For this reason, solidarity with Cuba cannot be episodic, symbolic, or rhetorical. It must be organized, political, and confrontational. It must challenge the legitimacy of the blockade, expose the criminal character of economic warfare, and mobilize working-class forces against imperialist aggression. For communist and workers’ parties, this is not a question of preference or tone. It is a test of internationalism itself. In conditions of imperialist assault, neutrality is not an intermediate position; silence aligns objectively with the aggressor.
There is no comfortable middle ground. Either imperialism succeeds in suffocating socialist Cuba, or the international working class asserts its capacity to resist, to learn from historical defeats, and to re-enter history as an active force. Fidel Castro warned that revolutions are not destroyed only by external force, but by the erosion of solidarity and historical confidence. The defense of Cuba today is therefore a test—not of Cuba alone, but of the international workers’ movement as a whole.
Defending socialist Cuba is not a matter of sentiment, but a concrete historical task of the international working class — a task that must be carried out at all costs. » Nikos Mottas is the Editor-in-Chief of In Defense of Communism.
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