In the streets on May Day Cuba will not be alone

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Via the Granma and the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish

On May 1st, Cuban squares will serve as platforms where the people of this archipelago, with their proletarian strength, will uphold their right to be a free, independent, sovereign, and peaceful nation.

Joined by hundreds of friends from around the globe who have come to the island to share in the daily resilience of a nation that pushes through every obstacle placed in its way, the working masses will take to the streets with the same determination they’ve shown in signing the "My Signature for the Homeland" in recent days.

It is "the most supportive city on the planet," said Alejandra Chavira from Mexico. "An example that another world different from that of oppression and bombs is possible," said Italian Roberto Forte. Both are part of a group of 70 who, just a few hours ago, strolled through hills and hamlets in the eastern part of the country, immersed in what Michele Curto of the Italian Agency for Cultural and Economic Exchange with Cuba calls “the source that is the Cuban Revolution.”

Curto described it as “the island where we must keep growing,” which is why he gathered activists from Italy, Venezuela, Mexico, the United States, France, Switzerland, and Cubans living abroad. As part of the second May Day solidarity convoy, they visited communities in Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo to get to know the place better.

Meanwhile, in Havana, some people are experiencing and marveling at all that surrounds them. This is what happened this Monday at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, with representatives of the XIX International May Day Brigade of Voluntary Work and Solidarity with Cuba, and the Che Guevara Contingent.

Josefina Guillo, a representative of the Cuba-France Association, emphasized the significance for both herself and the organization to be present on the eve of the International Workers' Day celebrations and the centennial of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz's birth.

"We admire the strength of the Cuban people, their capacity for resistance despite the difficulties," she stressed; and she was joined gratefully by Ian Müller, a member of the student delegation of the Socialist Party of Germany: "The strongest weapon that the Cuban population has is international solidarity and friendship with other peoples."

Alongside the good people of Cuba, they will gather in the squares across the nation. The causes Cuba champions are those of people everywhere. It’s a lesson from Martí that runs in the blood: “Homeland is humanity.”

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