SACP condemns US total fuel blockade of Cuba

Saturday, 31 January 2026:- The South African Communist Party (SACP) condemns the latest US government's total blockade of fuel supplies to Cuba, an act of aggression against the Cuban people.

In escalating its series of criminal acts against Cuba, the Trump administration has declared its intention to punish any nation that engages in any exchange with Cuba in energy resources and fuel in particular. These actions represent the lowest the US government has reached in its nearly century-long campaign of terror against the Cuban people for choosing an alternative economic system to capitalism.

As the SACP, we recognise that these actions by the US government are intended to annihilate the Cuban state and provide Donald Trump with a semblance of credibility and legitimacy amidst a disastrous foreign policy that has come to typify his administration. The desperate return to the naked implementation of the Monroe Doctrine concerning the entire region of South America occurs in the context of a chaotic political situation for his administration and is a result of an empire in sharp decline. The cruelty and barbarism inherent in this policy action are impossible to ignore and signify the violence and immorality of the US imperialist regime in office and indeed the immorality of the US state as a whole. The unashamed suppression of the entire region of South America and the looting of its resources is not only backward and corrupt but also a gross violation of human rights and international law.

The US's attempt to justify these heinous crimes through the so-called defence of "US national security" is not only ludicrous but is impossible to comprehend for any rational person who understands the scale of the US military in comparison to that of Cuba. The truth is that the US empire has become increasingly crude and seeks even more violent means to further its imperialist geopolitical interests at the expense of even the smallest nations, in this instance the peace-loving people of Cuba.

As the SACP, we denounce in the strongest terms the continued aggression of the US towards Cuba and call for an immediate cessation of these activities, just as we have called for the end of all economic blockade against Cuba by the US. We stand with the Cuban people and the Cuban revolution at this critical moment in time.

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