Posts Tagged: puerto rico
Puerto Rican anger builds as study reveals 4,654 hurricane deaths
Jun 06, 2018
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The response to this crisis has not been more aid, but more austerity.
Puerto Rico: Powerful May Day protest attacked by police
May 07, 2018
Puerto Rico has a long history of popular resistance, and some very militant trade unions.
Eyewitness Puerto Rico 6 months after hurricane Maria
Mar 28, 2018
"The only solution to this crisis is a fully independent and sovereign Puerto Rico."
Puerto Rico still in crisis, yet FEMA is ending food and water aid
Feb 01, 2018
About 40 percent of the population still doesn’t have power, widespread infrastructural damage hasn't been fixed, and there is a major lack of acces...
The crisis in Puerto Rico: A story of U.S. colonialism
Dec 20, 2017
The Crisis in Puerto Rico: A Story of U.S. Colonialism was ooriginally posted on the Liberation News YouTube channel.
Neglect of Puerto Rico after hurricane part of long history of US colonialism
Nov 30, 2017
The Puerto Rican people are a fighting people, with a history of resistance--from the warriors of the Taino and slave uprisings to Pedro Albizu Campos...
Response to critique: repealing the Jones Act on Puerto Rico
Oct 12, 2017
Jones Act restrictions are not the main impediment to the necessary relief getting to Puerto Ricans at the moment, but they do speak directly to the i...
NYC protest a battle cry from the Puerto Rican diaspora
Oct 05, 2017
Hundred of activists gathered in the shadow of New York City’s Trump Tower Oct. 3. Called together by The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Proliberta...
Puerto Ricans in US say crisis on island made worse by Washington neglect
Sep 30, 2017
Puerto Ricans in the U.S. have discovered that FEMA aid is not being distributed and the people have been left to fend for themselves.
Colonialism unmasked: U.S. government drags feet, blocks aid to Puerto Rico
Sep 29, 2017
The Party for Socialism and Liberation wants to express our condolences for all the lives lost, the homes and land destroyed and we vow to support the...
New Book
Women Fight Back: The Centuries-Long Struggle for Liberation
(Liberation Media, 2017)
Tracing the historical evolution of a movement that has thoroughly transformed society, and is in need of militant revival today.