Prisons: tear them down

Jersey activists: ‘Free Chelsea Manning!’

Local activist organizations in New Jersey staffed an informational table focusing on the struggle to free U.S. Army Pvt. Chelsea…

September 11, 2016

Mumia supporters protest decision denying hep C meds

U.S. District Court Judge Robert Mariani on Aug. 31 denied a request from Mumia Abu-Jamal, an imprisoned former Black Panther…

September 10, 2016

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