Cuba Ready to Celebrate International Workers’ Day

Under the banner of unity, commitment and victory, the working class will march in the main squares of the country to support the social process begun in January 1959 under the leadership of Commander in Chief, Fidel Castro.

The health sector bloc will open the parade in Havana, a recognition to the health workers who watch over the health of the people and save lives in other parts of the world, General Secretary of the CTC, Ulises Guilarte stressed.

Cuban youth will close the country’s most massive act, which symbolizes the continuity of the revolutionary process, Guilarte specified.

The May 1 celebration comes days after the CTC held its 21st Congress at the Convention Center in Havana.

The workers in the final statement of the meeting, strongly condemned the Helms Burton Law as an expression of the annexationist and meddling attempts of the United States against Cuba.

This final statement declaration called on the trade union organizations to demand the release of former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a political prisoner of neo-liberalism in the region.