Speech by the General Secretary of the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC) this May 1st. Celebrations 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, taking place in Havana's Revolution Square with a parade for International Workers' Day.
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00:00Dear General in Army, Raul Castro Cruz, Leader of the Cuban Revolution, Partner, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermudo, First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party and President of the Republic,
00:15combatants of the historical regeneration that honor us with their presence, all compatriots, friends of the world, as Cubans do not fear threats or black males.
00:34That's why they are here, together with us, together with the people, compatriots.
00:44Once again, we are here, across the island, across Cuba, in this historical revolution square, José Martí, to celebrate the International Day of Workers,
00:59where, 25 years ago, the Commander-in-Chief, Fidel Castro Cruz, taught us the most comprehensive definition of revolution that millions of Cubans followed.
01:19Today, we celebrated the International Workers' Day amid a complicated international scenario.
01:25The world suffers a renewed imperialist offensive with neo-fascist expressions that search to redesign the international system
01:39and disregard the principles of peaceful coexistence and sovereign equity among states
01:48and to undermine the conquests of justice and human dignity of the peoples.
01:58So, ahead of this, Cuba will keep its steadfast decision to be loyal to our heroes
02:06and to preserve this homeland that, with a lot of sacrifice and bloodshed of the sons and daughters,
02:17they know how to win, and we will continue fighting, struggling the fight that we wage for the consolidation of our independence, liberty, and social justice.
02:32Thus, we confirmed the people, and the people confirms that within this march for Cuba,
02:45the people we create whose content ratifies the conviction that the main decisive
02:59and that the capacity of doing things differently.
03:05Our commitment is for a future of peace, prosperous, and fair, capable of overcoming the current challenges,
03:16a future of optimism and progress for new generations that are just working with dignity and solidarity.
03:30That future is socialist workers that the revolution keeps steadfast, as always, and it is not a byproduct of a miracle.
03:40It is the result of the contribution of every compatriot, mostly from workers that create and that sustain the development of the country,
03:55that workers that are just focused, and the government is focused on the welfare of the people,
04:02and on the salaries of workers, even though sometimes it is not possible to do it at the pace we wish.
04:12And we are aware that there is a lot to do, and that there are just negative trends that we must eradicate,
04:23including bureaucracy and styles of work that we must improve with discipline, effort, creativity, science, and knowledge.
04:36In that path, we must strive the productive reserves in each sector and each post to consolidate the faculties bestowed to our socialist company state,
04:56and its attachment to the entrepreneurs, to facilitate more offers, and to the growing of currencies.
05:12And so it is vital to boost the production of food, to achieve self-producing as everything, as soon as we can.
05:27And so our struggle, we are aware that the truth and the reason and the justice are on our side,
05:37and we continue demanding the lifting of the inhumane U.S. financial blockade and commercial blockade against Cuba,
05:50which today is tightened up with new cohesive measures, whose negative effects for the people are aggravated with the arbitrary inclusion of our country on January 20th,
06:07to the spurious list of expulsory terrorism.
06:17And our goal is to lead to shortages and destabilize the country and fulfill their failed dream of domain in Cuba.
06:29That's why we express our denunciation to the previous campaign against the Cuban medical programs that Cuba provides for service for over 50 nations,
06:46trying to erase the example of Cuba of humanism, solidarity, and cooperation.
06:52In this way, we reaffirmed the rejection to the genocidal war of Israel against the sons and daughters of Palestine.
07:07So, we express our solidarity with the international trade union and the workers worldwide that suffer from exploitation,
07:19due to the multidimensional crisis of capitalism and its neoliberal policies.
07:29The enemy won't be able to hide out that this celebration of the International Workers Day in Cuba is a new and unique demonstration of the heroic Cuban people to its revolution,
07:52to a revolution that represents its interests, and that with the participation and commitment of all,
08:02seek everyday solutions to the huge challenges imposed by the economic battle that we wage with our own efforts.
08:14And so, we are fully convinced that as the leader of the revolution affirmed general of the army, Raul Castro Rus,
08:26in its key address on the 55th anniversary, we could, we can and we will always be able to have victory.
08:40Long live the first May, long live the international solidarity, ever onward to victory.
08:49Go ahead, compatriots, for our homeland.