Haiti

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: United States Oppresses Haitian Masses, Hermina Dumont, 1930
13 Mar 2024
A 1930 essay by Black activist Hermina Dumont Huiswood tells of the bold resistance of the Haitian population to U.S. occupation, and offers hope for the resistance to come in 2024.
Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team
BAP Backgrounder: Haiti Behind the Headlines
13 Mar 2024
The Black Alliance for Peace lays out the reality of the ongoing crisis in Haiti, rejecting the mainstream narrative of a crisis of "gangs".
MOLEGHAF
MOLEGHAF Statement: A call for revolutionary forces to assemble
13 Mar 2024
MOLEGHAF calls for organization and unity among all revolutionary forces in Haiti to combat the capitalist glass and imperialist forces causing the ongoing crisis on the island.
Jeb Sprague , Kit Klarenburg
Secret cable: CIA orchestrated Haiti’s 2004 coup
13 Mar 2024
A classified diplomatic cable obtained by The Grayzone reveals the role of a veteran CIA officer in violently overthrowing Haiti’s popular President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: Haiti’s Appeal to Americans, Pierre Hudicourt, 1922
06 Mar 2024
In 1922 legal scholar Pierre Hudicourt argued that the US military occupation of Haiti was illegal. As Haiti enters the 20th year of another illegal occupation, Hudicourt’s analysis resonates…
Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor
Why is CARICOM Betraying Haiti on Behalf of the U.S.?
06 Mar 2024
The impending occupation of Haiti by Kenya is supported by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) with direct assistance in the mission coming from CARICOM states. The question is, why?
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
STATEMENT: By the Minister for Foreign Affairs of France, Dominique de Villepin, on the situation in Haiti, 25 February 2004
28 Feb 2024
Remembering France’s odious participation in the 2004 coup d’etat in Haiti.
Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor
Haiti: 20 Years After the Coup
28 Feb 2024
Jemima Pierre’s presentation at a forum to commemorate the US-France-Canada-sponsored 2004 coup d’état in Haiti. The forum was hosted by the Center for Caribbean Studies at the University of Toronto…
Joseph Sturgeon
The Exploitation Zone: The Caribbean as a Site of Imperialist Extraction, Western Paradise, and Labor Exploitation
28 Feb 2024
From the moment the first colonizers arrived in the Caribbean, the West has treated the region as a treasure chest for resource extraction and labor exploitation.
MOLEGHAF
MOLEGHAF: Public Statement on the Country's Situation
14 Feb 2024
MOLEGHAF released a statement calling for support of the Haitian masses mobilizing for popular sovereignty and vehemently rejects the continued attempts by the United States and the West to force a…