South African
leader calls
for increased solidarity with Cuba
Benson Ngqentsu, Brian Bunting
District Secretary of the South African Communist
Party, called on the progressive forces in his
country to support the international solidarity with
Cuba, according to Prensa Latina.
This crusade of international
solidarity in defence of the Cuban Revolution must
ensure a concrete impact on the working class
internationally and also in Washington, Ngqentsu
said.
The political leader explained that
his country will never forget the support of Cubans
in the struggle for the freedom of many countries in
Africa, especially in the fight against apartheid.
The support of Cubans in the 1980s
forced the apartheid regime to realize that the
white minority government was over and that
negotiation for a democratic transition was
inevitable, he reaffirmed.
He further stated that the
international campaign for the freedom of the Cuban
Five and the end of the U.S. economic blockade
against Cuba, which has caused losses of over a
trillion dollars, represent a significant advance
towards an international socialist order. (Taken
from Cuba sí)
