Censorship, staff negligence, and extreme heat at the Telford Unit, Texas
Submitted by R Totale on Jul 18 2018 19:07
In an article that the mailroom tried to censor, Jason Renard Walker writes on extreme heat and medical negligence at the Telford Unit, Texas.
Deadly Extreme Heat & Deliberate Indifference inside Texas Prisons: The Culture of Neglect and Abuse Continues
Submitted by R Totale on Jul 9 2018 17:29
Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee member Keith "Malik" Washington writes on the dangerous conditions created by extreme heat inside Texas prisons.
Reliving the Past: A Hands-On Experience of Modern-Day Slave Labor in the Lone Star State
An account by revolutionary prisoner Jason Renard Walker of unpaid work in a prison kitchen.
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.
