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“Down with the Occupation, Down with the
Reconstruction Plan, Long Live a Socialist
State.” Demonstrators march in 1990 on sixth
anniversary of the occupation of Haiti by United
Nations forces (MINUSTAH) on behalf of U.S.
imperialism.
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Articles From
Haiti
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Unite
with Dominican and U.S. Workers
to Defeat Imperialist Attack!
Revolt
in Haiti
Against
IMF-Dictated
Austerity
On
July 6 while Haitians
were glued to the TV
sets watching the
World Cup, the
right-wing government
announced that,
effective the next
day, it was raising
fuel prices by up to
50%. In Haiti, a
deeply impoverished
country, that spelled
disaster for several
million people living
on the edge of
survival. And it was
ordered straight from
Washington. To no
one’s surprise but
that of Haiti’s rulers
and their imperialist
overlords in the U.S.,
the country exploded
in protest. In less
than 24 hours the
government announced
the “suspension” of
the fuel price hike
“until further
notice.” But that
didn’t stop the
popular uprising, as a
general strike shut
down transportation
nationwide. It was the
biggest upheaval in
Haiti in years. The
July uprising staved
off the imposition of
the IMF-dictated fuel
price hike … for now.
But given the powerful
array of forces
determined to keep
Haiti under the
imperialist boot, the
Haitian masses cannot
win on their
own. Building
proletarian opposition
in major industrial
countries, from Brazil
to the U.S., is how to
stop the arrogant
imperialist economists
from foisting their
“soak the poor”
policies on Haiti. But
such a class struggle
requires revolutionary
internationalist
leadership. Revolt
in Haiti Against
IMF-Dictated
Austerity
(August 2018)
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For
Workers Action
to Smash Trump
Racism, and to
Block the
Capitalist
Deportation
Machine Obama
Built
LET HAITIANS STAY!
Full
Citizenship
Rights for All
Immigrants!
Donald
Trump’s racist
smear of
immigrants
from Haiti and
Africa as well
as El
Salvador,
calling their
homelands
“shithole”
countries, has
enraged
millions. His
vile words are
not just an
insult, they
are an
expression of
his criminal
cancellation
of Temporary
Protected
Status (TPS)
for Haitians,
Salvadorans,
Nicaraguans
and soon
Hondurans,
leading to
mass
deportations
of tens of
thousands of
immigrants.
The racist
rhetoric is
tied to racist
policies , and
it’s not just
the white
supremacist in
the White
House who is
an enemy of
immigrants.
Remember that
Democrat Obama
paved the way
for Republican
Trump by
deporting a
record 5+
million
immigrants
(over 8
million if you
include the
“voluntary
departures”).
The hated
I.C.E. police
are part of a
bipartisan
capitalist
deportation
machine.
Class-conscious
working people
and defenders
of democratic
rights must
not only
denounce
Trump’s
blatant
racism, but
also call for
mass
worker/immigrant
action to
block
deportations,
to stop the
attacks on TPS
and DACA, and
to demand full
citizenship
rights for all
immigrants! LET
HAITIANS STAY!
(19 January
2018)
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U.N. Get Out!
Unite with Dominican and U.S.
Workers to Smash Imperialism!
Haitian
Workers Brave Repression
in Fight Against
Starvation Wages
On
May 19, workers in several
plants in the SONAPI industrial
park in the Haitian capital of
Port-au-Prince walked out
demanding a raise of the minimum
wage, presently around U.S.
$5.50, to US$12.60 a day. More
than doubling the present rate
would not even remotely be
enough to live on. But just to
win such minimal demands and to
combat the starvation wages
imposed on Haitian workers by
imperialist capitalism requires
active solidarity by labor and
working people in the United
States. In 2009, the U.S.
embassy mounted a major
operation to roll back an
attempt to raise the minimum
wage. And when she was secretary
of state, Hillary Clinton
siphoned off millions in
earthquake relief funds to fund
construction of a sweatshop by a
notorious South Korean
wage-gouger and union-buster.
Major retailers make
superprofits based on the
superexploitation of Haitian
garment workers because Wall
Street and Washington want it
that way. Every turning point in
Haiti’s history was the result
of events in the imperialist
centers, and it is there that
crucial fights in the next
Haitian revolution will be
fought. The Internationalist
Group and League for the Fourth
International have paid
particular attention to Haiti
since our inception. In every
struggle, we seek to lay the
basis for revolutionary workers
parties on both sides of the
border that divides Haiti and
the Dominican Republic, in the
heart of U.S. imperialism and
internationally. Haitian
Workers Brave Repression in
Fight Against Starvation Wages
(26 June 2017)
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Stop Exclusion and
Deportation of Haitians!
Full Citizenship Rights for All
Immigrants!
Haiti
Hurricane Disaster: Workers
Revolution the Answer
On September 21, the
Department of Homeland Security
announced that it was resuming
deportations of Haitians from the U.S.
In response, the Internationalist
Group and League for the Fourth
International called for
internationally coordinated protests.
The resumption of deportations was a
cynical election ploy to bolster the
chances of Democrat Hillary Clinton,
by heading off the spectre of an
influx of Haitian immigrants that
could be exploited by Republican
Trump. In fact, both capitalist
parties are enemies of immigrants.
Ever since the birth of Haiti, U.S.
imperialism has treated Haiti as a
neo-colony, installing and removing
presidents, using and disposing of
Haitian workers as cheap labor, arming
war lords and death squads and
periodically invading, as it did in
2010 in the guise of disaster relief.
Beyond the endless abuses and
invasions by U.S. imperialism, the
torment of Haiti is the result of the
relentless workings of imperialist
capitalism in its semi-colonies. The
League for the Fourth International
calls for Haitian-Dominican workers
revolution in a voluntary socialist
federation of the Caribbean. Haiti
Hurricane Disaster: Workers
Revolution the Answer (20
October 2016)
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Protests in
U.S., Mexico and Brazil Demand:
Stop
Exclusion of Haitians!
Stop All Deportations!
Occupation Troops Out of Haiti!
The
Internationalist No. 45 (September-October
2016)
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Down with the Racist
Dominican Nationality Law –
For Haitian-Dominican Workers
Solidarity
Stop Expulsion of
Haitians from the
Dominican Republic
In the U.S.
and D.R.: Full
Citizenship Rights for
All!
For
Workers Mobilization
Against Deportations and
Racist Attacks
Beginning this week, the
government of the Dominican
Republic intends to start
mass expulsion of Haitians
and Dominicans of Haitian
descent. Based on a racist
nationality law, hundreds of
thousands of Dominicans have
been deprived of their
citizenship and are at risk
of being seized on the
street, at their workplace
or in their homes in
desperately poor bateyes
(shantytowns), and dumped
across the border in Haiti.
An emergency protest was
held on June 15 outside the
Dominican Consulate in New
York City where
Internationalists called for
workers action against the
deportations, and for full
citizenship rights for all
living in the Dominican
Republic ... and the United
States. Dominican-Haitian
tensions are fueled by U.S.
imperialism, which set up
the system of importing
Haitian workers to toil on
sugar plantations with no
rights. Washington also set
up the Dominican border
police as part of
militarization of U.S.
borders. The struggle for
Haitian-Dominican workers
unity can begin in New York
City where hundreds of
thousands of Dominicans and
Haitians are also subject to
racist immigration laws.
Stop
Expulsion of Haitians from
the Dominican Republic
(16 June 2015)
Bronx
Protests Against the
Deportations of Dominicans
with Haitian ancestry and
Haitian migrants (30 June
2015)
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¡Abajo la racista ley dominicana
de nacionalidad!
¡Solidaridad obrera haitiano-dominicana!
¡Alto a la
expulsión de haitianos de la República
Dominicana!
En EE.UU. y en RD: Plenos derechos de
ciudadanía para todos
Movilización obrera contra las
deportaciones y los ataques racistas
A partir de esta semana, el gobierno de la
República Dominicana pretende iniciar la
expulsión en masa de haitianos y dominicanos
de ascendencia haitiana. Sobre la base de una
racista ley de nacionalidad, cientos de miles
de dominicanos han sido despojados de su
ciudadanía y corren el riesgo de ser detenidos
en la calle, en sus centros de trabajo o en
sus casas en los terriblemente pobres bateyes
en que habitan, para ser arrojados al otro
lado de la frontera con Haití. Una protesta de
emergencia fue realizada el 15 de junio frente
al consulado dominicano en Nueva York donde
los internacionalistas llamamos a favor de
acción obrera contra las deportaciones y
exigimos plenos derechos de ciudadanía para
todos los que residen en la República
Dominicana ... y en Estados Unidos. Las
tensiones entre dominicanos y haitianos son
azuzadas por el imperialismo norteamericano,
que erigió el sistema de importación de
trabajadores haitianos para realizar las
labores más duras en la República Dominicana,
careciendo de derecho alguno. Asimismo,
Washington estableció la policía fronteriza
dominicana como parte de su empeño para
militarizar las fronteras norteamericanas. La
lucha por la solidaridad obrera
haitiano-dominicana puede originarse es
precisamente la ciudad de Nueva York, donde
cientos de miles de inmigrantes dominicanos y
haitianos carecen por igual de derechos en
virtud de las racistas leyes migratorias. ¡Alto
a la expulsión de haitianos de la República
Dominicana! (16 de junio 2015)
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Drive Out the MINUSTAH! Workers
to Power!
Haiti: Women Workers Strike
Against Starvation Wages
U.S.
Unions Must Join the Battle
This week the anger of workers in Haiti’s
export garment industry over their miserable
wages finally boiled over. On December 10,
hundreds of workers gathered at the industrial
park outside the capital to demand, as they
have for months, a minimum wage of US$11.50
per day. They cannot live on their present pay
of $5 a day. As the workers, mostly young
women, marched into the city brandishing tree
branches, their numbers swelled. The next day
they were blocked by riot police when they
tried to march on the upscale town where
Haitian president Michel Martelly lives. On
December 12, the bosses locked them out. The
workers face bitter opposition not only from
the profit-gouging factory owners, but also
from Haiti’s bourgeois government, their
imperialist patrons in the U.S. embassy and
the MINUSTAH mercenary troops occupying the
country since 2004. What’s needed is the
mobilization of workers’ power in class
struggle, but not just Haitian workers. To
prevent manufacturers from simply shifting
production to even lower-wage countries, it
would require active support action by U.S.
unions. Against the solid wall of capital, the
only road out of grinding poverty for the
Haitian masses is an international struggle
for socialist revolution, together with
Dominican workers and peasants next door and
with workers in the U.S. imperialist
heartland. Haiti:
Women Workers Strike Against Starvation
Wages (12 December 2013)
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No to
Imperialist Occupation – U.S./U.N.
Forces Out!
Haiti Earthquake:
Capitalism, Occupation and Revolution
The earthquake
that wrecked the capital of Haiti and
surrounding areas on January 12 produced
human tragedy of almost unfathomable
proportions. It has been termed “the most
destructive natural disaster in modern
times.” Five months later, Haiti is no
longer in the headlines or on the nightly
TV news, but for the hard-hit Haitian
population the scene has hardly changed.
Now a new disaster is in the making as the
hurricane season begins. This was a
calamity made by capitalism: the
earthquake was predictable and was
predicted; the inferior construction
methods are the result of Haiti’s poverty,
and the swollen slums were the result of
U.S. policies that have destroyed Haitian
agriculture, forcing peasants off the
land. On top of everything, Haiti is under
imperialist occupation: Washington makes
sure it has ultimate control of the
strategically placed island, as it has
throughout the Cold War and since. Haiti's
devastation is not the result of “natural”
causes or even “neo-liberal” policies – it
is the product of the oppression of this
semi-colonial country by the imperial
masters ever since black slaves rose up to
abolish slavery and throw out the
colonialists two centuries ago. No new
“economic model” can resolve this: what’s
required is a new Haitian Revolution, a
workers revolution overthrowing capitalism
throughout the Caribbean and extending
into the heart of imperialism. Haiti
Earthquake: Capitalism, Occupation
and Revolution (2 July 2010)
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Repentant Social Imperialists
Open Letter from the Internationalist
Group
to the Spartacist League and ICL
The Spartacist League/U.S. and the
International Communist League it leads
are in deep political trouble. On April
27, the International Executive Committee
of the ICL issued a statement “Repudiating
Our Position on Haiti Earthquake,”
headlined “A Capitulation to U.S.
Imperialism.” After three months of
“zealous apologies for the U.S.
imperialist military intervention” in the
name of humanitarian aid, the ICL suddenly
declared that this was a fundamental
“betrayal” and the Internationalist Group
had been right all along in demanding
U.S./U.N. troops out. While agreeing with
the IG’s characterization of the ICL’s
policy as “social-imperialist” and calling
for a “savage indictment” of its own line,
the ICL’s explanation for this betrayal –
failure to have a formal discussion –
doesn’t answer how an entire organization
which proclaims itself revolutionary
Marxist and Trotskyist could swallow this
support for imperialism for months. Its
origins can be found in years of
capitulation to U.S. imperialism, notably
by abandoning the call for its defeat in
the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. The Open
Letter by the Internationalist Group urges
those in the ICL who do not wish to
continue gyrating in centrist confusion to
examine the real record of their
organization’s adaptations and
capitulations to “its own” bourgeoisie
over the past years. Open
Letter from the IG/LFI to the SL/ICL (8 May 2010)
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No to the Imperialist
Occupation – U.S./U.N. Forces Out!
U.S. Puts
Haiti into Receivership
(Under Gouverneur
Bill Clinton)
The Obama administration
saw the Haiti earthquake as a
golden opportunity to repair the
U.S.’ image, badly tarnished by
the imperialist war and occupation
of Iraq and Afghanistan. The
Democrats in power in Washington
would pose as leaders of a
people-friendly empire, in
contrast to the Darth Vader-like
Republican regime of George Bush
II. But behind all the talk of
“helping” Haiti, what they
actually did was what Yankee
imperialists always do: send
paratroops to occupy the Haitian
capital and “secure” the country
against unrest. From its control
of air traffic at the
Port-au-Prince airport the U.S.
military actively blocked aid from
reaching the Haitian people,
likely resulting in thousands of
deaths. Longer term, the U.S.
wants to tighten imperialist
control of the strategically
located country, occupied since
2004 at Washington’s behest by a
United Nations mercenary force. At
a March 31 “donors conference” at
the U.N. , a Haiti Interim
Reconstruction Committee (HIRC)
was set up to be in charge of
rebuilding the country, displacing
the Haitian government. Former
U.S. president William Jefferson
Clinton will be the neocolonial gouverneur
of Haiti on behalf of Washington
and Wall Street. U.S.
Puts Haiti into Receivership
(11 April
2010)
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Trying to Justify
Support for U.S. Invasion
SL Twists
and Turns on Haiti
In the wake of the earthquake
that devastated Haiti’s capital, as
Washington sent thousands of U.S.
combat troops and a naval armada to
secure the country, the Spartacist
League ostentatiously declared it
was not calling for
withdrawal of U.S. and U.N. military
forces. The SL claimed they were
essential to distributing aid when
in fact the U.S. military was
actively blocking relief flights and
refusing to release aid. While
peddling the Pentagon's cover story
for U.S. reoccupation of the
country, in four successive articles
the SL hysterically denounced the
Internationalist Group for demanding
that the U.S./U.N. occupation forces
get out of Haiti. After trying for
weeks to depict the 82nd Airborne
paratroopers as humanitarian aid
workers, the SL now calls
for U.S. troops out now -- but not then,
when it was necessary to combat
illusions in the imperialist
occupiers. We systematically take
apart the SL's amalgams, straw men,
baits, non sequiturs and
smokescreens. Its grotesque apology
for U.S. imperialism reflects the
politics of Max Shachtman, not Leon
Trotsky. SL
Twists
and Turns on Haiti (9 April
2010)
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Spartacist
League Backs U.S. Imperialist
Invasion of Haiti
The
latest issue of Workers
Vanguard, newspaper of
the Spartacist League, has a
front-page story that supports
the presence of United States
and UnitedNations occupation
troops in Haiti. WV
buys the U.S. rulers’ cover
story for their latest
invasion as supposedly aiding
the desperate Haitian masses
left homeless, hungry and in
dire need of medical attention
in the wake of the devastating
earthquake. The article ends
with an apoplectic attack on
the Internationalist Group for
exposing the imperialist lies
and demanding “U.S./U.N.
Forces Get Out!” This is a
deeply significant step for
the SL, marking the point at
which they have gone over from
bending under pressure from
the ruling class to outright
apology for imperialism.
Spartacist
League Backs U.S. Imperialist
Invasion of Haiti (30
January 2010)
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Kick
U.N., U.S. and Brazilian Occupation
Troops Out of Haiti!
LQB Says:
Workers Solidarity, Yes!
Military
Occupation, No!
The
Liga Quarta
Internacionalista do
Brasil, section of the
League for the Fourth
International, has
published a special
issue of its newspaper
Vanguarda Oper?ria
devoted to Haiti and the
LQB's fight for the
expulsion of the
Brazilian expeditionary
force commanding the
U.N. troops occupying
the Caribbean island
nation on behalf of U.S.
imperialism. In the
introduction (translated
here) to this collection
of articles, the LQB
notes that “left-wing”
bourgeois Latin American
governments headed by
Lula in Brazil, Morales
in Bolivia and Correa in
Ecuador have been
collaborating with
imperialism as its
flunkeys and “capit?es
de mato” (slave
catchers), in repressing
the combative Haitian
population. LQB
Says: Workers
Solidarity, Yes!
Military Occupation, No!
(26
January 2010)
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Washington
Exploits Earthquake to Reoccupy the
Country
Haiti: Workers
Solidarity, Yes!
Imperialist
Occupation,
No!
Stop Blocking Aid to
Haitian People – U.S./U.N. Forces Get
Out!
The January 12 earthquake
in Haiti that devastated the
capital city, leaving well over
100,000 dead and a million
homeless, was one of the worst
geological calamities of modern
times. The earthquake was a
natural disaster, but the
horrendous death toll and
monumental destruction were caused
by capitalism and imperialism. Now
the human suffering has been
enormously compounded by to the
militarization of the relief
effort and reoccupation of Haiti
by the United States. More than a
dozen flights by aid groups,
carrying rescue squads, tons of
medical supplies and entire field
hospitals, were refused permission
to land at the Port-au-Prince
airport by U.S. military air
controllers who are now in charge.
Food was already stocked in
warehouses, but agencies refused
to distribute it for fear of
“riots.” The media blitz is a
propaganda war to embellish the
image of U.S. imperialism. This
phony humanitarianism are being
used to disguise a new U.S.
occupation of Haiti. We demand an
end to the imperialist occupation,
U.S./U.N. forces get out of Haiti
and stop blocking entry of Haitian
refugees. Haiti:Workers
Solidarity, Yes! Imperialist
Occupation, No! (20 January 2010)
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Drive Out the MINUSTAH!
Workers to Power!
Haiti: Battle Over Starvation
Wages and Neocolonial Occupation
Haiti,
home of the first successful slave revolution in
history, has for most of its independent history
been condemned by the workings of the capitalist
system to a threadbare existence of grinding
poverty. For years, the only images of Haiti
have been of sheer desperation. But Haiti does
have a working class, and in August these
workers fought an important battle against
starvation wages. In the end, the Haitian
parliament rejected the call for a US$5 daily
minimum wage in the face of opposition by the
president and industrialists. It was a bitter
defeat for the first major working-class
mobilization under the U.N. occupation. But
workers confronted the “peacekeeping” troops of
the MINUSTAH who act as mercenaries for U.S.
imperialism. The Brazilian military has carried
out massacres in Haiti with the same
“counterinsurgency” tactics it uses in the slums
of Rio de Janeiro. Meanwhile, in the neighboring
Dominican Republic, racist violence against
Haitians is mounting, including lynchings. The
U.S. and Brazilian sections of the League for
the Fourth International have been active
defending Haitian workers in Haiti and the
Dominican Republic. Haiti:
Battle
Over Starvation Wages and Neocolonial
Occupation (October 2009)
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Initiative for
Haitian-Dominican Solidarity Against
Deportations
New York Protest Against
Persecution of Haitian Workers in
the Dominican Republic
On
August 7, more than 75 people joined in an
emergency picket in New York City,
organized by an Initiative for
Haitian-Dominican Solidarity Against
Deportations. This was the first time in
recent years that groups representing
immigrants from both sides of the
Caribbean island and other defenders of
immigrants rights joined together in
protest against the racist treatment of
Haitians in the Dominican Republic. For
decades, the Dominican ruling class has
extracted superprofits from the near-slave
labor of Haitian workers. Then after
viciously exploiting them, the Dominican
bosses call in the military to dump them
back across the border. The protest
was sparked by statements to the press by
the Dominican director of immigration that
Haitian immigration had become
“unbearable,” that recent immigrants
should “return to Haiti” and that
Dominican president Leonel Fernández
should make this a priority in his third
term, beginning August 16. The protesters
declared that everyone, in the U.S. as
well as the D.R. should have equal rights.
The Internationalist Group has
regularly participated in monthly protests
initiated by Grassroots Haiti in front of
the Dominican consulate, and in organizing
the August 7 united-front initiative. The protest received prominent
coverage in Dominican and Puerto Rican
newspapers. NYC
Protest
Against Persecution of Haitian Workers in
Dominican Republic (August 2008)
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Imperialist
Occupation: Massacres and Sham Elections
Kick
the
U.N. Out of Haiti!
Forge a
Revolutionary Workers Party!
On February 7, Haitians
went massively to the polls in an election that
the United Nations occupation forces hoped would
bring stability to the turbulent country.
The leading candidate in the presidential
race is René Préval, supported by the
Lavalas movement of ousted president
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was hustled out of
Haiti by U.S. invaders two years ago. Préval ran on the Lespwa
(Hope) ticket, yet the Haitian masses’ hopes in
him will be in vain. Indeed, U.S. and U.N.
officials asked him to run in order to entice
Lavalas supporters into the “political
process.” No elections are going to
provide “stability” for Haiti or resolve any
fundamental issue. Despite all the hoopla about
“democracy” and illusions in Préval, the
president will only be a front-man for colonial
occupation, beholden to the U.S. and the
rapacious Haitian bourgeoisie, and will not
raise the Haitian masses out of desperate
poverty. Haitian working people
and the poor should join with their allies around
the world to drive the imperialist occupation
forces in U.N. blue helmets out of Haiti. A
permanent revolution is required extending
to the Dominican Republic next door and ultimately
to the imperialist heartland. Kick
the
U.N. Out of Haiti! (10 February 2006)
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Attempted
Election
Theft in Haiti
A week after Haiti’s
presidential elections, no victor has been
proclaimed and the Haitian masses are rising up
in protest. On February 11 and 12, hundreds of
thousands of people poured out of the slums to
march on the presidential palace. Barricades
went up in cities and on main roads around the
country. U.N. occupation troops opened fire on a
crowd, killing at least one demonstrator. There
is no doubt that the vote counting has been
rigged. With open confrontation in the streets
over the attempt by right-wing reactionaries to
steal the election, revolutionary Marxists stand
on the side of the vast mass of poor black
Haitians against the occupation forces and
police on the other side of the barricades,
while giving no political support to Préval and
Aristide. What is needed is a class
mobilization of the workers to lead the urban
and rural poor against their exploiters and
oppressors. Attempted
Election
Theft in Haiti (14 February 2006)
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How
the U.S. Orchestrated Haiti Death Squad Coup
Stop Persecution of Haitian
Workers in the Dominican Republic!
Since last May, a wave of racist
and xenophobic (anti-foreigner) violence has
swept over the Dominican Republic, instigated by
the Dominican government, targeting Haitian
immigrant workers as well as dark-skinned
Dominicans of Haitian descent. At least 20,000
men, women and children were rounded up by
soldiers and summarily deported to Haiti. In
addition, at least a score of blacks have been
murdered by lynch mobs. Since early January, the
anti-Haitian persecution has intensified with
Dominican troops lining the border, more
deportations and mob violence. While the
Dominican and Haitian left are mired in
nationalism, class-conscious Dominican workers
should take the lead in defending Haitians
against this chauvinist onslaught. Stop
Persecution
of Haitian Workers in the Dominican Republic!
(31 January
2006)
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Imperialist-Engineered
Coup Backed by the U.N.
U.S. and France Impose New
Colonial Occupation
Throw the
Imperialists Out of Haiti!
At dawn on Sunday, February
29, Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was
forced from office under intense pressure from
Washington, bundled aboard a U.S. plane and
removed from Haiti, not knowing where he was being
taken. Shortly after, the
first U.S. Marines arrived, seconded by soldiers
brought in from France’s Caribbean colonies. The
U.N. Security Council gave its blessing to the
Franco-American condominium. This episode opened a “new chapter” in
Haiti’s relations with the imperialist powers
, as U.S. president Bush put it, namely a joint
occupation by its former colonial masters. Gone
are the tactical differences between the
imperialist rivals over the Iraq invasion, and the
Haitian masses will pay the price. In the guise
of “peacekeeping,”a new “death squad democracy” has been
installed. But resistance by the Haitian working
people and working-class action against the
occupation in the U.S. and Europe could turn Haiti
into a tropical hell for
the imperialists. Throw
the Imperialists Out of Haiti! (1 March
2004)
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Combat
the Coup Plotters – No Political Support to
Aristide!
Organize Worker-Led
Resistance Against Death Squad Invaders!
Over the last three weeks,
murderous right-wing rebels have launched an armed
coup d’état against the Aristide government, once
backed by the Democratic Clinton administration.
The armed plotters are allied with a “democratic”
opposition, covertly financed by the Republican
Bush regime. Meanwhile, the impoverished
population has been ground down by Aristide’s anti-worker
austerity and privatization policies, carried out
on orders from the International Monetary Fund. Working people should not politically
support either side in the dispute between a
threadbare imperialist-installed populist regime
and a squalid imperialist-backed unpopular-front
opposition. What is urgently needed is
class-struggle workers action, in both Haiti and
the neighboring Dominican Republic, and building
revolutionary workers parties opposed to all the
bourgeois parties of the U.S. puppet regimes. Organize
Workers Resistance Against Death Squad Invaders!
(28 February 2004)
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