With the participation of Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution, and Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, the parade for International Workers’ Day took place in the Plaza de la Revolución in this capital.
The date is commemorated with demonstrations throughout the country and with the presence of the country’s highest authorities. As is a tradition, the island’s workers take center stage on this day, along with their families and the general public.
Images of flags, banners, and compact blocks are reproduced in the tired retinas of the worker or young person who stormed their workplaces or schools to celebrate the proletarian holiday with conga lines, domino games, and other initiatives as fertile as the resilient Cuban imagination.
For the Cuban people, characterized by the ability to reinvent themselves in the face of adversity, returning to this setting after two years of forced absence carries profound meanings that transcend their own and foreign symbolism, as well as the cold calculations of the enemy in their intention to suffocate them into a surrender they will never achieve at the level of ideas.
Under the slogan “For Cuba, Together We Create,” the population mobilizes once again in defense of the achievements of the Revolution and in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the proclamation of the concept of Revolution by Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.
