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, 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
[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
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
Under the leadership of Chairman Shaka Sankofa Zulu the New Afrikan Black Panther Party and its mass organization the United Panther Movement, has been organizing “No Prison Fridays” protests in Newark, NJ since April.
These mass rallies which quickly grew … Read the rest
This past April a politically astute Native American historian, Tom “Big Warrior” Watts, was banned from Facebook for supposedly posting anti-Semitic hate speech.
The alleged hate speech was a reply he’d posted to a meme … Read the rest
As a captive population, prisoners have no choices about what, if any, medical and mental health care they receive. And, in most cases in U.S. prisons, any care given is substandard at best.
But even under these conditions, the courts … Read the rest
An Interview with Comrade Rashid by Marquis Winston of Kite Line Radio (2018)
Marquis: What was the intent of the authorities to move you to Florida? Did they see it as disconnecting you from the contacts you had in Texas? … Read the rest
It’s been some years since I’ve been able to communicate through radio outlets. This on account of a series of transfers between various states’ prison systems—from Virginia to Oregon, then Texas to Florida and back to Virginia—as reprisals for my … Read the rest
Thomas Porter is a 42-year-old Black man held on Virginia’s Death Row for the October 25, 2005, shooting death of a Norfolk, VA cop, for which he was charged, tried, and convicted of capital murder.
His … Read the rest
