







(Rally to Support Puerto Rico - Cancel the Debt! - Marchers form in Boson's Jamaica Espaina neighborhood - 2 Aug 2019)

Boson Workers calls for the cancellation of the massive debts that Puerto Rico must pay for 'loans' worth millions that did not help average people and workers on the island.





U.S. colonial domination has bled Puerto Rico to the point of collapse. A few years ago, with Puerto Rico mired in a deep recession, itself the result of decisions made in Washington, Wall Street bankers and hedge fund managers swooped in to collect on a debt that now stands at $124 billion. To this end, in 2016 the Obama administration set up a financial oversight junta to impose brutal austerity measures—slashing wages, pensions and health care; privatizing education and gutting social services. The next year, the devastation caused by Maria intensified the misery, and emboldened the union-busting privatizers.





These attacks have been met with struggle, including strikes and May Day work stoppages. A popular chant today is: “Ricky renuncia y llévate a la junta!” (“Ricky resign, and take the board with you!”) Workers in the U.S. share a common enemy with the Puerto Rican people. The same imperialist rulers who lord it over Puerto Rico grind down workers at home. In the U.S., many Democrats are now calling for Rosselló to resign in order to defuse the protests and return to the business of colonial pillage as usual. It is in the interest of the American proletariat to take a side with its class brothers and sisters in Puerto Rico and demand: Cancel the debt!





We stand for the right of self-determination for Puerto Rico and favor independence. The feelings of Puerto Ricans on independence are mixed: they hate their second-class status as colonial subjects, but fear losing the ability to work in the U.S. and sinking even further into poverty. Therefore, we emphasize the right of independence.







https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9k0OWydVB8 See Also: Massive Rally in Puerto Rico Demands Governor's Resignation (1:03 min) 23 July 2019



