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Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers' Party-Macheteros
The Puerto Rican Workers' Revolutionary Party (, PRTP or PRTP-Macheteros) is a far-left political party in Puerto Rico. The PRTP was formed in 1976, and in 1978 founded the Boricua Popular Army The ("Puerto Rican people#Boricua, Boricua Popular/People's Army"), also known as ("The Machete Wielders"), is a clandestine operation, clandestine militant and insurgent organization based in Puerto Rico, with cells in the broader US and othe ... (EPB, more commonly known as the ''Macheteros'', ) as a mass organization. The EPB broke off from the PRTP in 1984. The PRTP is affiliated with the Socialist Front. References External links PRTP web site Political parties in Puerto Rico Political parties established in 1976 Communist parties in Puerto Rico 1976 establishments in Puerto Rico {{Puerto Rico stub ...
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Far-left
Far-left politics, also known as extreme left politics or left-wing extremism, are politics further to the left on the left–right political spectrum than the standard political left. The term does not have a single, coherent definition; some scholars consider it to be the left of communist parties, while others broaden it to include the left of social democracy. In certain instances—especially in the news media—''far left'' has been associated with some forms of authoritarianism, anarchism, communism, and Marxism, or are characterized as groups that advocate for revolutionary socialism and related communist ideologies, or anti-capitalism and anti-globalization. Far-left terrorism consists of extremist, militant, or insurgent groups that attempt to realize their ideals through political violence rather than using democratic processes. Ideologies Far-left politics are the leftmost ideologies on the left of the left–right political spectrum. They are a hetero ...
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Puerto Rico
; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Government of Puerto Rico, self-governing Caribbean Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island organized as an Territories of the United States, unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of Commonwealth (U.S. insular area), commonwealth. Located about southeast of Miami, Miami, Florida between the Dominican Republic in the Greater Antilles and the United States Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands in the Lesser Antilles, it consists of the eponymous main island and numerous smaller islands, including Vieques, Puerto Rico, Vieques, Culebra, Puerto Rico, Culebra, and Isla de Mona, Mona. With approximately 3.2 million Puerto Ricans, residents, it is divided into Municipalities of Puerto Rico, 78 municipalities, of which the most populous is the Capital city, capital municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan, followed by those within the San Juan–Bayamón–Caguas metro ...
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Boricua Popular Army
The ("Puerto Rican people#Boricua, Boricua Popular/People's Army"), also known as ("The Machete Wielders"), is a clandestine operation, clandestine militant and insurgent organization based in Puerto Rico, with cells in the broader US and other nations. It campaigns for, and supports, the independence of Puerto Rico from the United States. During their first decade of existence, they had an average of two actions per year. The group claimed responsibility for the 1978 bombing of a small power station in the San Juan area, the 1979 retaliation attacks against the United States armed forces personnel, the Puerto Rico Air National Guard#1981 Muñiz Air National Guard Base attack, 1981 Muñiz Air National Guard Base attack, and a Águila Blanca (heist), 1983 Wells Fargo bank robbery. Boricua Popular Army was led primarily by former FBI Most Wanted Fugitives, FBI fugitive Filiberto Ojeda Ríos until he was killed by the FBI in 2005. Ojeda Rios' killing was termed "an illegal killin ...
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Socialist Front (Puerto Rico)
The Socialist Front (, FS) is a coalition of far-left and pro-independence political organizations in Puerto Rico. The Socialist Front also includes non-partisan activists. The FS was launched on November 4, 1990, as an initiative of the Socialist Workers' Movement (MST) joining with the Political Formation Workshop and the Puerto Rican Workers Party-Macheteros. In 2005 the MST officially disaffiliated with the Frente Socialista, and Puerto Rican Workers' Revolutionary Party, and the Political Education Workshop did the same in 2008, but the Frente has continued on. The Frente's principal spokespersons were Rafael Bernabe Riefkohl and Jorge Farinacci. Affiliated group: *Communist Refoundation - a segment of the old Puerto Rican Communist Party The FS participates in the São Paulo Forum and the World Social Forum. Its supporters in New York City are organized in the Working Group on Puerto Rico. In 2006, the leader Jorge Farinacci García died of cancer, prompting a messag ...
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Political Parties In Puerto Rico
This article lists political parties in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico has a 'first past the post' electoral system, in which a voter can vote by political party, party, by candidate or both. To qualify as an official political party (and thus be able to appear on the printed state electoral ballot), a party must meet the criteria set forth by thPuerto Rico Electoral Law This list sorts political parties either alphabetically or by date of founding. Registered parties Present As of 2020, Puerto Rico has five registered electoral parties: Past – under U.S. sovereignty The existing parties in Puerto Rico at the time of change of sovereignty in 1898 reinvented themselves into parties with by-laws, platforms and ideologies consistent with the new political reality brought about by the change of sovereignty. The ''Barbosistas'', followers of Jose Celso Barbosa and mostly aligned with Partido Autonomista Ortodoxo, formed the ''Partido Republicano Puertorriqueño'', while the '' ...
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Political Parties Established In 1976
Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. Politics may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and non-violent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but the word often also carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or in a limited way, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external f ...
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Communist Parties In Puerto Rico
Communism () is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products in society based on need.: "One widespread distinction was that socialism socialised production only while communism socialised production and consumption." A communist society entails the absence of private property and social classes, and ultimately money and the state. Communists often seek a voluntary state of self-governance but disagree on the means to this end. This reflects a distinction between a libertarian socialist approach of communization, revolutionary spontaneity, and workers' self-management, and an authoritarian socialist, vanguardist, or party-driven approach to establish a socialist state, which is expected to wither away. Communist parties have been described as radical lef ...
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