Monday, 20 May 2024: The South African Communist Party reiterates its solidarity with the people and government of Cuba against the United States-led imperialist aggression. 

The SACP reiterates its call for the US to lift its illegal economic, financial, trade and investment blockade against Cuba, end its occupation of Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay, and completely cease all destabilisation and regime change machinations against Cuba unconditionally with immediate effect.

We strongly condemn the United States’ inclusion of Cuba on the so-called list of countries “sponsoring” terrorism – a pretext by the US to sustain its over 60 years of imperialist aggression against Cuba.

According to media reports from the US, on 15 May 2024 the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken submitted yet another arbitrary report to the US Congress. As Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs states in its statement released on 15 May 2024, this time around the report does not slanderously include Cuba among countries so-called “not fully co-operating with the US anti-terrorist efforts for the 2023 calendar year”.  However, the US maintains Cuba on the list of so-called countries sponsoring terrorism, which the US draws up unilaterally, without any international mandate or recognition. The SACP reiterates its call for the removal of Cuba from the list.