No invasion of Cuba!
Statement by the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
The recent indictment of 94-year-old former Cuban president Raúl Castro by a federal grand jury in Miami rests on a ludicrous allegation that Cuba poses a security threat to the United States.
Castro is accused of giving the order to shoot down two U.S. planes manned by members of a CIA-backed operation called “Brothers to the Rescue” that were flying unauthorized into Cuban airspace in 1996, after ignoring Cuba’s warnings not to. The United States did not pursue this until now, when a pretext to invade the island was needed.
Cuba has endured over 65 years of hostility from Washington, in addition to the blockade. The biggest blow came in January, when the U.S. military invaded Venezuela, abducted its president and seized control of the country’s oil industry, cutting off Cuba’s chief source of oil. Thirty-two Cubans were among those killed defending Venezuela and Cuba now faces its worst energy crisis in years.
Cubans have experienced some of the harshest times since the special period in the 1990s but they continue to stand in solidarity with their revolutionary socialist government and together they have survived.
U.S. EMPIRE DIES HARD
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference in February quite candidly laid out a vision that held the European and early U.S. colonial world order of centuries past as the exemplar for the United States in the 21st century. Cuba has long been a thorn in the side of that mythical world order.
After the defeat of the Batista dictatorship in 1959, Cuba nationalized and took over its oil and sugar industries from wealthy Cuban families and U.S. corporations that had exploited Cuba’s working poor and sent the profits abroad. The government and people wiped out illiteracy in a single year – 1961 – and developed a world-renowned system of free, universal, community-based health care. It has successfully defended its independence from imperialist domination for 67 years.
The League stands for a vision of a new society and recognizes that there needs to be a government that functions in the people’s interests. The Cuban people deserve the right to determine what that means for them, just as we do here. We must stand unequivocally against our government’s efforts that threaten their existence.
Published on 18, 2026.
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