OVERVIEW
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Working Group on Puerto Rico is a US based organization that
is part of the Socialist Front of Puerto Rico and was established
to promote the Front in the US as well as to further the Fronts
interests in the execution of daily work to free Puerto Rico
from 100 years of US colonialism. The WGPR exists to garner support
for the socialist movement involved in the struggle to liberate
Puerto Rico. |
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WHY
| The
Working Group on Puerto Rico is unified by a belief that imperialism is morally, ethically and politically
wrong not just for the people subjugated by it. Ideologically
it lends itself to the promotion of an ideology of superiority
among people. It also allows for the domination of people and
their lands through colonialism. Imperialism pits workers, students,
farmers, women, poor and indigent against one another as if they
reap benefits from war, poverty, the destruction of the environment |
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PUERTO RICO
| Puerto
Rico for the last 100 years has been a US colony while in face
of a world-wide community that had voted that the 199o's be the
end to colonialism has continued to reap the benefits of Puerto
Rico land, natural resources and labor. Not only has Puerto Rico
had to continually feed US corporations free water, land and
cheap labor but serve as canon fodder and live targets for its
military which has brazenly invaded all of Latin America and
the Caribbean from Puerto Rico and has used Puerto Rico as the
staging ground for the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 and
"Operation Dessert Storm" The war with Iraq and "Operation
Just Cause" the invasion of Panama. |
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INDEPENDENCE & SOCIALISM
| While
there are many forces in Puerto Rico that fight for sovereighnity
they fight for a "Puerto Rican" status quo which would
only substitute a foreign dominant class for a Puerto Rican one.
Further many of these forces would turn Puerto Rican into neo-colonies
of foreign capital maintaining Puerto Rican working people dependent.
What irony would it be that if a "Free" Puerto Rico
would exists it would not be free of the system that made it
into a colony in the first place. The Puerto Rican people deserve
a truly democratic society based on principles of justice and
equality not one of wealth and greed. The only thing that can
guarantee Puerto Ricans real freedom is to build a just society
from the ground up instead of inheriting a corrupt one from its
former oppressor. |
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