Criminalizing "Panther Love" - The New Wave COINTELPRO Tactics in Texas Prisons
A description of the repressive counter-insurgency tactics used against members of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party (Prison Chapter), IWW members, and other radical inmates in Texas prisons. While libertarian communists have disagreements with the NABPP-PC's Maoist ideology, this text is reproduced for the useful information it contains about ongoing class struggles.
End Prison Slavery in Texas Now! (2018)
A call to action for the new year from Comrade Malik
Incarcerated Workers Take the Lead: Prison Struggles in the United States 2008-2016
In the last eight years we have seen a multitude of struggles: from hunger strikes to riots, from work stoppages in individual units to mass strikes across several prisons, from hostile gangs forming truces and challenging racial divisions to immigrant mothers (incarcerated with their children) refusing their meals and duties. Published by Houston Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee and Unity & Struggle.
The 1917 Camp Logan mutiny, Houston Texas
Submitted by Mike Harman on Dec 12 2017 23:26
Black soldiers stationed to guard the construction of Camp Logan in Texas mutinied over racist treatment from local law enforcement and civilians.
1969-70: Crystal City Chicano Students Strike
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 25 2017 19:09
In 1969 Mexican American students at Cristal City high school were subject to systematic discrimination by the school board. In response the students protested and staged a mass walkout with the support of other Mexican American groups.
1996-8: Sierra Blanca Community Opposes Nuclear Waste Site
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 18 2017 18:48
History of the campaign against building a nuclear waste disposal site in a Texan town. The campaign was notably in that it mobilised people across the US and Mexico and that the $55 million deal was supported by State Governor George W. Bush, President Bill Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
Revenge of a Citibank worker
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 1 2016 14:45
An IT worker with Citibank was jailed last week for deliberately downing 90% of the bank's network, following an unfavourable review with a manager.
The Cowboy Strike of 1883 and the Demise of Old Tascosa
Submitted by Reddebrek on Apr 19 2016 17:21
Details of the "Great Cowboy Strike" of 1883.
Emma Tenayuca and the 1938 pecan shellers' strike
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 2 2016 09:57
A short account of the life of Emma Tenayuca and the Texas pecan shellers' strike of largely Hispanic workers in which she played a leading role.
The Slocum massacre, 1910
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 30 2014 09:00
On July 29, 1910, citizens in the small, predominately African American town of Slocum, Texas were massacred in an act of terror designed to maintain economic white supremacy.
