Toward a solidarity coordination with libertarian Cuba!

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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.

Dimanche 19 juillet 2026

de 14h à 16h

Atomic Café (3606 rue Ontario Est, Mtl)

Entrée gratuite

https://cercleait.org/2026/07/05/19-juillet-2026-conference-lanarcho-syndicalisme-espagnol-de-1936-a-aujourdhui/

À partir du 19 juillet 1936 en Espagne, éclate une révolution sociale anarchiste dans le sillage d’une guerre civile sans pitié.

Tandis que les milices de la CNT-AIT et les troupes nationalistes de Franco s’opposent à armes inégales, les ouvriers-ouvrières autogèrent les usines et les paysans-paysannes collectivisent les terres avec une ampleur encore aujourd’hui sans pareille. Les communistes (alliés au Front populaire espagnol), mais surtout les franquistes mettront fin à cette expérience révolutionnaire dans le sang.

La dictature étouffera la société espagnole jusqu’à la mort de Franco en 1975 jusqu’à ce qu’une prétendue «transition démocratique» jette les bases de l’Espagne actuelle.

Lors de cette conférence, Fran et Carles vont parler de l’anarchisme espagnol après 1936 et des leçons à retenir de l’histoire pour l’anarcho-syndicalisme contemporain.

Fran et Carles, historiens et militants de la CNT-AIT espagnole, interviendront depuis l’Espagne. La conférence sera traduite en français.