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People march in the May Day parade at Revolution Square, in Havana, Cuba in 2016
CWU general secretary Dave Ward pledged increased union support for Cuba at the union’s annual conference today.
Mr Ward told a fringe meeting in Bournemouth organised by the Cuba Solidarity Campaign that, despite reorganisation within the CWU, “things like our international work aren’t going to become less important. They need to become more important.”
He spoke of the CWU’s “responsibility in the wider movement” and his hope that the union would be able to “take inspiration” from the Cuban people’s struggles: against dictatorship before the revolution and against the US blockade ever since.
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