Pretoria, May 2, 2019.- Millions of Cuban workers paraded on May 1st through the main squares and avenues of Cuba to celebrate International Workers' Day.
To this day, the celebration of the workers' conquests since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, attended the General of the Army and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Raul Castro Ruz, the President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and other authorities.
More than 1400 friends from Cuba, representing 103 countries and 140 trade union and solidarity organizations around the world, participated in the parade.
South Africa was represented by a delegation composed of 21 delegates from the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the South Africa Communist Party, the Friends of Cuba Society, and trade union organizations such as the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union, the National Health Education & Allied Workers Union, the Southern African Clothing & Textile Workers' Union and the National Union of Miners.
The Cuban workers also raised their voices in rejection of the aggressive escalation of the current US administration against Cuba and other governments in the Latin American region, to the occupation of the illegally occupied territory in the Guantanamo naval base; as well as in solidarity with the Venezuelan government and for the release of former president of Brazil, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva.
