Toward a solidarity coordination with libertarian Cuba!

Five years ago on this day in Cuba, small groups of protesters took to the streets to demand better living conditions. In the days that followed, thousands of Cubans from dozens of other cities spontaneously joined the protest movement.

July 11, 2021 was not just a cry against hunger or shortages; it was the moment when thousands of people realized that, faced with a state turned into an oppressive overseer, the only way out is to stop looking at the power. The protests in Cuba left us with anarchism’s oldest and most forgotten lesson: that all authority, however much it disguises itself as ideology, can only sustain itself through obedience and repression.

And Cuban anarchists are still there, organizing various independent collectives, making the reality of political prisoners visible, maintaining a stance of rejection of state authoritarianism, promoting self-management, mutual aid, and real popular autonomy.

To anarchists accross the world!

To all labor organizers hungry for freedom for the working class!

Let us work to end support for the Cuban communist party within our unions and workers’ organizations! Our solidarity as a class has nothing to do with the power of any party, whatever it may be!

Let us listen to and spread the voices of independent unionists in struggle and Cuban anarchists, whether on the island or elsewhere! Let us not let their voices be silenced!

Let us educate ourselves about the history of the labor and anarchist movements! The memory of the anarchist past on the island is the best way to keep that memory alive!

Together, let us form an international coordination in solidarity with a libertarian Cuba! Let us break the isolation and help one another beyond borders!

We might be only a few people here and there for now, but we know that our class is the force of the world and that the desire for freedom will always nourish tomorrow’s revolts.