Ha, the struggle goes on. Looks like this man will remain as potent a symbol of resistance as ever.
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The protests that have erupted in response to the assassination of Puerto Rican nationalist leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios on Friday has many officials on the island and in the United States worried. The funeral on Tuesday was attended by thousands of people, "many waving Puerto Rican flags and singing revolutionary ballards," as well a statement from the Macheteros that read in part "Yankees murderers, your days are numbered! ... The fight will continue now and until the Yankees leave our soil."
The AP is reporting that "Puerto Rican police have tightened security at federal buildings and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has canceled a visit to Puerto Rico" because of the potential for the FBI's assassination to "spark a resurgence of the pro-independence violence that plagued Puerto Rico from the 1970s into the 1990s."
"The outburst is the largest against the U.S. government since an errant bomb killed a civilian guard on the island of Vieques in 1999. That incident sparked several years of protests, eventually prompting the Navy to abandon bombing exercises there in 2003" concludes the AP report.
Ha, the struggle goes on. Looks like this man will remain as potent a symbol of resistance as ever.
In what relations do the Communists stand to the proletarians as a whole? The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to other working class parties. They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole. They do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to shape and mould the proletarian movement.
-Karl Marx
It is only by strengthening ourselves ideologically, inculcating in ourselves the values and ideals of the struggle and building up the ranks of the revolutionary party that we will make it.
- Ta Power
The imperialists fucked up again.. hopefully this will snap alot of boricua's out of the right-wing "statehood" bullshit..
Viva Puerto Rico libre!
"Getting a job, finding a mate, having a place to live, finding a creative outlet. Life is a war of attrition. You have to stay active on all fronts. It's one thing after another. I've tried to control a chaotic universe. And it's a losing battle. But I can't let go. I've tried, but I can't." - Harvey Pekar
Wait - doesn't Puerto Rico have the best of both worlds? The protection of the U.S. and they can govern themselves and make their own laws?
Trying to ride the middle of the barb wire fence.
- Mickalov
Strange the Fbi has not learned the killing the leader of a movement usualy expands the movement.
We are monopolists in the field of politics. We can't stand any competition. We can tolerate no rivals. The working class, to make the revolution can do it only through one party and one program. This is the lesson of the Russian Revolution. That is the lesson of all history since the October Revolution.” -James P. Cannon.
http://www.themilitant.com/
Comrade, what is the United States protecting Puerto Rico from? What is the threat to Puerto Rico? Latin American imperialism? The Evil Cuban Empire? What Puerto Rico needs more than anything is independence and then immediately after achieving independence it needs an arsenal of nuclear missiles to protect itself from the United States.
If you really think the United States is protecting Puerto Rico then answer these two questions: Where was the United States when Vieques was being used as a bombing range? Where was the United States last weekend when one of Puerto Rico's most well known nationalist leaders was being assassinated?
Seriously, the United States government, which didn't lift a finger to rescue the thousands of poor blacks who found themselves in a death trap in New Orleans, is interested only in protecting the property and lives of American capitalists. A label which neither black Americans nor the Island of Puerto Rico fit.
They don't govern themselves at all. The PR constitution says no death penalty yet people have been executed by the US Fed Gov. They also use the island to test their weapons, etc.
"Getting a job, finding a mate, having a place to live, finding a creative outlet. Life is a war of attrition. You have to stay active on all fronts. It's one thing after another. I've tried to control a chaotic universe. And it's a losing battle. But I can't let go. I've tried, but I can't." - Harvey Pekar
