Judgment of the Grand Jury

Carlos Noya · 1982 · Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (Breakthrough) · Prairie Fire Organizing Committee — Breakthrough

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An essay by Carlos Noya, a leading member of the Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña (LSP), a public revolutionary organization in Puerto Rico that argued for a protracted people's war to achieve independence and socialism. Noya was exiled and imprisoned in the United States for refusing to collaborate with a federal grand jury investigating the Puerto Rican armed clandestine movement; after serving 17 months he was released in March 1982. The essay analyzes the grand jury as an instrument of "judicial terrorism" and political repression used against the independence, Black liberation, Native, anti-war, labor, feminist, and white anti-imperialist movements. It first appeared in Correo de la Quincena, organ of the LSP political bureau (Vol. XIX, March–September 1982), and was reprinted in Breakthrough, the political journal of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee. Digitized by the Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line (Marxists Internet Archive).