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A New Alliance Could Change Puerto Rican Politics

Rafael Bernabe — 2024-05-28T11:29:46Z

The Citizens' Victory Movement and the Puerto Rican Independence Party are forming a coalition called La Alianza. Their goal: a radical shift in Puerto Rican politics.

- IV592 - May 2024 / Puerto Rico

Left advance faces lawfare challenge

Antoine Larrache, Lauriane Misandro, Rafael Bernabe — 2024-04-03T12:28:00Z

“What we are experiencing in Puerto Rico is a modality that we know internationally as lawfare, the misuse of the judicial system as a political weapon, in the electoral process.”

- IV591 - April 2024 / Puerto Rico

Saito, Marx and the Anthropocene

Rafael Bernabe — 2024-02-27T09:19:49Z

Kohei Saito has become an important voice in the debates about Marxism and ecosocialism. His books deal with four key issues: the relation between capitalism and nature; between ecology and socialism; the agents and means of attaining ecosocialism (or degrowth communism) and the evolution of Marx's views regarding these issues.

The Left and Ukraine: Anti-Imperialism or Alter-Imperialism?

Rafael Bernabe — 2023-11-19T11:14:39Z

“But it must be underlined that the Russian and Chinese governments respond, not as anti-imperialist forces, but rather with their own plans for control and dominance.”

- Features / Ukraine, Imperialism

Puerto Rico's Multi-layered Crisis

Rafael Bernabe — 2021-03-29T08:37:57Z

“What best fits the needs of the Puerto Rican people would be their political organization as an independent republic, capable of determining the economic and social policies best adapted to a socially just and ecologically sound development, in collaboration with other peoples, and in particular, in collaboration with the people of the United States.”

- IV554 - March 2021 / Puerto Rico

The Puerto Rican Summer

Rafael Bernabe — 2020-01-21T05:26:18Z

The summer of 2019 will go down as a major moment in Puerto Rico's history.

- IV540 - January 2020 / Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico: The organic crisis and the alternatives

Rafael Bernabe — 2019-08-22T11:05:11Z

The discredit attained by the dominant parties, by the legislature, by the “politicians” and even “politics” itself, defined inaccurately, but viscerally despised by many people, recalls the concept of “organic crisis” advanced by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Authors such as Stathis Kouvelakis have used it to analyse the movement of the gilets jaunes in France. An organic crisis involves a breakdown of the ability of the ruling class to “maintain its leading role”. One of its “most visible symptoms” is the “collapse of support for traditional parties”.

- iV535 - August 2019 / Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico: Summer 2019: results and perspectives

Manuel Rodríguez Banchs, Rafael Bernabe — 2019-08-10T07:49:44Z

The days of July 2019 have restored, or, perhaps, have given to the country a sense of possibility: the feeling that things can change, that things can be changed, that people, mobilizing in the street, can change them.

- iV535 - August 2019 / Puerto Rico

Economic reconstruction, debt cancellation, and self-determination

Rafael Bernabe — 2019-01-21T23:49:21Z

Puerto Rico has been a colony of the United States since the Spanish-American War of 1898. Its trajectory has been exceptional. Along with Cuba, it was one of the last colonies of Spain in the Americas. After 1898 it became a colony of a power, the United States, which historically preferred noncolonial forms of domination. It remains a colony, decades after colonialism ceased to be the typical form of imperialist control.

- Features / Economy, Puerto Rico, Debt

Open Letter on Puerto Rico to the NAACP

Manuel Rodríguez Banchs, Rafael Bernabe — 2018-07-26T08:04:19Z

From Rafael Bernabe and Manuel Rodríguez Banchs, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 20 July 20 2018

- IV522 - July 2018 / Puerto Rico