Up to 200 people demanding “End the U.S. blockade of Cuba Now!” rallied across the street from the U.S. Consulate in Toronto on a very humid July 19 afternoon. The attached video, which is a bit rough, shows speeches to the gathering by Barry Weisleder for Socialist Action, as well as by representatives of the Canadian Peace Congress, the Palestinian Youth Movement, the Canadian Cuba Friendship Association, the Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network, the Toronto Venezuela Solidarity Coalition and the Communist Party of Canada.
Partisans of revolutionary Cuba picketed and chanted for over an hour on busy University Avenue. Police confined a crew of right wing, anti-Cuba government demonstrators, numbering less than fifty, to a spot half a block to the south. Leftists and progressives in solidarity with the Cuban workers’ state clearly won this round.
