Cuban leader pays homage to Marx

By New Worker correspondent

Cuban leader Miguel Diaz-Canel paid tribute to Karl Marx at a ceremony at the Marxist thinker’s tomb in Highgate last week. The Cuban president, who was making a stop-over in London following his talks in China, Democratic Korea, Laos and Vietnam, also took the opportunity to hold talks with Jeremy Corbyn and members of the government.

             “We honour one of the great thinkers of humanity, Karl Marx, in his grave at the Highgate Cemetery, for Cuba in the bicentennial year of his birth and the 135 anniversary of his physical absence,” the Cuban president said.

            During his short but busy stay Diaz-Canel held talks with Chancellor Philip Hammond, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and members of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign. The Cuban leader held talks with Karen Lee, the Labour MP who is the coordinator of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cuba in the House of Commons. He also met Baroness Angela Smith, the Labour peer who heads the Multiparty Group for Cuba, and members of the House of Lords that have supported the island through years of blockade and unfair treatment.