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Sunday June 13, 2010 00:20 by Batay Ouvriye - BO Batayouvriye at hotmail dot com B.P. 13326, DELMAS, HAITI (W.I.) (509) 222-6719
Port-au-Prince, May 27th, 2010 May 18th, 2010, Flag Day commemoration! But: what flags? The American one, the French one, the Canadian, Chilean, Brazilian, Argentine, Bolivian, Ecuadorian, Paraguayan ones…? Or those of Jordan, Nepal, Congo, Senegal, China Israel, Sri Lanka…? Or, perhaps, those of Doctors without Borders or the Oxfam team? In the context of the Workers Mobilization Month launched during the camps’ first march on April 28th, 2010, and following up on the various activities developed May First, May 18th was a major date (see our previous document: “The mobilization is launched!”). In Haiti, May 18th is Flag Day. 1803 was when the revolutionary forces decided to have a flag of their own, of struggle and freedom. A crucial date, to establish once and for all direct confrontation with the already open state of occupation-trusteeship upon us today. A conscious mobilization of all progressive forces was hoped for, accompanying the people, particularly the workers. However, in various points amongst the most important ones, the situation became more complicated, since the traditional politicians, representing in one manner or the other the ruling classes, invaded the field of mobilization, reducing this to an attack on the “form” Preval is heading. Nothing of the content of the bourgeois imperialist project he is implementing, nothing of class issues… This was perhaps expected. The particular is that some militants, supposedly progressive, implicated themselves with these said politicians, playing into their populist hands, still very active. In Cap-Haitian, principally, where the mobilization grouped the largest number of people (some three thousand), this was a flagrant case. Nevertheless our presence, and especially, the flyer we distributed yielded a distinct orientation. May 18th, 2010, Flag Day commemoration! But: what flags? The American one, the French one, the Canadian, Chilean, Brazilian, Argentine, Bolivian, Ecuadorian, Paraguayan ones…? Or those of Jordan, Nepal, Congo, Senegal, China Israel, Sri Lanka…? Or, perhaps, those of Doctors without Borders or the Oxfam team? May 18th! This spineless government continues to use this date to cover all its indecencies particularly that of the apprentice-dictator devoted to ensuring the continuity of the bourgeois imperialist project and masking the OCCUPATION – TRUSTEESHIP, with the MINUSTAH as unique political and military force. But, at the same time, all the political leftovers of the so-called “opposition” wish to profit of the date to shout their “Down with Preval!”… But without any criticism of this administration’s concrete political orientation – because it’s the same one they would carry out too. So they protest because they aren’t the one implementing the imperialist plan in vigor. We’ve said it many times already: HISTORY’S TRASHCAN AWAITS THEM ALL EQUALLY! All we await is the popular masses and the workers in particular, organized, to throw them there and that will be all. Only we the popular masses, we the WORKERS, can pull the country out of the deep hole we are in. May 18th 2010: we must take our responsibilities in hand! Only we can construct the consequent alternative to this situation. In mobilization. In struggle!
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