...Eric Larson This interview with José Soler addresses the intersections of nationalism and socialism in the struggle for Puerto Rican national liberation. Soler (b. 1945) served as national (US) president of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP) and supported decolonization efforts in the Americas...

... held in US jails since the 1950s. The Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP) was the principal organizer of the event, and speakers included a wide range of antiwar, Left, and Puerto Rican leaders. Presenters ranged from Jane Fonda to Angela Davis to Juan Mari Bras, the secretary general of the PSP...

... in launching the Latin Women’s Collective, a key institution in the decade’s efforts to organize working-class Latinas. The Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP), which became the largest group on the Puerto Rican left, grew out of the island-based Movement for Independence (MPI). Radicalized...

... Chavez, one of the few genuinely famous working-class leaders of our era, are given their own articles, or a comprehensive treatment in any form. When one adds on a similar absence for Puerto Ricans (as a sample, neither the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, the Puerto Rican Independence Party nor...

... Rico, he became involved in the pro-independence movement through his community activism, and later he became a member of the Central Committee of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party. For several years he was a drama teacher in the Puerto Rican public school system and worked as an active labor...

... radical forces within Weatherman and the Revolutionary Youth Movement II (RYM II), he also looks at the evolution of the Puerto Rican Left through the Young Lords, El Comite, and the Puerto Rican Socialist Party. These organizations, according to Elbaum, won tens...

... Rican Socialist Party chose to make Albizu’s figure an icon both of nationalist aspirations and workers’ struggles for justice. Some aca- demics expressed doubts about the convenience of making Albizu emblematic for both causes. Thus the interpretation of Albizu’s political vision became...

... in Vieques with fellow protestors, Mildred Martínez (directly right) and Lolita Aulet (far right), who was active in the Puerto Rican Socialist Party. The photo is from a February 1979 protest action about three months before Rodríguez’s May arrest. During this February action, Rodríguez was among...

... could get its independence through the elec- toral process, like the PIP, the MPI (Movimiento Pro Independencia), which was beginning its transformation into the PSP (Puerto Rican Socialist Party). The PSP incorporated Marxism-­Leninism into its program, thereby offering a new perspec- tive...

... of the initial high period of the Chicana/o/x and Puerto Rican movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and many had experience in older organizations like the Young Lords and Puerto Rican Socialist Party in Chicago and New York City, and the Crusade for Justice in Denver. While profoundly nationalist...

... Socialist Party, the Puerto Rican Committee, and the Center for Puerto Rican Studies.76 In Libertad, the Chicago Branch of the Novem- ber 29th Committee proclaimed, “PALESTINE WILL WIN,” and once again mobilized the Palestinian diaspora in Lebanon as a particularly useful space in the indictment...

...Margaret Power In this annotated interview Lolita Lebrón explains that the racism she experienced as a factory worker in New York City led her to join the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. She also discusses her position as the leader of the 1954 attack on the US Congress, the attack itself, gender...

..., other members of the Popular Democratic Party, and cultural institutions worked together to recast the PR-­US colonial relationship. After World War II, when decolonization in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean emerged, the Puerto Rican leadership instead promoted the commonwealth, autonomy...

... to overthrow the US government in Puerto Rico. She was the wife of a prominent nationalist leader, Tomás López de Victoria, who led the Cadets of the Republic, the youth arm of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, and was a devoted acolyte of the nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos. Her name appears...

... achieve their demand for recognition as political prisoners, though they paid a terrible price. Ten died. In the United States, President Jimmy Carter released five Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prisoners in 1979, and President Bill Clinton released sixteen Puerto Rican Armed Forces of National...

.... Even then one could perceive the problem that is so evident in so many unions today, that the workers who came to the dances were overwhelmingly Black and Puerto Rican and white leftists. The more conservative rank and file whites didn’t take much part in the picnic and dance life of the union...

... in the predominately black and Puerto Rican Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn to transfer nineteen white members of the city's teachers union, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT). The dispute forced the debate over the meanings of the words "equality" and "racism" beyond the rela- tively...

... is this person still working here?” When I read that, I thought, this isn’t about whether Gibson is a pan-Africanist or not. This is about whether he’s accountable. When we came, we had a black and Puerto Rican convention, which mobilized the majority...

... to Cuba as a haven for revolutionary black exiles from the United States. Most recently, Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar shows how the party influenced the Young Lords, a Puerto Rican national- ist group that was active in the United States from 1966 to 1972.4 In this article, I am less concerned...

... to sign up alienated blacks, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and working-class whites. Students, Black Panthers, trade union activists, GI organizers, and military veterans swelled the ranks of the Brigades as well, as did many young people with no specific affiliation...