The Cuban people raised their voices once again to demand an end to the U.S. blockade.

On Thursday, Cuban authorities, thousands of citizens, and international guests gathered at Jose Marti Revolution Square to celebrate International Workers’ Day.

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As every year, Marti Square is one of the venues that is adorned with flags and banners alluding to the great proletarian celebration. Students, professionals, workers, families, and solidarity groups take part in the day’s events across the country with a spirit of celebration.

“We celebrate the proletariat’s holiday amid a complicated international scenario. The world is experiencing a renewed and dangerous imperialist offensive, with neo-fascist expressions that seek to redesign the international system, ignore the principles of peaceful coexistence, and nullify the sovereign equality among States,” said Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, secretary of the Cuban Workers’ Federation (CTC).

“The celebration of International Workers’ Day in Cuba is a new and unequivocal demonstration of the broad support of the heroic Cuban people for their Revolution, which represents their interests and, with the participation and commitment of all, seeks every day to find solutions to the problems and enormous challenges imposed by the economic battle we are fighting through our own efforts,” he added.

As one of the motivations for the march, the Cuban people raised their voices once again to demand an end to the U.S. economic, commercial, and financial blockade, which has been intensified with the arbitrary re-inclusion of Cuba on January 20 on the U.S. list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.

Under the slogan “Together We Create for Cuba,” citizens waved the flag of solidarity with workers around the world who are suffering due to the multidimensional crisis of capitalism and its neoliberal policies. In doing so, Cubans reiterated their commitment to a peaceful, prosperous, and just future.

“The Revolution remains firm not as the result of a miracle. It is the result of the contribution of every compatriot, especially the workers who sustain the country’s economic transformation and development, focused on meeting the needs of the people and improving working and wage conditions, even if we cannot do so at the pace we would like,” said De Nacimiento.

“We are aware that much remains to be done—processes to organize, distortions and negative trends to eradicate, including numerous bureaucratic attitudes, methods, and work styles that must be improved through discipline, effort, creativity, science, and knowledge,” he added.

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Sources: teleSUR – BCB

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