The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO) deplores the assassination that killed former President Juvenal Moise a few days ago in Haiti.
Because this type of action is not a solution to political and social problems, and it has not been motivated in the interest of opening floodgates to democratic rights, to the freedom of the Haitian people; nor to the national sovereignty of that sister country, for which the masses of people have been fighting in the streets since 2018 on an ongoing basis.
It is a fact of the first order that, since 2018, workers and other popular sectors of Haiti have been developing important days of protests in the streets and squares of the main cities; demonstrations that began claiming social demands, but then integrated political claims that were synthesized in the call of Down the government of Juvenal Moise!
This government had served the term of office; but, in addition, it maintained a policy of police repression and terror in order to remain de facto in power, and to impose neoliberal economic measures, and to favour specific economic groups.
The continuous and wave protests in the main cities were the response of the workers and the people in general, in which undoubtedly also participated political and economic sectors linked to a sector of the oligarchy.
The legislature had been recessed, as the period for which it was chosen had been completed. The country had no Legislative Power.
The judiciary had been decapitated by the death of the chief justice of the Supreme Court due to Covid and five judges had recessed. The country had no judicial power.
The prime minister, the same one who now holds the de facto reins of the Council of Ministers, had been recessed days before the assassination. The country now has a de facto executive branch.
President Juvenal Moise had called elections for two months, but it was clear that the dominant sectors had not reached an understanding among themselves that would guarantee a stable government that corresponded to competing political and economic interests.
There has been, and is, a political crisis in Haiti. The institutions established in the constitution have collapsed. The ruling classes are at odds with each other, and they fail to achieve a government that unites them and gives political stability to the country. Workers and other popular sectors, including peasants, have been on the streets systematically.
These are the factors which, according to Marxism-Leninism, constitute a political crisis. "Those at the top cannot continue to govern as before, and those at the bottom do not want to continue to govern as before."
It is in this context that the assassination occurs.
An assassination is a political event, for political reasons, that is to say, referring to power, and which can only be sponsored by sectors of political and economic power, with the complicity of a hegemonic foreign power, in this case the United States of America.
At the moment, it seems unclear who are the specific sectors behind what has every prospect of a coup d'état.
What cannot be confused is the question of power, in the cause and purpose of that fact. Nor can the interest of the oligarchic sectors to remove the popular mobilization factor from the crisis and seek a solution with the help of those at the top cannot be confused.
A state of siege has been declared, and the essential purpose of this measure is to prevent popular demonstrations.
And so, we Communists must show solidarity, and accompany the democratic, progressive and revolutionary sectors, which in Haiti are demanding peace and the right to self-determination of the Haitian people. They are calling for a transitional democratic government that will enable that country, in social, economic and political terms, to develop in the medium and long term.
A transitional government in which the popular forces that have been demanding rights and freedoms in the last three years have an important participation.
We reject military intervention by the United States, or by any other foreign power, no matter what mechanism that intervention seeks to rely on. Because it would contravene the right to self-determination of the people of Haiti, and would be a threat to the sovereignty of neighbouring peoples.
We consider it de rigueur, principle, to insist on the need for the working class in Haiti to develop its communist party, as a combative and revolutionary vanguard, to lead it in circumstances such as the current one and others that may arise. Because at the beginning and end of the day, that vanguard is what is lacking at the moment, when there are objective conditions for the progress of the popular revolution, but we need the organization and political direction that will lead the workers and the masses of people in search of a revolutionary solution to the crisis.
The ICMLPO, which has made efforts to accompany the workers and people of Haiti in all their struggles, will continue in this militant disposition.
Respect for the democratic rights and public freedoms of the brotherly Haitian people; respect for the right to self-determination; democratic transitional government, and absolute rejection of any foreign intervention.
Coordination
Committee of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist
Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO)
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