Cuban trade unions - an urgent call to prevent a new holocaust‏

To all trade union organisations worldwide from the Cuban Workers Trade Union Central: In times in which mankind commemorates a new anniversary of the unjustified throwing of atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which caused the immediate death of more than two hundred thousand people, while many other died in the aftermath or suffered as well as their descendants the devastating sequels, serious threats of a new holocaust hangs over a large portion of the world.

The obsessive threats of the superpowers, led by the United States of America, of launching a military attack against Iran, is at the verge of unleashing a nuclear conflict of unprecedented consequences, that would involve the near and far East and would affect the lives and integrity of all the Region, such as pointed out today by Commander Fidel Castro during an extraordinary session of the Cuban Parliament in which he calls on all the principal world leaders to persuade President Obama of not giving the order of beginning the war.

If it becomes difficult for the United States to give up on inspecting the Iranian merchant marine vessels, but we should also bear in mind that Iran would not accept such decision in the most forceful manner, due to their strong patriotic tradition and preparation, that would lead to a bloody war in which thousands of Iranians would die, but thousands of young soldiers of the American marine and many other of nearby nations involved would also die.

The Cuban Workers Trade Union Central in the face of the serious risks faced by quite a large portion of the world in case such a conflict would take place, urgently calls on all Trade Union Organizations around the world, regardless of their Regional or International affiliation for them to join forces in order to persuade the President of the United States for him not to give the order of beginning the actions, and to give peace a new opportunity.

Fidel in his call says: “Only preventing the war the planet could be renovated; the non-renewable resources preserved; climate changes prevented; useful labour of human beings guaranteed; the sick taken care of; the essential knowledge, culture and science serving mankind assured; children, adolescents and youth of the world will not perish in this nuclear holocaust”.

This is a crucial moment for the International Trade Union Movement to convoke Nobel Prize winners of all latitudes, for them to undertake major efforts in persuading the President, another Nobel Prize winner, to be worthy of the early recognition granted to him and to demonstrate with his actions such awarded merit.

CUBAN WORKERS TRADE UNION CENTRAL
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