Prisons: tear them down

Mumia Abu-Jamal − a hero for young people

This excerpted text was first handed out at a youth conference for Mumia Abu-Jamal in Philadelphia, December 2012. Some statistics…

June 21, 2022

Juneteenth: emancipation, resistance and reparations

Houston This article, which appeared in the June 23, 2021, issue of Workers World, is being reprinted here to celebrate…

June 20, 2022

<span class="streamer">Puerto Rican Day</span><br /> Anti-imperialists march to end U.S. crimes

An Independence for Puerto Rico contingent marched two miles up Fifth Avenue in the 2022 National Puerto Rican Day Parade…

June 20, 2022

Atlanta: ‘What’s the Call? Free them all!’

Atlanta The defense committees for Mutulu Shakur, Imam Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown) and Kamau Sidiki, three Black liberation…

June 17, 2022

Rayshard Brooks’ life matters

Atlanta June 12, 2022. The second anniversary of the shooting death by Atlanta police of Rayshard Brooks was marked at…

June 15, 2022

Hunger strikers protest solitary confinement conditions in Pennsylvania

June 11 — Eleven incarcerated workers at Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution-Greene started a hunger strike June 7. As of this…

June 14, 2022

Two years after a deadly COVID-19 outbreak and not one lesson learned

By Steve Brooks This article previously ran as an op-ed piece in the Sacramento Bee. For six and a half…

June 13, 2022

Inhumane system separates families

From behind bars at U.S. Penitentiary-McCreary in rural Kentucky, Eli Torres received the news from his family back home in…

June 7, 2022

Mumia Abu-Jamal: When the empire calls

The following message from political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal was prepared for the Workers’ Summit in Tijuana, Mexico, June 10-12, which…

June 6, 2022

Shakaboona – Free at last!

Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall walked out of the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia May 11, after serving an unconditional sentence of…

June 1, 2022