The broad support Machado currently enjoys will, sooner or later, turn into deep contempt on the part of workers in both the city and the countryside.

It was the working masses on the streets who defeated Bolsonaro.

This is yet another major qualitative turning point in the handing over of Venezuela to US imperialist control.

Down with US imperialism – Defend the Cuban revolution – Workers of the world unite!

We are talking about nothing less than the complete restoration of a capitalist market economy in Cuba.

The indictment against Raúl Castro, for an incident which happened 30 years ago, is designed to send a very clear message: either you comply and submit to Washington’s diktats or else you will follow the same fate as Venezuelan President Maduro.

These are mafia-like tactics: gangsters visit you to offer protection for a fee; if you refuse to join their racket, they break your legs, trash your shop, or you end up riddled with bullets.

We must mobilise the world’s working class movement against Trump’s oil blockade, with all the forces at our disposal. At the same time it is important to discuss how we have reached this point.

Cuba can only count on its own people, but also on the peoples of the world; that is, the working class, the poor peasantry and the revolutionary youth of the world. This is not an abstract figure of speech, but a concrete question.

Trump’s aim is to beat Mexico into submission and to destroy the Cuban revolution. US imperialism believes that it is now, after 60 years, in a position to do so.