Haiti

Haitian Unity Day cheered

Boston held its annual Haitian Unity Day Parade on May 20, celebrating the victory of the 1804 Haitian Revolution. This…

May 24, 2018

Haitians demand: ‘Trump must go!’

Washington, D.C. — Haitians and their supporters rallied in front of the White House on May 19 to protest Trump’s racism and…

May 24, 2018

Haitians protest Trump, racism

More than 200 Haitians and their supporters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on April 20 to say NO! to Trump.…

April 27, 2018

Bus drivers’ leader on Trump’s attacks on Haitians

WW correspondent Sam Ordóñez interviewed André François, president of the United Steelworkers, Local 8751, which represents the Boston and Randolph…

January 29, 2018

How Haiti helped build Philadelphia

The wealth produced by enslaved Africans in Haiti, Guadeloupe and Martinique made French capitalists rich. Even before the 1789 bourgeois…

January 21, 2018

Haitians protest U.S. treatment

Throughout the world, Haitian communities on Jan. 12 commemorated with grief and anger the eighth anniversary of the catastrophic 2010…

January 15, 2018

Haitians to march on Trump

A number of Haitian groups and progressives came together here on Jan. 13 in the office of the newspaper Haïti-Liberté…

January 15, 2018

Trump lied: U.S. to end legal protection of Haitian migrants

Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Elaine Duke announced on Nov. 20 that 59,000 Haitians would lose their…

November 27, 2017

Protests against tax hikes rock Haiti

A series of militant demonstrations took place throughout Haiti in September and October. At first, the target of the protests…

November 10, 2017

Haitians hold popular uprising against new budget

While hurricanes Harvey and Maria didn’t strike Haiti, Hurricane Irma gave the country a glancing blow mainly in the northwest,…

October 8, 2017