Solidarity statement with Cuba
For forty five years and as part of their systematic policy of hostility and aggression, ten successive US Administrations have applied a cruel economic, financial and commercial blockade on Cuba, a blockade that has been intensified under the present Republican Administration of President George W. Bush. Up to now, it has caused economic damages that amount to $ 82.764 billion, a total figure that does not include more than $ 54 billion imputed to direct damage caused to Cuba’s economic and social objectives by acts of sabotage and terrorism stimulated and funded from the United States.
The policy of the US blockade - whose main objective is to destroy the Cuban Revolution and impose US colonial domination on the island, an ambition clearly stated in the so-called Bush’s Plan for the Annexation of Cuba - qualifies as an act of genocide and a violation of the principles of international law. And, as an evidence of the isolation of this criminal policy of the US Administration, the international community has expressed its increasing and almost unanimous rejection of the US blockade by voting - for 14 consecutive years - in favour of the resolution that Cuba presents to the United Nations General Assembly to demand the end of the US blockade.
However, in addition to this act of interference, the US Government is also involved in the organization, support and funding of terrorist activities against Cuba and, as a consequence, the Cuban people have mourned the loss of more than 3 478 human lives.
One of the most atrocious crimes committed against that nation was the mid-flight blowing-up of a Cuban civil aircraft in October 1976, a terrorist action that caused the death of all the 73 people on board. The mastermind behind that horrendous crime was the notorious terrorist and self-confessed criminal Luis Posada Carriles. Nowadays the Bush Administration refuses to extradite him to Venezuela, thus violating international as well as US laws.
And while it supports and protects this kind of terrorists, five courageous young Cubans: Antonio, Fernando, Gerardo, Ramón and René - who were risking their lives every day in the struggle against terrorism - were unjustly condemned to serve long sentences in prison as a result of a fraudulently rigged trial that was turned into a political vendetta against the Cuban Revolution.
The cause of the Cuban Five has brought about a growing movement of solidarity in the world and there are already thousands of voices that are demanding their immediate release and that the real terrorists, who are freely walking by Miami streets, to be brought to justice.
On May 27, 2005, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights declared that the imprisonment of the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters is arbitrary and illegal and urged the US Government to release them. More recently, on August 9, the 11th Circuit of the Atlanta Court of Appeals handed down the unanimous ruling of three of its judges revoking the sentences and annulling the rigged trial of the Cuban Five in Miami. Since they are innocent of the crimes they were accused, this would imply their immediate release.
However, while the Cuban Five are still kidnapped, harassed and punished in US maximum-security prisons, in the case of the notorious Cuban-born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, the US Government insists in obstructing the course of justice and does nothing to stop the unpunished terrorist actions of the Miami Cuban-American mafia.
The kidnapping of the Cuban Five and the US Government’s complicity with the notorious terrorist Luis Posada Carriles are an evidence of the immorality that characterizes the Government of George W. Bush, who is seeking to set himself as the leader of the international campaign against terrorism, a campaign that has been turned into a new crusade against the Third World peoples’ right to sovereignty and self-determination.
For all the above-mentioned reasons, we, the Communist and workers’ parties gathered here today, demand the immediate release of the five Cuban young heroes who have been kidnapped for seven years in US prisons, as well as the end of the genocidal US blockade imposed for 45 years on the heroic Cuban people.
Likewise, we express our deep rejection of all terrorist acts committed in every form and against any people in the world, including state terrorism like the one waged against the Cuban people, and also demand the extradition and trial of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in Venezuela.
PARTIES
1. Communist Party of Albania
2. Algerian Party for Democracy & Socialism, PADS
3. Communist Party of Argentina
4. Communist Party of Australia
5. Democratic Progressive Tribune, Bahrain
6. Communist Party of Belarus
7. Workers Party of Belgium
8. WCP of Bosnia & Herzegovina
9. Communist Party of Brazil
10. Communist Party of Britain
11. New Communist Party of Britain
12. Bulgarian Communist Party «Georgi Dimitrov”
13. Communist Party of Bulgaria
14. Communist Party of Cuba
15. Communist Party of Bohemia & Moravia
16. AKEL, Cyprus
17. Communist Party in Denmark
18. Communist Party of Denmark
19. Communist Party of Egypt
20. Communist Party of Estonia
21. Communist Party of Finland
22. Communist Party of Macedonia
23. Unified Communist Party of Georgia
24. German Communist Party (DKP)
25. Communist Party of Greece
26. Hungarian Worker' Party
27. Communist Party of India (Marxist)
28. Tudeh Party of Iran
29. Iraqi Communist Party
30. Communist Party of Ireland
31. The Worker's Party of Ireland
32. Communist Party of Israel
33. Party of the Communist Refoundation
34. Party of the Italian Communists
35. Worker's Party of Korea
36. Socialist Party of Latvia
37. Lebanese Communist Party
38. Socialist Party of Lithuania
39. Communist Party of Luxembourg
40. Party of the Congress for the Independence of Madagascar (AKFM)
41. Communist Party of Malta
42. Party of the Communists of Mexico
43. Popular Socialist Party of Mexico
44. New Communist Party of Netherlands
45. Communist Party of Norway
46. Palestinian Communist Party
47. Philippine Communist Party-1930
48. Communist Party of Poland
49. Portuguese Communist Party
50. Romanian Communist Party
51. Socialist Alliance Party, Romania
52. Communist Party of Russian Federation
53. Communist Party of Soviet Union
54. Communist Workers Party of Russia - Party of the Communists of Russia
55. New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
56. Communist Party of Slovakia
57. Communist Party of Spain
58. Communist Party of Peoples of Spain
59. Sudanese Communist Party
60. Communist Party of Sweden
61. Syrian Communist Party
62. Syrian Communist Party
63. Communist Party of Tadjikistan
64. Communist Party of Turkey
65. Communist Party of Ukraine
66. Communist Party, USA
67. Communist Party of Venezuela
68. Communist Party of Vietnam
The policy of the US blockade - whose main objective is to destroy the Cuban Revolution and impose US colonial domination on the island, an ambition clearly stated in the so-called Bush’s Plan for the Annexation of Cuba - qualifies as an act of genocide and a violation of the principles of international law. And, as an evidence of the isolation of this criminal policy of the US Administration, the international community has expressed its increasing and almost unanimous rejection of the US blockade by voting - for 14 consecutive years - in favour of the resolution that Cuba presents to the United Nations General Assembly to demand the end of the US blockade.
However, in addition to this act of interference, the US Government is also involved in the organization, support and funding of terrorist activities against Cuba and, as a consequence, the Cuban people have mourned the loss of more than 3 478 human lives.
One of the most atrocious crimes committed against that nation was the mid-flight blowing-up of a Cuban civil aircraft in October 1976, a terrorist action that caused the death of all the 73 people on board. The mastermind behind that horrendous crime was the notorious terrorist and self-confessed criminal Luis Posada Carriles. Nowadays the Bush Administration refuses to extradite him to Venezuela, thus violating international as well as US laws.
And while it supports and protects this kind of terrorists, five courageous young Cubans: Antonio, Fernando, Gerardo, Ramón and René - who were risking their lives every day in the struggle against terrorism - were unjustly condemned to serve long sentences in prison as a result of a fraudulently rigged trial that was turned into a political vendetta against the Cuban Revolution.
The cause of the Cuban Five has brought about a growing movement of solidarity in the world and there are already thousands of voices that are demanding their immediate release and that the real terrorists, who are freely walking by Miami streets, to be brought to justice.
On May 27, 2005, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights declared that the imprisonment of the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters is arbitrary and illegal and urged the US Government to release them. More recently, on August 9, the 11th Circuit of the Atlanta Court of Appeals handed down the unanimous ruling of three of its judges revoking the sentences and annulling the rigged trial of the Cuban Five in Miami. Since they are innocent of the crimes they were accused, this would imply their immediate release.
However, while the Cuban Five are still kidnapped, harassed and punished in US maximum-security prisons, in the case of the notorious Cuban-born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, the US Government insists in obstructing the course of justice and does nothing to stop the unpunished terrorist actions of the Miami Cuban-American mafia.
The kidnapping of the Cuban Five and the US Government’s complicity with the notorious terrorist Luis Posada Carriles are an evidence of the immorality that characterizes the Government of George W. Bush, who is seeking to set himself as the leader of the international campaign against terrorism, a campaign that has been turned into a new crusade against the Third World peoples’ right to sovereignty and self-determination.
For all the above-mentioned reasons, we, the Communist and workers’ parties gathered here today, demand the immediate release of the five Cuban young heroes who have been kidnapped for seven years in US prisons, as well as the end of the genocidal US blockade imposed for 45 years on the heroic Cuban people.
Likewise, we express our deep rejection of all terrorist acts committed in every form and against any people in the world, including state terrorism like the one waged against the Cuban people, and also demand the extradition and trial of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in Venezuela.
PARTIES
1. Communist Party of Albania
2. Algerian Party for Democracy & Socialism, PADS
3. Communist Party of Argentina
4. Communist Party of Australia
5. Democratic Progressive Tribune, Bahrain
6. Communist Party of Belarus
7. Workers Party of Belgium
8. WCP of Bosnia & Herzegovina
9. Communist Party of Brazil
10. Communist Party of Britain
11. New Communist Party of Britain
12. Bulgarian Communist Party «Georgi Dimitrov”
13. Communist Party of Bulgaria
14. Communist Party of Cuba
15. Communist Party of Bohemia & Moravia
16. AKEL, Cyprus
17. Communist Party in Denmark
18. Communist Party of Denmark
19. Communist Party of Egypt
20. Communist Party of Estonia
21. Communist Party of Finland
22. Communist Party of Macedonia
23. Unified Communist Party of Georgia
24. German Communist Party (DKP)
25. Communist Party of Greece
26. Hungarian Worker' Party
27. Communist Party of India (Marxist)
28. Tudeh Party of Iran
29. Iraqi Communist Party
30. Communist Party of Ireland
31. The Worker's Party of Ireland
32. Communist Party of Israel
33. Party of the Communist Refoundation
34. Party of the Italian Communists
35. Worker's Party of Korea
36. Socialist Party of Latvia
37. Lebanese Communist Party
38. Socialist Party of Lithuania
39. Communist Party of Luxembourg
40. Party of the Congress for the Independence of Madagascar (AKFM)
41. Communist Party of Malta
42. Party of the Communists of Mexico
43. Popular Socialist Party of Mexico
44. New Communist Party of Netherlands
45. Communist Party of Norway
46. Palestinian Communist Party
47. Philippine Communist Party-1930
48. Communist Party of Poland
49. Portuguese Communist Party
50. Romanian Communist Party
51. Socialist Alliance Party, Romania
52. Communist Party of Russian Federation
53. Communist Party of Soviet Union
54. Communist Workers Party of Russia - Party of the Communists of Russia
55. New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
56. Communist Party of Slovakia
57. Communist Party of Spain
58. Communist Party of Peoples of Spain
59. Sudanese Communist Party
60. Communist Party of Sweden
61. Syrian Communist Party
62. Syrian Communist Party
63. Communist Party of Tadjikistan
64. Communist Party of Turkey
65. Communist Party of Ukraine
66. Communist Party, USA
67. Communist Party of Venezuela
68. Communist Party of Vietnam
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