Cuban President Raúl Castro was heading the central activities in Havana for International Workers Day, in which hundreds of thousands of Cubans have come out in support of workers around the world and the revolution.
Students, elementary schoolchildren, families, combatants, artists and workers are parading at the José Martí Plaza de la Revolución in Havana and in other squares, streets and avenues throughout Cuba in support of the revolution and its socialist project and was denounce the most recent smear campaign orchestrated by the hegemonic mass media.
President Raúl Castro was accompanied by leaders of the Communist Party of Cuba, of government, of the Union of Young Communists, of mass organizations, of the Central Organization of Trade Unions and invited labor delegations and social movements.
The International Workers Day parades held throughout the island was a demonstration of the Cuban reality, of the will of the people to defend their achievements and independence.

Source: Juventud Rebelde