The Professional Staff Congress (PSC/CUNY) condemns ongoing U.S. aggression toward Cuba, including escalations that openly revive American imperialism, falsely depict the country as a threat to U.S. national security, and gravely imperil its entire population. We oppose Executive Orders imposing an energy blockade, sanctions and tariffs restricting foreign oil supplies, including targeting ships carrying fuel, and the President’s public threat to “take” Cuba or “do whatever I want with it.” [1]
With regime change as an avowed goal, the current escalation deepens the economic, financial, and commercial blockade of more than 60 years, which the PSC resolved in 2022 to condemn.[2] Restricting oil to Cuba means blackouts and severely impaired health care, schools, food distribution, transportation, water systems, and other critical infrastructure. Sanctions must not continue to be weaponized as a pretext for intervention and destabilization, as several bills now before the U.S. Congress insist. [3]
The people of Cuba have suffered enough. For 33 consecutive years, the United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly voted to end the U.S. embargo. [4] The current escalation isolates the United States from the international community, violates principles of sovereignty and international law, and extends the blockade extraterritorially by threatening sanctions against other nations exercising their sovereign right to trade. PSC/CUNY supports the normalization of relations with Cuba for the sake of the country’s 10 million residents and reaffirms our call to end the economic, financial, and commercial blockade of Cuba, lift travel and exchange restrictions that harm students, faculty, and working people in both countries, and remove Cuba from the “State Sponsors of Terrorism” list.[5]
As an academic labor union committed to education, international solidarity, and human dignity, we stand with the people of Cuba in defense of their sovereignty and their right to determine their own future free from U.S. violence and intervention.
[1] https://youtube.com/shorts/8WjMBooa4bM?si=8Z8l4oRiJBgJDGDs
[2]https://2022.psc-cuny.org/sites/default/files/Opposition%20to%20Cuba%20Sanctions%20Resolution%20.pdf
[3] https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/124
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7521 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/136
[4] https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/10/1166213
[5] https://psc-cuny.org/news-events/30498/
