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Political Prisoner Herman Bell Assaulted

Black Panther Party political prisoner Herman Bell was viciously assaulted by guards at Great Meadow Correctional Facility (Comstock) on September 5, 2017. While being ā€œescortedā€ by a guard back to his housing unit, a guard struck Herman, age 69, in the face causing his glasses to drop to the floor. …

Robert “Seth” Hayes

Robert Seth Hayes was released from prison on parole in August 2018( seeĀ US: Black Panther Robert Seth Hayes Released After 45 Years (telesurvtv)). He passed away on December 21, 2019. Robert Seth Hayes was born in Harlem, New York in October 1947.Ā  His father, John Franklin Hayes, was the child …

Mailroom Censorship at Attica

On October 7, political prisoner Jalil Muntaqim was denied 4 books which arrived for him at Attica Correctional Facility. Muntaqim is a former member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, and one of the longest held political prisoners in the world today; he has been incarcerated since …

Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead

More than a memoir, Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead takes the reader on a tour of Americaā€™s underbelly. From Iowa to Compton to Venice Beach to Fairbanks, Alaska, Mead introduces you to poor America just trying to get byā€”and barely making it. When a thirteen-year-old Mead ends up in …

Halifax Double Book Launch: LUMPEN (Ed Mead) and ESCAPING THE PRISM (Jalil Muntaqim)

WHEN: Saturday, October 24at 7:00pm WHERE: Plan B Halifax,Ā 2180 Gottingen Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K 3B2 facebook:Ā https://www.facebook.com/events/624566001016376/ Comrades in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have organized the first joint book launch for Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed MeadĀ and Escaping the Prism … Fade to Black by Jalil Muntaqim. Ed Mead will be …

Interview with an Antifascist Prisoner in Sweden

Joel is an antifascist prisoner in Sweden. In July 2014, he was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for attempted murder, violent disorder, and carrying an illegal weapon. The sentence followed a collective defense against a Nazi attack on an antifascist demonstration in Stockholm. The interview was …

2015 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar

The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar comes out every year, containing short texts and beautiful artwork by political prisoners and prisoners of war, and their supporters. The 2015 calendar is now out, and this year Kersplebedeb (via leftwingbooks.net) is handling all orders (of less then 10 calendars – …

Free Chelsea Manning!

This summer i got some of these beautiful cloth bags, honoring Chelsea Manning and demanding her freedom. i still have a bunch left if anyone wants one — they cost $10 and some of theĀ proceeds are going to the Chelsea Manning Defense Fund. (The bags were madeĀ by Art Metropole in …

Kuwasi Balagoon 1946-1986

Kuwasi Balagoon New Afrikan Anarchist Revolutionary December 22, 1946Ā ā€“Ā December 13, 1986 available from leftwingbooks.net “Without freedom, there isn’t any big deal in living since to accept fascism is to forfeit life.” Kuwasi Balagoon was a defendant in the Panther 21 case in the late sixties, and a member of the …