With the presence of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Raúl Castro, and the President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel. Tens of thousands of Cubans, in a massive parade celebrating International Workers’ Day.
Reaffirmed their defense of sovereignty and rejected the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States for more than six decades.
The population returned to the capital’s Revolution Square and other venues in all the country’s provinces on this day with flags, banners, and slogans in support of the decision to resist the counterrevolutionary attacks, and reaffirmed their will to maintain internal unity and solidarity with other nations.
Under the slogan “For Cuba, Together We Create,” workers mobilized early in defense of the achievements of the Cuban revolutionary process.
In the speech preceding the parade, the secretary general of the Cuban Workers’ Federation, Ulises Guilarte, emphasized that the island’s inhabitants are aware that truth, reason, and justice are on their side.
He pointed out that the negative effects of the US blockade are worsening today with the arbitrary reinstatement of the island to the State Department’s list of countries allegedly sponsoring terrorism. With the aim of causing shortages, destabilizing the country, undermining its sovereignty, and achieving its failed dream of domination.
He also repudiated the US campaign against the medical cooperation programs that Cuba provides in more than 50 nations in an attempt to erase its genuine examples of humanism, solidarity, and cooperation.
Likewise, he reaffirmed his absolute rejection of the genocide perpetrated by the Zionist government of Israel against the Palestinian population, with Washington’s complicity.
The world is suffering a renewed and dangerous imperialist offensive. With neo-fascist expressions that seek to redesign the international system. Disregarding the principles of peaceful coexistence and sovereign equality among states, Guilarte affirmed.
Faced with such a scenario, he said. Cuba maintains its unwavering resolve to remain faithful to our heroes and preserve the sovereignty built at the cost of enormous sacrifices and the blood of its best sons and daughters. He noted that the slogan “For Cuba, Together We Create,” which presides over this year’s workers’ celebrations, reaffirms the conviction that the main and decisive guarantee of victory is unity and the ability to work, innovate, and do things differently.
Guilarte reiterated his solidarity with the international labor movement and the workers around the world who suffer from exploitation due to the multidimensional crisis of capitalism and its neoliberal policies. No matter how hard the enemy tries. They will not be able to hide the fact that this celebration of International Workers’ Day in Cuba is a new and unequivocal demonstration of the overwhelming support of the heroic Cuban people for their Revolution, he noted.
As an expression of global support for Cuba, some 1,000 international delegates from more than 30 countries representing a hundred labor organizations from five continents marched alongside the people and condemned the White House’s economic, commercial, and financial siege. Which impedes the full development of the country’s productive forces.
With information from Prensa Latina
Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernández
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