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Millions across the United States are gathering to celebrate a world-historic event: the birth of a settler colony which stands today as a mighty global empire. From its inception, this fledgling colony emerged onto the world stage as a prison house of nations: genocidal conquest and the dispossession of the continent’s original peoples secured the land base necessary for a new society to be erected atop the ashes of the old. This process of permanent war to repress the capacity of indigenous nations to reclaim their historic territory and national sovereignty remains a foundational pillar of U.S. dominance in the 21st century. Before long, the United States of America surpassed the empires of Europe to become the world’s preeminent military-industrial superpower, enabled not by the superiority of its values and principles, but by a global campaign of pillage, piracy, and plunder financed by the fruits of enslaved African labor harvested over the course of nearly three centuries.
Newark, New Jersey, is home to more than 30,000 Puerto Ricans who live alongside Black, Portuguese, Haitian, Brazilian, and other Latin American communities. Puerto Ricans arrived in Newark in the 1950s, and today Newark remains home to many immigrants who have been similarly displaced by colonization. In Newark, these communities have struggled together for decades, fighting against city systems that have often failed us. In the face of antiblackness and police violence, Newark has stood together and radically transformed the city. That unity is called on yet again, at a critical moment of performative governance, the growing threat of gentrification, […]
The Diaspora Pa’lante Collective denounces in the strongest terms the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war on the Islamic Republic of Iran, battling yet another attempt by imperialism to sow chaos and instability toward the collapse of the Iranian state. Such an outcome would eliminate a key pillar of the regional resistance to Zionist expansionism, and return the nation to a position of obedience and compliance within the U.S.-led international system. Far from securing the liberation of a people, its capture by means of imperialist subversion would constitute a resounding defeat for the Iranian masses and all anti-imperialist forces across the world. From […]
The Diaspora Pa’lante Collective unequivocally condemns U.S. airstrikes on the sovereign territory of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and upholds the right of the Venezuelan people to resist imperialist aggression. In the early hours of January 3, the government of the United States initiated attacks on the capital city of Caracas, as well as the states of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira, culminating in the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores. This unprovoked attack is an escalation of the months-long campaign of targeted airstrikes launched from the shores of our occupied archipelago across the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, which have claimed at least 115 lives. The actions of the United States must be repudiated and resisted by all progressive forces across the world, with a special duty belonging to those residing within the aggressor nation to defend the national sovereignty and […]
On Christmas Eve, 2025, the Office of Permits Management published the Environmental Compliance Determination for the proposed Esencia megaproject, giving the green light to corporations and state investors to seize and destroy more than 2,000 acres of land, disregarding the will of the people. The approval had been on hold as a result of various reports compiled by residents of Cabo Rojo and other municipalities across Puerto Rico revealing the severe and lasting impact this project would have on land, water, and life. Residents like Pedro Cardona Roig, better known as El Urbanista, stated that the findings do not adequately […]
September 23 marks the birth of the Puerto Rican nation, the death of a national hero, and a time for reflection and rejuvenation for the protracted struggle ahead. The roots of our nation are in Lares. The definition of our nationality was forged by the determination to expel colonial power from our land. In the days and months preceding the 23rd of September, 1868, a conspiracy was born. A conspiracy fully aware of its driving forces: national liberation and class struggle. A conspiracy to expel the institution of slavery from the archipelago. To banish the plantation system and give life […]
In response to the escalation of hostile rhetoric and the positioning of U.S. armed forces to attack the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Diaspora Pa’lante Collective (DPC) urges all progressive forces of the region to mobilize in defense of Venezuelan sovereignty and self-determination. DPC stands unequivocally opposed to the impositions of imperialism on the peoples and nations of Our Americas, and reiterates that our region must be respected as a Zone of Peace. Yankee imperialism dares to project itself as the arbiter of justice in the Western Hemisphere, threatening to depose Venezuela’s democratically-elected president under the pretext of neutralizing state-sanctioned […]
July 25, 1898: General Nelson A. Miles led more than 15,000 U.S. troops in the invasion and ongoing occupation of Puerto Rico. 127 years later, the archipelago remains shackled to the United States, a colony struggling for its liberation. How will history record the legacy of the United States in Puerto Rico? 127 years of dispossession, plunder, displacement, and genocide.Of military occupation, environmental devastation, and class struggle.Of sterilization, forced migration, and assimilation.Of independence criminalized, repressed, and denied. While the unbroken thread of our revolutionary tradition reflects the pride and dignity of our nation: 127 years of opposition, steadfastness, and resistance.Of […]