Malvika Nair

PhDing @WarwickSMLC, work on race and caste / ex - JNU, eflu / "Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing"

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Cuba helped several African countries in their liberation struggles against brutal colonial occupiers, including against the apartheid regime in South Africa which the US backed and supported. That’s what he means by “radical left-wing terrorism”, just to be clear.

[New Afrikan❤️🖤💚 @Liberation_Blk]

“Two things can be true at once” flattens the contradiction. The question isn’t whether racism *can* exist in Cuba. Of course postcolonial societies retain racial contradictions.

I am more interested in how these contradictions are situated historically and geopolitically, not just whether 2 claims can coexist. How this is being deployed *now* is to delegitimize the Cuban state/system itself under heightened imperialist assault, while erasing Cuba’s material history of anti-colonial + Pan-African/Pan-Caribbean solidarity in the process.

[David Harvey | @davidharvey.org on Bluesky @profdavidharvey]

Happy Birthday Carlos Marx!

[Malvika Nair @malvikatweets]

While the decades-long siege tightened soon after, with Trump enforcing a brutal blockade with grave humanitarian consequences to force Cuba into submission, the resolve amongst the people to defend the ideals of the Revolution & resist imperialist aggression remains very strong!

[Malvika Nair @malvikatweets]

Late to post here, but sharing this article I wrote piecing together observations from my visit to Cuba this Jan, following the US attack on Venezuela abducting President Maduro, and amidst heightened aggressive rhetoric from Trump that Cuba would be next.
https://t.co/tQ84MoQ8GD

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

❝We do not drop bombs on other peoples. We send doctors instead.❞

— Fidel Castro

[Malvika Nair @malvikatweets]

@LarryAlbertGil Many many congratulations! 🥳🥳🥳

[Tere Felipe @_TereFelipe_]

🇨🇺 Chico Buarque cantando, Pequeña Serenata Diurna, de Silvio Rodríguez, en La Habana, Cuba... mi patria, la capital de la solidaridad del mundo 😎

[Malvika Nair @malvikatweets]

@LarryAlbertGil @elliot_napier Oh to be so loved by your students 💛 congratulations!!

[Malvika Nair @malvikatweets]

The Nuestra América flotilla conveys solidarity from all over the world to Cuba! ¡Que viva la isla digna y siempre solidaria! ✊🏼🇨🇺

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

¡Qué viva Cuba! 🇨🇺

The first delegation of the Nuestra América Convoy has arrived in Havana from Europe, carrying more than four tonnes of critical medical aid.

[Esteban @EstebanCarLop]

La pasividad de América Latina ante la agresión del Imperio Epstein contra la digna isla de Cuba constituye sin duda la etapa más vergonzosa de toda nuestra historia.

[Manolo De Los Santos @manolo_realengo]

Small but significant protests have emerged in Cuba, not driven by internal dissent, but by deliberate and extreme U.S. pressure that is making daily life nearly impossible. Trump’s fuel blockade has pushed an already struggling people to the brink, after more than 60 years of economic warfare.

The goal is unmistakable: destabilize daily life to provoke internal collapse. A regime-change strategy coldly executed from Washington not by troops, but by engineered suffering that deprives Cubans of food, medicine, energy and about everything basic need. Trump and Rubio, unable to defeat Iran, and needing a quick victory soon are betting that desperation will turn into an uprising in Cuba.

The Cuban people are exhausted but are not deceived by Trump’s genocidal siege. They see the game. And they aren’t playing it.

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

"Cuba is willing to have a dialogue with the United States."

At a press conference on Thursday, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel told reporters his government is open to conversations with the U.S., but only under conditions of respect and equality. He also stated that Cuba will defend its sovereignty against the “plans for terrorist acts” currently being organized by the U.S., and that the country has not received fuel since December, when the naval blockade on Venezuela began.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The US is gearing up to literally starve Cuba into submission. It is absolutely criminal and obscene. And this to a country that everyone knows poses *zero* threat to the US.

The people of Cuba need our full solidarity in resisting this onslaught.

[Malvika Nair @malvikatweets]

Two days to go before in-person registrations close! Do join us and help spread the word. Register here: https://t.co/XXxjAgNj7s

[Is a Better World Possible? @solidarityconf]

📢Registrations for our conference are still open!

We have 15 promising presentations from scholars across the world on the theme of solidarity. Join us, either in-person or online, and help spread the word!

Full programme and registration details here:
https://t.co/NNSbfuimTm

[Malvika Nair @malvikatweets]

Registrations for our Conference 'Is a Better World Possible?' are now open! Looking forward to welcoming you all to what we hope will be an enriching day-long conversation on solidarity in the current times. Do spread the word!

For more info: https://t.co/FSERjsy9Cf

[Is a Better World Possible? @solidarityconf]

We're delighted to announce that registration is now open to attend our hybrid Conference!

📍University of Warwick and online
📅 29 November 2025 (Saturday)

See the attached poster for registration details and the full programme.

More info: https://t.co/NNSbfuiUIU

[Manolo De Los Santos @manolo_realengo]

This year marks the beginning of the celebrations of a hundred years since the birth of Fidel Castro. His legacy is the ongoing struggle for a better world without imperialism, racism, zionism! #FidelCastro #Cuba #100AñosConFidel

[Malvika Nair @malvikatweets]

Excited to have received over 160 abstracts from across the world, traversing many disciplines! Now on to the difficult part of making decisions, which we hope to complete by mid-August. A big thank you to all the contributors and to everyone who helped spread the word!!

[Malvika Nair @malvikatweets]

Hoping this Conference, which I am co-organising at Warwick this November, contributes to conversations on what it means to extend solidarity in these difficult times.

Do send in your abstracts by July 15th, and please spread the word!

More details at: https://t.co/FSERjsy9Cf

[Malvika Nair @malvikatweets]

CfP here:

[Malvika Nair @malvikatweets]

TWO more days to go! Do send in your abstracts and join us in discussing what it means to be in solidarity in such tumultuous times. The sub themes we are interested in are also listed in the thread below, do take a look!

We are looking forward to reading your contributions!