Havana Anti-Imperialist Conference

Call for Anti-Imperialist Meeting of Solidarity, for Democracy, and against Neoliberalism Havana, Cuba November 1-3/2019 The Anti-Imperialist Meeting of Solidarity, for Democracy and against Neoliberalism will take place in Anti-imperialist Meeting of Solidarity, for Democracy and against Neoliberalism. Havana, November 1-3/2019Havana from November 1-3 of this year, organized by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions (CTC), along with the Cuban Chapter of Social Movements, and the Continental Conference for Democracy and against Neoliberalism.

The meeting in Havana expresses the Cuban Revolution´s decision to respond to the demand of the political, social left-wing and the Solidarity Movement with Cuba that our country continues to be a meeting point of the people’s struggles in our continent.

We have proposed the event to be a real contribution to confronting the current counterrevolutionary offensive of US imperialism, to the search for the widest possible unity of the leftist forces in the region, and to the strengthening of militant solidarity with the just causes defended by the peoples. In the current political situation, marked by the aggressiveness of the Trump Administration, new ways will be sought to reinforce solidarity with these causes in the world, mainly in our region.

In November, a heterogeneous representation of the United States and Canada will also be present in Havana, friends who have always been on the side of justice and who since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution have been in solidarity with us. We will also have important intellectuals, committed to the liberating struggles of the peoples.

The growing hostility against Cuba and other countries in the region, the judicial persecution of progressive leaders, the imposition of recycled neoliberalism, are distinctive features of the current North American policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean that awaken the fighting capacity of Latin American and Caribbean peoples.

In the same way, the mobilization for the occasion of hundreds of social fighters, political leaders, intellectuals, peasants, women, indigenous people, solidarity activists, among others will constitute a formidable encouragement to the heroic resistance of the Cuban people, determined to defeat the Helms Burton Act, the blockade, and to carry forward the updating of its economic and social development model.

Faced with pessimism and the claudication of some, the participants in the anti-imperialist solidarity meeting will respond with the strengthening of the struggle, with the moral and the deep conviction that the Latin America and the Caribbean peoples will continue marching towards their second and definitive independence.

The Organizing Committee of the Anti-Imperialist Meeting of Solidarity, for Democracy and against Neoliberalism, calls for an event that highlights the Cuban people’s best traditions of hospitality and their commitment to independence, justice, peace and fraternity among the peoples.