Prisons: tear them down

‘Shackling of aged inmate, Mumia Abu-Jamal, is deplorable’

The following statement was released April 20 from the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commission concerning the…

April 20, 2021

Brick by brick and wall by wall, we will free Mumia Abu-Jamal

By Erica Caines This lightly edited presentation was given by Erica Caines, with Black Alliance for Peace and Hood Communist…

April 19, 2021

For incarcerated trans women: ‘Injustice at every turn’

According to the 2011 National Transgender Discrimination Survey, one in six transgender people have been imprisoned. For Black transgender people…

April 14, 2021

Breaking the prison chains

Rebellion at St. Louis City Jail A continuous assault on imprisoned inhabitants at the “Justice Center” in downtown St. Louis,…

April 13, 2021

Victory for Jalil Muntaqim over Monroe County DA

After 49 years, on Oct. 7, 2020, political prisoner Jalil Muntaqim was finally released, becoming the last remaining Black Panther…

April 12, 2021

PA DOC: Stop persecuting Bryant Arroyo for exercising free speech!

Bryant Arroyo, an incarcerated worker at Pennsylvania SCI Frackville, was placed in isolated custody for several days — in other…

April 9, 2021

‘Mumia is a fighter’

by Johanna Fernandez These remarks, edited for print, were made by Dr. Johanna Fernandez on a March 18 Workers World…

April 9, 2021

Regarding the farewell of Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald 

Black Panther Party soldier Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald died March 28 in a California hospital. The 71-year-old had been incarcerated for…

April 9, 2021

Talking to co-author, with Mumia Abu-Jamal of ‘Murder, Incorporated’

By Ted Kelly Stephen Vittoria co-authored “Murder Incorporated — Perfecting Tyranny: Book Three (Empire, Genocide, and Manifest Destiny),” with Mumia…

April 9, 2021

Demonstration protests death at Erie County Holding Center

By Juniper Carpenter Workers World Party members and people from the community gathered outside the Erie County Holding Center, N.Y.,…

April 7, 2021