CUBA, April 23, 2007.- This year's May Day activities will center on the Cuban peoples' demand for justice and against impunity after Luis Posada Carriles was released in the US, a call made Saturday by the Cuban Workers Federation states. The labor organization calls on all Cubans to participate in the marches to celebrate International Worker's Day and demand the notorious assassin be tried for his crimes. The annual meeting whereby the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) meet with the island's labor movement was presided Saturday by Cuban Workers Confederation, CTC, general- secretary Salvador Valdes Mesa. Jose A. Carrillo Gomez, head of the FAR Political Department, presented the armed forces report to the workers. The idea of the armed forces reporting to the workers, a tradition during the Cuban revolution, is unprecedented and considered a motive of pride for Cuban workers. Carrillo said the 2006 account includes, "The significant advances obtained in preparing the country for defense, thanks to the effort of the members of our institution and the entire nation." The CTC National Secretariat report to the membership was also approved at the meeting by the plenary of the organization. It covered the implementation of the tasks since last year's 19th CTC Congress. (Cubaminrex-RHC)
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