Baroness Angela Smith, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cuba, speaking about the Miami 5. The Miami Five are five Cubans unjustly imprisoned in the United States while trying to stop terrorist attacks against the Cuban people. They are Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González. For more than 40 years, right wing Cuban exile groups based in Miami have killed almost 3,500 people in attacks against Cuba. The US government repeatedly failed to act against the perpetrators of such crimes, including the blowing up of a Cuban airliner in 1973 (killing 76 people) and a bombing campaign against Cuban tourist hotels in the 1990s (killing an Italian tourist). To save lives, Cuba sent five men to Miami to infiltrate and monitor the groups. At the request of the US government, this information was passed to the FBI in 1998. But instead of arresting the terrorists, the FBI used the information to identify the Five anti-terrorists who were arrested and charged with spying on September 12 1998. Their harsh sentences and denial of family visitation rights in prison have been internationally condemned by legal and human rights groups including Amnesty International. Further info from: http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/miami5/

Mick Shaw, President of the FBU, speaking about the Miami 5. The Miami Five are five Cubans unjustly imprisoned in the United States while trying to stop terrorist attacks against the Cuban people. They are Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González. For more than 40 years, right wing Cuban exile groups based in Miami have killed almost 3,500 people in attacks against Cuba. The US government repeatedly failed to act against the perpetrators of such crimes, including the blowing up of a Cuban airliner in 1973 (killing 76 people) and a bombing campaign against Cuban tourist hotels in the 1990s (killing an Italian tourist). To save lives, Cuba sent five men to Miami to infiltrate and monitor the groups. At the request of the US government, this information was passed to the FBI in 1998. But instead of arresting the terrorists, the FBI used the information to identify the Five anti-terrorists who were arrested and charged with spying on September 12 1998. Their harsh sentences and denial of family visitation rights in prison have been internationally condemned by legal and human rights groups including Amnesty International. Further info from: http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/miami5/

Jonathan Ledger, General Secretary of the NAPO, speaking about the Miami 5. The Miami Five are five Cubans unjustly imprisoned in the United States while trying to stop terrorist attacks against the Cuban people. They are Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González. For more than 40 years, right wing Cuban exile groups based in Miami have killed almost 3,500 people in attacks against Cuba. The US government repeatedly failed to act against the perpetrators of such crimes, including the blowing up of a Cuban airliner in 1973 (killing 76 people) and a bombing campaign against Cuban tourist hotels in the 1990s (killing an Italian tourist). To save lives, Cuba sent five men to Miami to infiltrate and monitor the groups. At the request of the US government, this information was passed to the FBI in 1998. But instead of arresting the terrorists, the FBI used the information to identify the Five anti-terrorists who were arrested and charged with spying on September 12 1998. Their harsh sentences and denial of family visitation rights in prison have been internationally condemned by legal and human rights groups including Amnesty International. Further info from: http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/miami5/

Linda Perks, London Regional Secretary of Unison, speaking about the Miami 5. The Miami Five are five Cubans unjustly imprisoned in the United States while trying to stop terrorist attacks against the Cuban people. They are Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González. For more than 40 years, right wing Cuban exile groups based in Miami have killed almost 3,500 people in attacks against Cuba. The US government repeatedly failed to act against the perpetrators of such crimes, including the blowing up of a Cuban airliner in 1973 (killing 76 people) and a bombing campaign against Cuban tourist hotels in the 1990s (killing an Italian tourist). To save lives, Cuba sent five men to Miami to infiltrate and monitor the groups. At the request of the US government, this information was passed to the FBI in 1998. But instead of arresting the terrorists, the FBI used the information to identify the Five anti-terrorists who were arrested and charged with spying on September 12 1998. Their harsh sentences and denial of family visitation rights in prison have been internationally condemned by legal and human rights groups including Amnesty International. Further info from: http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/miami5/

Alberto Granado, Che Guevara's friend from university, and travelling companion on his motorcycle trip around Latin America, died peacefully of natural causes in Cuba aged 88 in March 2011. In 2008, CSC's CubaSi magazine carried an exclusive interview with Alberto, where he talked about this trip and recorded this message of greetings and and thanks to the members of CSC in the UK for their work in solidarity with Cuba: 'I am very happy and honoured to have this opportunity to send a message of greetings and gratitude to our British comrades who are keeping up the fight in support of Cuba and the internationalist policies of our government. I also want to thank you for supporting not just Cuba but the other countries fighting to free themselves from neoliberalism, like Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador. Finally I would like to say that Che Guevara, with whom I visited all those poor regions in Latin America, would be very happy to see that things are changing, and that the dreams that he had for a better world are becoming a reality. Thank you very much, and 'Hasta la Victoria Siempre!'

Seumus Milne speaking at Latin America Conference 2010. The annual Latin America conferences have become one of the most successful events of their kind in the UK. Since December 2005, thousands of delegates from across the country have come to hear speakers from more than 30 countries discuss and share experiences of developments in the Caribbean and Latin America. UK contributors have included Harold Pinter, Tariq Ali and Tony Benn. From Europe, the US and the region itself, trade union and social movement leaders, writers, artists, politicians, campaigners, film directors, diplomats and academics have all shared platforms. Most importantly, the conferences have heard first hand from the peoples of Latin America; of their struggle to free themselves from the hegemony of US domination, their battle to gain control of national resources, and their fight to defend their gains and achievements. From Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Brazil and Colombia, the people of the region are finding their voice, realising their power and determining their own futures. The Latin America conferences provide a fascinating insight into the reality of the region and effective ways for people in the UK to find out more and support these struggles and movements by getting involved in solidarity work.

Ken Livingstone speaking at Latin America Conference 2010. The annual Latin America conferences have become one of the most successful events of their kind in the UK. Since December 2005, thousands of delegates from across the country have come to hear speakers from more than 30 countries discuss and share experiences of developments in the Caribbean and Latin America. UK contributors have included Harold Pinter, Tariq Ali and Tony Benn. From Europe, the US and the region itself, trade union and social movement leaders, writers, artists, politicians, campaigners, film directors, diplomats and academics have all shared platforms. Most importantly, the conferences have heard first hand from the peoples of Latin America; of their struggle to free themselves from the hegemony of US domination, their battle to gain control of national resources, and their fight to defend their gains and achievements. From Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Brazil and Colombia, the people of the region are finding their voice, realising their power and determining their own futures. The Latin America conferences provide a fascinating insight into the reality of the region and effective ways for people in the UK to find out more and support these struggles and movements by getting involved in solidarity work. http://www.latinamericaconference.org.uk/

George Galloway speaking at Latin America Conference 2010. The annual Latin America conferences have become one of the most successful events of their kind in the UK. Since December 2005, thousands of delegates from across the country have come to hear speakers from more than 30 countries discuss and share experiences of developments in the Caribbean and Latin America. UK contributors have included Harold Pinter, Tariq Ali and Tony Benn. From Europe, the US and the region itself, trade union and social movement leaders, writers, artists, politicians, campaigners, film directors, diplomats and academics have all shared platforms. Most importantly, the conferences have heard first hand from the peoples of Latin America; of their struggle to free themselves from the hegemony of US domination, their battle to gain control of national resources, and their fight to defend their gains and achievements. From Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Brazil and Colombia, the people of the region are finding their voice, realising their power and determining their own futures. The Latin America conferences provide a fascinating insight into the reality of the region and effective ways for people in the UK to find out more and support these struggles and movements by getting involved in solidarity work. http://www.latinamericaconference.org.uk/