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| Volume 56 Number 10, April 4, 2026 | ARCHIVE | HOME | JBCENTRE | SUBSCRIBE |
Pan Africanism Today Solidarity Letter
We are reproducing this solidarity letter from the Secretariat of Pan Africanism Today. Popular movements, trade unions, youth organisations, and political parties from across the African continent have continued to mobilise in solidarity with Cuba in the face of escalating economic pressure and sanctions. Following the release of the solidarity letter co-ordinated by Pan Africanism Today and endorsed by over 35 political parties and popular movements, organisations across Africa have stepped up actions in support of Cuba. These efforts have included delivering letters to Cuban embassies across the continent reaffirming long-standing ties rooted in anti-imperialist struggle and internationalism, while also raising awareness about Cuba's current plight under intensifying economic pressure.
Dear Comrades,
Delegation at Cuban Embassy Benin - Photo: Pan Africanism
Today
The Pan Africanism Today Secretariat, together with all progressive people's movements and organisations across Africa, declare our unwavering solidarity with the heroic people of Cuba. We write to you at this crucial moment in history, characterised by the increasing barbarism of United States imperialism and the equally growing anti-imperialist resistance of the peoples of the world. We write not only to offer words of comfort, but to reaffirm active solidarity and internationalism forged through decades of shared struggle against a common enemy.
The world is witnessing, in stark and undeniable terms, the true character of the United States ruling class. From the genocide of the Palestinian people - carried out with weapons, financing, and unconditional political cover provided by Washington - to the unprovoked military aggression against the people of Iran. We are simultaneously witnessing the relentless tightening of the brutal blockade against Cuba. Ultimately, we are confronted by a system that has abandoned all pretence of legality, morality, and human decency.
You, the Cuban people, have understood this long before the rest of the world was compelled to recognise it. For nearly 70 years, you have demonstrated, through daily revolutionary praxis, that a world founded on sovereignty, dignity, and the genuine prosperity of the many is not a utopian dream but an achievable reality. You have not lectured us; you have shown us. And you have paid for that demonstration with sacrifices that challenge the imagination.
The blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba is more than just an economic strangulation - it is a persistent act of war against an entire people, across generations, and it stands as one of the gravest ongoing crimes against humanity in the modern era. Most recently, on 29 January 2026, the Trump administration signed Executive Order 14380, declaring a national emergency concerning Cuba and imposing an oil blockade that has deprived your people of fuel, threatening the collapse of hospitals, food supplies, and water systems. This is the most severe escalation of the blockade in decades. The near-universal votes of the United Nations General Assembly condemning it year after year affirm what the peoples of the world already understand: Cuba's right to self-determination is non-negotiable.
In response, you, our Cuban comrades, continue to demonstrate a true revolutionary spirit - through your resilience, ingenuity and the highest form of generosity and socialist internationalism. Where the United States deploys soldiers and imposes sanctions, you have sent doctors and teachers. When Cubans stood alongside the people of Southern Africa in the fight against colonialism and the racist apartheid regimes, the world witnessed what true solidarity looks like. On the African continent, we have not forgotten, and we will not forget.
We will not accept that the cost of the right to self-determination is a prolonged, inhumane siege. We refuse to accept that the sacrifices you have made are the price of choosing one's own future. We reaffirm our commitment - not only to support the Cuban people, lifelong comrades of Africa, but also to change the international conditions that allow such sieges.
We unequivocally declare the following:
* We condemn the criminal blockade of Cuba with contempt and pledge to intensify every effort to end it - politically, diplomatically, and in the court of international public opinion.
* We commit to strengthening our solidarity with the Cuban people and to ensuring that the truth about Cuba's revolutionary achievements, and the crimes against it, reaches the widest possible audiences across our continent and the world.
* We salute the leadership of the Cuban Revolution for its steadfastness in the face of an ongoing US-led imperialist siege.
* We honour the memory of the revolution's giants - such as Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Haydee Santamaria and others - by dedicating ourselves to upholding their example in our own struggles.
* We stand with the Cuban people as you withstand the latest tightening of the imperialist stranglehold.
You do not face this alone. An injury to Cuba is an injury to all of us.
Comrades, we conclude with a conviction rooted in the revolutionary praxis you have bequeathed to the world. To paraphrase Comandante Che Guevara: the world needs two, three, many Cubas. We have listened when Fidel taught us the importance of active struggle - that the duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
In our respective sites of struggle across Africa, we commit ourselves to doing precisely that: building the organised power of workers, peasants, women, and youth; deepening the anti-imperialist consciousness of our peoples; and forging the continental and international unity in action. This can break the chains of capitalism and imperialism - our ability to work together and construct the socialist world that the people of Cuba have dared to demonstrate is necessary. A world for the many, built by the many!
Long live the Cuban Revolution! Long live International
Solidarity!
¡Patria o Muerte, Venceremos!
In revolutionary solidarity,
Pan Africanism Today (PAT) Secretariat
Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Articulation of the International Peoples
Assembly
Also endorsed by over 35 political parties and popular movements across Africa.