Haiti - February 18, 2019
The exploited masses of Haiti return to the streets confronting the government to overthrow it. They fight to get bread facing the occupation forces the UN, the Minusjuhand the murderous police, all servants of imperialism and the IMF
The revolutionary cry of the exploited of Haiti returns!
Out with Moise! Open the road to the workers and socialist revolution!
For a revolutionary provisional government of workers and peasants based on organisms of self-determination!
Out with the IMF! Out with the UN! For the military defeat of the occupation troops of the Minusjuh! Dissolution of the murderous police! Widespread armament of the workers and the organized people in workers and peasants militia!
After the uprisings of July 13th and October-November 2018, the working class started fighting again on February 7th.
The first symptoms of this new cycle of protests were manifested when young people –unhappy with the police action in a land conflict- set fire to the police station in Montrouis, in Artibonite department. The predictable response was the rapid militarization of an otherwise peaceful town, in which the COMI forces moved.
This new insurrection of the workers and the Haitian people broke out before an audit of the Court of Accounts of Haiti was made public. It was presented on February 1 and revealed a series of irregularities between 2008 and 2016 in the management of the funds of the Petrocaribe program. Later, on Tuesday, the Government declared an economic emergency. The court report involves both Moïse government officials and former officials of the administrations of his predecessors Michel Martelly and the late René Préval.
Protesters demand that the government explain the $ 3,800 million embezzlement of the program, which started in June 2005. It is over twice this year's draft budget of 132,000 million gourdes (1,650 million dollars)!
Nine days of struggle after the 33rd anniversary of the escape of the dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier have passed. The repression of the armed forces, UN forces and police has been confronted in the streets has left a dozen dead and wounded.
The masses need to eat; the situation of misery and suffering has taken them to the streets to demand what it is theirs: "food on every dish and money in every pocket" as Moise had promised them. The protests of all sectors have invaded the streets with barricades, fires, looting and clashes with repressive forces; schools and public buildings have been closed.
The US State Department ordered the departure of all the children of its officials and diplomats and approved the departure of non-essential diplomatic personnel such as their adult relatives. They run away like rats. While Moise covers their backs making a call to dialogue stating that it is a "delicate" situation as if that would solve the hunger, unemployment and deaths. On the 16th Moise announced a "package of measures to alleviate the crisis and fight against corruption", cutting the expenses of high officials and public administration, reducing the price of food, opening the discussion for an increase in the minimum wage, but the exploited masses do not stop in their combats and call for mobilization this Sunday and Monday. The exploited Haitian masses want the resignation of Moise!
The Haitian working class with its methods of struggle against imperialism shows how the way to the workers of Venezuela, who must stop the imperialist coup with a new Caracazo and open the way to socialist revolution together with the ruined middle classes arming themselves and expropriating imperialism. For imperialism not to impose defeat throughout Latin America, the US working class must rise up against it, uniting with their class siblings throughout Latin America and paralyzing Trump's war machine, stopping the offensive against all the workers of the continent against the recolonization plan of the US and the IMF.
Out with all Yankee military bases from Latin America!
Freedom to all the detainees in the mobilizations of the Haitians workers and exploited!
Enough with robbery and looting of the nation! For committees of the unemployed workers, organized by the unions to deepen the struggle! Full wages the unemployed until they get a job! Wage increases at the level of the cost of living all Haitian workers!
To conquer bread, water, medicines, houses, hospitals, schools and work with decent wages: BANKS, FACTORIES, LANDS AND ALL CAPITALIST PROPERTIES MUST BE EXPROPRIATED!
Down with the government! No confidence in the bourgeois opposition that at the cost of the hunger of the people want a slice in the millionaire plunder!
For a workers' and peasants' Congress to coordinate and centralize the struggles! The power of the underdogs, the workers and the exploited, must be upheld!
Against what Castro said "socialism does not work in Cuba anymore", while handing over the island to imperialism...
The only way out against poverty, hunger and exploitation and the plundering of the nation is the socialist revolution! |