U.S. Peace Council, February 11, 2026 —
In its latest desperate effort to destroy the heroic Cuban revolution, the Trump administration has labeled Cuba “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security of the United States.” This bogus designation gives U.S. imperialism a fig leaf of legality in its otherwise lawless rule.
The U.S. Peace Council condemns in the strongest terms the effort by the US ruling class to destroy the Cuban revolution. As State Department official Lester D. Mallory openly stated in 1960, the aim of the blockade was to “weaken the economic life of Cuba” by denying money and supplies to provoke “hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” The U.S.’s more than six-decade blockade was intended to immiserate the Cuban people; to bring them to their knees to generate a counterrevolution; destroy Cuba’s socialist society; end Cuba’s sovereignty and once again install a puppet government in power.
We condemn Donald Trump and Marco Rubio’s vicious new efforts to suffocate the Cuban economy and people by putting a stranglehold on the country’s energy sector. This is designed to further starve the people; hobble transportation, health care, industry, agriculture and all activities that rely on the importation of oil.
Why is this happening at this historical moment? The world is increasingly rejecting U.S. domination of trade and economic and financial institutions that have historically resulted in super profits for monopoly capital in the belly of the beast. Countries are beginning to trade in local currencies, replacing the petrodollar, which has subsidized U.S. indebtedness and buffered otherwise severe inflation. Unable to compete on many fronts with a fast-rising China, U.S. imperialism is playing its last cards: threats and invasions from its massive military machine and economic warfare.
Its proxy war in Ukraine is losing. Its transparently genocidal alliance with the settler colonial state of Israel against Palestinian national liberation has evoked world condemnation, as has open U.S. aggression against Venezuela and Iran.
U.S. imperialism’s use of unilateral coercive measures to extort concessions, investments and bribes from all its trading partners, along with threats to militarily grab Greenland, Panama and even Canada, is generating resistance even among U.S. allies.
To counter this, the U.S. administration has refocused its attention on the Western Hemisphere, forcibly reasserting imperialist domination over Latin America and the Caribbean, initially targeting those socialist and socialist-leaning governments of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. It is also now turning on the social democratic governments of Colombia and Mexico, using high tariffs and other economic coercive measures as well as threats of military intervention, with the aim of re-installing rightwing vassals and facilitating the theft and extraction of oil, minerals and other resources for the oligarchs.
Another major goal is to end the increasing, mutually beneficial trade and economic development relations between Latin America and China, which is replacing the U.S. as a primary partner in the region. Having hollowed out its manufacturing industries by moving production overseas to improve profitability, the U.S. has little to offer to replace China and other manufacturing powerhouses in Asia. What’s left is economic strangulation, sanctions, CIA sabotage, killing or kidnapping foreign leaders, and the force of its guns, bombs and cyberwarfare.
The USPC proclaims:
- Cuba is no threat to the national security of the United States. Cuba is not a “state sponsor of terrorism.” To the contrary, the United States is and has been since 1898 a national security threat to the freedom and self-governance of Cuba. As Martin Luther King Jr. declared, the U.S. is the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world.”
- Cuba is not responsible for U.S. imperialism’s murderous rampages across the Americas. It does not threaten to steal Greenland and Canada from its inhabitants. It does not demand to own Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua, and Panama, nor has it invaded those countries. It does not interfere in the elections of Honduras, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, or the United States. It does not maintain the colony of Puerto Rico. It does not materially or politically empower dictators, nor does it promote the drug trade. To the contrary, those depraved actions belong to the imperialist United States of America.
- Cuba is not the author of the genocide of the people of another nation. To the contrary, it is the imperialist United States and Israel who are massively slaughtering Palestinians in an attempt to drive them from their historical land and to erase their historical existence.
- Cuba has not waged war across the globe against militarily weaker powers like Vietnam, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Russia and so many more. It has not orchestrated assassinations, violent regime decapitations, proxy wars and sabotaged economies in order for a wealthy few to become even wealthier. Cuba has not enslaved and colonized millions, nor has it slaughtered millions to maintain economic and political control over other peoples’ lands. To the contrary, it’s the United States and its allies that have ceaselessly attempted and carried out these horrors. Cuba’s solidarity with all the victims of U.S. imperialism is globally recognized and honored by the liberators of these lands.
- Cuba is not violating economic sanctions that can only legally be imposed by international law. No such sanctions have ever been legislated. To the contrary, it is the United States that has violated international law, the UN Charter and its own Constitution with its illegal blockade of Cuba, which year after year is condemned by an overwhelming majority of UN member states.
- Cuba does not “traffic in doctors,” as the Secretary of State claims. Cuba, far from being wealthy in natural resources or enjoying economic abundance, has for decades been globally honored for its extraordinary international solidarity, generously offering free, high-quality, humane health care to some of the poorest countries and to the most vulnerable: children, the elderly and people with medical issues across the world. By contrast, it is the United States and its allies whose ruling elite, rich beyond comprehension, have trafficked in the sexual abuse of girls and young women while enjoying near-total impunity.
- Cuba’s political leadership does not exploit and oppress its own people. It does not harbor a wealthy elite whose monopolies’ insatiable hunger for profit impoverishes the many. To the contrary, Cuba’s socialist society provides socially subsidized healthcare, education, culture, housing, food and transportation for all its people. If there is a global prize for greed and exploitation, it belongs to the ruling class of the United States. Cuba’s enduring challenge to the United States, with all its wealth and power, has been its humane model for organizing society in a way that guarantees bread and roses. In the face of decades of the most cruel and savage kinetic and economic warfare, the Cuban people’s steadfast determination to defend their sovereignty and revolution stands as a rebuke to imperialist domination.
- Cuba is no threat to the security of the United States or the rest of the planet. To the contrary, the real threat to our security lies in the drive toward fascist dictatorship at home, targeting the working class, immigrant, Indigenous, Black and Brown communities. It lies in a nuclear-armed behemoth that repeatedly provokes wars with other nuclear states, risking nuclear Armageddon. It lies in U.S. fossil fuel monopolies that must extract every dime of profit from the burning of fossil fuels despite their massively polluting the planet.
The path forward is not manufactured fear or more imperialist aggression, but respect for the sovereign rights of our peaceful island neighbors.
A U.S. Senate bill (S. 136) and a recent House resolution call for ending the embargo on Cuba and scrapping the Monroe Doctrine, respectively. These initiatives signal that there are concrete steps underway and forces within Congress with whom the solidarity movement can engage. The U.S. Peace Council calls on all allies to express solidarity and defend socialist Cuba by every peaceful means—material aid, labor action, protests and vigils, direct action, political education and outreach, publishing statements of support, lobbying Congress, and solidarity delegations to Cuba.
— Let Cuba Live!
— Long Live Cuban Revolution!
— End the Imperialist Blockade Now!
— ¡Venceremos!
