Paris, July 26 (RHC)-- Members of French solidarity associations, trade unionists, diplomats and Cuban residents greeted Wednesday the National Rebellion Day, 70th anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks in Santiago de Cuba and Bayamo, on July 26, 1953.

Cuban flags and banners in support of the island were raised by the participants in the Parisian mobilization that took place in Jacques-Rueff Square, with the emblematic Eiffel Tower as witness, where they demanded an end to the aggressions against the Caribbean country, its Revolution and its people. 

The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) of Val-de-Marne called the event, supported by organizations such as Cuba Si France, Cuba Coopération France (CubaCoop), Cuba Linda, France Cuba and the National Coordinating Committee of Cuban Residents, to commemorate the date.  

The French Communist Party (PCF) also participated in the event, in which it confirmed the launching of a campaign to reject the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on the island by the United States for more than six decades, an initiative about which more details will be known in September, during the festival la fête de l'Humanité.

"We are here to express solidarity and fraternity with a revolutionary and heroic people," said Cédric Quintin, moderator of the colorful mobilization on the sunny Parisian afternoon.

In addition to condemning the blockade and the genocidal and criminal labels given to that policy, the attendees repudiated the presence of Cuba on Washington's unilateral list of countries sponsoring terrorism and denounced that President Joseph Biden maintains the hostility of his predecessor in the White House, Donald Trump.

Among the interventions of the day were those of Pauline (CGT), Matthieu Bolle-Reddat (CGT), Vincent Govelet (PCF), Michel Taupin (Cuba Si France), Victor Fernandez (CubaCoop), Marie Pierre Pineau (Cuba Linda), Fabrice Leclerc (France Cuba) and Brayan Castillo (Coordinadora de Cubanos Residentes).

The speakers highlighted the resistance of the largest of the Antilles in the face of aggressions and the results of the recently held Summit of the Peoples in Brussels, which called for an International Tribunal to be held in November -in the Belgian capital itself- to denounce and condemn the U.S. blockade.