Download the PDF. China shares vaccine technology with world Tear down the walls: Jorge ‘Che’ Nieves: Black Panthers & Attica; Incarceration & disability; Prison profiteers; Transgender in prison: ‘The price you pay’. ALSO Striking miners, rousing support; Big news in Amazon struggle; Reducing opioid harm; Is the economy improving? AND . . .
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Runners Tommie Smith (center) and Juan Carlos, 1968 Olympics. Black-gloved fists raised in a Black power salute, heads bowed on the podium, U.S. sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos honored the Black freedom struggle at the 1968 Olympics after they received their gold and bronze medals. Suffering a storm of . . .
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People wait in a food bank line, New York City, May 15, 2020. “Figures don’t lie, but liars do figure” is a quip attributed to Mark Twain. Case in point: the figures in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report for July. These state an unemployment rate of 5.4% . . .
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The following was excerpted from a July 29 webinar held by the Disability Justice and Rights Caucus of Workers World Party that emphasized the interconnections between the struggles of disabled people and incarcerated people. Caucus members participating were comrades Betsey Piette, Brian Shea and mYia X. The entire webinar can . . .
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The following edited interview with Jorge “Che” Nieves, a survivor of the 1971 Attica Prison Rebellion and a founding member of the Young Lords Party in Greenhaven and Attica Prisons, was conducted July 20 by Monica Moorehead, a Workers World managing editor. More segments of the interview will appear in . . .
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