Haiti

Haiti is experiencing a new social rebellion of great magnitude. Strikes, barricades, demonstrations, looting, and criminal groups are part of the huge economic, social and political crisis that the country is experiencing. By: David Espinoza The current crisis has escalated since Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s September 11 announcement of a fuel price hike. Two days […]

Statement of Workers’ Voice/La Voz De l@s Trabajadores on the current situation at the US border 23 September 2021 Our party stands in solidarity with immigrants from Haiti who are being brutalized by the US capitalist regime, and with the people of Haiti suffering the most recent and acute crises impacting their country. Open the […]

  11 July 2021 Allegedly, the assassination of Haitian ex-president Jovenel Moïse was carried out by a group of foreign actors, the majority of them ex-members of the Colombian army and some U.S. citizens. At least this is the version told by local authorities. But there are still missing pieces to the puzzle in this […]

  By João Pedro Mendonça and Wilson Honório da Silva, translated to English by Carlos Jara Last week, on the 28th and 29th of March, powerful scenes took place at protests in Haiti as the Haitian people opened a new chapter in a long history of struggle against racism, bourgeois authoritarian governments, and imperialist interventions. […]

The world is boiling. To the impressive processes of mobilization crossing Hong King, Lebanon, Iraq, Algeria, Catalonia and other places, we need to add Latin America, now: Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Chile, Honduras, Bolivia.

Last Thursday, February 7, the Haitian President Jovenel Moïse completed two years in office. This fact was met with people’s protests demanding his renunciation. By Catalina Ibarra The massive demonstrations extended throughout the following week, keeping the country paralyzed and on fire. Until now, there have been at least nine deaths due to brutal repression. […]

There is in course a popular rebellion in Haiti, with unpredictable consequences.

The Minustah’s term (United Nations’ Mission for the Stabilization of Haiti) is close to an end. Troops from Brazil and other countries are leaving Haiti and will be replaced by the Minusjuth, with a smaller quota.

Co-optation and Resistance In Haiti, the political and economic climate is decaying by the day: the despicable mess in the institutions of the state contradicting itself continuously and unavoidably indulging in indefensible drifts and miasma; while the so-called “economic recovery” so much advertised has failed to materialize, and the people, in an unimaginable misery, suffer […]

Who remembers there is a small place in the Caribbean Antilles, surrounded by the sea and with no rivers, with about ten million souls whose majority is forced to live in misery, many times without electric light (even because when there is light they cannot afford it), no clean water to wash their hands, no […]

A new tragedy fell over Haiti. The hurricane Matthew left a trace of destruction along the country. The South coast and part of the interior of the West region in the country were strongly hit. The official numbers mention almost 900 deaths, plus 350.000 shelterless. Certainly the real numbers are much worst. Also, there are […]

 The shameful military occupation of Haiti by the UN troops (MINUSTAH) reveals its true face once again. Michael Martelly’s right wing government finishes its term on February 7th, wrapped in a huge political crisis. The fraud attempt on the past elections unleashed a popular rebellion and prevented the second turn on January 24th from happening, […]

It’s a rainy and cold afternoon in São Paulo. Along with Fedo Bakuti, 38, coordinator of the Social Union of Haitian Immigrants (USIH), an association affiliated to CSP-Conlutas, I go to the shelter in which are hundreds of Haitian immigrants that arrive every day at São Paulo.

Millions of dollars entering the country are used to deepen social inequalities, ending up in the hands of big business and international NGOs.

On September 23, 2013, the Constitutional Court in the Dominican Republic issued a ruling that effectively targeted and revoked the Dominican nationality of descendants of Haitian immigrant workers born in the Dominican Republic since 1929 on the ground that these workers were “in transit”.

Interview with a Haitian activist on the Imperialist Occupation of Haiti The New York branch of Workers’ Voice interviewed Kiki Makandal, a One Struggle member in New York City and one of the organizers of Batay Ouvriye Solidarity Network. A longstanding Haitian activist living in New York since 1981, Makandal told us about the struggle of his […]