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These remarks were given Sept. 29 during a webinar,“Attica Prison Rebellion: Past to Present,” sponsored by the Dallas Chapter of the Justice Initiative of Southern Methodist University. In 1961, George Jackson was sentenced to one year to life in prison for stealing $70. While caged at San Quentin State Prison,…
Born out of the Black revolutionary tradition in the San Quentin prison system, Black August has spread throughout the country and world.
Print issue returns Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Workers World suspended printing and mailing of the newspaper on March 19. We have continued publishing articles on workers.org, along with a weekly PDF of what would have been the printed version. We are pleased to announce that we have resumed printing and mailing on a monthly basis, for now. Subscribers should have received a printed paper in September and October. Print subscriptions will still be extended in consideration of the temporary suspension of printing and the currently more limited print schedule. We recommend that subscribers ...
Black August: A tribute to freedom fighters By Lamont Lilly posted on July 23, 2021 The following slightly edited article was first published in August 2013. Lilly ran as Workers World Party’s candidate for vice president in 2016. George Jackson The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 28, 1963, galvanized hundreds of thousands in the streets of Washington, D.C. A. Philip Randolph helped to establish the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Harlem, N.Y., on Aug. 25, 1925. The Haitian Revolution first broke the chains of French colonialism in August 1791. August marks the N...
Photo: Dennis Banks, Fidel Castro, Alice Walker, Ramsey Clark, Havana, April 1993. Credit -- Gloria La Riva Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General