Kathmandu. The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) campaigns for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade, which mobilizes the Cuban Doctors in the service of poor and needy people in other countries without any self-interest.
The global network of the Trade Unions all over the world, WFTU, has issued an open letter calling all of its affiliates and friendly organizations to campaign for the 2021 Nobel Prize. A global campaign is running all over the world demanding the coming year’s Nobel Prize for the brave Cuban Doctors who are serving dozens of countries at the time of adversity without any fear and self-interest.
Full text of the open letter:
OPEN LETTER OF THE WFTU SECRETARIAT TO OUR AFFILIATES, FRIENDS, AND WORKERS OF THE WHOLE WORLD
2021 Nobel Peace Prize for Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade!
“Our country does not drop bombs on other peoples, nor does it send thousands of planes to bomb cities. Our country does not possess nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, or biological weapons. Our country’s tens of thousands of scientists and doctors have been educated in the idea of saving lives.”
– Fidel Castro
Dear colleagues, brothers and sisters of the world working class,
The World Federation of Trade Unions salutes its members, friends and simple workers around the world who have been struggling day by day for their survival, for the defense of their labor rights, for having a human life in the midst of unprecedented pandemic conditions.
The workers of the capitalist countries, since the outbreak of the pandemic, not only have been counting their deads but also have seen in the most blatant way the inhumanity of the bourgeois governments, which without any hesitations did not
take effective measures for the protection of the people, so that the big capital, the bosses, would gain even more. The countless dead in the USA, Brazil, Italy and Colombia, as well as in other countries, are witnesses to the crimes of their governments against their own peoples.
However, despite the pain and grief, we workers have proudly seen the solidarity and selfless spirit of the heroes of the working class, of the medical personnel who are waging the battle against the pandemic on a daily basis across the planet.
With that in mind, we consider as the highest expression of humanity and internationalist solidarity the contribution made with selflessness by the Cuban medical brigades that for 60 years have been providing services in almost the whole world with an altruistic, solidary and humanitarian work; in particular, the Henry Reeve Contingent, founded by Fidel, with the purpose of saving lives in times of disasters, epidemics, pandemics and other events that require Cuban medical and
paramedical assistance.
For this reason, we consider it very important that the affiliated organizations of the WFTU, each militant union, demand that the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize be awarded to the International Health Contingent “Henry Reeve” of Cuba! In this
way, the prize will be awarded to a group that truly contributes and works for the good of humanity and not for the objectives of the imperialists. At the same time, a global response will be given to those who cannot accept that a small and blocked country in the target of international imperialism can offer such a great service to humanity.
Therefore, we call upon every union to send solidarity resolutions, statements and declarations, in which it will demand that the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize be awarded to the Cuban Medical Brigades, via the following e-mail: info@wftucentral.org All documents will be published on the WFTU website.
Long live international solidarity!
The WFTU Secretariat
Athens, Greece,
8 August 2020
