ORGANO TEORICO DEL M.LN. LUCHA LONG LIVE THE HEROIC PUERTO RICAN PRISONERS OF WAR! •BEYOND SABANA SEGA •ON THE PRIMARIES • ARMED STRUGGLE PALESTINE • IRELAND 50$ BOOKS AND LITERATURE AVAILABLE Puerto Rican Nationalism: A Reader - English .$5.00 By Jose E. Lopez - 1^77 - First Edition - 218 pages A collection of v.rorks which include the most important original material available in English about the Nation- alist Party of Puerto Rico. Introductory note on the historical development of United States imperialism in Puerto Rico. Trilateral Commission: The New U.S. Imperialist ''-'oriel Strategy. .$3.00 By M.LiK. Political Studies Commission - English 197° - First Edition - 8^4- pages A tonic which has had little analysis, but which is essential to understand in order to program for the coning decade of the 80's. 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'32.50 By Interim Committee for a New Puerto Rican So'Iidari t.y Movement Phf> book contains speeches and articles by leadinr forces' in the revolutionary oublic Independence movement ac well as statements and communiques from the armed clandestine organizations. ***L-:: ""stria Radical - onaniBh.,. o. 0 .....*,... 0..... i ........... .$^.00 P'or Juan A.,tonio Corretjer - ' 978 - Cuarta Edicion - 150 ugc. ***La Lucha Por La Independencia de Puerto Rico - Sranich.. .«. ,6>3.00 Por Juan Antonio Corretjsr - 1977 - Quinta Edicion - 1^9 Pgs. ***These two books \vill :;:oon be available in Englisli. I would like to help in the development of REBELD1A. Enclosed is a donation of $ NAME: ADDRESS: CITY: STATE ZIP SEND TO: REBELDIA 2520 North Lincoln Ave. BOX 233 . Chicago, Illinois 60614 Heed The Message Of FALN The following was taken from the Milwaukee Courier Sat. March 29, 1980, on the editorial page. HEED THE MESSAGE OF FALN As supporters of the Puerto Rican Nationalist movement for the complete liberation of the island from United States authority, we see a valuable les- son for the Black community in this week's interven- tion into the campaign offices of Republican hope- UBERAOON NACIONAL PUERTORfclQUENA ful George Bush and President Cater. Just as the Southern Africa freedom fighters in Why do we as a people fail to see the message in Zimbabwe, Azania, Namibia ,Mozambique and An- the work of the FALN and even decry their methods gola see armed struggle as the only way to win free- Although it is regrettable that people have died as a dom against an intransigent white force, FALN, the result of FALN liberation activities, we cannot Armed Forces of National Liberation , sees direct forget that America is all to willing to kill people to assaults against the system as the only way toward a get its own way. Witness Mark Clark and Fred liberated Puerto Rico. They recognize, just as their Hampton. Witness Dr Martin Luther King. Witness African brothers and sisters, that to wait on an opp- Malcolm. Witness Vietnam... ressive system to move its gears and perhaps grant While current Black leadership poo-poos the fact independence somewhere down the line and even that none of the presidential candidates felt it impor- then with strings attached, is a process that leaves tant enough to come before the Black political con- those suffering now with no relief- and little hope vention in Richmond late last month, they accept it for the future. and go on announce their support for four more While the Black community ponders over who years of the same. They have lied down in the heavy to support in upcoming November presidential fire of status quo and the rightward American turn. The message written on the walls of the campaign election, many already announcing their backing of headquarters,words of liberation for Puerto Rico, an incumbent who has failed in more instances to could very well have been freedom talk for Black live up to the promises that garnered him 92 percent people. Sadly, they were not. of the Black vote in 1976, the Puerto Rican nationa- We did not accept slavery. Why do we today lists spend their time taking direct action against accept neoslavery? "fr those people who, because of the ever-present theory of white man's burden, feel they can speak for Third World peoples. They see no hope in relying on elec- tions to gain freedom and emphasize that feeling in New York in Bush's office and in Chicago at the Carter-Mondale headquarters. No one was hurt and the message was left loud and clear. Contents Such action was also taken up by Black Libera- tion forces in the 1960's. Witness the takeover of the LONG LIVE HEROIC POW'S ...... 3 California court by Jonathan Jackson and company in 1970. But those times seem to be far off for the Black community in 1980, despite the continuing Despite relatively little change for the masses of CHICANO/MEXICANO IN VIEQUES. Black people in this country, the traditional Black leadership continues to rely on living within the poli- tical system as a means of winning the small conce- BEYOND SABANA SECA 5 ssions they see as adequate. The "We Shall Over- come mentalty lingers sickeningly on. Someday is the promise. PALESTINE ............................... 6 Someday is here for the FALN, or they will die trying. They realize that to leave four of their most prominent comrades languishing in prison cells since PRIMARIES ................. ... ...... 7 the early 1950's tells that the system does not care for them and is nowhere near ready to concede to IRELAND... 9 their demands. Despite Jimmy Carter's release of the four Puerto Rican Nationalists last year, the lib- eration forces for island freedom recognize that such ARMED STRUGGLE 13 trivial matters along the course of liberation are mute without the final verdict of "freedom now'"a reality. SUPPORT THE Freedom Fighters De Pie y En Lucha LONG LIVE THE HEROIC PRISONERS OF WAR! On April 4, 1980, police in Evanston, 111. captured The position of P.O.W. is based on the fact that 11 Puerto Rican men and women who they accused Puerto Rico was militarily invaded in 1898 by the of being members of the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de United States and that since then Puerto Rico has been Liberacion Nacional) a Puerto Rican armed clandes- an occupied nation at war with the U.S. invaders; that tine organization. their imperialist invasion and continual occupation These eleven Puerto Ricans, 5 women and 6 men, goes against all the laws of humanity and nations. As are now facing various state charges ranging from auto such, the task of ending their occupation falls upon theft to possession of weapons. The most serious the people of the occupied nation, in this case the charge is against Haydee Beltran de Torres, who is Puerto Rican people. The right to free itself by any being charged with murder. Haydee is being accused means necessary is recognized by all freedom loving of bombing the Mobil Oil Company in N.Y. where one nations of the world, and negated only by the invader. person was killed. She is presently being held in the Resolution 2621 (XXV) approved by the General New York Metropolitan Correctional Center and will Assembly of the United Nations on October 12, 1970, be tried on May 19, 1980. The other 10 who are still stated that colonialism in all its forms and manifes- in Chicago will also be tried on May 19, 1980. Resolution 2621 (XXV) approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations on October 12, 1970, stated that colonialism in all its forms and manifes- tations is a crime, constituting a violation of the Charter of the United Nations. Puerto Rico was officially recognized a colony of the-United States by the United Nations on September 12, 1978. In its Declaration of the Granting of Independence The 11 have taken the position that they are to Colonial Countries and Peoples (Resolution 1514 Prisoners of War and that they do not recognize the (XV), the U.N. states that "It is the inalienable right jurisdiction of the U.S. courts or any domestic legal of colonial people to struggle by all means at their proceedings. In their position the 11 have put forth disposal against colonial powers which suppress their that they must be turned over to a neutral country aspirations for freedom and independence." Other and tried by an international court. United Nations resolutions also reaffirm the right of The Position of the 11 is consistent with the every colonized people to struggle for independence, position taken by the Five Nationalists Lolita Lebron, even when they should resort to armed struggle. Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irvin Flores, Oscar Collazo, and Resolution 2852, approved December 20, 1971 and Andres Figueroa, who were the longest held Prisoners Resolution 3103, approved December 12, 1973, of War in the Western hemisphere. These five freedom established that all particpants in Liberation Move- fighters refused to recognize any type of domestic ments struggling for their independence and self-deter- legalistic methods to gain their release. mination when captured shall be treated according to William Guillermo Morales, who was the first the stipulations made in the .Geneva Convention. person to be captured and accused of belonging to The United States refuses to accept any of the the FALN; was also the first person to refuse to make U.N.