LE BOURGET, France — René González (fourth from right), one of the Cuban 5, five Cuban revolutionaries framed up and imprisoned by the U.S. government for actions in support of the Cuban Revolution, participated in the Fête de l’Humanité here just outside of Paris Sept. 14. González won conditional release in 2011 and returned to Cuba in May 2013.

Along with González, Olga Salanueva (third from right), his wife and a leader of the defense effort, met with Thierry Lepaon (fourth from left), general secretary of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), the main union confederation in France; André Chassaigne (second from left), deputy in the French National Assembly; and others. Each year, tens of thousands attend the Fête, which is organized by the daily newspaper of the French Communist Party, l’Humanité. González spoke to hundreds of people there in a number of meetings, building support for the campaign to free all the Cuban Five.

Supporters of Pathfinder Press, who had a stand in the book fair section of the Fête, sold 87 copies of the French edition of The Cuban Five: Who They Are, Why They Were Framed, Why They Should Be Free. Altogether, participants purchased 155 books, including 15 copies of Thomas Sankara Parle and five copies of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power.