Main Line #5 January 2020
Now available in two formats — click here to download Main Line #5 in small print, appropriate for mailing in a single regular envelope, or click here to download Main Line #5 in larger print, easier to read.… Read the rest
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Kevin Rashid Johnson
Six Questions and Answers, with Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
1. What can we learn from the history of revolutionary struggles about the transition from bourgeois forms of security and policing to proletarian forms of state security
As a class question, we must of course begin with distinguishing between bourgeois … Read the rest
Faces Full of Gas: Abuse of War Crimes Chemical Weapons in Indiana Prisons (2020)
US Hypocrisy as Usual
Indiana is the fifth state in which I’ve been imprisoned since 2012. Over this eight year period, I’ve been bounced from Virginia to Oregon, then Texas to Florida, back to Virginia, and now to Indiana. All … Read the rest
Panther Community Service Programs Grow (2019)
A key strategy of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party (NABPP), from its inception, has been to empower the oppressed communities through the creation and growth of programs that serve the needs of the communities and build them into … Read the rest
Reflections On Thanksgiving aka The Indigenous National Day Of Mourning (2019)
As I sit reflecting on this Thanksgiving holiday I can’t help thinking that few things rival Amerikan hypocrisy.
While a huge national memorial sits in Washington, DC in memory of the Jewish Holocaust, Amerikans celebrate a national holiday called Thanksgiving … Read the rest
Save Rodney Reed, Stop Yet Another Legal Lynching (2019)
Rodney Reed, another innocent Black man, is set to die at the hands of an uncaring criminal (in)justice system.
It’s not a system that doesn’t care because of being broken, but one that doesn’t care about the truth and never … Read the rest
Answering a Revisionist Analysis of Maoism and the Revolution in China
Book Review: Maoism and the Chinese Revolution by Elliot Liu
by Tom “Big Warrior” Watts and Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Tom: When asked if I would like to collaborate with my dear friend and comrade, Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, in writing a … Read the rest
Aramark: Multibillion Dollar Food Vendor Starves and Exploits Prisoners (2019)
Aramark, an Indiana-based food vendor that made the Forbes list and was named by Fortune 500 as the 27th largest employer, is a textbook case of capitalist corporate profiteering.
At the profit end, with contracts in venues ranging from sports … Read the rest
Political Struggle in the Teeth of Prison Reaction: From Virginia to Oregon
[from Socialism and Democracy, 27:1 (March 2013); published text at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08854300.2012.760266]
Introduction
Virginia’s prisons claimed 22 years of my life. Those years were not kind or gentle. The last 14 were spent in extreme solitary confinement, in Virginia’s … Read the rest
A Black Panther Barbecue: Serving the People on Juneteenth (2019)
For Juneteenth (June 19th) 2019 the New Afrikan Black Panther Party (NABPP), and its mass organization the United Panther Movement (UPM), organized a People’s Barbecue at Westside Park in Newark, NJ where the NABPP is headquartered.
The six-hour event, … Read the rest