Cuban workers honor Lenin and convoke May Day mobilization
On Havana’s Lenin Hill, a small group of trade union leaders dedicated a floral tribute to the legendary Bolshevik and convoked May Day celebrations at home and in workplaces where essential operations continue

Yenia Silva Correaapril 23, 2020 10:04:08

Fidel and Raul attend inauguration of the Lenin Monument in the Havana park bearing the Russian revolutionary’s name.

Photo: Jorge Oller
Reverence and mobilization – as tributes to great leaders of the historical struggles for social justice should always be – was Cuban workers’ commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of universal proletarian leader Vladimir Ilich Lenin, in whose honor this year’s May Day mobilization was called.

On Havana’s Lenin Hill, a small group of trade union leaders, headed by Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, Party Political Bureau member and general secretary of the Cuban Workers Federation (CTC), dedicated a floral tribute to the legendary Bolshevik, who played a key role in the Russian Revolution, the greatest lesson in the annals of history of what the emancipated working class can achieve in unity of thought and action, guided by socialist principles. Continue reading Cuban workers honor Lenin and convoke May Day mobilization →