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'Front groups and fellow travelers': state department attacks US left over Cuba
By Maya Yang, The Guardian. Published July 20, 2026.
As part of the Trump administration's continuing attack on left-leaning groups, the US state department has listed several activists and organizations as "front groups and fellow travelers" for Cuba, including Hasan Piker and Amazon Labor Union founder Chris Smalls.
[Full sentence, verbatim: "the US state department has listed several activists and organizations as 'front groups and fellow travelers' for Cuba, including Hasan Piker and Amazon Labor Union founder Chris Smalls."]
The report, titled "capital of 21st-century communism," describes a "campaign of subversion" that has "infiltrated the highest reaches of the US government, recruited and cultivated generations of American activists [and] backed an unprecedented wave of leftwing terrorism on American soil," designed to "turn America against itself."
On the Democratic Socialists of America, the report says the group "serves as a particularly potent illustration of the ideological victory of Cuba's effort to position itself as the spiritual capital of Third Worldist radicalism" — a "fierce, almost religious commitment to the cause of the Cuban regime – not because the group is controlled by Cuban agents, per se, but because that commitment is now simply the de facto policy orthodoxy on the American far left."