Once again, the anti-slavery and anti-colonial republic of Haiti must renew the historic cry of Jean-Jacques Dessalines during the siege of Crete in Pierrot from March 4 to 24, 1802. “Let those who want to become slaves of the French again leave the Fort, let those on the contrary who want to die as free men line up around me.”
The time for political decantation has come, the time to sort the wheat from the chaff has come, the time to say no to political opportunism has come, the time to break with sharing the cake has come. stunned, progressives of all stripes must unite to fight the capitulation of politicians in the service of Western imperialism and restore hope to the Haitian people in their fight to reconquer our sovereignty and our national independence.
What is the true meaning of this shameful act of the April 25, 2024 installation?
- It is the consecration of the capitulation of Haitian politicians to perpetuate the neoliberal and neocolonialist capitalist system. The popular masses and the progressive vanguard must take note and note all these gravediggers of the homeland who collaborated with Western imperialism through CARICOM.
- This is confirmation of the policy of exclusion of the popular masses in revolt against the policy of terror of the neo-Duvalierist PHTK regime and its national and international allies.
- It is the manifestation of the desire of Western imperialism to deny the right of the Haitian people to Self-determination.
It should also be the moment to denounce all the political, economic, social and religious sectors which have collaborated with this formula of transition of the collective West through CARICOM and which are calling for a foreign military occupation to continue the plundering of our mineral resources and minerals.
It should also be an opportunity for all progressive Haitians to unite to proclaim the right of the Haitian people to self-determination and non-interference in national political affairs.
It should also be the moment to adapt the cry of Jean Jacques Dessalines to La Crête à Pierrot to this situation of political, economic, social and humanitarian crisis by affirming:
“Let those who want to maintain the domination of Western imperialism over Haiti join the CARICOM presidential council. On the contrary, let those who fight for national sovereignty, national independence and national liberation come together to defeat the neocolonialism plan of the collective West.
This parody of installing a presidential council inspired by a formula from the Caribbean Common Market countries makes us Haitians comedians. How can we imagine for a moment a structure of the presidency created by decree taken by an Interim Prime Minister? How can we imagine an interim Prime Minister, publishing a decree appointing the members of a presidential structure?
What a slap in the face for our heroes of independence, CARICOM, under the supervision of Western colonialist countries, imposing a transition formula on the first anti-slavery republic in the Western hemisphere and the American continent.
As Che Guevara said: “the duty of every revolutionary is to make the revolution”.
The situation is serious! The time has come to denounce the gravediggers of the homeland and the collaborators of Western imperialism. The time has come for the awareness and mobilization of the popular masses to overthrow the neocolonial order and the anti-national state established by the American and French imperialists to establish relations of technical, economic, commercial, cultural and military cooperation, with all other countries fighting against the domination of Western imperialism.
The time has come to demand the restitution of the ransom of independence as we approach the 200th anniversary of this capitulation of the former freedmen of the regime of Jean Pierre Boyer. Let us draw inspiration from our history, from the anti-colonialist and anti-slavery struggles of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries culminating in national independence in 1804.
Let us take inspiration from the Haitian national song of 1898: « Independence is fleeting Without the right to equality! Otherwise, everything becomes ephemeral; No order and no equality! “.
