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organization, which means that membership is not open to the wider public. This is both a result of a need for dedication and trust building from cadres, and as a way to prevent the state repression that has plagued other organizations in Puerto Rico.
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As a multi-tendency organization, with a culture of debate and ideological discussion, there are people within its membership and leadership who visualize themselves as
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action, and to worker's self-emancipation, which leads to a belief that differences in opinion are a positive feature in a revolutionary organization.
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This does not mean that the organization is in any way "secret", its members are public, vocal, advocates of the organization's politics.
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It is also visible in the struggle to call attention to the untried murder case of MSP founding member and Cuban exile
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The MST was formed in 1982 by the merger of two important (and previously rival) socialist groups, the
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along with the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores Puertorriqueños-Macheteros/PRTP-Macheteros (
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Later, in 1984, the Liga Internacionalista de los Trabajadores/LIT (
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Chamber of Marketing, Industry, and Distribution of Food
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Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers' Party-Macheteros
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Index


Youth wing
Ideology
Socialism
Communism
Democratic socialism
Revolutionary socialism
Political position
Left-wing
far-left
Politics of Puerto Rico
Political parties
Elections
Spanish
Puerto Rican
democratic socialist
revolutionary
self-organization
self-emancipation
working-class
Puerto Rico
Unión de Juventudes Socialistas
democratic socialist
revolutionary
Marxist
Dialectical Materialist
Marxist
socialism
anarchists
Anti-Revisionists

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