May Day message from Cuba’s CENESEX

By CENESEX (Cuban National Center for Sex Education)

This May Day occurs at a difficult time for just causes around the world.

We see how rights are being rolled back in several countries, and revolutionary forces have had to mobilize to express their resistance to a retrograde, neoliberal, and far-right offensive advancing under the guise of modernity and media manipulation, fueled by the erosion of traditional politics and the exploitation of the exploited working class, which sees the satisfaction of its needs increasingly at a disadvantage.

New powers, allied with the established powers, are consolidating and building consensus against leftist ideas. There are attempts to dilute the class struggle, camouflage exploitation, exclusion, and inequality with “technological” capitalism. Revolutionary ideas are stigmatized, and the identity of those who defend socialist and communist ideas is attacked. In this context, no just cause should be seen as an isolated struggle.

In the face of the advance of neo-fascism and capitalism, of genocide and the economic blockade, as a method of imposition of imperialist power, as has occurred against the Palestinian and Cuban people, and above all, for the class consciousness we must have in our struggle for all rights for all people, the workers and activists of CENESEX will once again be in the Plaza marching in support of the ideal of the Cuban Revolution and socialism, alongside our people on this International Workers’ Day, aware that one cannot fight for a just cause if one is not capable of fighting for all just causes.

Translated by Melinda Butterfield