Political Prisoners

Dialogue with a political prisoner of today, part 1

“We don’t get how we are all tied to the prison industrial complex. Nobody’s out.” - Mariame Kaba, interviewed by…

2 months ago

What to the Political Prisoner is the Fourth of July?

Jay Burton is a political prisoner. At just 16 years old, he was ensnared by the predatory neo-Nazi Lynwood Vikings…

3 months ago

After 43 years in jail, Mumia Abu-Jamal is still innocent

Philadelphia, July 5 — Over a hundred people demonstrated for Mumia Abu-Jamal's freedom here today. Forty-three years ago, on July…

3 months ago

Always remember Shaka Sankofa

Shaka Sankofa was executed 25 years ago on June 22, 2000. Texas governor and future president, George W. Bush, ordered…

4 months ago

Mumia embraces the LGBTQ+ movement

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a brilliant and empathetic revolutionary journalist known as “the Voice of the Voiceless,” hailed as a leader…

4 months ago

‘It has been a long 22 years’: wife of wrongfully imprisoned man speaks out

On May 30, Struggle-La Lucha sat down with Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly activist, Miss Van Green. She has been fighting…

4 months ago

Free Jay Burton: Fighting for justice against LA’s neo-Nazi Sheriff’s gangs

On Aug. 29, 1970, some 25,000 people gathered for the Chicano Moratorium in East Los Angeles to protest the brutal…

5 months ago

Honoring Mumia Abu-Jamal on his 71st birthday

“Know this: throughout it all. I have never felt alone. To the eye, I was alone in solitary confinement, on…

5 months ago

New York State prison guards ‘strike’ for brutality and solitary confinement

Prison guards and cops are not workers Thousands of prison guards have staged a so-called strike since Feb. 17 in…

8 months ago

Why the delay? Release Leonard Peltier now!

In a final act of clemency on Jan. 20, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard…

8 months ago