https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tuc-stands-cuba-solidarity-congress-2026
Rapturous applause followed the stirring words of Cuban trade union leader OSNAY MIGUEL COLINA at the TUC Congress today
DELEGATES to the TUC Congress gave a standing ovation to Cuban trade union federation leader Osnay Miguel Colina today and demanded an end to US aggression against the island.
Mr Miguel Colina told Congress the Cuban people would never surrender to US bullying.
“And resistance does not mean simply enduring. We will work, create, develop alternatives,” he said.
The Cuban trade unionist detailed the horrific impact of the US blockade, which has intensified this year with a siege cutting off all oil supplies, leading to blackouts, disrupting transport and shuttering many workplaces.
But he also described Cuba’s response, including an accelerated push to install solar power capacity to make up for the loss of oil. “They cannot blockade the sun,” he said, to deafening applause.
Congress overwhelmingly backed a Prison Officers’ Association motion demanding the TUC push the government to oppose the extraterritorial application of US sanctions on Cuba in this country, deliver humanitarian assistance to Cuba and for affiliated unions to support the Cuba Solidarity Campaign.
Moving, Phil Hannant of the POA said the US was waging “economic warfare to make everyday life unbearable, to create hunger, desperation and suffering in the hope that this will produce political change.”
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A marcher holds a framed composite image of Fidel Castro, Raul Castro and Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel, during the May Day parade at Revolution Square in Havana, May 1, 2025