End the Blockade of Cuba! Close Guantanamo Torture Camp!
Rock around the Blockade | 29.12.2009 14:58
1 January 2010 marks the 51st anniversary of the Cuban Revolution – when the US-sponsored dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country and the revolutionary movement, led by Fidel and Raul Castro and Che Guevara, seized power.
Join us for a rally to call for an end to the US blockade and the closure of the US torture camp at Guantanomo Bay, illegally occupied Cuban terroritory.
Join us for a rally to call for an end to the US blockade and the closure of the US torture camp at Guantanomo Bay, illegally occupied Cuban terroritory.
1 January 2010 marks the 51st anniversary of the Cuban Revolution – when the US-sponsored dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country and the revolutionary movement, led by Fidel and Raul Castro and Che Guevara, seized power.
Since then, the Cuban people have survived unrelenting attempts to destroy the Revolution, building a society with world-leading healthcare, education, sports and culture, freeing the population from imperialist domination, oppression, hunger and racism.
Despite Cuba’s liberation, the US still directly occupies part of the country. The Platt Amendment was a treaty forced on Cuba in 1903, which fenced off Guantanamo Bay from the rest of the country for the US to build a Naval Base. In 1991-5, the US base at Guantanamo was used to imprison thousands of Haitian refugees fleeing poverty and civil war, and on 11 January 2002 the US military opened the infamous Camp X-ray, followed by Camp Delta, where so-called ‘enemy combatants’, rounded up in the ‘war on terror’, have been held without trial and tortured ever since.
On his election to the US presidency, Barack Obama promised to close the torture camp. One year on he has not done so. However, Obama never promised to remove the US Naval Base altogether and return Guantanamo Bay to the people of Cuba. Its presence remains a daily insult to revolutionary Cuba, which has stood against imperialism around the world.
Rock Around the Blockade and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! invite you to celebrate the achievements of the Cuban Revolution and protest against the continued US blockade, the occupation of Guantanamo Bay and demand the release of those illegally held there.
Defend Socialist Cuba!
End the illegal US blockade and occupation of Cuba!
Close the US torture camp at Guantanamo Bay!
Join us this Saturday 2nd January at Angel tube station, London N1, 12-3pm for a street rally with speeches, stalls, slogans and street theatre
For further details email Rock around the Blockade at
office@ratb.org.uk or Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! londonfrfi@gmail.com or telephone 020 7837 1688
See www.ratb.org.uk / www.revolutionarycommunist.org for information and details of our activities.
Since then, the Cuban people have survived unrelenting attempts to destroy the Revolution, building a society with world-leading healthcare, education, sports and culture, freeing the population from imperialist domination, oppression, hunger and racism.
Despite Cuba’s liberation, the US still directly occupies part of the country. The Platt Amendment was a treaty forced on Cuba in 1903, which fenced off Guantanamo Bay from the rest of the country for the US to build a Naval Base. In 1991-5, the US base at Guantanamo was used to imprison thousands of Haitian refugees fleeing poverty and civil war, and on 11 January 2002 the US military opened the infamous Camp X-ray, followed by Camp Delta, where so-called ‘enemy combatants’, rounded up in the ‘war on terror’, have been held without trial and tortured ever since.
On his election to the US presidency, Barack Obama promised to close the torture camp. One year on he has not done so. However, Obama never promised to remove the US Naval Base altogether and return Guantanamo Bay to the people of Cuba. Its presence remains a daily insult to revolutionary Cuba, which has stood against imperialism around the world.
Rock Around the Blockade and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! invite you to celebrate the achievements of the Cuban Revolution and protest against the continued US blockade, the occupation of Guantanamo Bay and demand the release of those illegally held there.
Defend Socialist Cuba!
End the illegal US blockade and occupation of Cuba!
Close the US torture camp at Guantanamo Bay!
Join us this Saturday 2nd January at Angel tube station, London N1, 12-3pm for a street rally with speeches, stalls, slogans and street theatre
For further details email Rock around the Blockade at
office@ratb.org.uk or Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! londonfrfi@gmail.com or telephone 020 7837 1688 See www.ratb.org.uk / www.revolutionarycommunist.org for information and details of our activities.
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