How Cuba Became the Nerve Center of the Anti-American Left

In this The Daily Signal article, Jarrett Stepman details how a new State Department report exposes communist Cuba as the long-standing nerve center of the anti-American left, exporting ideology, training radicals in terrorism, and organizing global subversion that continues to threaten the United States.

• The State Department released a 100-page report titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism” that documents how the Castro regime has driven leftist activism and violence for more than half a century.
• Cuba’s chief export is a unique brand of “Third Worldism” Marxism designed to deconstruct Western civilization and advance global communist revolution rather than traditional Soviet-style class struggle.
• This ideology fueled the New Left’s focus on Black Power, radical feminism, Third World liberation, and the wholesale rejection of Western culture, history, and identity.
• Delegations of American radicals traveled to Cuba to learn urban terrorism and guerrilla warfare tactics directly from the regime.
• The Venceremos Brigade, founded in the late 1960s and run by Cuban spies, has brought more than 10,000 American left-wing activists to the island for political training, including high-profile figures such as Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
• Cuba continues to sustain an “Anti-American Internationale,” recently hosting a “Nuestra América Convoy” that included Hasan Piker, Amazon Labor Union founder Christian Smalls, Democratic Socialists of America members, former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, and Isra Hirsi, daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar.
• The regime maintains contingency plans to mobilize activist networks at U.S. military bases, Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, and other sites in response to perceived military threats.
• The report rejects claims that Cuba’s poverty renders it harmless, arguing its true power is ideological, subversive, and parasitic—and has outlasted the Soviet empire that once supported it.
• The Trump administration is actively dismantling this network, having toppled Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro while other leftist regimes in Latin America weaken or cancel elections out of fear of defeat.
• Despite communism’s catastrophic failures, a new generation of radicals remains ideologically fervent, and groups such as the Democratic Socialists of America—explicitly linked to Cuba—have grown more influential than at any point in their history.

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https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/07/21/how-cuba-became-the-nerve-center-of-the-anti-american-left/