Haiti

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

Haiti: Thousands march against new budget

Thousands of Haitians marched through Port-au-Prince on Sept. 12 chanting “Down with Jovenel!” “Down with the bourgeoisie!” and “Liberty or…

September 24, 2017

Thousands of Haitians flee U.S. to Canada

Thousands of Haitians are fleeing from the United States to Canada, fearing deportation back to Haiti once their temporary protected…

August 27, 2017

Haití y Día de la Bastilla

El 14 de julio es el Día de la Bastilla. Ese día en 1789, decenas de miles de pobres de…

July 18, 2017