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...referendum would further enliven what is already a contentious election campaign. In November, Puerto Ricans will elect a Governor, a legislature and municipal officials. For the first time the Communists, organized as the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, will run candidates...
...Puerto Rican Socialist Party's chief is Juan Mari Bras, 48, an avowed Communist who announced his gubernatorial candidacy last week. He takes Castro's Cuba as his model and gets both rhetorical and material help from Havana. Mari Bras formed alliances with several unions, though most of organized labor remains antiCommunist. Some radicals are now in the leadership of unions representing firemen and telephone and power-plant workers. A number of strikes in 1974 and early 1975 grew violent, and industrial sabotage became a nagging problem. So did random explosions at the Puerto Rican offices of mainland...
Carol H. Evans, who has been involved in union organizing at Harvard, is the nominee of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). She said the SWP would be campaigning for "a change in our economic and political system that will answer the needs of the working millions instead of the wealthy...
Frye goes on from here to give two different ways of looking at popular literature, one as a "packaged commodity" that an overproductive economy, "capitalist or socialist" feeds the masses, and the other, "the literature that demands the minimum of previous verbal experience and special education of the reader...
...looking at the way they diverge from and conform to old patterns. It is an indication of how important romance is to modern political ideology that most modern Chinese short stories are romances (with an underlying revolutionary message, of course). William Morris, on the other hand, a radical socialist, didn't seem to be aware of the uses of his romances to inculcate upper-class values, and Frye says that's the reason his comrades rejected...