Jeremy Corbyn BLACKED OUT In Cuba

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]It's not up to us to decide the future of Cuba. And that's a problem that left have all around the world. The left get involved in solidarity with different countries. Good.

[00:00:10]>> Right.

[00:00:10]>> But solidarity means you support people on their terms, not yours.

[00:00:15]>> Right.

[00:00:16]>> And so if the demand of the Cuban people is that we raise money or resources for solar panels, so be it. That's what we'll do. The other question to put to Trump is what does he actually want Cuba to do? What is the demand on Cuba? Cuba isn't occupying anywhere. Cuba isn't threatening anybody. Cuba whose big crime is being a threat of an example.

[00:00:38]The only country in the whole of the Americas that has universal free health care for all its citizens. Nowhere else does.

[00:00:45]>> Right.

[00:00:45]>> And has the highest literacy rate in the whole continent.

[00:00:48]>> Right.

[00:00:49]>> Well, that hasn't come from nowhere.

[00:00:50]That's come from a determination to achieve social justice.

[00:00:54]>> Right. I like yeah, the threat of another example like of an another way of life or another world is possible.

[00:00:59]>> Yeah.

[00:01:00]>> Yeah.

[00:01:00]>> We're here because we want Cuba to survive. But we're here also to get urgent aid coming in. Can't we just say Can't we say to the audience in the USA do everything you can to force the Trump administration to lift the blockade and allow the oil to come into Cuba so that Cuba can at least keep the lights on. As you've observed, there's no lights around here. Those lights are battery lights from our phones and I don't know how long they're going to last. All the stuff that we absolutely take for >> Right.

[00:01:30]>> because we've got electricity is not available to ordinary decent people in Cuba. Come on, it's just plain wrong, isn't it?

[00:01:36]>> It's yes, it's sadistic.

[00:01:38]>> So if Trump thinks that he can further suppress and oppress the Cuban people and somehow or other he's going to get what he wants, he'd then have to tell us what it is he actually wants other than his obviously dislike of the idea that a society can provide for all on the basis of need rather than the basis of the greed of those that would seek to make money from the provision of it.