"It is urgent to strengthen the united solidarity against the blockade of the United States government against Cuba", urged Vinnie Molina, the national president of the Communist Party of Australia (PCA), in an extensive newspaper article published in this month's edition of The Guardian newspaper, the official organ of that political organization.
He added that the number of people in the US who are involved in the solidarity movement with the people of the dignity island is gradually increasing, and highlighted the actions of the Bridges of Love Movement, initiated by the Cuban American activist Carlos Lazo, who has embraced the idea of creating awareness on the impact of the blockade on Cuban families living inside and outside the country.
Members of the Communist Party of Australia also participate in acts of solidarity organized by the Australia-Cuba Friendship Societies.
He explained in his journalistic text, contained in this media provided to Trabajadores, that a delegation of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), made up of members from all over Australia, attended the recent May Day celebration in Cuba.
More than 1,200 delegates from around the world gathered in Havana in an open defiance of the 63-year blockade imposed by the United States of America. More than 150 persons came from the United States, mainly young people who defied the law that prevents their citizens from traveling to Cuba. It was a challenge for them, said Vinnie Molina, who was recently awarded the Friendship Medal for his intense solidarity work.
"They faced fines, interrogations, detention and harassment by their own government because they exercised their right to learn about socialism," he said.
He recalled that the Trump administration was very active against Cuba during his four years in office. It introduced 243 coercive measures, restricted the few possibilities of trade and enacted Title III of the Helms-Burton Act. President Trump's other criminal act before leaving office was to add Cuba to the list of countries sponsoring terrorism.
The Australian political leader recalled that at the International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba, held on May 2 at the Convention Palace, Havana, more than a thousand participants expressed their solidarity with the Cubans and demanded the immediate cessation of the inhumane economic, commercial and financial siege.
The meeting supported the formation of a Network of Trade Unions against the Blockade. This is necessary to stop the aggressive U.S. policy, which is an attempt at genocide.
Cubans are proud of the decision to maintain independence to build an ever better society for all and will never surrender or get down on their knees, he said.
Finally he wrote: "We thank the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC), the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Construcción (SNTC), and the Instituto de Amistad con los Pueblos (ICAP), for their hospitality in receiving us whenever we visit the emancipated and free Island".
By Ramón Barreras Ferrán
Taken from Trabajadores Newspaper (https://www.trabajadores.cu/20230526/exhorta-partido-comunista-de-austra...)