Prisons: tear them down

Michigan prisoners rebel

Prisoners in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan rose up and took control of their housing unit for over five hours…

September 25, 2020

Stop forced sterilizations! Shut down all detention centers!

The Prisoner Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party commends the heroic action of Dawn Wooten, a licensed practical nurse, for…

September 23, 2020

Defend BLM activist lawyers!

By Noor Jehan Bano A surveillance camera outside this city’s 88th Precinct in New York captured footage on May 30…

September 23, 2020

COVID cases, deaths double in prisons

Since Workers World last reported on COVID behind bars in June, case numbers and deaths have more than doubled.  Current…

September 21, 2020

Talib Williams/ ‘Imagine a world without prisons’

By Talib Williams Talib Williams spoke from Soledad prison Aug. 29 via a recording, introduced by his spouse Tasha Williams,…

September 18, 2020

Prisoners denied the right to vote, a new form of poll tax

Voter suppression in the United States is as “American as apple pie,” especially when it comes to Black, Brown and…

September 16, 2020

Growing old in prison after COVID-19

By Major Tillery Major Tillery is an innocent man who has spent 35 years in prison because gross prosecutorial and…

September 16, 2020

Houston lab OKs execution drug

Anti-death penalty activists have exposed and humiliated a Houston science lab found to have approved the purity of raw pentobarbital.…

September 16, 2020

Capitalism sets the world on fire

As of Sept. 13, at least 100 wildfires are raging in ten U.S. states. The situation could not be more…

September 15, 2020

George Jackson: Marxist-Leninist, abolitionist, revolutionary!

As we commemorate the 49th anniversary of the Attica Uprising of 1971, the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party…

September 10, 2020