socialist perspective from below, based on the democratic self-organization of workers and popular sectors, on the democratic control of the economy by the working class, and on the simultaneous struggle against imperialism and against the restorationist tendencies promoted by the bureaucracy that restricts the democratic rights of working people.

It is necessary to put an end to the one-party regime, which imposes brutal political oppression on the masses, by demanding legal recognition of political organizations that defend the social gains of the revolution and oppose both imperialism and capitalist restoration. It’s imperative to fight for a genuine government of the workers and poor peasants, based on bodies of self-determination and workers’ democracy. Let it be these very organizations of the masses that discuss how to reverse the restorationist course, confront growing social inequality, and pull the country out of the crisis.

It must be the workers’ own bodies of self-determination that take control of the economy’s resources and of everything that can be obtained from abroad, in accordance with the needs and interests of the vast majority. On that basis, it is necessary to establish a system of democratic planning in which workers decide what to produce, how to distribute resources and for what purposes, and what and how to negotiate with foreign countries or companies.

This means putting an end to the economic and social privileges enjoyed by the bureaucracy: their dollar-denominated shops, their preferential access to imported goods, their exclusive residences, and the entire set of mechanisms of inequality and privilege that have accompanied the restorationist advance.

For an International Campaign of Active Solidarity

We, the Current for Permanent Revolution – Fourth International (CPR-FI), categorically condemn this new imperialist escalation against Cuba and call for massive international mobilization in defense of the Cuban people. We absolutely reject the criminal blockade imposed by the United States. We reject all economic and financial sanctions, the oil embargo, and any attempt at direct or indirect military intervention against the island. Our solidarity is unconditional with the Cuban working class and its popular sectors — workers, peasants, youth, women, the Afro-Cuban community, and retirees — who daily resist the onslaught of an arrogant and warmongering foreign policy emanating from the United States. Currently, as CPR-FI, we are part of solidarity campaigns and initiatives underway in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, and other countries.

The current situation demands the broadest possible international anti-imperialist mobilization. Mass organizations — such as trade unions, labor federations (particularly oil workers’ federations across the continent), student unions, cultural and social movements, and women’s organizations — which for years have stood in solidarity with Cuba, must take the lead with active calls in support of the Cuban people.

We call on the anti-imperialist Left in Latin America, the United States, Europe, and the rest of the world to jointly launch an active international campaign against the embargo, the energy blockade, sanctions, and any threat of military intervention against Cuba.

In the face of the international capitalist crisis, U.S. imperialism seeks to shift the burden of its decline onto the peoples of the world through wars, sanctions, blockades, and military aggression. The struggle against the blockade of Cuba is part of the broader struggle against imperialism, militarism, and capitalist exploitation.

The U.S. working class bears an enormous political responsibility in this struggle. Unions, grassroots organizations, and left-wing sectors within the United States must actively confront their own government’s imperialist policies. It is essential to launch a massive campaign within the United States against the blockade and against any military intervention or imperialist aggression against Cuba.

The struggle against U.S. imperialism in Cuba is deeply linked to the struggle against the reactionary and repressive policies that the U.S. government itself carries out against workers, immigrants, youth, and oppressed sectors within the United States. The same administration that threatens Cuba is the one that militarizes borders, persecutes immigrants, represses protests, and strengthens authoritarian and reactionary tendencies.

We demand the full release of the workers and young people jailed for fighting and protesting. We demand an end to the political persecution of those who denounce social inequalities, political oppression, and the advance of reactionary measures. We demand full freedoms of organization, demonstration, and association for Cuban workers and the people.

Oil for Cuba Now!

Solidarity with Cuba cannot be reduced to empty diplomatic statements or symbolic gestures; it must be expressed through real actions of international mobilization. Defending Cuba against imperialism is an urgent task for all workers and oppressed peoples of the continent. We call for the immediate organization of active solidarity actions in all countries. It is necessary to organize demonstrations in front of U.S. embassies, international days of struggle, union campaigns, student actions, and mass statements against the blockade and against any threat of military intervention.

There is an urgent need to launch a major international campaign calling for the immediate shipment of oil and energy resources to Cuba. Lula, Sheinbaum, and Petro, who present themselves as “friends of Cuba,” must break with their subordination to Washington and immediately send fuel to the island. Oil workers’ unions, labor and social organizations, and the Latin American Left must actively promote a continental campaign of material solidarity with Cuba. In the face of the criminal policy of energy suffocation driven by Trump and Rubio, it is necessary to respond with internationalist worker solidarity.

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The defense of Cuba against imperialism is inseparably linked to the struggle for an internationalist revolutionary socialist perspective. Only the independent mobilization of the working class and oppressed peoples can defeat the imperialist offensive and open up a path to emancipation for Latin America and the Caribbean. From the Current for Permanent Revolution – Fourth International (CPR-FI), we reaffirm our commitment to internationalist anti-imperialist struggle and call for the construction of a massive continental and international mobilization in defense of the Cuban people.

No military intervention in Cuba! Down with the U.S. imperialist blockade and siege against Cuba!

Stop the sanctions and aggression of the Trump administration!

No energy blockade! Oil for Cuba now!

United States out of Cuba and all of Latin America!

For international, working-class, and mass mobilization against Trump’s threats and imperialist aggression against Cuba!

Active solidarity with the Cuban people!

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