Political Prisoners – Page 9 – Struggle

Spain punishes anti-monarchy speech: Free Pablo Hasél

March 17, 2021 Iña Martinez

Monarchies, monarchies … what are they good for? Let’s talk about the kingdom of Spain, for example. The Spanish monarchy had been abolished by public demand almost a century ago. In 1936 there was a […]

Philadelphia: Free Mumia! Free them all!

March 15, 2021 Stephen Millies

Righteously angry people protested outside the office of Philadelphia’s “progressive” District Attorney Larry Krasner on March 12. They demanded the immediate release of world-famous political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and all other incarcerated fighters for the […]

Mumia has congestive heart failure and is COVID-19 positive

March 4, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha

From the New York City Jericho Movement: “We could not save Malcolm X, but we can save Mumia. We can save him, and we must save him, because we love our Brother, and we need […]

Mumia Abu-Jamal, now in his 40th year as an incarcerated prisoner, has COVID-19

February 28, 2021 Dave Lindorff

Internationally known U.S. political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has reported to friends and family on the outside that he has contracted Covid-19 in the Pennsylvania prison where he is incarcerated, and says he is having difficulty […]

Solidarity with hunger strike of Greek political prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas!

February 12, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha

The Socialist Unity Party and Struggle-La Lucha newspaper in the U.S. send solidarity and support to Greek political prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas. Since 2002, Koufontinas has been imprisoned for his role in the Revolutionary Organization 17 […]

St. Louis prisoners rebel against COVID spread, hunger: ‘This is genocide’

February 9, 2021 EXPO-St. Louis

Sometime in the early morning of Feb. 6, the inmates at the St. Louis City Justice Center (CJC) staged an act of civil disobedience because of the inhumane treatment by CJC management concerning COVID-19 along […]

Pardon Leonard Peltier, not Blackwater war criminals

January 15, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha

Leonard Peltier is an Indigenous political prisoner who has spent over 40 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Peltier, a member of the American Indian Movement, was framed for killing two […]

The trials and tragedy of Duryea Green

December 25, 2020 Lev Koufax

In 2004 in the Baltimore neighborhood of O’Donnell Heights, two teenagers playing basketball were shot. To this day, it is unclear what exactly happened. What is clear is that this was a frame-up and the […]

State Supreme Court rejects Faulkner widow’s ‘evidence-free’ effort to block Mumia appeal

December 23, 2020 Dave Lindorff

Mumia Abu-Jamal, the prison journalist long known as the “voice of the voiceless” for his compelling writings and short audio tapes about life behind bars, moved a step closer to getting a chance for a […]

Trump’s racist revenge executions

December 16, 2020 Stephen Millies

During his final days in the White House, Trump is executing more prisoners than any U.S. president has since the 1950s. Starting on Bastille Day (July 14) this year, 10 prisoners have been put to […]