{"id":18877,"date":"2019-09-11T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T12:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18877"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:55:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:55:34","slug":"solidarity-with-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18877","title":{"rendered":"Solidarity with Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Speaking in support of a motion on Cuba and the US blockade, Unite delegate Jayne Taylor told Congress on Wednesday (September 11) of Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s proud history of solidarity with Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite moved the motion in support of the Miami Five at Congress in 2008,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she explained. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bAnd I am proud of the role that the British trade union movement played in the campaign for their freedom and the longstanding bonds of friendship that we have all maintained with Cuban workers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite and other unions will be hosting representatives from Cuban unions for a week of exchanges with British workers at the Unions for Cuba conference in November,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Jayne added. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bI would urge those of you not already involved to support the Cuba Solidarity Campaign who are organising this event.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jayne hailed the CTC, Cuba\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s equivalent of the TUC, and the Cuban Revolution, which \u00e2\u20ac\u015bnot only prioritised the health and education of its own people, but through its inspirational internationalism transformed the lives of millions of people across world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese achievements are inspirational in themselves, but when you know they have been carried out by a small island, with no few natural resources or wealth, in the face of a 57 year old US blocked they are quite staggering.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She said that the only response now to the US\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s aggressive and interventionist foreign policy, in a blockade ramped up by President Donald Trump to \u00e2\u20ac\u015bunprecedented levels\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 is through internationalism.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bCongress, by supporting motion 74 we will be sending a clear message to the Cuban people that they are not alone and can not be isolated by the US policy of aggression,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The motion was carried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in support of a motion on Cuba and the US blockade, Unite delegate Jayne Taylor told Congress on Wednesday (September 11) of Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s proud history of solidarity with Cuba. &nbsp; &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite moved the motion in support of the Miami Five at Congress in 2008,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she explained. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bAnd I am proud of the role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[66,158,1221],"wps_subtitle":"Unite's Jayne Taylor speaks out on US blockade against Cuba","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25015,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18877\/revisions\/25015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}