Haitian_Socialist_Party

Haitian Socialist Party

Haitian Socialist Party

Political party in Haiti

The Haitian Socialist Party (French: Parti socialiste haïtien, abbreviated PSH) was a small political party in Haiti. The party was founded by Dr. René Salomon in February 1946.[1][2][3] The ideology of PSH combined Marxism with Black nationalism.[1][2][3] A certain number of writers and intellectuals joined the party.[4]

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Salomon contested the 1946 parliamentary election. Following the election Salomon and PSH argued that the disunity of the Marxist left had led to its defeat in the polls.[3]

PSH published Classe Moyen et Masse as its organ.[2][3]

References

  1. [1]
    Sepinwall, Alyssa Goldstein (2013). Haitian History: New Perspectives. New York: Routledge. p. 265.
  2. [2]
    Curry, Dawne Y.; Duke, Eric D.; Smith, Marshanda A. (2009). Extending the Diaspora: New Histories of Black People. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 266.
  3. [3]
    Smith, Matthew J. (2009). Red & Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 88–90.
  4. [4]
    Présence francophone [French-speaking presence]. Université, Centre d'étude des littératures d'expression française. 1980. p. 171.


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