The Sixth International May Day Brigade sponsored by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), will come to Cuba this week to participate in the ceremony and central parade on the occasion of the International Workers’ Day, which Cuban people, mainly from capital Havana are getting ready for.

This brigade of solidarity is composed of more than 200 members from 27 countries, 150 of them from Latin American nations, reported presidency of ICAP. 

From April 27 through May 7 the brigade members will carry out farm labor, will visit places of historic, social and economic interest, will hold meetings with the Cuban Five’s relatives, will see some documentaries and will receive lectures on the current Cuban reality.

The official program also includes the participation of the brigade in the International Solidarity Meeting to be held on May 2 in the Conventions Center in Havana, along with those foreign delegations who have been invited to the May Day celebrations.

They will also visit the western province of Matanzas, particularly Cienaga de Zapata municipality, where the first military defeat of imperialism U.S took place in Latin America, to know the locals’ living conditions and help them with productive labor.

The May Day Brigade was created in 2006 and composed of more than 130 members from 21 countries who had come to Cuba to share with the Cuban working class on the occasion of its celebration.

According to ICAP’s presidency, each year over 2,000 friends from 20 groups of solidarity and friendship –some composed of over 200 members-–visit our country in order to know the reality of Cuban revolutionary process.

Some of those groups like that so-called the “Venceremos” Brigade, composed of U.S. citizens, from the Nordic nations, from Scandinavia, has more than three decades of work.

A translation by: Silke Paez Carr

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