Revolution Around the Corner

“[A]n intimate look into the organization and transformation of the U.S. branch of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP)…. The book uses primary documents from the ¡Despierta Boricua! History Recovery Project, and the richness of this PSP collection is one of its strengths. Equally useful are the organizational charts showing labor, university, and community nucleus and affiliates. The contributors’ self-reflection on the movement’s shortcomings (caudillismo, machismo, and sexism) is refreshing…. The authors of the essays seem hopeful, just the way they were during their formative years, that revolution is still around the corner.”-New West Indian Guide "[A] detailed and original study of the US Branch (La Seccional) of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP) from its genesis in the late 1960s to its dissolution in 1993.... VelÁzquez, Rivera, and Torres dive deeper into the lived experiences of members of the PSP in an effort to provide readers with a more complex understanding of the organization’s history.... [T]his volume provides an important contribution to the understanding of both revolutionary activism by Puerto Rico’s Socialist Party and the future of the Puerto Rican Left."-Journal of American Ethnic History "This is a necessary and information-rich book that, with its political, historical and personal perspectives, serves to clarify a moment in our history…. We must thank Rivera, Torres, and VelÁzquez for this important contribution to the study of an organization and a moment in the development of the Puerto Rican community in the United States."-CENTRO Journal "Revolution Around the Corner is full of first-person recollections and detailed accounts of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party’s varied campaigns in the U.S., including shifts in organizational strategy as the group sought to prioritize community activism while also navigating the complicated terrain of independence politics and labor socialism. These narratives will draw in readers with even a modest interest in the history of Puerto Ricans and their politics in the U.S., and will prove essential to scholars seeking primary source material on anticolonial politics or radical community activism during the coda of the civil rights movement."-The Latinx Project “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