Joseph Roney
Joseph Roney (b. August 15, 1935, Port-au-Prince, d. January 7, 2013, Brussels) was a Haitian politician.[1][2] Roney hailed from a peasant family.[3] He studied at the Ecole normale supérieure of the State University of Haiti.[4]
In 1959 he took part in founding the Party of Popular Accord (PEP), a party in which he would serve as its general secretary.[4][5] During the 1960s he was a leader of the National Union of Haitian Students (UNEH) and the Popular Youth League (LJP).[2] Roney organized students strike to ensure the freedom of jailed UNEH chairman Bastien. Soon, Roney himself was jailed as well.[4] On November 22, 1960 a national students strike was organized to demand that Roney (then the UNEH treasurer) and 19 other students be freed from jail.[3][6] The strike movement was successful, and Roney resumed a leading role in the student movement after his release.[4]
In 1969 he became the general secretary of the Unified Party of Haitian Communists (PUCH). He continued in this position until 1972.[7] Soon after the foundation of the PUCH, Roney was arrested and jailed for seven years.[1][8] He was released from jailed in 1977, and went into exile in Belgium. In Belgium, he became a member of the Workers Party of Belgium.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 PTB. In memoriam Joseph Roney (1935- 2013)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 HaitiLibre. Haiti - News : Some news here and there...
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Young Socialist, March 1961. p. 4
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Le Nouvelliste. Décès de Joseph Roney, ex-dirigeant du Parti de l'entente populaire
- ↑ Ameringer, Charles D. Political Parties of the Americas: 1980s to 1990s : Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. Westport, Conn. u.a: Greenwood Press, 1992. p. 371
- ↑ Times Daily, January 11, 1961
- ↑ Gunson, Phil, Greg Chamberlain, and Andrew Thompson. The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of Central America and the Caribbean. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. p. 347
- ↑ International Affairs, Eds. 7–12. Znanye Publishing House, 1970. p. 95