WFTU TRADE UNION
INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE & ALLIED (TUI-PS&A)STATEMENTIN SUPPORT OF CUBA
AGAINST THE USA ORCHESTRATED AND DIRECTED PROTEST AGAINST CUBA
“Workers
of the world unite you have nothing to lose but your chains”
The World Federation
of Trade Unions [WFTU] Trade Union International Public Services and Allied
[TUI PS & A] take this opportunity to denounce in the strongest terms the
latest campaign from the United states of America to subvert and politically
destabilize Cuba and the working class by sponsoring antigovernment protest in
that country in the middle of a devastating pandemic.
The United States is
paying a group of counter revolutionary, mercenaries indirectly through its US
agencies working for regime change and destabilization programs to create
social unrest in the country.
Cuba is being
punished through the illegal, unjust, cruel economic blockade, not because of
lack of human rights on the Island, quite the opposite, the US targets Cuba
because the Cuban government prioritises human rights at home and abroad.
Our Trade Union
movement has been consistently campaigning in all our regions throughout the
world for the US to lift the economic and financial blockade on Cuba,
especially now that Cuba is fighting COVID-19 pandemic not only in Cuba but all
over the world.
Cuba has also
managed to develop its own three vaccines that are now being used in fighting
the pandemic in Cuba and Latin America. We believe it is these achievements
that are fueling the politics of isolating Cuba by Washington as this send a
bad message to other countries that might see Cuba as a shining example.
If the US wants to
help the Cuban population, it must lift the economic blockade, so Cuba could be
able to trade freely, including sourcing the much needed supplies to fight
COVID-19 pandemic.
TUI-PS&A therefore
call upon the all its members and progressive organisations to denounce this
barbaric foreign policy of the United States and support Cuba in its struggles
for national sovereignty and self-determination.
Issued
by Zola Saphetha: General Secretary (WFTU-TUI-PS&A)
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