Solidarity-with-Cuba Meeting Underway in Havana

HAVANA, Cuba. More than 1,000 Cuba friendship groups, which participated in May Day celebrations on the archipelago, meet at Havana’s Convention Center for the 7th Conference on Solidarity.

The event is devoted to the world proletariat, the 70th anniversary of the creation of the Confederation of Cuban Workers, and the 50th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, and is attended by 50 labor union organizations from 24 countries.

Among personalities that are part of the event we have World Union Federation general secretary George Mavrikus, and Trade Union Congress general secretary Brendan Barber, from Great Britain.

Also participating are the President of the International Association of Construction Trade Unions, John Sutton, and the main representative of Vietnam’s General Confederation of Labor Unions, Dang Ngoc Tung.

(Comienza Encuentro de Solidaridad con Cuba)

Camilo Cienfuegos, present in Camagüey

The Commandant Camilo Cienfuegos shared with the people of Camagüey the first revolutionary act for the International Day of the Workers, in 1959.

In the Country Casino of the city of Camagüey, the guerilla fighter, just by 27 years, called to the unit to follow the fight.

In his message to the people of Camagüey the Hero of Yaguajay pointed out: " This unit that we see to newspaper in our Homeland, is to maintain it to all coast. All the workers should unite every day more."

During that act for the international workes`s day headed in Camagüey the parade that left of the Avenue of the Martyrs, he traveled the central streets Republic, Ignacio Agramonte and Cisneros, to the Country Casino.

Effective have the Camagüey the presence and Camilo Cienfuegos` words when he expressed: "Workers, should be aware of the moment that we live, that are many the hidden enemies and while waiting for the moment to attack us are not divided! We cannot divide ourselves! Army, town and workers should be every more united day."

Later on he expressed: "Before we did wonder weapons for what reason?. Today we say, do we need weapons to combat to the contrarrevolutionaries and the enemies from Cuba that try to snatch us this beautiful victory."

In the squares of Camagüey it is present the Guerilla Commandant of the immense smile, because he revolutionary message lasts in each man and woman of the wide geography of The Adult's earth, and of the green and unconquerable cayman.( By :Raysa Mestril Gutiérrez )

Labor Day: Students from 50 Countries to Parade in Camagüey

Camagüey. Representing Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East, foreign students that are taking courses in Camagüey will endorse the Cuban Revolution participating in May Day parade tomorrow at Ignacio Agramonte Revolution Square.

Francisco López Domínguez who heads the provincial office of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) told press that these friends will demand the immediate release of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters who are unjustly serving long prison sentences in US jails.

The block of these young foreign students – known as the solidarity block- will wave a huge banner in which the 100 000 hours of voluntary work accumulated since 1990 by the International Brigade Amigos de Cuba will be acknowledged.

Foreign students from some 50 nations will ratify this Friday the international support towards the Cuba and its Revolution. (Yamylé Fernández Rodríguez).

People of Camagüey: United, Productive and Efficient this May Day People of Camagüey: United, Productive and Efficient this May Day

Striving for materializing important economic and social goals, we celebrate the International Workers Day; another occasion to reaffirm the revolutionary spirit and the support of the Cuban people to Fidel, Raul and the Communist Party.

We salute this significant date working on very special tasks like foodstuff production and the sugar cane harvest pursuing a full recovery and the development of the province and Cuba.

The proletarian force of Camaguey mobilized last Sunday to those fronts and also backed up what the territory has been doing to mend the houses damaged by hurricanes Ike and Paloma, plus promoted the actions taken to clean and decorate workplaces in regards to the international workers' holiday.

The efforts made to achieve such goals have been marked the a united action, something that has prevailed over the last five decades among the dwellers of this land.

And it is that the call of unity made 50 years ago by Commander Camilo Cienfuegos in Camaguey is endorsed each May First thanks to the devotion and effort deployed by men and women who go forth in spite of any obstacle.


This is how the people in different tribunes have been expressing their feelings and this is how once again the voices of all Camagueyans will cry this Friday saluting the 50th anniversary of the Revolution and the 70th anniversary of Cuban Workers Trade Union Federation.

We shall advance now and ever, in a solid fist as Camilo asked us strengthening the will and the intelligence of a society and ratifying our decision of going forward defending the Socialist Revolution under the leadership of Fidel, Raul and the Communist Party.

The workers of Camagüey parading in this First of May

By: Rigel Rivero Jaspe

First of May.Camagüey. The townof Camagüey parades in this May first, International Day of the Workers. This year 2009, the march is headed by the political and administrative address of Ignacio Agramante`s earth .

19 are the unions that group in the Revolution Square Ignacio Agramante for the parade that began few minutes before 8:00 in the morning in this dawn of May. There are more than 400 thousand family workers that play giving their support to Fidel Raúl in the whole county, to the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and fundamentally to The Cuban Revolution.

Students of 50 countries will parade the First of May in Camagüey

Camagüey, Apr 29. - Representatives from Asia, África, Latin America, the Caribbean and Middle East that study in Camagüey, will manifest their support to the Revolution, when this First of May parades in the block of the solidarity in the General bigger Square Ignacio Agramonte, of the provincial capital.

Francisco López Domínguez informed this way , delegate in the territory of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Towns (ICAP) who meant that among the main watchwords of those friends will be wrongly the birdcall of freedom for the Five Cuban antiterrorists prisoners in United States.

As distinctive element of the solidary block will be an enormous cloth in which are mentioned to those more than 100 thousand working hours volunteer accumulated since 1990 by the Brigade International Friends of Cuba, existent in the territory.

The foreign students of some 50 nationalities that will parade this May First in Camagüey, will ratify the international support that has to world scale the Cuban Revolution. (Yamylé Fernández Rodríguez).

Camaguey Readies to Celebrate May Day

Camagüey, Apr 23.- For celebrating the International Workers' Day, the youth in Camaguey together with the Cuban Worker’s Central Trade Union (CTC).in this eastern province, have planned several actions including those related to the food production.

For being faithful to the slogan of this May Day celebration, which reads “United, Productive and Efficient”, members of the Communist Youth League (UJC) Provincial Committee will be mobilized for a voluntary work at “La Victoria” Cooperative Farm.

Likewise, members of the Asociación Hermanos Saís (AHS), an organiztion of young artists and writers, and members of “José Martí” Art Instructors Brigade will exhibit their works at a graphic exposition to be held at Mace boulevard on April 29.

The International Workers' Day is a holiday in Cuba, where the working people march in all cities and towns of the island nation endorsing the cause of the Revolution and the leadership of the Communist party. (Loipa Araujo Hernández/Radio Cadena Agramonte).

May Day International Brigade Visits Cuba Late April

CIENFUEGOS, Cuba, April 20 (acn) The 4th May Day International Brigade, made up by more than 200 travelers from several countries, arrives in Cuba at the end of April to participate in celebrations for the workers' day.

Kenia Serrano Puig, ICAP national president, said after participating in the central celebration to mark the date in Havana, the brigade will travel to the city of Cienfuegos, where they will learn aspects about the economic and social life of the province and will be engaged in agricultural work, among other activities.

The program for the visit of the brigade that began in 2006 was coordinated in Cuba by the Friendship Institute (ICAP).

During their stay in the island, from April 27 to May 10, the brigade will also participate in an International Solidarity Meeting organized by the Cuban Workers Federation, said Serrano.

(Visitará brigada de solidaridad varios territorios de Cuba)