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  1. Abu-Jamal, Mumia
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An African-American activist who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer. His conviction was based on dubious evidence and dubious legal proceedings. (Born 1954).
  2. Algonquins vs. Frontenac Ventures
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    I recently returned from a little-publicized “political hotbed” ignited by Frontenac Ventures Corporation (FVC), a private mining company causing grave injustices against the Ardoch First Nation community in Ontario, Canada.
  3. America's Own Political Prisoners
    From Mandela to Oscar López Rivera
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Nelson Mandela's death has elicited a predictable outpouring of accolades. Glowing praise is now coming from American politicians as disparate as Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama. But this praise comes with the recasting, perhaps rebranding, of the amazing man that was Nelson Mandela.
  4. Amnesty International
    Organization profile published 1982
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1982
  5. Amnesty International Action Campaign focusses on Malyasian Prsioner Assigned to Toronto Group
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    This news release is background information of Amnesty International's (AI) "Malaysia Mission Report." The concern of AI is the release of political prisoners in Malaysia.
  6. Amnesty International Letter-Writing Guide and Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A handbook on how to write letters for Amnesty International.
  7. The Arrest and Detention of Amer Jubran
    This is Not News
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Amer Jubran might sit indefinitely in detention without charges. Or he may be brought up at any time and charged with “terrorism” before the State Security Court, a rubber stamp court. If so, his lawyer might be told the charges a day or two before the sham trial, which then leads to inevitable conviction–a mere formality. Only a concerted political campaign that gets widespread international attention can make any difference. It’s up to us to create enough visibility to make that possible.
  8. Assange's Extradition Case: Critical Moment for the Anti-war Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    While media have become stenographers to power and have long betrayed ordinary people, WikiLeaks has defended the public’s right to know by publishing more than 10 million documents, with a pristine record of accuracy exposing human rights abuses, government spying and war crimes on an unprecedented scale. By bringing truth to the public, the whistleblowing site transformed the Fourth Estate into becoming a powerful vehicle for peace-making.
  9. Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Australian journalist Mark Davis HAS revealed new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times, and refuting the lies both publications have used to smear the WikiLeaks founder.
  10. Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti
    Resource Type: Audio
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1996
    An album of songs written and recorded by Woody Guthrie about the notorious case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants and anarchists in the 1920s who were charged and eventually executed after a highly dubious trial for their supposed involvement in a robbery.
  11. Briefe aus dem Gefangnis
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1946
  12. Burma: Ripe for change
    New Internationalist May 2008
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2008
    A look at Burma's attempts to speak out against political injustice.
  13. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Pilot Copy, February 1976
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
    The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
  14. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
  15. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
  16. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  17. The Case of Oscar Lopez Rivera
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Examing the criminal case against and incarceration of Oscar Lopez Rivera, a Puerto Rican activist and organiser charged and convicted of seditious conspiracy in 1980.
  18. The CIA's Memory Prison
    A Perverse Logic
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The U.S. government has ruled that the prisoners kidnapped and tortured by the U.S. cannot talk about their experiences because those experiences are the property of the U.S. government, which has classified them as secret national security information. This means the prisoners’ personal stories, recollections and experiences cannot be told in any open court, recounted to journalists or human rights groups, nor can they be heard by international bodies like the United Nations.
  19. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  20. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
  21. The Cuban Five--Injustice Prolonged
    Against The Current vol. 141
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the final appeal of the “Cuban Five,” who were convicted in 2001 and are serving prison terms ranging from 15 years to life for “espionage conspiracy” and acting as illegal agents for the Cuban government.
  22. Cuba's Prisoner Release
    Surprise! Mainstream Media Omits Context and Key Facts
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Double standards and hypocrisy abound in American media coverage of Cuba's recent prisoner release. For example, the U.S. government holds more political prisoners on Cuban soil than the Cuban government does.
  23. Day of Mourning Statement From Leonard Peltier
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    It is yet another year. It seems like a thousand years ago but only a year in time in reality from the last time I dictated one of these statement for the day of mourning so, again, I want to say as last time, that I am honoured that you would want to hear my words.
  24. Death Blossoms
    Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
  25. Eugene V. Debs Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926).
  26. Defender of the Movement
    Albert Goldman for the Defense
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    A profile of the radical lawyer.
  27. The English Government and the Fenian Prisoners
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1870
    On the treatment of Fenian prisoners.
  28. Eyewitness to the Trial and Agony of Julian Assange
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    John Pilger has watched Julian Assange's extradition trial from the public gallery at London's Old Bailey. He spoke with Timothy Erik Ström of Arena magazine, Australia.
  29. The Fight for Leonard Peltier
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    LEONARD PELTIER, A Native American class-war prisoner, has served twenty-three years in federal prisons for a crime he did not commit—and authorities admit they do not know who did it.
  30. 41 Years Since Jumping Bull (But 500 Years of Trauma)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Leonard Peltier writes about his own case and about the 500 years of violence and injustice directed at indigenous peoples.
  31. 14 Years of Injustice
    Time to Free the Cuban Five
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Five Cubans fighting terrorism in south Florida have served 14 years of prison, more than enough time for the US public to learn from its media about the horrific injustice done by the US government to these Cuban men. But the media has barely touched the grotesque frame up of the Cuban Five.
  32. Free Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Now!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    In a sense, Bilin is the Soweto, the Derry and the Chiapas of the beginning of the 21st century, with two specificities: it is a civic non-violent mobilization and it is based on a strong alliance between the local Palestinian population, the Israeli anti-colonialist movement and active international solidarity.
  33. Free the Cuban Five!
    Against The Current vol. 112
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Political times have emblematic cases. The ongoing Mumia case, Lynne Stewart’s current prosecution, and the two cases involving the U.S. and Cuban governments illuminate the reality of today’s politics in America, just as the Sacco/ Vanzetti case in the 1920s with respect to immigrants and anarchists or the McCarthite anti-communist Rosenberg case in the 1950s defined their eras.
  34. A Freed Political Prisoner Looks Ahead
    Against The Current vol. 82
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    Emily Citkowski interviews Dita Sari. In a surprise move by the Indonesian government, jailed labor leader Dita Indah Sari was released from Tengerang prison Monday, July 5th. Dita was jailed in May of 1997 for leading a strike of 20,000 workers. She was originally sentenced to six years, reduced on appeal to five.
  35. Gaza Peace Protester Is Prisoner In Own Home
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Nine months after he helped to organise protests against Israel's attack on Gaza, Samih Jabareen is a prisoner in his home in Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, an electronic bracelet around his ankle to alert the police should he step outside his front door.
  36. God's Spies
    Stories in Defiance of Oppression
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Short stories on the theme of resistance to oppression.
  37. The Great Strike at UNAM
    Against The Current vol. 88
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    The Great Strike of the Mexican National Autonomous University (UNAM), which for more than nine months was occupied by students organized in the Strike General Committee (CGH), started on April 20, 1999 and lasted until February 6, 2000. On that date 2500 federal police, following orders given by President Zedillo, evicted hundreds of students from the campus and arrested them.
  38. Guantanamo North
    Terrorism and the Administration of Justice in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    After September 11, 2001, Canadian governments made significant changes to the law so that non-citizens with suspected links to terrorism could be held indefinitely with no due process. The Courts held that these and other changes including "judicial interrogations" and "convictions for terrorism without intent" are consistent with the Charter of Rights. The range of state secrecy extends now to everything related to national security. Diab contends that these measures are unnecessary and contrary to human rights and freedom.
  39. The Hour of Sunlight
    One Palestinian's Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Traces al Jundi's evolution from Palestinian militant to prisoner to peacemaker.
  40. How Israel Stacks the Legal Deck
    Court System Provides Little Justice for Palestinians
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    To Palestinians, Israeli military courts are sites of repression, not houses of justice. Palestinian defendants facing trial in 2010 were found guilty in 99.74% cases.
  41. The Humiliation of Bradley Manning
    Kangaroos Missing
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    It is a bitter irony that Army Pvt. Bradley Manning, whose conscience compelled him to leak evidence about the U.S. military brass ignoring evidence of torture in Iraq, was himself the victim of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment while other military officers privately took note but did nothing.
  42. Hypocrisy over Cuba's 'political prisoners' 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Political prisoners and Cuba can be a confusing mix, in our time of mass propaganda. Three groups have attracted international attention over the past decade.
  43. I Am Barack Obama's Political Prisoner Now
    The Denial of My Parole
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Given the complexion of the three recent federal parolees, it might seem that my greatest crime was being Indian. But the truth is that my gravest offense is my innocence.
  44. I Stand Before You as a Proud Man - I Feel No Guilt
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
  45. Imprisoned Intellectuals
    America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Anthology of writings by imprisoned intellectuals.
  46. In Defense of Julian Assange
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2019
    A wide range of distinguished contributors, many of them in original pieces, here set out the story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, the importance of their work, and the dangers for us all in the persecution they face. In Defense of Julian Assange is a vivid, vital intervention into one of the most important political issues of our day.
  47. Incarcerated Inside Israel
    Palestinians Tortured and Isolated
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Detention without trial, the presumption of guilt, denial of family visits, solitary confinement, torture, violent interrogation, and denial of access to appropriate health care, such is the Israeli judicial system and prison confinement experienced by Palestinian men, women and indeed children.
  48. Israeli Doctors Collude in Torture
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Israeli human rights groups charge that Israel's watchdog body on medical ethics has failed to investigate evidence that doctors working in detention facilities are turning a blind eye to cases of torture.
  49. Israeli journalist Anat Kam under secret house arrest since December
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    An Israeli journalist has been under secret house arrest since December on charges that she leaked highly sensitive, classified military documents which suggest the Israeli military breached a court order on assassinations in the occupied West Bank.
  50. The Jericho `98 March: Amnesty and Freedom for All Political Prisoners
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    Pushing for justice and freedom for political prisoners in the United States.
  51. John Pilger's speech at Sydney rally to free Julian Assange
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2018
    Video by Cathy Vogan & Liam Kesteven (https://www.facebook.com/liam.kesteven), for Politics in the Pub. http://politicsinthepub.org.au
  52. Journalistic Malpractice at the Post and the Times
    Rejecting the Offer of Evidence of US War Crimes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Wikileaks source Bradley Manning is evidence that the USA’s two leading news organizations, the Washington Post and the New York Times, are not willing to report critically of the government.
  53. The Judicial Persecution of Steven Donziger 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2021
    in the U.S., a judge acts as prosecutor and jury on behalf of a giant oil company, Chevron, as it destroys the life and career of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger. His crime? Daring to win a judgment against Chevron in an Ecuadorian court. For those less enchanted with the U.S. justice system, this is no surprise.
  54. Justice for Hassan Diab and the Unbearable Banality of Evil
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Deutsch examines the case of Dr. Hassan Diab - a sociology professor and Canadian citizen who was accused of bombing the Rue Copernic Synagogue - and uses it to critique international and domestic justice systems.
  55. Kengir uprising
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A prisoner uprising that took place in the Soviet prison labor camp Kengir in May and June 1954.
  56. A Left Voice in Pakistan
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Following the October 18 attack on the massive procession into Karachi welcoming Benazir Bhutto back from an eight-year exile, Farooq Tariq, General Secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, expressed his solidarity with the families of the more than 135 killed and 540 injured.
  57. Leonard Peltier: 'My Last Hope for Freedom'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Leonard Peltier is a political prisoner and Native freedom fighter who has been unjustly incacerated for 40 years. The International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee is ramping up efforts for Peltier's clemency under U.S. President Obama’s last year in office. This may be his last chance at freedom and justice. Find out how you can help achieve Peltier's freedom here: whoisleonardpeltier.info.
  58. The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990   Published: 2011
    Blending a passionate sensibility and a steely intellect with an unshakeable commitment to revolutionary socialism, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. In this comprehensive collection selection of Luxemburg's letters, her political concerns are revealed alongside the story of a vivid inner life.
  59. Live From Death Row
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    A collection of prison writing by Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was sentenced to death in 1982 for the murder of a police officer after a dubious trial.
  60. Long Distance Revolutionary
    A Journal with Mumia Abu-Jamal
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    The life and situation of Mumia Abu Jamal.
  61. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 21
    Marx and Engels 1867 - 1870
    Resource Type: Book
    Materials related to the International Workingmen's Association.
  62. Memoirs from the Women's Prison
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Nawal El Saadawi was imprisoned in 1981 by Anwar Sadat for alleged "crimes against the State." She offers both firsthand witness to women's resistance to state violence and insights into the formation of women's community. Saadawi describes how political prisoners, both secular intellectuals and Islamiists, forged alliances to demand better conditions.
  63. Men in Prison
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1931
    Victor Serge's novel based on his own experiences as a politcal prisoner.
  64. Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Khatib's arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bilin to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest since June 23rd, 2009. The recent wave of arrests is largely an assault on the members of the Popular Committees - the leadership of the popular struggle - who are then charged with incitement when arrested.
  65. Much Has Been Said...
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    In the wake of Nelson Mandela, Finkel brings attention to contemporary political activists being imprisoned by their governments.
  66. Mumia Abu-Jamal and Jeremy Hammond; Political Prisoners In The Sacrifice Zone Of Empire
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Recently, two cases concerning the constitutional rights of people in prison came to public light. They involve two U.S. political prisoners: Mumia Abu-Jamal who is serving a life sentence at a facility in Frackville, Pennsylvania and Jeremy Hammond, who is serving a ten year sentence at a federal prison in Manchester, Kentucky.
  67. Nelson Mandela's Long Walk
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A look at Nelson Mandela's book, "Long Walk to Freedom" in the context of the apartheid regime in South Africa in the 1980s.
  68. 1976 Prisoner of Conscience Week Booklet
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    A list of 14 prisoners on conscience. Chosen for Prisoner of Conscience Week.
  69. 'None Of It Reported': How Corporate Media Buried The Assange Trial
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    When it comes to arguably the most important political trial in our lifetimes, there is a not-so-curious media reluctance to dwell on it or even mention it, never mind grant it the kind of blanket coverage that celebrity trials regularly generate. Thus, media attention given to the extradition hearing of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder and editor, was minimal and dwarfed by the coverage devoted to the actor Johnny Depp over the summer.
  70. Oscar Lopez Rivera and the Struggle for Puerto Rican Independence
    An Indomitable Spirit of Resistance
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Oscar López Rivera has served 32 years in the dungeons of imperialism for the crime of fighting for the independence of Puerto Rico as a member of the Armed Forces for National Liberation (FALN). The continued militancy of Oscar López Rivera, after more than three decades of imprisonment, is a living testimony of the indomitable will to resist all attempts to break the combative spirit of a man, who has become a symbol of his people, yearning for freedom.
  71. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
    Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appearance of democratic legitimacy for the profoundly undemocratic structures of the EU. The gambit turned out to be a spectacular miscalculation, as millions of people turned out to express their opposition to a state of affairs that is leaving the majority worse off while enriching a small minority. This issue of Other Voices looks at the Brexit referendum, elite loathing for democracy, and the related attempt to get rid of Labour's leftwing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
  72. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017
    Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism.
  73. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017
    Resisting Injustice
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers’ strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power.
  74. Pankhurst, Emmeline
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    English women's suffrage movement leader. (1858-1928).
  75. Peltier, Leonard
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American activist and member of the American Indian Movement. (Born 1944).
  76. The Persecution of Pvt. Bradley Manning
    A Sick Game
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The torture and prolonged confinement without trial of Pvt. Manning are the tactics of a totalitarian state. They are exactly what is done in countries like China, Iran, and Burma.
  77. Petition for the Immediate Release of all Prisoners of Conscience
    1977: Prisoners of Conscience Year
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    During 1977, Amnesty International is attempting to bring the situation of prisoners of conscience into stronger international focus. As part of this effort they are circulating a petition for which they hope to get one million signatures.
  78. Political Prisoners in the Sacrifice Zone of Empire
    Mumia Abu-Jamal and Jeremy Hammond
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Recently, two cases concerning the constitutional rights of people in prison came to public light. They involve two U.S. political prisoners: Mumia Abu-Jamal who is serving a life sentence at a facility in Frackville, Pennsylvania and Jeremy Hammond, who is serving a ten year sentence at a federal prison in Manchester, Kentucky.
  79. Political Prisoners in the USA
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    A list of political prisoners in the USA (with links to support websites).
  80. Political Prisoners Remain Behind Bars as Obama's Term Nears End
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    In the last full week of Barack Obama's eight year tenure as President of the United States of America, dozens of political prisoners still sit in cages across the nation's prisons, rotting away as Obama consciously chooses not to exercise the power to simply free them with the stroke of a pen.
  81. Predicting Torture
    The PATRIOT Act, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Bradley Manning is charged with leaking classified documents to Wikileaks and faces a court martial. The conditions of his confinement are extreme, and amount to torture.
  82. Prison Journals of a Priest revolutionary
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A collection of interviews, meditations and reflections on the current American prison system from the perspectives of past and current inmates. Berrigan, a political prisoner in Connecticut, shares thoughts about his radical activities, the inadequacy of the legal system, the failure of the prison system to rehabilitate, the meaning of true church reform, and the future of the radical movement in the US.
  83. Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991   Published: 1981
    The story of Timmerman's 30 months as a political prisoner under the Argentine dictatorship in the 1970s.
  84. Prisoners of the War on Terror
    Time to Give up "Hope" and Think About Active Change
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Status of prisoners of war in Guantanamo.
  85. The Prosecution and Persecution of Bradley Manning
    Setting An Example
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The desire to strip Manning of careful intent has been a tactic of the government that is prosecuting him and the mainstream media who parrot their propaganda from the start.
  86. Psychologists' Collusion in Ongoing Illegal Detentions
    The Status Quo of Torture
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
  87. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
  88. Red Rosa 
    A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. Red Rosa gives Luxemburg her due as a radical and human being. In this beautifully drawn work of graphic biography, writer and artist Kate Evans has opened up her subject’s intellectual world to a new audience, grounding Luxemburg’s ideas in the realities of an inspirational and deeply affecting life.
  89. Review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A book review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island.
  90. Revolutionary Nonviolence
    Essays by Dave Dellinger
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970   Published: 1971
    Dellinger says that "those of us who oppose the violence of the status quo and reject the violence of armed revolt and class hatred bear a heavy responsibility to struggle existentially to provdew nonviolent alternatives." Dellinger's essays attempt to explore those alternatives.
  91. Rosa Luxemburg 
    Selected Political Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
  92. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
  93. Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A selection of speeches and writings by Rosa Luxemburg.
  94. Silvia Baraldini Wins Return Home
    Against The Current vol. 81
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    On June 11 the U.S. government agreed to a longstanding Italian request to allow political prisoner Silvia Baraldini to serve the rest of her term in her native country. The move, announced by U.S. Ambassador to Italy Thomas Foglietta, appeared to be an attempt to appease Italian public opinion about the U.S. army plane that sliced a gondola cable when flying too low and too fast in the Italian Alps on February 3, 1998, killing twenty people. The pilot, Marine Captain Richard Asby, was recently acquitted by a U.S. military tribunal. In that case Italy returned the pilots involved in the Cermis tragedy and allowed them to be tried in their country of origin.
  95. The Sixteenth Puerto Rican Political Prisoner: The Case of José Solís
    Against The Current vol. 81
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    On Friday, March 12, 1999, a new name was added to the list of fifteen Puerto Rican political prisoners currently held in American jails: José Solís Jordán. That day, a federal jury in Chicago found Solís, a professor at the University of Puerto Rico and father of five, guilty of bombing a U.S. Army recruitment office in that city in 1992. No one was killed or hurt in the bombing.
  96. The Smile of Policeman Agadi
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    An account of the abuse of Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison system.
  97. The Socialist Register 1979
    Volume 16: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    A series of essays on the state of the global economy.
  98. Sofri, Adriano
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Italian radical intellectual, a journalist and a writer. (Born 1942).
  99. The Story Inside: How Amnesty Does Its Work
    Resource Type: Article
  100. Terrorism, COINTELPRO, And The Black Panther Party
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
  101. A Travesty of Justice: Why Peltier Remains in Prison
    Against The Current vol. 85
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    “It's 1999. Why is Leonard Peltier still in prison?” These words were on the huge banner behind the speakers' table for last summer's gathering of forces at Haskell Indian Nations College & Institute at Lawrence, Kansas.
  102. Trial of Leonard Peletier
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    An examination of Peletier's role in the American Indian Movement, his struggle to protect the rights and land of his people and the history and role of the FBI. Messerschmidt traces the evolution of the FBI as an organization whose purpose is to disrupt and destabilize any organizations real or imagined that are a threat to American capitalism.
  103. An Update on Indonesian Political Prisoners
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    AS INDONESIAN POLITICAL prisoners are released, evidence continues to surface that the United States CIA knew about the "disappearances" and tortures. In response to the mass protests that forced Suharto to step down, Indonesian trade union leader Muchtar Pakpahan and former Member of Parliament Sri Bintang were released from prison May 25. The new president Habibie has promised to review the anti-subversion law under which many of the political prisoners-including the Peoples Democratic...
  104. Updating Some U.S. Political Prisoners January 2019
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    An update on political prisoners in the United States.
  105. Vorkuta uprising
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A major uprising of the concentration camp inmates in Vorkuta, Russia in July-August 1953.
  106. Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1992   Published: 2015
    Documentary about American Indian activist, Leonard Peltier. His story is told within the context of the American Indian Movement, the US federal government, and the multinational companies interested in mining the land in South Dakota.
  107. We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    On June 30th 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces forcibly boarded the Free Gaza boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and kidnapped 21 human rights workers and journalists who were on their way to deliver much needed humanitarian and reconstruction supplies to Gaza.
  108. The Whistleblower's Tale
    How Jeffrey Sterling Took on the CIA — and Lost Everything
    Resource Type: Article
    A CIA officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for whistleblowing and filing lawsuits of racial discrimination against the CIA. This is a story of a man who was beaten down and stood back up just to be beaten down again.
  109. Why is Leonard Peltier Still in Prison?
    Justice is 33 Years Overdue for America's Most Famous Political Prisoner
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Leonard Pletier is a political prisoner who has spent more than 33 years in U.S. prisons for a crime he didn't commit.
  110. Wikileaks, the US, Sweden and Devil's Island
    The Anti-Empire Report
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  111. Writers in Prison
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    An analysis of the work of imprisoned writers.
  112. Yemenis Have Moms Too
    Michelle Obama, Open Your Heart
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Abdurahman al-Shubati disappeared more than a decade ago, just 18-years-old and teaching abroad, separated from his family for the first time in life. Join us in calling on Michelle Obama to open her heart to the cries of Abdurahman’s mother and ask Barack to send those cleared home and to expedite the closing of Guantanamo.
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