Revolution Around the Corner
Voices from the Puerto Rican Socialist Party in the United States

PB: $32.95
EAN: 978-1-4399-2055-8
Publication: Jan 21
HC: $115.50
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Publication: Jan 21
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408 pages
6 x 9
2 figs., 23 halftones
The first book-length story of the radical social movement, the Puerto Rican Socialist Party
Read the Introduction (pdf).Description
Active from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s, the U.S. branch of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP) worked simultaneously to build support for Puerto Rican independence and to engage in radical social change within the United States.
Revolution Around the Corner
Combining historical accounts, personal stories, interviews, and retrospective analysis, Revolution Around the Corner examines specific actions such as the National Day of Solidarity ( El Acto Nacional), the Bicentennial without Colonies, the Save Hostos struggle, and the Vieques campaign. Testimonies recount the pros and cons of membership diversity, as well as issues of loyalty and compañerismo. In addition, essays describe the PSP’s participation in coalitions and alliances with Left and progressive movements. The book concludes with the editors’ reflections on the PSP’s achievements, mistakes, and contributions.
Contributors: Maritza Arrastía, Teresa Basilio Gaztambide, Rosa Borenstein, Ted Glick, Alfredo López, Pablo Medina Cruz, Ramón Jimenez, Lenina Nadal, José-Manuel Navarro, Alyssa Ribeiro, Olga Iris Sanabria Dávila, Digna Sánchez, América “Meca” Sorrentini, Zoilo Torres, and the editors
Reviews
“This book takes us back to a time when you had to earn the title ‘Socialist.’ It provides the reader with a comprehensive picture of a key organization in the Puerto Rican movement, written by actual participants. There is no better moment to read this book than today when we are all learning about each other. Revolution Around the Corner is a testament that Puerto Rico is a nation and that its culture and traditions should be respected. Each and every one of us has the responsibility to end the sin of U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico.”—Luis V. Gutiérrez, Former U.S. Congressman (Illinois)
“The full story of the U.S. arm of the Puerto Rican independence struggle of the 1970s has never been told. In vivid eyewitness and scholarly accounts, former members of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party not only correct that oversight, but also provide important lessons for the young activists rising up today against systemic racial and economic inequities and injustice. Revolution Around the Corner shows how over five decades ago Puerto Rican activists linked domestic struggles with international battles for freedom and self-determination against U.S. imperial domination.”— Frances M. Beal, founding member of SNCC Black Women's Liberation Committee, Third World Women's Alliance Representative to Puerto Rico Solidarity Committee, and author of Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female
Table of Contents
List of Figures PART I HISTORIES PART II TESTIMONIES PART III COALITIONS AND ALLIANCES PART IV CONCLUSION
Acknowledgments
2. Milestones: Reflections on a Life-Journey of Activism and the PSP in New York / José E. Velázquez
3. The PSP in the Windy City / José E. Velázquez, América Sorrentini, and Pablo Medina Cruz
5. The Personal Is Political: Children of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party Speak / Teresa Basilio Gaztambide and Carmen V. Rivera
6. Hostos Community College: Battle of the Seventies /Ramón J. Jiménez
7. Journalism, Organizing, and Revolution / Alfredo López
8. A Pamper Rojo Boricua Baby of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party / Lenina Nadal
9. ¡Puerto Rico Libre y Socialista! A Philarican in the Struggle / José-Manuel Navarro
10. From El Barrio to the United Nations / Olga Iris Sanabria Dávila
11. Mi Camino / Digna Sánchez
12. What the Puerto Rican Socialist Party Nurtured in Me / Zoilo Torres
14. Independentista Politics, Independent Politics: My Years Working with the Puerto Rican Socialist Party / Ted Glick
15. From March to Movement? The Bicentennial Without Colonies and the Peoples Alliance / Alyssa Ribeiro
Interviews
Bibliography
Contributors
Index