Havana, April 25 (RHC)-- More than 1,440 international delegates have confirmed their participation in activities to celebrate May Day in Cuba.

Solidarity activists are beginning to arrive here from around the world to celebrate International Workers’ Day alongside the Cuban people and demand an end to Washington's nearly sixty-year old blockade of Cuba.

According to the National Secretariat of the Confederation of Cuban Workers (CTC), foreign participants in May Day celebrations here in Cuba belong to some 172 unions and social organizations from 69 countries across the globe that maintain links with the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).

Delegates from the United States, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Argentina and Ecuador, among other nations, have confirmed their participation in this year’s May Day celebrations in Cuba.

Groups from Germany, the UK, France, Austria, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, as well as those from South Africa, Algeria, Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Cameroon, Nigeria, Sudan, Iran and Palestine, are also set to participate.