Carney: Speak now against U.S. military invasion of Cuba!
U.S. imperialism is escalating its aggression against Cuba in the form of a genocidal oil blockade, fresh sanctions, and threats of military invasion. Now Trump and Rubio have manufactured a pretext by indicting Army General Raúl Castro over the 1996 downing of two aircraft from the CIA-backed terrorist group Brothers to the Rescue. That group repeatedly violated Cuban airspace despite more than 25 formal warnings from Cuba to U.S. authorities and the International Civil Aviation Organization. Cuba acted in lawful self-defence under the UN Charter. This indictment is a political provocation with no moral or legal legitimacy. The Communist Party of Canada condemns this cynical assault on Cuban sovereignty in the strongest terms.
The Canadian government’s response has been a disgrace. The Prime Minister postures about sovereignty, yet his government has refused, despite repeated media questions, to condemn U.S. military threats against Cuba. Rather than stand with a close country facing the same expansionist imperialist power that menaces our own independence, Ottawa has deepened Cuba’s isolation: issuing travel warnings, suspending flights, channelling token aid to NGOs instead of the elected government, and maintaining silence as the blockade strangles the population. This is complicity. A majority of Canadians, as a Nanos poll confirms, want Ottawa to demand an end to Washington’s criminal energy blockade, regardless of the cost to U.S.-Canada relations. The government’s refusal to speak out is a surrender of Canada’s own sovereignty.
Cuba is not a threat to the United States, besides being the threat of a good example: a socialist revolution that lifted millions out of poverty, delivered world-class healthcare and education, and proved that a people can thrive free from U.S. domination. The Communist Party of Canada demands that the Canadian government immediately and unequivocally speak out against the threats of military invasion, break its complicity with the blockade, and send oil to Cuba.
Long live the Cuban Revolution!
Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada