Prisons: tear them down

COVID and prisons: No walls, no borders in the workers’ struggle

Texas “It’s a nonviolent protest going on right now because the officers [in an unnamed Texas prison], in the middle…

December 22, 2020

Release Mumia now!

Philadelphia The Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police have done everything possible to silence Mumia Abu-Jamal and bury his fight for…

December 18, 2020

Ramsey Prison Unit: The terror of Texas

By Nanon M. Williams Nanon Williams was arrested in 1992 at age 17 for capital murder and spent years on…

December 18, 2020

Swift Justice: ‘A fight from the inside out’

These slightly edited comments are from a Dec. 10 webinar organized by the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party.…

December 18, 2020

Barrier to Mumia’s appeal dismissed: Case can move forward

Philadelphia A significant roadblock to Mumia Abu-Jamal’s appeal of his unjust 1982 murder conviction was removed on Dec. 16, when…

December 17, 2020

Incarcerated rise up against COVID deaths, raging infections

On Dec. 9 an incarcerated person at Stafford Creek “men’s” prison, near Aberdeen, Wash., died of COVID-19. The same week,…

December 17, 2020

Justice for Casey Goodson in Columbus, Ohio

Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Jason Meade killed Casey “Tank” Goodson Jr. in his family’s Columbus, Ohio, home on Dec.…

December 16, 2020

Kempis Ghani Songster: ‘The struggle of working people in the prison system’

These slightly edited comments are from a Dec. 10 webinar organized by the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party.…

December 16, 2020

Defend incarcerated workers!

These comments were given at a Dec. 10 webinar of the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party.   The theme…

December 15, 2020

PA prisons:  Disdain, distrust and deprivation

Incarcerated workers across Pennsylvania are demanding that Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel reverse his disastrous decision to begin mass…

December 10, 2020