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International Workers’ Day celebrated in Cuba

International Workers' Day celebrated in Cuba
Photo: @PresidenciaCuba

May 5 |

With acts, parades and artistic and cultural events, hundreds of thousands of Cuban workers participated this Friday in the celebration of International Workers’ Day, showed their willingness to continue contributing to the development of the country without departing from the path of socialism and showed solidarity with the struggles of workers around the world.

The celebration was called by the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC) and was postponed until this Friday due to inclement weather. Due to the economic situation, this time the events were organized in each municipality, so the celebration of 164 was foreseen and popular participation was extended.

The main event took place in Havana and was headed by the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, and Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.

Before more than one hundred thousand people gathered on Havana’s Malecon, CTC Secretary General Ulises Guilarte said that Cubans are fighting with their own strength and talent to overcome objective difficulties and internal insufficiencies on the road to development.

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He emphasized that they are focused on the economic battle, expanding food production, increasing income collection for the country, strengthening the socialist state enterprise and increasing foreign investment, among other goals.

He explained that this collective effort seeks to improve the supply of products and services, control price increases and increase the value of salaries and pensions.

Guilarte denounced the impact of the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States (U.S.) against Cuba, which translates into countless difficulties in daily life and is considered the greatest violation of human rights of the inhabitants of the Caribbean nation.

He recalled that only those who fight and resist have the right to triumph, as Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro Ruz once said. He said that his compatriots will never surrender or give up the desire to conquer new victories.

He stressed the value of unity and said that, in addition to facing the challenges of the country’s development, workers will maintain their solidarity with other peoples in the face of the crisis of the capitalist system and its neoliberal policies.

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He pointed out that the U.S. articulates new campaigns of manipulation, lies and hatred against the Revolution and this time tried to spread negative opinion matrixes on the popular support to the May Day celebration.

Guilarte considered that Friday’s events and parades, supported by thousands of Cubans, explicitly refuted this thesis, and stressed that what happened is proof of the majority support of the people for the Revolution and its continuity.

The celebration of May Day in Cuba included the celebration in Havana of the International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba and Anti-imperialism 200 years after the Monroe Doctrine, which took place between April 29 and May 2. Around 1,300 guests from different parts of the world attended the event in the Cuban capital.

After postponing to Friday the celebration of International Workers’ Day, the Cuban government declared May 5 a labor holiday and thus allowed the massive participation of the people in the working class celebration.

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