Prisons: tear them down

News whiteout of Pennsylvania prison strike

Philadelphia Incarcerated workers held captive in Pennsylvania prisons called a labor strike in the name of Subaltern Peoples Abolitionist Revolutionary…

January 9, 2023

Incarcerated lives endangered in freezing conditions

In analyzing the heroic 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion, Sam Marcy, the late chairperson of Workers World Party, wrote in the…

January 5, 2023

Family, friends pay respects to Wadiya Jamal

Wadiya Jamal has spent most of her adult life fighting for her husband’s release. The beloved wife of political prisoner…

January 4, 2023

Wadiya Jamal, my beloved

The following message from Mumia first aired on Prison Radio Dec. 30, 2022. She was a spring baby, born in…

January 4, 2023

Oregon governor commutes death row sentences

Portland, Oregon Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has commuted the sentences of everyone awaiting execution by the state: 16 men and…

December 23, 2022

‘From the Darkness Shines a Light’

Philadelphia is known as the “City of Murals,” with over 4,000 works of community-based public art adorning outer brick walls…

December 20, 2022

Critical hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal

Dec. 16 — Supporters and family of Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal filled the courtroom and demonstrated outside the Philadelphia…

December 16, 2022

‘The Mumia exception’

Philadelphia For 41 years, journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal has been unjustly imprisoned for the murder of a Philadelphia police officer. His…

December 15, 2022

Alex Saab on trial

Alex Saab, diplomat and Special Envoy for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, was placed on trial Dec. 12 in Miami…

December 15, 2022