cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33606118

Cuba solidarity activists receive significant support from cities to form Hands Off Cuba committees and travel to Cuba

By Mark Friedman, member, International Association of Machinists, Local 1484, Wilmington.
Chicago - July 4th weekend

More than 2,500 political activists from around the United States attended the Socialism2025 conference, their largest ever reflecting a consciousness change among workers and youth and heightened interest in alternatives to capitalism.

There were hundreds of workshops dealing with labor, environment, women, LGBTQ, immigrants, Palestine, Cuba, Marxism. A few of the most important for this reporter were workshops organized by anti-war vets from Afghanistan and Iraq in the organization “About Face”, workshops by Jewish Voices for Peace and by Palestine Youth Movement on Palestine solidarity and ending US military aid to Israel, and a presentation by union professors from the American Association of University Professors detailing Trump's attack on labor, research funding cuts and denial political freedom of speech on the campuses.