Haiti - July 2018

"If the president stays one more day... we will cut the routes and burn everything, because we have nothing to lose"

THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR CRY OF THE EXPLOITED OF TORMETED HAITI
An example of struggle for the entire black and world working class
on how to confront the IMF and its governments lackeys

Before so much barbarism imposed by imperialism and its lackey governments, thousands of our black brothers marched on the streets of Haiti to prevent them from being treated worse than the slaves of the 18th and 19th Centuries. They were fed up with starvation, living in tents on the street without having access to a decent house! They were fed up with suffering so many hardships and denigrations, watching their girls going to work in the homes of the rich for food and some education, to end up being enslaved and sexually outraged! They are releasing the hatred created by centuries of martyrdom and oppression. We, the internationalist socialist workers of Zimbabwe with our hearts inflamed by this enormous struggle, feel the uprising of the Haitian brothers as part of our struggle of the liberation of the black working class and the exploited colonies and semi-colonies plundered by the imperialist masters and its junior partners, i.e. the native bourgeoisies.
The African, European and American working classes together with the Latin American masses must rise, marching in the streets supporting the revolutionary struggle of the workers and the people of Haiti!

The anger of thousands of Haitians exploded when the government of President Jovenel Moisey and his Prime Minister, Jack Guy Lafontant, announced a 50% increase of fuel on July 6th. This measure, agreed between the government and IMF in February, means a terrible blow to the already miserable life conditions of the masses, because not only all petroleum products would increase, but also transport and basic products of human subsistence. How not to revolt?! The people of Haiti use coal and kerosene to cook and/or light. It is true that the electricity and gas prices also rose, but these services are only used by the bourgeoisie.

The international press says that this anger, unleashed today with the total justice by the exploited, has been brewing for months "due to the brutality of the neoliberal economic escalation". Added to the "waste of public funds", which has no end. While "there is no restriction on the allocation of subsidies to senators and deputies" who use "recklessly public resources for various sumptuous expenses and extravagant lifestyle of the authorities", in a nation occupied and led by UN troops and its MINUSTAH under the command of the Yankee butchers.

The new uprising began in Port-au-Prince (Capital) and the second most important city in the country was extended to Cap-Haïtien. Barricades were built with stones, burning tires, burning vehicles and rubble. Looting, broken windows, clashes and clashes with security forces. There have been already 6 new martyrs of the world proletariat, fallen in combat.

The bourgeoisie panicked. Its media showed this when they announced that among their ranks reigned "uncertainty and concern." "Many embassies asked their employees not to leave their workplaces given the intensity of demonstrations on the streets" of the revolutionary masses.

 

Before the uprising of the people, the government on July 7th, was forced to a climbdown on the increase of fuel’s prices. However, this did not make the exploited leave the streets, and union and social organizations called for a 48 hour general strike for on July 9 and 10.

From the barricades came messages saying that "President Jovenel must resign". "We are willing to fight, because this is a war." " If the president stays one more day, we will cut the routes and burn everything, because we have nothing to lose. "

They also warned the police not to try any repression, because "they will not be able to resist and in case they cannot catch any police officer who tries to open fire on the demonstrators, their relatives will be attacked in their homes". This is the way to confront the executioners of the people. It is time not to stop the revolutionary action of the workers and the people.
To continue advancing and destroying the citadel of the power of the bourgeoisie. It is time for the masses to conquer their own organizations and weapons to defeat the occupation troops. It is time to raise the power of the exploited. From Zimbabwe we are vibrating with this fight.

From the heart of the black Africans exploited, we tell the world that the way to get our demands is shown by our siblings in Haiti. Long live the spontaneous insurrection of the Haitians exploited! Your fight is our fight!

We, the black exploited, are treated as in Haiti by different imperialist powers. Here, in Africa, every day thousands of exploited are trying to get to Europe to have a decent life.

But they, who plundered our continent and for years have taken our ancestors to sell them as slaves, close the doors of their "civilized" nations and let us drown in the Mediterranean Sea. In the mean time in the United States they lock in cages the children of Mexican immigrants and other Central American countries who seek a less miserable life, while every day the murderous police kill the exploited African-Americans.

"European and North American anti-capitalists" have not yet called on the workers they influence to demonstrate supporting of the Haitian masses. Trade unions still look the other way. But the fight that started is a volcano in eruption and demonstrates -against what the nurses of capitalism hide- that in order to eat you have to rise and fight for everything. Castro regime proclaimed that "socialism does not longer work, not even in Cuba" and ended up delivering the island over to US imperialism, today it sees the uprising of the exploited Haitians beating their noses, which shows that what is not working any longer is capitalism, which it cannot even feed its slaves. That is to say that for the masses to live capitalism and imperialism must die, crushed by the proletarian revolution and the struggle of the workers and poor masses of the countryside and the city seizing power by destroying every last foundation of capitalists’ state.

Rebelled Haiti must triumph! The international working class must support it!

Correspondent of WIL - Zimbabwe