Prisons: tear them down

Court rules for Albert Woodfox, now let him go!

Forty-two years in solitary confinement is 42 years too long. Albert Woodfox should be released now from a Louisiana prison.…

December 17, 2014

CUBAN 5 FREED!

Dec. 17 – The Obama administration announced today that the remaining incarcerated Cuban Five – Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero and…

December 17, 2014

Operation restore trust?

Dec. 2 — The flames of Ferguson have eaten their fill, and its eerie glow has cast light on how…

December 12, 2014

Rasmea Odeh out of jail, heading home to Chicago

Members of the Rasmea Defense Committee from Chicago and Detroit/Dearborn just welcomed Rasmea back from four weeks in a Port…

December 11, 2014

Town hall meeting builds resistance

Philadelphia -- “What the next steps in building resistance to police brutality will be” was the topic of a historic…

December 11, 2014

Rasmea Odeh is coming home!

December 8 news report from the Rasmea Odeh Defense Committee. We are pleased to announce that Judge Gershwin Drain just…

December 9, 2014

Legal update to #FreeRasmeaNow

Workers World publishes this release from the Rasmea Defense Committee, Nov. 28. Ever since her unjust conviction on Nov. 10,…

December 3, 2014

Leonard Peltier’s message on “Thanksgiving”

The following greeting from political prisoner Leonard Peltier was read at the 45th annual National Day of Mourning in Plymouth,…

December 1, 2014

Suit challenges law muzzling Mumia

Attorneys representing political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal filed a lawsuit in federal court in Harrisburg, Pa., on Nov. 10 seeking to…

November 20, 2014

Lawsuit challenges Mumia-muzzling act

Attorneys representing political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal filed a lawsuit in federal court in Harrisburg, Pa., on Nov. 10 seeking to…

November 15, 2014