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Democracia Socialista holds its Second Congress

Collective — 2025-04-29T12:46:57Z

The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States framed the discussion at the second Congress of Democracia Socialista [section of the Fourth International in Puerto Rico].

- News from around the world / Fourth International, Puerto Rico

Challenges and opportunities in Puerto Rico

Democracia Socialista (PR) — 2024-08-15T07:37:07Z

After a series of twists and turns, Puerto Rico's Supreme Court has ruled that a number of opposition candidates are illegal. Our comrades analyse the contradictions of this anti-democratic decision and how to build a democratic and anti-capitalist project in this context.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Puerto Rico

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

First congress of Democracia Socialista proposes ecosocialism as the alternative to the climate crisis

Democracia Socialista (PR) — 2022-08-19T05:53:00Z

The first Congress of Democracia Socialista (DS - Socialist Democracy) opened in San Juan last weekend with discussion on the climate crisis and ecosocialism as the alternative. Congress activities began on Friday, August 5 with a presentation by Professor Jorge Colón entitled, “The Climate Crisis and the Ecosocialist Alternative.”

- IV571 - August 2022 / Fourth International, Puerto Rico, Ecosocialism

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 2019 Uprising Produces an Electoral Opening Toward the Left

José A. Laguarta Ramírez — 2021-01-17T09:19:28Z

“If a solid leftist electoral front can be built while maintaining the pressure of street mobilization on a much weakened colonial capitalist regime, a true sea change is not just possible but within reach.”

- IV552 - January 2021 / Puerto Rico

After 2019 Uprising, a new socialist formation and new political party, change the electoral game

Democracia Socialista (PR) — 2020-11-18T09:16:24Z

Any attempt to address the electoral issue in Puerto Rico from a socialist perspective must begin by pointing out the limits of the electoral process in the island. It is important to recognize the broad restrictions that the colonial status imposes on the elaboration of a national policy. This limitation is stronger under the federally-appointed Fiscal Control Board, which oversees the fiscal policies of Puerto Rico's government.

- IV550 - November 2020 / Puerto Rico

A reflection on the Puerto Rican elections

Jorge Lefevre Tavárez — 2020-11-09T07:48:06Z

In the 2020 Puerto Rican general elections, the trend of decreased support for the Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) and Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP), the principal political forces for the last half a century, continued. After decades of neoliberal politics, after the government's complete unwillingness to deal with an economic crisis that started in 2006 and continues 14 years later, Puerto Rico will have Pedro Pierluisi as governor.

- IV550 - November 2020 / Puerto Rico

From the crisis of progressivism to the progress of the crisis

Luis Rangel — 2020-03-01T06:45:21Z

In recent years, debates in the international Left on Latin America have tended to focus on countries with governments that, in different ways and at different tempos, separated themselves somewhat from their nations' traditional oligarchies (sometimes more discursively than really): Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador. In general, without downplaying their political and economic importance, but as the situation dictated, the emphasis has been on Venezuela, Brazil, or Argentina. Even Ecuador seemed to be an add-on to the “progressive axis” in international analyses. Then we saw, one-by-one, the progressive experiments fall, wear out, and enter into crisis. Debates revolved around the “end of the cycle” and the menacing Right coming for revenge. There were urgent calls to stop the enemy, and for unity.

- IV542 - March 2020 / Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Latin America, Ecuador, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Nicaragua