The Communist Party of Britain condemns the Trump regime’s political showtrial masquerading as a judicial indictment of Cuba’s historic leader and former President, comrade Raul Castro Ruiz.
The US President’s latest spurious judicial process intended to distract attention from Trump’s humiliating political and diplomatic failure in his recent meeting with President Xi in Beijing has long been demanded by right wing Cuban exile groups. The US Department of Justice indictment against Raul Castro constitutes a further escalation in the economic and political warfare being waged by the US to overthrow socialist Cuba.
Since the Cuban people’s revolution in 1959, US imperialism has sponsored repeated acts of aggression against Cuba’s sovereign government and people including the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, frequent assassination attempts against Cuban revolutionary leaders, the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner (resulting in 73 deaths) and several terrorist attacks against Cuban hotels in the 1990s. Many of these attacks, including as recently as February 2026, were carried out by Cuban nationals residing in the US.
Over the past 67 years the Cuban people have courageously exercised their sovereign right to self defence under the revolutionary leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba.
Britain’s Labour and trade union movements have a long history of organised solidarity and support for Cuban sovereignty and independence
The current Appeal for Peace and Sovereignty in Cuba and Latin America, is supported by over 100 British MPs and numerous public figures including trade union leaders.
The Communist Party of Britain calls on all friends of Cuba to oppose the latest US attempt to target Raul Castro Ruiz, an exemplary historic leader of the Cuban Revolution. We join the millions of people worldwide demanding an end to US threats and attempts at imperialist intervention in Cuba and of the criminal US economic and energy blockade.
We call on the British government to join the peoples of the world in opposing the indictment of Raul Castro Ruiz the real purpose of which is to provide bogus ‘justification’ for the US threatened military intervention in Cuba.
The Communist Party of Britain calls on all friends of Cuba’s people to join us in telling President Donald Trump
Imperialist Hands Off Raul Castro!
Imperialist Hands Off Cuba!
Communist Party of Britain
21 May 2026
London, Britain
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