Prisons: tear them down

‘Prison is no joke’

The following is an edited transcript of a Nov. 22 video talk given by Che Nieves, a member of the…

December 9, 2021

40 years later, we still say: FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL!

Workers World Party issues this solidarity editorial on the anniversary of the imprisonment of Mumia Abu-Jamal. December 9 marks 40…

December 8, 2021

Eligible for release in 2016, Mutulu Shakur remains behind bars with worsening cancer

By Natasha Lennard This edited article first appeared in its entirety on The Intercept at tinyurl.com/yckz4kvt on Dec. 2. A…

December 8, 2021

Leonard Peltier: Statement on ‘Day of Mourning’

Leonard Peltier, a leader of the American Indian Movement, was falsely framed and convicted for the killing of two FBI…

November 29, 2021

The role of Black radicals − Civil War to the carceral state

The following slightly edited testimony was presented by Dr. Johanna Fernandez, an associate professor of history at Baruch College of…

November 26, 2021

A bittersweet concession

It is a well-known fact that the U.S. has the highest number of incarcerated people in the developed world at…

November 22, 2021

Survivors of mass incarceration speak truth to power at ‘Spirit of Mandela’ tribunal

The following are excerpts from testimony given at the Oct. 23-25 “Spirit of Mandela” International Tribunal for Political Prisoners, held…

November 18, 2021

New film on Attica uprising shows a fight for human rights

The Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party will be sponsoring a free zoom showing Dec. 10 of the new…

November 16, 2021

ACT UP Boston charges city with mass violations of human rights

Boston On Nov. 5, ACT UP Boston, labor leaders, frontline harm reductionists, housing advocates, contingents of students, folks who have…

November 14, 2021

Gender-based violence: root causes, root cures

Prisons, jails, and detention centers hold many survivors of violence, and these brutal institutions themselves reproduce that violence. One of…

November 10, 2021