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La Lucha por el Socialismo

¿Quién es ese que se escucha? Es el pueblo en pie de lucha.

February 21, 2022 Berta Joubert-Ceci
Una colonia existe únicamente para el lucro del poder invasor imperial. Y hoy Puerto Rico se encuentra en la mayor crisis de explotación en nuestra historia.  Aparte de todos los planes de austeridad y robo […]
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Teachers in Puerto Rico strike for wages, benefits

February 11, 2022 Claridad Puerto Rico
On Wednesday, February 9, teachers across Puerto Rico called for a national strike to protest the government and the Fiscal Control Board’s (FCB) cutting of wages and pensions. Other public sector workers, namely firefighters and […]
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La Lucha por el Socialismo

Año del tigre, año de luchas en Puerto Rico

February 5, 2022 Berta Joubert-Ceci
El año del tigre ha comenzado en Puerto Rico con la gente en las calles, y promete ser una lucha larga y multitudinaria. Parte de la lucha por la liberación de esta colonia, están esas […]
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Corruption, privatization and colonialism in Puerto Rico

December 20, 2021 Berta Joubert-Ceci
Neoliberalism has imposed privatizations of essential services around the world and Puerto Rico is no exception. Moreover, as a dependent colony of the neoliberal leader, the United States, Puerto Rico has once again served as […]
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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico: Resistance against Luma

October 7, 2021 Berta Joubert-Ceci
A people responds when its tolerance level is exhausted in the face of injustice and abuse. That is precisely what is happening here in Puerto Rico. So the struggle is not united? It’s not energetic […]
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Puerto Rico

In Puerto Rico, the people’s struggle continues

September 8, 2021 Berta Joubert-Ceci
While the dictatorship of the Fiscal Control Board (“la Junta”) imposed by the U.S. Congress and its lackeys in the local government do everything to destroy Puerto Rico as a nation and sink us into […]
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Puerto Rico

‘Dos Alas’ mural continues to fly in East Harlem, N.Y.

August 26, 2021 Cheryl LaBash
Community leaders fought back and immediately restored the Dos Alas Mural in East Harlem, N.Y., after it was vandalized by right-wing, anti-Cuba elements on Aug. 14.  The mural honors the historic bond between Puerto Rico […]
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Puerto Rico unions close ranks against LUMA Energy

June 4, 2021 Wilmarilis Sánchez-Romeu and Edwin Ocasio Feliciano
June 1 — Union organizations today warned Gov. Pedro Pierluisi and the Financial Oversight and Management Board that they will paralyze the country if the LUMA Energy contract that increases rates, allows the consortium to […]
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Puerto Rico

Three sons of Boriquén: Taso, Atabal and Benito, ¡Presentes!

November 30, 2020 Berta Joubert-Ceci
Within days, the people of Puerto Rico received the sad news of the passing of three of their beloved revolutionaries: Carlos “Taso” Zenón, Héctor “Atabal” Rodríguez and Benito Reinosa Burgos. The last time this writer […]
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The fallacy of statehood win in Puerto Rico elections

November 24, 2020 Professor Ana M. López
Nov. 17 — It is a fallacy that this consultation constituted a majority vote and that the people of Puerto Rico “staked their claim to admission as the 51st State of the Union.” (New York […]