Prisons: tear them down

After conflicting ruling, Mumia supporters regroup

The field of legal and political battle has taken on even more sophisticated dimensions in the last few days, as…

September 7, 2016

Solidarity with Sept. 9 prisoner strike

Monica Moorehead and Lamont Lilly, the presidential and vice presidential candidates for Workers World Party, released the following statement on…

September 7, 2016

The Heroes of San Rafael

In the momentous political event that marked “Black August,” freedom fighter Jonathan Jackson, at the age of 17, burst into…

August 31, 2016

Legal challenges battle for Mumia’s life and health

To paraphrase Fidel Castro, what the imperialists fear most is the mass duplication of Mumia's exceptionally heroic example. The prolonged…

August 26, 2016

Wisconsin Prison authorities keep hunger strikers on brink of death

Special to Workers World from Waupun, Wis. August 22 -- According to a letter from hunger striker LaRon McKinley, the…

August 26, 2016

U.S. prisons and the struggle against slave labor

The headline seemed to herald a new day and was reported by corporate media as breaking news: “Justice Department says…

August 23, 2016

Mississippi counties lose slave labor as prisoners are released

Mississippi's prison population, long ranked as one of the highest per capita in the U.S. and the world, has undergone…

August 23, 2016

Angola 3 book-signing honors political prisoners

New York - For the many veterans of the human rights struggles, past and present, who were in the room,…

August 21, 2016

After the Black Panthers: moving forward

This article was first published by the New Black August Prisoners’ Collective on Aug. 10. For more information, go to…

August 18, 2016

Albert Woodfox tells supporters: ‘Stand strong!’

New York City Former political prisoner Albert Woodfox was given an award by the National Lawyers Guild on Aug. 4,…

August 12, 2016