ICOR Statement
19. März 2026
The U.S.’s Murderous Oil Embargo Against Cuba
Even as revolutionaries around the world are currently focused on monitoring and figh
ting the bloody war of aggression waged by the U.S. and Israel against Iran, they must
not lose sight of the grave situation in Cuba. Through a Trump executive order, the U.S.
has imposed a total blockade on oil supplies and is threatening any country that att
empts to supply oil to Cuba with heavy punitive tariffs.
This provocation continues the long history of aggression and blockades that U.S. impe
rialism has waged since the victory of the revolution in 1959. But now this has been for
malized within the framework of the National Security Strategy with the “Trump Corolla
ry”[1], immediately following its announcement in the criminal attack on Venezuela on
January 3. It resulted in more than 100 deaths and the kidnapping of President Nicolás
Maduro and his wife, Congresswoman Cilia Flores.
This attack has blockaded Venezuela and placed its oil under imperialist control, pre
venting it from continuing supplies to Cuba.
U.S. imperialism under the government of the fascist Trump is shifting from a trade war
to what it calls “enforcing peace through violence.” In doing so, it intervenes in sover
eign states and ultimately intensifies the oppression of peoples and threatens them, par
ticularly in Latin America and the Caribbean, which it regards as a key region in the
struggle for supremacy with China. Conflicts and flashpoints are increasing worldwide.
This is part of the intensification of inter-imperialist contradictions in the struggle for he
gemony. Capitalism, in its imperialist stage, can no longer exist without aggression and
war.
In light of this grave situation of new restrictions that Cuba is facing—which have alrea
dy led to a humanitarian crisis affecting not only production and transportation but also
the health of the population—the greatest active solidarity from the international working
class and the peoples of the world is required. For we are confronting fascism in the
U.S. itself and in an increasing number of countries, and the dangers of a new world
war are intensifying.
Long live internationalist solidarity!
The Cuban people are not alone!
Yankees out of Latin America and the Middle East!
No to fascism and No to imperialist war!
Against capitalist-imperialist barbarism—let us intensify the struggle for socia
lism!
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[1] An addendum to the Monroe Doctrine, which states that the U.S. will prevent non-he
mispheric competitors—particularly China and Russia—from owning or controlling stra
tegically significant assets such as ports, telecommunications networks, energy facili
ties, raw materials, and resources in the Western Hemisphere.
Status of the signatories 19.03.2026 . Further signatures possible. Current list of
signatories at www.icor.info :
1. PCPCI Parti Communiste Proletarien de Côte d’Ivoire (Proletarian Communist
Party of Ivory Coast)
2. ORC Organisation Révolutionnaire du Congo (Revolutionary Organization of
Congo), Democratic Republic of the Congo
3. UPC-Manidem Union des Populations du Cameroun – Manifeste National pour
l’Instauration de la Démocratie (Union of Populations of Cameroon – National
Manifesto for the Establishment of Democracy)
4. CPSA (ML) Communist Party of South Africa (Marxist-Leninist)
5. PCT Parti Comuniste du Togo (Communist Party of Togo)
6. NCP (Mashal) Nepal Communist Party (Mashal)
7. RUFN Revolutionary United Front of Nepal
8. CPA/ML Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
9. БКП Българска Комунистическа Партия (Bulgarian Communist Party)
10.PR-ByH Partija Rada – ByH (Party of Labor – Bosnia and Herzegovina)
11.MLPD Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands (Marxist-Leninist Party of
Germany)
12.UPML Union Prolétarienne Marxiste-Léniniste (Marxist-Leninist Proletarian
Union), France
13.BP (NK-T) Bolşevik Parti (Kuzey Kürdistan-Türkiye) (Bolshevik Party (North
Kurdistan-Turkey))
14.KOL Kommunistische Organisation Luxemburg (Communist Organization of
Luxemburg)
15.RM Rode Morgen (Red Dawn), Netherlands
16.UMLP União Marxista-Leninista Portuguesa (Portuguese Marxist-Leninist
Union)
17.MLGS Marxistisch-Leninistische Gruppe Schweiz (Marxist-Leninist Group of
Switzerland)
18.TKP-ML Türkiye Komünist Partisi – Marksist-Leninist (Communist Party of
Turkey – Marxist-Leninist)
19.PCP (independiente) Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente)
(Paraguayan Communist Party (independent))
20.PC (ML) Partido Comunista (Marxista Leninista) (Communist Party (Marxist
Leninist)), Dominican Republic
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21.PCR-U Partido Comunista Revolucionario del Uruguay (Revolutionary
Communist Party of Uruguay)
22.SUCI (C) Socialist Unity Center of India (Communist)
23.Chinese Communists (MLM) Chinese Communists (Marxist Leninist Maoist)
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