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The virus and capitalist society – Part 2 Of all the capitalist governments attempting to emulate the Wuhan model of lockdown to combat the Covid-19 virus, New Zealand has fared […]
Category Archives: prisoners’ rights
A city built on the bones of prisoners
Komsomolsk-na-Amur is an industrial city in the Russian Far East. Founded in 1932, it was from 1937 unmarked on maps and off limits to foreigners – not just in Soviet […]
Australia’s Guantanamo: the ever-widening consequences of stripping away the right to asylum
Christmas Island, which lies in the Indian Ocean closer to Java than to the Australian mainland, is a non-self-governing Australian territory. It has a population of about 2,000 permanent residents […]
Coerced confessions and fightbacks: the new norms of bourgeois ‘justice’
A few days ago the Central Park Five, a group of five young Black men who were framed up for the rape and assault of a jogger in New York’s […]
The Sensible Sentencing Trust and the art of portraiture
The opinions of the Sensible Sentencing Trust feature prominently in the news yet again. This time the big-business media are turning to their favourite advocacy group to solicit their opinions […]
This is what a moral crisis looks like
Two staggering statistics illustrate the fact that the crisis afflicting the capitalist world is not just an economic crisis but a moral crisis as well. In the United States today, […]
So this is our banned testimony – Pelican Bay prisoners statement to legislators
Originally posted on Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity:
We are prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison who have all lived for over 15 years locked 23 hours a day in small windowless…
Prisoners in the US assert their humanity
Workers wanting to fight back find ways and means no matter what situation they face. In 2013 the leading role in the international workers movement was taken by workers in some […]
Greatest hypocrite of them all
Among the bourgeois politicians who lined up to eulogise Nelson Mandela over the past week, the competition for Awards in the categories Most Convenient Amnesia and Greatest Hypocrite Of All was fierce. […]
How the ruling class sees us
The capitalist crisis runs especially deep in the United States, and has many ramifications. Sometimes a news story appears which demonstrates this better than a thousand graphs and statistics. In […]
A worker at large 