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MT members were joined by
Che Guevara’s daughter,
Tony Benn and a host of
musicians including the band
behind the Soprano’s theme
song “Woke Up This Morning”,
the Alabama Three, and other
special guests for the seventh
annual RMT Cuba Garden Party.
Aleida Guevara also
addressed the union’s executive
committee before the festivities
and discussed the advances
made by Cuba despite the cruel
and vindictive economic
blockade being carried out by
the United States.
Aleida is the eldest daughter
of four children born to
revolutionary Ernesto "Che"
Guevara. She is a medical
doctor based at the William
Soler Children's Hospital in
Havana and has also worked as
a physician in Angola, Ecuador
and Nicaragua. She is
interviewed about the
philosophy behind universal
health care in Michael Moore's
film Sicko.
RMT general secretary Bob
Crow said that the union was
delighted to be hosting the
event to mark 50 years of the
Cuban Revolution.
“The resilience and
determination of the Cuban
people to defend their
revolution in the teeth of US
hostility for fifty years is a
lesson to us all,” he said.
Tony Benn said tha a loud
and clear message needed to go
from London to Havana that the
“Cuban people are not standing
alone and that our solidarity is
stronger today than it’s ever
been”.
RMT MARKS
50 YEARS OF
THE CUBAN
REVOLUTION
SUPPORT: Jon McDonnell MP
(far right) joined in the
celebrations with Tony Benn and
Jeff Sheares of Thompsons
solicitors
EXECUTIVE: Aleida Guevara with Bob Crow and president John Leach in the
boardroom with the executive committee.