According to historical records, the LAIC’s program also included the internationalization of the Panama Canal and the withdrawal of troops from Latin American countries invaded by the United States.

The organization, which emerged as the Cuban section of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, fought for the release of Cuban revolutionary Julio Antonio Mella, who was on a hunger strike against the arbitrary actions of dictator Gerardo Machado (1925-1933).

Mella, who founded the Communist Party of Cuba, was arrested by the regime on November 27, 2025, and was falsely accused of conspiracy to sedition. In prison, he began a hunger strike on December 5, 1925, and ended it on December 23.

The LAIC also expressed its solidarity with Augusto Cesar Sandino’s guerrilla movement, which was confronting the invading forces of an expanding imperialist power, the United States of America, in Nicaragua.

The League was founded in the premises of the Students Association of the Havana Institute, currently the Jose Marti Senior High School, in Old Havana, with Mella as organizing secretary, Jose Acosta as deputy

secretary, and Alejandro Barreiro as treasurer.

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