Pro-Independence Organizations in Puerto Rico and Diaspora
Puerto Rican contingent participates in May 31, 2020 action in New York
City protesting the killing of George Floyd.
The organizations of the National Liberation
Movement of Puerto Rico, signatories to this communiqué,
express our strongest support to black American communities that during
the past few days have held strong protests on the streets of the
United States, demanding justice for George Floyd. We also joined the
call for arrest and immediate prosecution of the policemen who murdered
him.
The murder of George Floyd, a young black American
worker, in broad daylight and in front of the cameras adds another
affront, a direct attack on African-American communities and all
oppressed communities in that country. The police and far-right forces
have been emboldened by the sectarian policies of the racist president
and the forces of America's corporate-financial elite in power, who
want to rewrite history by ripping off conquered rights, even if it
means taking the American people back into a civil war.
 Puerto Ricans,
Latinos, Native Americans, and all oppressed communities, as an
important component of the working class that moves the country's
economy, suffer daily from the injustices of a system based on the
exploitation of work, and racial, ethnic and gender discrimination,
which, through oppression, seek to maintain the established order and
privileges of a parasitic social class in power.
Our Puerto Rican communities (New York, Chicago,
Newark, Connecticut, Florida) in exile in the U.S. and the Puerto Rican
independence movement particularly know well the brutality of the state
that persecutes and murders those who fight and resist oppression,
discrimination, and exploitation. That's why we stand in solidarity
with African-American communities across the United States that are on
the front line of defence against the fascist, racist, and sexist
state. It is clear their struggles, ultimately, are also ours. We
affirm that an oppressed people are always given the right to
self-defence by refusing to continue to be the daily target of
repression and murder.
Historically, we have denounced and evidenced at
every moment of social confrontation, the role of the police and the
state's repressive forces in protecting the property and interests of
the ruling political class, whose interests are antagonistic to the
interests of the majorities of the people. Other repressive bodies such
as the FBI, NSA, CIA and paramilitaries are trained as a tool to kill
to achieve that end, waging war against all working communities.
In making our call, demanding justice for George
Floyd and all those who have been victims of brutality and murder by
the police and repressive forces, we remember that we are witnessing a
sharpening of social class struggle, which deepens with the collapse of
the capitalist model and its consequent rise in unemployment, lack of
adequate medical services, extreme poverty, hunger and the expansion of
misery.
It will take a radical change of the social
contract to overcome the crisis. It is the hour of solidarity and the
unity of the peoples.
For a list of the signatories, click
here.
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 20 - June 6, 2020
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Pro-Independence Organizations in Puerto Rico and Diaspora
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