Multiple initiatives, including a jump for Fidel by parachutists, marked International Workers’ Day in the 10 municipalities of the territory of Avila.
A jump for Fidel, performed by 11 parachutists – among them a woman Pan-American precision jump champion – in homage to the Leader of the Revolution, who pronounced the Concept of Revolution 25 years ago today, gave more colour to the celebration of the working class in the Máximo Gómez Báez Revolution Square in the city of Ciego de Ávila.
At the end of the beautiful show, Julio Gómez Casanova, first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Party; Alfre Menéndez Pérez, Governor, and other members of the presidency of the longest, most agglutinative and traditional people’s party that extended to the 10 municipalities of the territory of Avila, spoke with its participants.
Minutes before the start of the multitudinous parade, the Doctor in
Fidel Antonio Castro Smirnov, said about the greatest proletarian: «From the height of his morality, defying gravity and obstacles, we wanted to symbolically accompany Fidel and take the sky by storm again in a sincere testimony of love and respect for the eternal rebel, for his life and work, for his people, for all of you, all of you workers».
Addressing the crowd at the provincial act of homage to the proletariat on its day, Niurka Ferrer Castillo, secretary general of the CTC in the territory of Avila, said that with everyone’s contribution, progress will be made in the programmes that support the economic and social transformation of the country.
She said that in order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to strengthen the productive reserves in each workplace, to consolidate the powers granted to the Socialist State Enterprise and its relations with the non-state sector, in whose mutual cooperation food production and the reduction of imports must be strengthened.
With the massive parade by the 15 Trade Unions and the people in general, led by the Heroines and Heroes of Labour of the Republic of Cuba, the May Day activities in the land of Avila do not end, as the initiatives will be extended until the 29th of this month, with a view to commemorating on that day the 130th anniversary of the fall in combat of the National Hero, José Martí.
