“Viva la revolución 2.0!” was the rallying cry at a recent conference in Midtown Manhattan, where a gathering of far-left activists turned into a vehement critique of the United States. Speakers at the City University of New York (CUNY) event labeled the U.S. as the “No. 1 terrorist in the world,” calling on supporters to hasten its downfall by any means necessary.
The Action Conference for US-Cuba Normalization, held on March 14, attracted a diverse group of participants, including elected officials, former Black Liberation Army members, and representatives from the Democratic Socialists of America. They praised the 1959 Cuban Revolution and demanded the U.S. end its embargo on Cuba and remove the nation from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list.
Berthony Dupont, a Haitian author and editor of the Brooklyn-based publication Haiti Liberté, fervently declared, “Washington is not strong. It is desperate. It is railing. This is the end of the Empire, and we must speed up that end in every way possible!” He further asserted, “The US government is the No. 1 terrorist in the world.”
Dupont invoked the words of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara, urging for the creation of “two, three, many Vietnams” as a call for a worldwide uprising against the U.S.
Corinna Mullin, a former CUNY professor, dismissed accusations against Cuba’s leadership, which is reported to have executed over 10,000 people for opposing its communist regime and witnessed more than 78,000 deaths of those attempting to escape the dictatorship. She insisted that Cuba poses no threat.
Disgraced former CUNY professor Corinna Mullin insisted Cuba — whose leaders have reportedly executed more than 10,000 people by firing squad and other methods for opposing its communist rule, while over 78,000 others died trying to flee its dictatorship — is not a threat.
“The threat is the US Empire itself,” proclaimed Mullin, an ex-adjunct political science professor who was fired after helping organize a vile anti-Israel campus protest in 2024 at the City College of New York’s Harlem campus, that officials said resulted in $3 million in damages.
And while socialist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani didn’t attend, he’s still sweet on the “Sugar Bowl of the World,” assured Danny Valdes, who co-chairs the DSA’s Cuba Solidarity Working Group.
“My direct experience of organizing alongside Zohran in DSA is he is an ally of Cuba,” Valdes re-assured fellow activists, adding Mamdani supports ending the US embargo.
Valdes appeared to be trying to diffuse mixed signals Mamdani sent on the campaign trail in September, when his reps told the Latin Times he believes Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel is a dictator — days after he repeatedly refused to answer the question during a podcast interview.
Stu Smith, an investigative analyst with the Manhattan Institute, told The Post it’s mind-boggling the taxpayer-funded CUNY’s Graduate Center would provide space for such an anti-American powwow.
“There was no critique of the Cuban government as being a culpable actor in the suffering of Cubans,” said Smith, who posted video on the March 14-15 conference on X.
“I think it sends a very clear message that anti-imperialism is becoming part of the DNA of America’s left –and that there’s an entire faction of American political actors who do not have the best interests of America in mind.”
CUNY’s Graduate Center did not return messages.
NYC Councilwoman Gale Brewer (D-Upper West Side) looked to the radical crowd to help her plot her next move.
Since 2024, she has been trying to get a non-binding City Council resolution passed calling for an end of the embargo on Cuba and removing the country from the terror list – but few of her colleagues have signed on.
“If you want me to work on this resolution or different wording, let me know what the wording is,” she offered.
Brewer also reminisced about a late close friend of hers who was “very supportive” of the late Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro, and the councilwoman boasted about visiting the Communist country many times and assisting the Cuban embassy whenever it had “troubles” in New York City,
“I love Cuba!” declared Brewer.
Other pols in attendance included state Sen. Jabari Brisport (D-Brooklyn), and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), who addressed the conference through video.
The conference’s sponsors included the Socialist Workers Party, Nicaragua Solidary Coalition, Housing Justice League, National Network on Cuba and Workers World Party.
The organizing efforts displayed during the conference shouldn’t surprise anyone because Cuba has become a “finishing school for America’s most radical activists,” said Smith.
“The American left will go there for activist vacations and just gas themselves up to do more militant organizing when they come back,” he said. “They come back, energized and ready to be even more extreme.”
Hundreds of socialists from North America and Europe flocked into Havana last weekend to meet with Communist Party officials — staying in luxury hotels and traveling in air-conditioned buses —while the rest of the island grapples with a worsening economic crisis that has starved it of electricity, food, water and medicine.
The tone-deaf members of the “Nuestra América Convoy” where there under the guise of handing out 20 tons of humanitarian aid to protest the United States’ oil blockade of Cuba.
