‘Support the Haitian Revolution!’ from the Daily Worker. Vol. 6 No. 237. December 10, 1929.

The following statement on the Haitian revolt against United States imperialism has been issued by the American Negro Labor Congress:

The Negro people of Haiti are again in revolt against the bloody and brutal American imperialism which in 1915, with the utmost callousness, landed its marines in the then free and independent Black Republic and introduced a reign of terror which drenched the land with the blood of thousands of Haitian workers and peasants who dared to defend the Negro’s claim to that “right of self-determination” which arch-hypocrite, Woodrow Wilson, was at that time prattling about.

The Wall Street government, which, but a few days ago used the fake Kellogg Peace Pact as a pretense for attempting to wreck the peace negotiations then proceeding between Soviet Russia and the out-maneuvered Chinese militarist tools of British, Japanese and American imperialism–this same government no longer mouthing its hypocritical peace prattle while seeking a hostile world-wide imperialist front against the First Workers’ Republic; no longer indulging in peace pretenses, is openly rushing marines and cruisers to drown in blood the revolt of the oppressed Haitian masses, while at the same time seeking to divert the expected protests of the Negro masses of the United States, and to afford the Negro misleaders the means for another betrayal of the masses by talk about appointing a commission to “investigate conditions” in Haiti.

Negro workers of America! The fight of the Haitian workers and peasants against the imperialist exploitation of the white ruling class of this country, is our fight! It is the fight against the impendent assumption of racial superiority by the white ruling class and its corollary that Negro populations exist for the sole purpose of affording spheres of exploitation for the white ruling class of this and other imperialist countries. It is the fight against white terrorism in the South! It is the fight against jim-crowism and all forms of racial discrimination born of the imperialist ideology of race superiority! The Haitian revolt is one of many gratifying signs of the readiness of the Negro masses to struggle against oppression and to take their place side by side with the revolutionary colonial masses, and with the revolutionary workers of the imperialist countries in the world-wide fight against imperialism.

Revolutionary White Workers! You have shown your solidarity with the Negro masses in a hundred battles against the common oppressor–the white ruling class! You have bravely faced persecution, jail, the electric chair, in Gastonia and other parts of the South in standing by your program for the organization of the white and Negro workers side by side in the same unions, in the same locals and for full political social and racial equality for the Negro. In Gastonia, in South Africa, in every country throughout the world where you have been called upon to meet the test of class solidarity with the workers of the darker races, you have met that test like real revolutionaries. In America, you have sternly set yourselves against the mighty influence of white ruling class-race prejudice and have not flinched before the vicious attacks of the bosses and their newspapers. You have refused to surrender your principles or to give in one iota when persecuted and ostracized as “N***r lovers!” In South Africa you have not hesitated to take your stand with the most oppressed group, the native workers, in the demand for a free native South Africa. Revolutionary white workers! With full confidence in your revolutionary integrity we call upon you to support the revolt of the Haitian workers and peasants! We call upon you to join in the fight against American imperialism, against Wall Street subjugation and exploitation of the Haitian masses! And we call upon you not only to show your own solidarity, as revolutionary workers, with the Negro masses of Haiti and the United States, but to intensify your activities in the fulfillment of your historic task of winning the white masses for the demands of the oppressed Negro workers and peasants. Support the struggle for Haitian independence!

Negro Workers of America! The Negro masses of this country cannot remain inactive in the face of the bloody attacks by the American imperialists upon the rights of the workers and peasants of Haiti to revolt against oppression, and to determine their own form of government.

Negro workers of America! We must give emphatic proof of our burning protest against the murder of Haitian workers and peasants! We must demonstrate in no uncertain manner our solidarity with the Haitian masses in revolt against the brutal oppression of United States imperialism! The American Negro Labor Congress will lead the struggle against the murder of the Haitian masses, against American imperialism, and calls upon you to attend the protest mass meetings we are calling throughout the country to mobilize support for the heroic Haitian workers and peasants in their struggle to free their country.

The Daily Worker began in 1924 and was published in New York City by the Communist Party US and its predecessor organizations. Among the most long-lasting and important left publications in US history, it had a circulation of 35,000 at its peak. The Daily Worker came from The Ohio Socialist, published by the Left Wing-dominated Socialist Party of Ohio in Cleveland from 1917 to November 1919, when it became became The Toiler, paper of the Communist Labor Party. In December 1921 the above-ground Workers Party of America merged the Toiler with the paper Workers Council to found The Worker, which became The Daily Worker beginning January 13, 1924. National and City (New York and environs) editions exist

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