Socialist Front (Puerto Rico)
The Socialist Front (Spanish: Frente Socialista, 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). 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 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 the 2000 Puerto Rican elections, the FS endorsed the Puerto Rican Independence Party. In the 2004 elections, the Socialist Front promoted a voting boycott but condemned the MINH's support for the pro-Commonwealth Popular Democratic Party (PPD). Furthermore, the Socialist Front sustained and nurtured its decades-long alliance with the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP).
External links
- (Spanish) Frente Socialista
- (Spanish) Refundación Comunista
- (English) Working Group on Puerto Rico
- Jorge Farinacci on the assassination of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos (Democracy Now!, 29 September 2005)
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