From the Solidarity Across Borders. Seven inmates of the Laval migrant prison are continuing the hunger strike they began on March 1, 2021. The strikers have launched a declaration to announce their strike, denounce their situation and demand their release. Declaration of the Inmates of the Laval Detention Centre We …
The Prison Covid-19 Information Project provides COVID-19 news and resources for prisoners and their families and loved ones on the outside. Their latest newsletter is here. They have also added a blog to their site, which is predominately updates from prisoners on the situation where they are held.
Woodfox was a member of the Angola 3, a group of men wrongfully accused of murder. Now he marks the fifth anniversary of his freedom by Ed Pilkington [Mirrored from the Guardian] Fri 19 Feb 2021 Every morning for almost 44 years, Albert Woodfox would awake in his 6ft by …
March 2020: Charlotte and Pete O’Neal at their home in the Arusha region of northern Tanzania. (Photograph by Jaclynn Ashly)This article is mirrored from https://www.newframe.com/part-one-a-black-panther-love-story/. Part one Charlotte and Pete O’Neal fled the United States when he was targeted as a member of the Black Panther Party. Part one of …
Inside prison, Tiyo Attallah Salah-El was a jazz musician, writing music and organizing in-prison shows in addition to his work helping fellow prisoners access quality education. A review of ‘Pen Pal: Prison Letters from a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row’ by Tiyo Attallah Salah-El by David Gilbert David Gilbert is in …
Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/updates-23-feb-2021.pdf NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of war we support. If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner, please let us know …
Mirrored from https://spectrejournal.com/why-tronti-why-now/ The philosopher and politician Mario Tronti remains one of the most important Marxists and political theorists in postwar Italy, yet until now, no critical edition of his work has appeared in English. This is why Andrew Anastasi‘s edited volume The Weapon of Organization is so crucial: it presents Tronti in his own …
It is always exciting to see what comes in the mail … here are some new titles we picked up in February, all available (and many of them discounted as part of our February Sale) at leftwingbooks.net
article by Jordan Kisner, mirrored from New York Times Feb. 17, 2021 books by Silvia Federici available at leftwingbooks.net Prospect Park in May is a commotion of beauty: meadows and dense rambles, hills and hollows, everything covered in chokeberries, spicebush, violets, flowering hawthorns, magnolias and lindens. In this splendor the birds …
You can listen to the episode archived here. The Trump zealots who stormed the Capitol building on January 6th, leading to at least 5 deaths, were part of a growing far-right movement. Tune into this interview by Out-FM’s Bob Lederer with two longtime writers for the blog ThreeWay Fight (http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/) …