Heard on CBC that there was a big march in Vancouver as well.A Cuban friend of mine sent me this bulletin from the Prensa Latina news service on the May Day march in Havana today. I have no doubt that the numbers are accurate, having seen a Havana May Day march some years ago.
May Day in Havana -
Cubans in Record Numbers Back Socialism and Oppose Bush Plan
Havana, May 1 (Prensa Latina) "It appears we have a record today,"Cuban President Fidel Castro said in greeting to the millions of Cubans massed at Revolution Square in Havana and the countless plazas across the nation in support of their socialist system on the Island.
One of the early speakers, Cuban workers´ union (CTC) general secretary Pedro Ross, condemned US President George W. Bush´s plan to promote political changes on the Island, scheduled to be announced today by US Secretary of State Colin Powell, and noted that it was response to this threat that brought such record numbers of Cubans to the plazas for May Day.
We don´t know what they are going to invent today, in 45 years they have tried everything said Ross, referring to the many US aggressions against Cuba since 1959, and he continued: "while Cuban workers want to live and work in peace, they are not intimidated by danger and are prepared to resist any preventive war.We will never be slaves again."
Whoever tries to take over Cuba, will confront a fighting people,loyal to Fidel and socialism, the union leader promised, to fervent applause from the more than a million people at the Havana plaza.
Ross also referred to the five Cuban political prisoners held in the United States since 1998, unjustly condemned for trying to prevent acts of terrorism and who are viewed here as supreme examples of firmness and loyalty, "We will not rest until we free them," the CTC leader concluded.
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