Compatriots: Today the homeland is facing the growing hostility of an increasingly aggressive and overbearing empire, bent on ensuring that new neo-colonial, fascist and terrorist expressions prevail.

In response to these acts in violation of international law, we workers together with the people maintain the unshakable decision to be faithful to the legacy of the heroes of the Cuban nation; to continue the battle that successive generations of workers, peasants and students have fought to achieve freedom, independence and social justice, and to preserve and enhance the sacred conquests that we have achieved after the victorious clarion call of January 1, 1959.

In this challenging and complex context, of such transcendence for the nation and humanity as a whole, the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba and its National Unions are calling for a day of mobilisation to celebrate International Workers’ Day on May 1st, confident that this great celebration will constitute a new and forceful demonstration that we Cubans are still standing firm here, on our feet and fighting!

In a massive parade, presided over by the slogan «For Cuba Together We Create», in the José Martí Revolution Square in the capital, as in the whole country, millions of compatriots will ratify our firm conviction that the unity of the people, the unconditional resistance and the will to perfect the Common Work will always be a guarantee of victory.

With the contribution of all, especially the workers, we will advance in the programmes that support the socio-economic transformation and development of the country, focused on satisfying the needs of the people and improving working conditions and wages.

In the materialisation of this purpose, it is necessary to maximise the productive reserves we have, in each sector and job; to consolidate the powers granted to the Socialist State Enterprise and its linkage with the non-state sector, which will contribute to a greater and diversified supply of goods and services, as well as to the growth of income in freely convertible currency. In this direction, food production is vital in order to be as self-sufficient as possible and to reduce the costly and unsustainable import bill.

Workers: These activities are framed in transcendental commemorations: the 130th anniversary of the beginning of the Necessary War led by our National Hero José Martí on February 24, 1895; the 86th anniversary of the founding of the CTC, and its organic process towards the 22nd Congress; and the 66th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

It will also be a special moment to pay committed homage to our Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, an everlasting paradigm of Cuban solidarity with all just causes, eternal guide of this Revolution and its people. At the same time on this day we will continue to demand the lifting of the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the US government against Cuba, intensified with new coercive measures in these early days of its new administration, including the absurd reinclusion of our country in the spurious list of state sponsors of terrorism, all of which significantly affect the welfare of the people, the workers and their families.

This will become a propitious occasion to ratify the rejection of the genocidal war of the Israeli government against the Palestinian people, to raise the banners of solidarity with the international trade union movement and the workers around the world who are being exploited as a consequence of the multidimensional crisis of the capitalist system and its neo-liberal policies.

Dear comrades: We will celebrate the feast of the world proletariat with colourful and militant parades in squares and communities, as an unequivocal demonstration of the majority support of our people for their Revolution, ratifying the priority of participation and commitment of all, in the search for solutions in the economic battle we are fighting, from our own efforts and with the firm and invariable determination to always achieve victory. Long live May Day! Long live international solidarity!

NATIONAL SECRETARIAT CTC 09 MARCH 2025