- Socialist Front
The Socialist Front (Spanish: "Frente Socialista", FS) is a
coalition offar-left and pro-independence political organizations inPuerto 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 2006 the MST officially disaffiliated with the Frente Socialista, but the Frente has continued on. The Frente's principal spokespersons wereRafael Bernabe andJorge Farinacci .Affiliated groups include:
*Communist Refoundation - a segment of the old
Puerto Rican Communist Party
*Puerto Rican Workers' Revolutionary Party - formerly the political arm of the "Macheteros"The FS participates in the São Paulo Forum and the
World Social Forum . Its supporters in theNew York City are organized in theWorking 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 votingboycott but condemned theMINH 's support for the pro-Commonwealth Popular Democratic Party (PPD). Furthermore, the Socialist Front sustained and nurtured its decades-long alliance with thePuerto Rican Nationalist Party and thePuerto Rican Independence Party (PIP).External links
* [http://www.frentesocialistapr.org Frente Socialista]
* [http://www.refundacioncomunistapr.com Refundación Comunista]
* [http://www.tallerfp.org Taller de Formación Política]
* [http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/4610 Working Group on Puerto Rico]
* [http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/29/1348227&mode=thread&tid=25 Jorge Farinacci on the assassination of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos] ("Democracy Now! ", 29 September 2005)
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