Prisons: tear them down

Louisiana youth to be jailed on Angola former death row

On Sept. 23, Louisiana Chief District Judge Shelly Dick ruled that incarcerated youth in New Orleans can be moved to…

October 6, 2022

Alabama prisoners wage massive strike

Oct. 2 — Launched with the cry, “We will no longer contribute to our own oppression,” thousands of incarcerated workers…

October 4, 2022

One hurricane, two systems

Dramatic images and accounts of the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Ian continue to dominate the news. The death toll, approaching…

October 3, 2022

Protests and anger intensify in Haiti

Beginning in late August, on the date commemorating the start of the 1804 revolution that liberated Haiti, hundreds of thousands…

October 3, 2022

The right to fight back

On June 5, 2021, CeCe McDonald and friends were assaulted in Minneapolis by a group of white-supremacist, swastika-wearing, anti-LGBTQ+ thugs.…

September 30, 2022

On 50th anniversary of Philippine martial law − ‘Never Forget, Never Again’

Sept. 24 — Dozens of people from ANAK Bayan and other local left organizations including Workers World Party met in…

September 29, 2022

Pennsylvania DOC reclassifies Latinx incarcerated workers as ‘white’ 

By  Bryant Arroyo and Betsey Piette In late August, environmental justice advocate and Puerto Rican political prisoner Bryant Arroyo was…

September 23, 2022

Violent squadron attacks Pennsylvania prisoners

By Miley Fletcher The State Correctional Institution Forest, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PA DOC) and the institution’s administration ordered…

September 21, 2022

Commentary: a killing spree in Oklahoma

The state of Oklahoma is making execution history. It is poised to become a serial killer. On July 1, an…

September 20, 2022

Jeanette Merrill ¡Presente! – ‘You have to be a partisan in the class struggle’

Buffalo, New York The class struggle lost our very partisan comrade Jeanette Fusco Merrill in the 90th year of her…

September 19, 2022